Although the G600 is one of Samsung’s older phones – two years old now – it’s still one of the company’s better designs. It remains a classic, slim line handset with Samsung’s slider format. The G600 is not the slimmest of phones but at 15 mm makes it a perfect handset to hold and use.
The camera is 5 mega pixels with auto focus, 4x digital zoom and LED, still a superior camera in the lower price mobile range. You can take photographs of landscapes using the panoramic mode and the macro mode for close up shots. The phone has a built-in picture editor and supports direct printing to a Pictbridge-compatible printer.
The video recording is of equally high quality with 640 x 480 pixels. Photographs and video can be viewed (a top of the line Samsung design here) on a 2.2-inch screen with 16 million colours and 240 x 320 pixels.
The music system of the G600 is great, supporting all major formats (MP3, Aac, AAc+, 3-AAc and WMA). You can use it with Bluetooth wireless headsets and it even has the option for you and a friend to plug in and listen to your music together. The phone has a built in memory of 40 megabytes that can be increased with an included 1 GB memory card, more than enough to store several hundred tracks.
The battery life is average, and it should last you a few days as long as you don’t overuse the multimedia options and Bluetooth.
This Samsung Pixon 12 review reveals a camera with a phone attached, which is sure to make you the David Bailey of the mobile world. Not only does it house an incredible 12-megapixel camera but also has many other high-end features. A 3G touchscreen with excellent audio player, FM radio, web browser, GPS with Google maps, and a memory card that takes the capacity up to 16GB.
Samsung has upgraded the original Pixon to include a high resolution OLED screen, ability to play DivX/Xvid videos, LED flash, wider angle lens and a video shoot speed of 30 frames per second or 120 FPS at lower resolution, giving you slow motion playback. They have included a secondary front facing camera too for video conferencing. It has dedicated camera buttons on the side for on/off and zoom/ wide-angle buttons, all raised so they are easy to find.
Other features on the Pixon 12 are a virtual QWERTY keyboard, with its good quality connectivity Bluetooth, mini USB 2.0 and Wi-Fi as well as a fast Internet connection. The 3.1-inch screen is ample size for films, video playback and games and gives plenty of room to use the keyboard.
Criticisms of the Pixon are its lack of a 3.5mm jack point and its battery is a little weak and in need of regular recharging. This is to be expected with the large screen and especially if you use the flash a lot. The Pixon is not a smartphone, and while the complex camera will appeal to photography enthusiasts, but there are other phones available with its other high quality features.
Samsung has obviously decided that the time is right to take on Nokia, and the awkwardly-named i8510 Innov8 is meant to stand as a direct competitor to Nokia’s very successful N95. The thing is, it does the job very well indeed.
There’s plenty to love about this Samsung mobile phone – and it is a mobile phone, not a touchscreen phone. The screen’s a good size for watching movies, with DivX support, meaning most things can be viewed, although it could have had a bit more clarity. 16GB memory on the phone means there’s plenty of storage available, and the ability to add more on a microSD card is a guarantee that users won’t be running out of room in a hurry. For a more private listening experience, the handset does come with a 3.5mm headphone jack.
The camera is a very impressive eight megapixels, easy to use, and the automatic panorama mode is a lovely little feature, letting users put together pictures to create a wide panorama.
The fact that it runs on the Symbian operating system (just like the N95) ensures a smooth experience – it is tried, tested and proven. 3.5G and Wi-Fi means that connectivity is good, and upload and download speeds are fast and smooth, something all users desire.
The i8510 Innov8 keypad is excellent, and easy to use without any cramping or typos. The navigation key is touch sensitive, in many ways more like a trackpad than a key. That will annoy some people and delight others, depending on preference, but it works very well.
The most immediately striking feature about the Samsung Jet is its styling. Like a runway model strolling through a crowded street, it stands out. The front is a sharp, shiny black and the reverse offers neat red stripes, while it’s as slim as any model in design.
All that’s well and good, but looking fine isn’t everything. With the newest mobile phones, function is every bit as important as form – probably even more so.
On that score, the Jet turns out to be somewhat average. It is a touchscreen phone, as most are these days, but one that needs quite a bit of finger pressure; in other words, it’s a resistive, rather than a capacitive screen. That’s a drawback, although hardly a fatal one.
The camera, at five megapixels, is excellent, and there’s little doubt that both images and video look good in playback, due to the handset’s AMOLED screen, which produces wonderfully crisp images. A 3.5mm headphone jack is a small but very positive addition. Among the latest mobile phones, the call quality on the Jet is excellent, an issue often forgotten by manufacturers who seem to concentrate on the additions instead of the essentials.
The Samsung Jet could be faster – anyone wanting something that moves from function to function at serious speed is going to be disappointed – and it certainly doesn’t live up to the advertising hype for navigating to places in a hurry. However, for those who can live with that, and want a handset that’s a feast for the eye, it will fill the bill handily.