Samsung Monte Bar C3200

Creating a budget phone is often a balancing act between features and cost that get fine tuned as you target specific market segments. The big five in mobile phones do this all the time to covers as much markets as their products can reach.  The Korean mobile phone leader Samsung got a few of these handset unveiled at the recently 2010 Mobile World Congress, like the Samsung Monte Bar C3200 in candy bar format and a slider sibling the Monte Slider E2550.

These are you basic budget entry level feature phones that Samsung has crafted with a balance of affordability with ensuring the market only gets the features they want.

Making Every Basic Detail Count
Looking at the press release spec sheet on the Monte Bar, it becomes plain that Samsung did some homework to give the Monte Bar only what it needs to appeal to the market and make each one work at their elemental best.
Knowing that its intended markets rarely bothers with 3G or WiFi data plans, Samsung took out any 3G or WiFi feature and left the Monte Bar as a basic 2G in quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE.  It still comes with Bluetooth 2.1 and microUSB 2.0 for local data transfers.

Samsung Monte Bar C3200s candybar body measures 111.8 x 46.9 x 13.3 mm and weighs a light 77.3g to put it among the lightest pocket-friendly phones out there. For this size, Samsung could have used a slightly larger display while reducing the keypad size, but prefers to put in a more ergonomic keypad leaving you with just a 2-inch TFT LCD QVGA display with 256k colors.

Samsung Monte Bar C3200's the frills that often make one handset more appealing to the market than another and here, Samsung made a wise judgment call to leave the entertainment and imaging features the market has grown accustomed to see in mobile phone at any price point.

Samsung Monte Bar C3200Imaging gets a basic 2 megapixel fixed focus camera that would have been a hit back in 2004.  You also get QCIF video recording at a mere 15fps frame rate. Its multimedia takes the honors starting with FM stereo with RDS and FM recording, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, DNSe (Dynamic Natural Sound engine) and a 3.5mm headphone jack, not to mention the media playback support for popular audio and video file formats.

Entry level and budget phones have the least internal storage capacities and the Samsung Monte Bar C3200 gets just 40 MB and up to 1,000 phonebook entries.  You also get microSD expandability of up to 8 GB.  With a minimal set of features, its 960 mAh li-ion battery gets to work for up to 8.3 hours of talk time and 500 hours of standby time when fully charged.

Samsung Monte Bar C3200 clearly is no social networking phone.  Though 3rd party apps might do the trick. But even with WAP 2.0 HTML web browser, we won't easily recommend a data plan for surfing on a slow GPRS/EDGE network on a 2-inch screen.

Availability
The Samsung Monte bar C3200 will only come in black and should ship in the 2nd quarter together with its other Monte siblings.  There's still no pricing information but if Samsung prices it correctly, that is below many budget and entry level feature phones, it may have a sure winner in its hands. Read More..

Nokia 6700 Classic Gold

Nokia 6700 Classic Gold is an extremely trendy mobile phone and filled with modern day mobile tech. Nokia 6700 Classic Gold mobile phone is the best device for you. Nokia 6700 Classic Gold is designed for those individuals who need class with their communication device - class and edification embodied in a stainless steel design with an impressive 18 carat gold polish.

Nokia 6700 Classic Gold is a real beauty. The Nokia 6700 Gold features a 2.2 inch, 320 x 240 picture elements QVGA resolution display which sustains up to 16 million colors. Navigating the menu is really simple for this device features large and extremely responsive buttons. There is a light detector as well as a brightness control key for you to raise or correct the display. Furthermore, the 6700 Classic allows users to modify wallpapers that go well with the golden theme.

Nokia 6700 Classic Gold is extremely gratifying and lightweight on the grip and suits absolutely well in your pockets or purses for its dimensions only measures around 109.8 x 45 x 11.2 millimeter or approximately 46.5 cubic centimetres and weighs only around 116.5 gm.

