Samsung B3410: A Side-slide Phone With Basic Features

By Author: Jerry Smith
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Samsung as a company have been manufacturing mobile phones for many years now and every year have impressed us more and more with their unique looks and superb features that make Samsung mobiles so intriguing on the eye. And its entry-level phones are also has its particular advantages. Here let us take a look at the Samsung B3410.

Nowadays, the design of the slide out QWERTY keyboard is becoming more and more popular, especially when a touchscreen is combined. The Samsung B3410 is such a stylishly designed phone. It is in fact a low end, midrange mobile phone which will be very competitively priced on the prepay market. Sporting a 2.6 inches TFT touchscreen, this handset can display 256,000 colors at a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels, which means that it won't suffer terrible legibility in direct sunlight like other mobile phones. The Samsung B3410 is also quite compact with dimensions of 102.3 x 52.4 x 15.9 mm and weight of 113.7 grams, so you can carry it in your pocket. It was finished with a sophisticated glossy casing which is available in a black color option.

The Samsung B3410 ...
... does have some media features worth mentioning - a built-in music player and FM radio for those with a less adequate music library. The music player support MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA and file format as well as MP4 videos. But unfortunately a 3.5mm headphone socket is absent, which means that you are forced to use the crumby bundled headphones instead of plugging in superior third-party earphones. There is also a 2 megapixel camera available with this mobile phone which comes with a rear facing camera lens and an easily accessible camera capture button, while has no LED flash and auto focus. So the finished photos is just on average. This cameraphone also supports video recording capabilities, so you can record video footage at up to 13 frames per second for a clear video capturing experience.

The Samsung B3410 comes with only 30 megabytes of internal memory while supports an expandable memory card option. You can insert a micro SD card for extra storage. This phone can support a up to 8 GB memory card.

The Samsung B3410 comes with a rechargeable battery which can support up to 10 hours and 40 minute of talk time and approximately 670 hours of standby time when the battery is fully charged. For connectivity, Bluetooth 2.1 is included, which allows data and files to be transferred between two compatible devices at close range. Of course, you can also connect to other devices such as a computer via the USB cabled connection. for quick data transfers.

To our disappointment, there is no 3G network available with the Samsung B3410, so surfing the web is painfully slow exercise. But if you only want to do basic tasks, this quad-band 2G phone is just right.

Generally speaking, the Samsung B3410 is a best basic phone, for it delivers an excellent messaging experience with its well-spaced side-slide keyboard, and call quality is loud and clear. so it will surely appeal to its target market. But If you're looking for a multi-featured phone then you'd better consider other mobile phones, as the camera and music player are both mediocre, and the web browser suffers from the phone's 2G-only networking.
Jerry Smith, the editor of http://www.mobilephoneonly.co.uk. An expert on mobile phone and an observer of UK telecommunication market. He writes reviews on latest mobile phones, and also suggests promotional deals and special offers from mobile phone retailers in UK.