Samsung SGH-D600 Reviews

The successor to Samsung’s D500, the D600 quad-band GPRS phone retains the slider form factor. It’s a little more elegant, and has upgraded features in addition to a few new ones. The colour combination is a shiny black and dark grey, and the matte finish makes for easy grip. Featured here is a vibrant 240 x 320 pixel, 262K-colour TFT (QVGA) screen. The camera gets an upgrade to 2 megapixels; there’s no auto- focus, but picture quality is still good at higher
settings—it’s not so good at 800 x 600, though. The camera has a flash and a self-portrait mode, along with some software features such as multi-shot and mosaic. The quality of recorded video with sound is simply outstanding; however, the quality of the sound from the stereo speakers isn’t extraordinary. The inbuilt MP3 player is easy to use, but the phone doesn’t feature radio. It does feature Bluetooth, though. Using the not-so-common TV-out feature, the phone can be interfaced with a TV via the bundled A/V cable. Once connected, the TV screen displays the phone interface, which switches to full-screen when you launch the file viewer or the camera. You can also listen to MP3 tracks through the TV speakers. Another unique feature is Bluetooth printing to a compliant printer. The D600 supports popular file formats, so you can open files such as Word and Excel documents and PDFs on it. Inbuilt memory is 55 MB, and an external 64 MB TransFlash (MicroSD) card comes bundled. As for the phone interface, it’s quite intuitive. Nokia users should be able to adapt easily. The slider can be operated with one hand—this is a better design than Samsung’s typical clamshell models. The only thing that you may need a little getting used to is typing messages. Also, the T9 needs a little improvement. The D600 does feel a little overpriced, considering you can get a W800i for roughly the same amount—and the latter comes with a half-gigabyte external memory stick. But still, there are features on this device that you might not find on other phones, at least not in the models urrently available here.
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