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(More customer reviews)GREAT WIFI PHONE FOR T-MOBILE AS WELL AS ANY CARRIER OTHER THAN AT&T.
Combining the sleek styling of Samsung's slimmest and good looking phones with the high-speed technology of HSDPA and Wi-Fi, the SGH-i600 is a bar-shaped smartphone with up-to-date email and messaging services. Being rich in features it handles almost every need, yet disappears easily into your pocket when not in use. The slim and compact SGH-i600 does just that and more.
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When it comes to Windows Mobile-based smartphones, it is not exactly a huge variety of brands that you can choose from. The major manufacturer on the market can be easily identified in face of HTC with its palette of smartphones and PocketPC's that come in different form factors. With a bunch of applications and features, their biggest drawback is weight and dimensions. Furthermore, the standard applications in the Windows Mobile OS are invariable in every consequent device that comes to the market.
The Korean giant Samsung has wisely focused its effort in making lightweight and compact smartphone device, simple but stylish enough, sporting unique applications and latest communication capabilities. This is just the base you can expect of Samsung i600 smartphone. You can spot the bag of novelties even with a quick preview of the thin handset - among them are the handy card wheel home screen interface, uMenu application, multi-purpose thumbwheel, integrated Contents Manager software, a useful RSS Reader, complex Wake-up alarm, etc.
Key features:
* Thin body and low weight
* Extended software applications
* Innovative home screen layouts
* Full QWERTY keyboard
* Scratch resistant quality casing
* Plenty dedicated hardware buttons
* Wi-Fi, Bluetooth with A2DP
* HSDPA
* Official Windows Mobile 6 Standard OS upgrade available
Samsung's i600 place on the market
Samsung i600 is the successor of Samsung i320, which is the first QWERTY Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone of the Korean company. It is not the design that can instantly distinguish Samsung i600 from its predecessor, but the communication capabilities, including Wi-Fi and 3G, VGA video call camera and a few new software applications. In terms of this functionality the new star sadly lacks stereo speakers, Infrared port, camera flash and the major drawback - the powerful Intel PXA 272 (416 MHz) processor housed in Samsung i320 is illogically replaced with TI OMAP 1710 (220 MHz) processor in Samsung i600. The increased need of a powerful processor in the new model is imposed by the 3G and Wi-Fi functionality (video streaming, data transfers, etc.), multitasking and the available upgrade of Windows Mobile 6 Standard OS. This makes the decision for processor downgrade in Samsung i600 look rather unexplainable.
As in Samsung i320, the new handset features 128 MB ROM and 64MB RAM, with 48 MB of the latter being available for the user making up for a good performance. Samsung has also added a microSD (TransFlash) memory card slot to enable expanding the memory. Samsung i600 allows you to access the memory card as a Mass Storage device on your PC. In other words, the phone can also be used as a portable drive. Both phone memory and the memory card are also accessible through TCP/IP and ActiveSync protocols making picture copying, ringtones saving, etc. a piece of cake.
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In reality Samsung i600 is considerably small and thin
Let's get our attention back to i600. It is not that glossy superstar you'd probably expected, yet it is pretty comfortable at touch, packed with functional QWERTY keyboard and light touch soft keys. When it comes to ergonomics, the Samsung i600 is one of the best performers among the QWERTY smartphones currently on the market. Being 11.8 mm thick and 59 mm wide it is more compact than most rival models, and is by mere 0,3 mm thicker than Motorola Q. Other available QWERTY Windows Mobile based smartphones that might be of interest to high-end technology addicts are the HTC S630, powered by a 400 MHz processor, and featuring HSDPA, EDGE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a 2 megapixel camera and the Motorola Q 9h handling EDGE, HSDPA, Bluetooth, and 2 megapixel camera. Also worthy of mentioning is the rival Symbian S60-based Nokia E61i and the Symbian UIQ-based Sony Ericsson P1.
Furthermore, Samsung i600's dimensions are even comparable to regular phones if you don't mind the width, plus it is even lighter than most recent handsets on the market.
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The thin Samsung i600 compared to another compact Windows Mobile smartphone
Casing is practical
Handling Samsung i600 is very pleasing, managing applications and phone functionality is really enjoyable. The entire back and side panels are finished in soft to touch rubber-like black plastic, ensuring better scratch-resistance. It hardly catches any fingerprints, but when it does, they are also really hard to clean away.
Combining the sleek styling of Samsung's slimmest and good looking phones with the high-speed technology of HSDPA and Wi-Fi, the SGH-i600 is a bar-shaped smartphone with up-to-date email and messaging services. Being rich in features it handles almost every need, yet disappears easily into your pocket when not in use.
The available slots are suitably covered with soft plastic, adding to the phone's sleek styling and keeping dust and moisture away. A set of resourceful hardware decisions are integrated, namely the Thumbwheel, the flattened soft touch Send, End, Home and Back keys, which all feature 2-functions, as well as a 4-way navigation D-pad with comfortable OK confirmation key inside, etc. There are no colorful LED status indicators for Bluetooth and battery which is in no way something to mourn about.
