Samsung U800 Review - A Brilliantly Designed Phone

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When you look at Samsung's latest offering of the U800, you start to see a fully featured phone with both a 3 megapixel camera and GUI as well as being designed with a minimalist frame. The Samsung U800 measures 111x46x9.9mm and weights in at 92g. The U800 is not only lightweight but also a phone that is designed to be both beautiful and functional.

Samsung U800 comes with bar style design and sports a QVGA, 2.0-inch TFT screen which can show up to 16M colours. With it, you may enjoy a vivid and pleasant viewing experience. last up to 400h for standby time and Up to 3h 20min for talk time. The basic platform of this phone is a 3G, GRPS and EDGE data and network platform with three bands of 900/1800/1900. The web browser is a WAP 2.0 with JAVA MIDP 2.0 and 3G total network.

Music and entertainment is also an important part in this particular phone. The U800 comes with support for music library, MP3 ringtones and comes with 64 poly ringtones already programmed in. The music player plays at least 10 different audio files such as XMF, MP3 AAC and MIDI for example. Video components of this phone will include a video ...
... player and recorder that will record 3GPP and MPEG4 as well as play MPEG4, WMV, H.264 and H.263. It is also set up to deliver video telephony, messaging and streaming. For fun and entertainment, you have an FM radio standard with embedded wallpaper and Java games.

The camera enclosed is a 3.2 megapixel camera with powerful LED that allows for panorama shots, frame shots, single shots, mosaic shots and multi shots with photo effects of watercolor, grey, antique, sepia and negative. This decent camera also comes with support for video recording at 15 fps. Messaging services are included such as email (IMAP4, POP3 and SMTP) as well as predictive text, MMS and SMS with cell broadcast and vCalendar/vCard. You also have high speed connectivity here with Internet HTML browser, WAP, PC Sync application, and Bluetooth technology. This makes for faster Internet.

Personal information technology and management are not missed here. Samsung provides a detailed options for organization in the U800 such as countdown timer, alarm clock, converter, calculator, stopwatch, memo book, clock and to do list for example. Your call functions will include received/dialed/missed calls; speakerphone, multiparty as well as call time is included here. Office functions include offline mode, voice mail, mobile printing and a document viewer. Lacking of storage space will never be a problem with the Samsung U800 as it is starting with 1GB internal memory with an option to expand to as much as 8GB.

With all of the specifications for this particular mobile phone, it is easy to see why many people enjoy using the U800. Users have rated the U800 with a 4 out of 5 stars which puts this in the excellent category. They rated functionality, price and features of the Samsung U800 and compared it to other comparable phones in its price range. They agree on the ease of use as well as the availability of features for this particular phone.
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.