Samsung U600 review
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The Samsung U600 is a replacement for the hugely popular Samsung D900 ultra-slim slide phone. It is the first of the second generation phones to hit the market. It’s even thinner than the D900 at just 10.9 mm thick, making it the slimmest phone available, knocking the Samsung E840 of the top spot! The Samsung U600 has also lost a few pounds by shredding 10 grams over its predecessor, the D900.
Samsung have undertaken a makeover on the case on the U600 to differentiate from the D900, in terms of looks. One important change is the external buttons which have now been made touch sensitive like the Samsung E900. Having touch sensitive buttons are pretty cool but not everyone gets on with them, finding them too sensitive or small for their fingers. Samsung could have alienated a number of users who may decide to stick to the safer D900 or newer Samsung G600.
Not a lot has changed inside the phone. It now boasts a 3.2 megapixel camera, up from 3.0. User memory has been reduced slightly from 70 Mbytes to 60 Mbytes. The battery is less powerful than the D900's, but Samsung claim that battery performance has actually been improved due to a new technology called OPUS (Optimized Power Usage Solution). In our experience, the battery life is only 2-3 days.
Camera
The camera is one of Samsung’s best yet, with a 3.2 megapixel resolution, autofocus, LED flash and digital zoom. It is no way near the quality of the Sony Ericsson K800i or the N95, but here at mobilefonereviews we still rate it up there with some of the best camera phones available. If we had to complain about the camera it would be the speed on taking photos, with a one or two seconds delay. The video camera is fairly good to, with a high resolution screen with 262,144 colours making viewing a pleasure.
Music player
The music player supports ACC, ACC+, e-ACC+ and MP3 formats. Supplied with the handset by Samsung are stereo headset or a wireless Bluetooth® headset. The built in loudspeaker featuring a Bang & Olufsen power amplifier allows you too listenj to music without using a headset. Playlists functionality is provided storing up to 30 songs. Internal memory is only 60 Mbytes so you will needa Micro SD card to use the U600 as a music player. A 2GB card will cost around £20 and store around 400 tracks. A PC data link cable is provided with the Samsung U600 for transferring music to your phone from your PC.
Summary
Most of all, the U600 works as a lightweight, ultra-slim, look-at-me, sexy-slider kind of phone. It's got the 3 megapixel camera and the music player to back up the looks too. The touch-sensitive buttons are not as user friendly as they could have been. The replacement phone for the U600 is the G600 which is a top class phone, which has a 5 megapixel camera and no touch-sensitive buttons.
Samsung U600 specification
- 3.2 mega-pixel camera with flash, 4 x digital zoom & autofocus
- Video camera with MPEG4 format
- TFT display with 320 x 240 pixels & 262,144 colours
- MP3, eACC+, ACC+ & AAC music player with digital power-amp
- MP3 & 64 voice polyphonic ringtones
- Built in handsfree speaker phone
- Voice recorder
- SMS, Email (POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, TLS, SSL) & MMS messaging
- PDF, MS Office & HTML document viewer
- Mobile printing using Bluetooth® PicBridge
- Built in java games
- Predictive text
- Personal organiser
- 60 Megabytes of memeory with Micro SD memory card slot for up to 2GB
- Bluetooth 2.0,TV out & USB 2.0 connectivity
- EDGE technology with WAP 2.0 & GPRS Class 10
- Quad-band
- Talktime 4 hrs
- Battery standby 270 hrs
- Size 11 x 49 x 103 mm
- Weight 81 grams
Samsung U600 consumer reviews
Read what other thought of the Samsung U600. Why not add you own Samsung U600 review by clicking the Add your Review tab above.Reviewed by Victoria from Stevenage, UK on Friday, June 19, 2009
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Okay, but seen betterNot the best Samsung I have had, looks good, but I have had the handset replaced 4 times, due to the speaker breaking.
Reviewed by nidhi from GUWAHATI, India on Sunday, October 12, 2008
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I WANT ONE!! 
I LIKE THE PHONE BUT I DONT NO HOW TO UNLOCK IT.
Reviewed by chan from auckland, New Zealand on Sunday, August 31, 2008
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Good mobile phonenot receiving text messages is just a vodafone thing i guess, or you have dropped it too many times...
i personally luv the fone...
just the blue tooth thing, has trouble connecting to other phones at times.
othawise, dam gud fone
Reviewed by ijkho from iuiouhio, Brazil on Monday, July 21, 2008
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Good mobile phonelove it
Reviewed by fitz from kingston, Jamaica on Saturday, July 12, 2008
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Okay, but seen betterlousy phone, low volume speakers, camera should be on the out side so that you can close it and snap pics
Reviewed by Chris from UK on Tuesday, April 22, 2008
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Okay, but seen betterDoes anyone else have the problem of it receiving text messages?
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