SGH-G600

As phones nowadays have turned into multimedia devices, a class of dedicated cameraphones has appeared and the manufacturers are trying to offer the best possible digital camera packed into a phone that doesn’t lack other functionality the customers would request.

A year ago, we published our first comparison of the cameraphones that were the best on the market, at that time. 3-megapixel was the top resolution in GSM phone for the European market and auto-focus wasn’t available in all of the tested phones. At that time, Sony Ericsson K800 and Samsung D900 performed the best, sharing the first place.

Today we are reviewing the new generation Samsung slider, targeted as dedicated cameraphone – the G600 has similar dimensions to its predecessor (the D900) but packs 2 additional megapixels of resolution. The software also changed, and the new slider will offer you improved camera interface with horizontal orientation and newer generation software. The G600 is not an Ultra Series device due to its thickness of almost 15mm (0.6”) and the slim slider that replaces the D900 in this aspect is the U600, which is equipped with 3-megapixel camera.

Not targeted as a luxurious device, the G600 comes in pretty plain box. In addition to the standard charger, USB cable and various manuals and CD with synchronization software, you will also find stereo headset in two parts (adapter and 3.5mm noise isolating headphones), microSD card with adapter to full SD (in our case it was 1GB) and a small Bluetooth headset (Samsung WEP210) with adapter for charging.

Specifications:-


Platform
Network & Data: EDGE , GPRS
Band: GSM (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 Mhz)
Operation System: Proprietary
Browser : WAP 2.0
Java : Java MIDP 2.0
SAR Value : 0.7 W/kg

Size
Weight : 104 g
Dimension : 102 x 48 x 14.9 mm

Display
Internal Technology: 16M colours TFT screen
Internal Resolution : 240 x 320 pixels
Internal Size (inch) : 2.2

Battery
Talk Time (Standard) : up to 3.3 h
Standby (Standard) : up to 300 h

User Interface
Input Device : 3x4 Keypad

Camera
Camera Resolution : 5.0 Megapixel
Digital / Optical Zoom: 4x Digital Zoom
LED Flash : Power LED
Auto Focus
Shot Mode : Multi Shot , Mosaic Shot , Single Shot , Panorama Shot , Makro Mode
Photo Effects : Black & White, Sepia, Negative, Emboss, Sketch, Antique, Gray, Blue,                            Red, GreenAqua, Contrast
Others :             White Balance

Video
Video player : MPEG4 , 3GP
Video recording : Video Recording (MPEG4 / 3GPP / H.263)

Music & Sound
Ringtones : 64 Polyphonic Ringtones , MP3 Ringtones
Music Player : MP3 , MIDI , ACC , ACC+ , WMA
3D sound technology
Music Library
DRM: WM DRM , OMA

Fun & Entertainment
Embedded JAVA™ games
Embedded Wallpaper
FM Radio

Business & Office
Document Viewer, Office , Power Point
Mobile Printing
BPP , Pictbridge
Offline Mode
Voice Memo & Voice Mail

Messaging
SMS / MMS
SMS , MMS Sending , MMS Receiving
Predictive Text Input T9
Email
Email (POP3 / SMTP / IMAP4)
Cell Broadcast
vCard / vCalendar

Connectivity
Bluetooth : Bluetooth 2.0
WAP: WAP 2.0
SyncML(DS)
USB : USB 2.0
PC Sync Application
TV-output
Internet HTML Browser

Memory
User Memory : 40 MB User memory
SMS Memory : 200 SMS
Phone Book Entries :1000 phone book entries
External Memory: microSD™ External Memory (up to 2GB)

Personal Information Management
To do List
Scheduler
Clock
Calendar
Worldtime
Alarm
Converter: Converter
Calculator
Memo Book
Stopwatch
Countdown Timer

Call Functions
Speakerphone
Dialed / Missed / Received Calls
Multy Party
Call Cost
Call Time

Special Features
Mobile Tracker