Samsung Cell Phones

Samsung Cell Phones

It's paradise on GSM

Samsung is a South Korean electronics giant whose origins date as far back as 1939. Although this venerable company has been well known as a TV manufacturer for decades, today Samsung has its hands in almost every aspect of consumer electronics. They're an innovator in every way, unafraid to be the first on store shelves with new features and gadgets. This is due to their tremendous commitment to research and development in advancing their technologies and it's certainly paid off. Samsung today is one of the most recognized and trusted names on store shelves in any part of the world.

The cell phone industry is a place that Samsung feels right at home as one of the market leaders. Their handsets are recognized worldwide as fine equipment built to last as much as push the envelope of technologies. When shopping for a cell phone Samsung is effortlessly places among the finest, their technology is second to none often being first to break new ground with never before seen features. From flip phone to sliders and conventional candy bar models, Samsung's phones are usually a familiar bright silver shade with an eye for sleek designs and beautiful transflective LCD displays.

Budget models like their SGH-D415 show Samsung's sense of styling with a bold display and hi resolution camera. But this stripped down model that can be found for less than $100 with a cellular plan lacks a lot of key features in higher end models. For some of the groundbreaking technology we're accustomed to seeing from Samsung; look no further than the current unrivaled handset the SGH-i300 the world's first musical Smartphone with a 3G HDD.

The digital phone itself is a tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 Mhz Smartphone with built in camera that seems to be standard these days and includes all the telephony features you'd expect from a higher end handset:

  • Vibrating alert
  • Voice dialing
  • Minute minder
  • Auto redial
  • Triple Voice codes HR, FR EFR

Besides being compatible with Microsoft's latest version of Window CE, Windows Mobile 5 (code named Magneto) this smartphone has many of its own built in organizer features including: Dicatphone, alarm/notifier, to-do lists that synchronizes with your PC. It includes its own built games besides the gaming features of any Pocket PC Win Mobile device running Brew Java and handheld games and applets. The real meat and potatoes of this device are its wireless connectivity, memory/storage and media playback options. Try some of these connectivity options:

  • WAP 2.0 / Wi-Fi
  • Bluetooth
  • GPRS
  • IrDA Infrared

The device can playback MP3 and Real Player but the real playback options are part of the Windows Mobile 5 operating system. The storage options are this one's strongest suit with a 3G built in micro hard drive it also has 64 M of memory, 32M ROM 32M RAM and a TransFlash memory card slot. Samsung's LCD transflective display at 320 x 240 makes this lean looking black candybar style cell phone a sight to behold. This is the phone that re-establishes Samsung as a true innovator in consumer electronics, the imitators will soon follow.

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