SAMSUNG C3200: A REVIEW


This phone is the one of the best phones out there in the price range of 3-5k. Yeah, its way better than Nokia 5310 too (i used both of them).

First of all, this phone captivates you with its stunning design. The back of the phone is odd..its been designed ergonomically to rest in your hands. Though the external speaker of the phone is on the back, you can still listen properly due to the design of the phone. Coming to the front, the keypad is awesome. Its definitely one of the best out there. I roughly send 25-30 messages everyday and I found the phone flawless in the regards.

Coming to the INTERIORS, this phone sports a brand new OS. It offers an experience similar to those of higher-end nokia and sony ericsson phones. You can customize the homepage with all the shortcuts you want. Its of great help in the long run.

The menu is easy to navigate and you can enable 3D transition effects which doesn't effect the speed of the phone. My phone has been very responsive and it never hung since the time I bought it, i.e. 3 months back.

Though the camera is a low-mega-pixel one, it offers photos of very good quality. On the downside, the phone tends to slow down a little bit when photos are being taken in the highest resolution.

Files transferred via bluetooth CAN be directly saved to th external memory. One of the few disadvantages of this phone is that the data transfer through blue tooth is pain-takingly slow.

This phone sports a 3.5mm jack and you can use your favorite ear phones. But those prvided by samsung along with this phone are mind-blowing. Thwy are of the highest quality and equal those of sony walkman series. There are various preset equalizer settings and they do add to the hearing experience..especially the "surround effect" setting. I use a 4GB mem card and have 3.6GB of songs and the phone still never slowed down. This phone also offers a very helpful feature..you can search for any song in your playlist or folder by typing its name instead of scrolling for it.

JAVA is supported and any app below 1MB can be used. There are some in-built social networking apps such as gmail, facebook, orkut, etc. There's a slo an inbuilt chatting client. Opera browser and Google Maps work perfectly.

This phone has a 1000maH battery and it totally impresses you. I talk for around 20 mins, send 30 texts, listen to approx 30 mins music and surf for one hour everyday and the battery lives for 2 days.

3GP and MP4 videos can be played on full screen after resizing them in a computer.

Web-surfing it totally fast. But it depends upon your service provider too. Not only opera, but the in-built browser is good too. In it, you can browse both in landscape and portrait modes..which I think is awesome. BUT dictionary mode can't be used while typing while using the web.

The signal strength and call clarity are good and people on the other side of the call also didn't complain. But one major disappointment is the lack of call-recording feature.

You can't download themes for the phone. But I'm totally in love with the black$green in-built theme.

Privacy features are top-notch. You can seperately lock the inbox or the phone book or the memory card with a password too.

You can also back-up the messages, contacts, memo and calender events to your memory card.

This phone also has a recycle bin. In case you delete any sms or pic or song or contact, it goes to the directly bin.

OVERALL, THIS IS A TOTALLY AWESOME PHONE FOR ITS PRICE. ITS FEATURES OVER-SHADOW ITS DISADVANTAGES. this phone is available for Rs.3900 in the market. It comes with a screen-guard, a leather pouch and a 2GB memory card. BUT THERE'S NO SOFTWARE CD OF DATA CABLE IN THE BOX. This phone gives a tough competition for phones even in the 5000 category. TRUST ME, YOU WON'T REGRET A BIT FOR SPENDING MONEY ON THIS PHONE...ITS TOTAL PAISA VASOOL :)

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