The front panel sports an earpiece slot with a metal finished stripe placed on the top center. Sound quality provided by the earpiece is on high level in both volume and sound quality. In the top right corner, next to the earpiece slot is the VGA video calls camera.
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Samsung i600 front panel * Zooming on the video calls camera
The upper part of the left side shelters the dual-volume keys and the flap-covered headset/power/USB port. Similarly positioned on the upper part of the left side are the flap-covered microSD memory card slot, the Thumbwheel and the Back/Clear key. In all fairness to the Thumbwheel we have to admit that its ease of use allows quick and easy scrolling through menu options and files, while in the same time you press it to confirm and select items in the menu. Even more, a long press of the thumbwheel key accesses Samsung's brand-new solution called uMenu, containing shortcuts to your favorite functions, conveniently placed on the right part of the display. We will come back to that later in the review.
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Left side: volume key and charger port * right side: card slot, thumbwheel and back key
Looking at the top end reveals a power button and eyelet for a carrying strap. The power button again has double functionality - when long-pressed - it invokes a well known QuickList menu with a set of profiles and other features: power off, wireless manager, key lock and device lock. The bottom of i600 pretty bare and there are no elements worth mentioning.
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The power key set on top and a bottom view
The back panel has a swelling in its upper part, housing the mirror, main camera lens and the speaker grill. The battery cover is located on the lower half of the panel, firmly staked, yet easy to be opened. Samsung i600 relies for its power supply on a Li-Ion battery with 1200 mAh capacity. Under rather intense exploration (using a 3G network, Wi-Fi, music player, shooting video and photos, Bluetooth, etc), it will last up to 2 days. This is not really an exceptional performance for such a device but it is not disappointing either.
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Back panel view: camera, battery cover removed, SIM card bed
The Samsung i600 is nice when held in hand and we truely enjoyed using it. It fits great into the palm and its user-friendliness impresses from the very first moment you have a go with it.
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The Samsung I600 is the world's slimmest HSDPA mobile phone with a full QWERTY keyboard and wheelkey (as of December 2006) allowing for ease in composing emails and text messages. In addition to its 3G network compatibility, the I600 can also connect to open Wi-Fi networks (802.11b/g) for accessing email and surfing the Internet. Powered by the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system, you'll enjoy seamless synchronization with Outlook's emails, contacts, calendar and tasks. Sync complete emails, open attachments, enter contact details or even add calendar appointments on the move. The I600 also features a 2.3-inch LCD screen, 128 MB of ROM memory, MicroSD memory expansion, 1.3-megapixel still camera, supplemental VGA video call camera, digital audio player, handsfree speakerphone, and Bluetooth connectivity with stereo music streaming.
This unlocked cell phone can be used with a GSM network service provider and it provides tri-band connectivity (900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 1900 MHz). It does not come with a SIM card, and it requires that you provide a SIM card for usage with your selected service provider. This phone comes with a one-year warranty from a third party provider.
When paired with a compatible 3G network that uses the HSDPA/UMTS technology (High Speed Downlink Packet Access/Universal Mobile Telephone System) standard, you'll enjoy a variety of feature-rich wireless services with speeds up to 3.6 Mbps--from data connectivity to your office to multimedia streaming. You can also take advantage of simultaneous voice and data services. In areas where the 3G network is not available, you'll continue to receive data service via EDGE network (depending on network compatibility).
The included Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone software with Direct Push technology gives you instant access to your emails, calendar, and contacts at anytime. That means wherever and whenever, you'll be connected. A single main screen summarizes all the important information you need to make it through the day. Here you'll get message notification, upcoming appointments, dialing functions, tasks, and more all in one spot. Staying productive on the road is made possible by the Microsoft Office Mobile suite, which includes Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, and PowerPoint Mobile. Meanwhile, the File Explorer application makes it easy to browse the files.
It also supports Windows Media playback right out of the box. With Windows Media Player, you can play streaming and downloaded video and audio content in a variety of formats. You can also keep favorite tunes loaded on a memory card and listen to your music wherever you roam. The I600 is compatible with MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, and WAV audio files.
The 1.3-megapixel camera includes a 2x digital zoom, a variety of fun frames and photo effects, self-timer, multi-shot capability, and multiple photo size/quality settings. You can also record video clips (up to QVGA 320 x 240-pixel resolution) in MPEG4 format, as well as play back video clips in H.263, H.264, MPEG4, and WMV formats. This phone also supports 3GP streaming video.
This phone provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity, and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, audio/video remote control, and printing. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking (DUN)--surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server. And with the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones.
The I600 has all the bases covered when it comes to messaging. Support is built in for sending and receiving text, video, graphics and sound via messages. T9 text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built into the unit--a plus for mobile text messaging users.
Other features include:
HTML browser with RSS feeds
Unlimited phonebook entries
30 dialed/received/missed calls
Embedded and downloadable Java games
Clock with world time, alarm, timer, calculator, currency converter
Vital Statistics The Samsung I600 measures 4.45 x 2.32 x 0.46 inches and weighs 3.7 ounces. It operates on the GSM 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies. Battery life is rated at 6.5 hours (2G)/3.5 hours (3G) of digital talk time and 300 hours of standby time. This phone comes with a one-year warranty from a third party provider.
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