The Nokia 6700 Classic includes a remarkable 5MP camera with autofocus and LED flash and seizes favored moments at a resoluteness of 2592 x 1944 picture elements. You may likewise relive those best-loved events and take videos with the included camera at 15 frames per second. Depending on the modality you can set the settings of the photographic camera and fiddle with white balance settings, capture mode and even the color shades.

Nokia 6700 Classic Gold's recorded videos can be shared over OVI and FLICR and can be played back over the embedded media player. Executing music can also be done by the Nokia 6700 via an MP3/MP4 player. Support for all audio recording and video recording formatting is exhibited in the Nokia 6700 turning this device into a trusted multimedia device. Stay tuned to your favored radio station via the FM Tuner with RDS and browse on the web via the full HTML web browser.

Nokia 6700 Classic Gold Writing messages is a joy to do because of the well spaced and well propotioned keypad, ideal for large thumbed individuals. SMS and MMS electronic messaging is likewise consolidated. You can choose from an assortment of connectivity options such as GPRS, HSCSD, 3G HSDPA, WLAN, Bluetooth, Infrared and USB. Storage space is at 170 MB internally but may be extended up to 8GB via a memory card. Provide a golden effect and catch the Nokia 6700 Classic Gold Sim Free a mobile phone certainly fit for royalty. Read More..

Thosiba TG01 vs TG02

Knowing when is the right time to upgrade your mobile phone can be tricky and often requires a lot of online research. It could come as early as when you just came out of the store with what you thought was the latest uber phone on the planet when there's a better one elsewhere. Or it could be never, depending on how well your current handset serves you. There are folks out there still using a 2002 Nokia model and they still have no plans of upgrading. And there are folks who just can't sleep soundly enough with a 2-month old handset.

TG01

TG02

Toshiba just unveiled a few smartphones that supercede models they released in the summer of 2009. One of them is the Toshiba TG02 which, as the numeric increment in the name betrays, is the successor to the landmark TG01 released in June last year as the first ever smartphone to use the mighty 1Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.

It still runs on the same Windows Mobile 6.5 that's about to be superceded by the more able Windows Phone 7 Series. And only on the promise of Toshiba that the TG02 can be upgraded to it do we relax our hesitation to recommend this phone.

Distinguishing Features

The TG02 is basically the TG01 that went on a diet to get slimmer and 10 grams lighter on the same elegantly styled touchscreen monoblock form factor. It gets a more responsive 3D UI replacing what many considered a clumsy UI on the TG01. You get the same gorgeous 4.1-inch wide-VGA touchscreen supporting 64k colors but it's now a capacitive touchscreen instead of resistive.

Toshiba is banking on the upgrade path the TG02 has for the more appropriate Windows Phone 7 which has the native support for capacitive touchscreen that WinMo doesn't have. Outside of these marginally better features, the TG02 is essentially the same TG01.

* The TG02 is a quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE on the 2G network and is also a dual band UMTS/HSDDPA/HSUPA on 3G. It inherits the same local data connectivity features like WiFi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR with A2DP and USB2.0. Then there's SatNav functionality with built-in A-GPS receiver that supports QuickGPS. You get the same modest 1000 mAh Li-Ion battery that can cough out 5 hours of talk time and 275 hours of standby time when fully charged.
* The same 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor powers the new TG02 which also gets the same 512 MB ROM and 256 MB RAM with microSD expandability for up to 32 GB.
* You get the same mediocre imaging in the TG01 with a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with geo tagging that can be considered at this time or once it gets out as outdated for a flagship smartphone in any OS. But at least you still get the same excellent VGA video recording at 30fos. It front also gets a secondary VGA camera for 3G video calls.

Like the TG01, the Toshiba TG02 comes with a suite of SNS apps that allow integration and instant updating of your favorite SNS sites like Facebook as well as media sharing sites like YouTube, You get the same document viewer for PDF and MS Office files including standard email client and HTML web browser.
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