SAMSUNG SGH-G800 Review

Samsung SGH-G800 5Mp cameraphone

SAMSUNG SGH-G800 is released.SAMSUNG SGH-G800 powerful shooter has a lot in common with its Nokia rival. For more than a months, an eternity in the gadget world, the Nokia N95 enjoyed the distinction of being one of the only 5-megapixel camera phones on the market. However, considering that change is the only constant with cell phones, it wasn't surprising when Samsung released a high-resolution camera handset.

Inside a relatively boxy design is a media-centric feature set that includes: a music and video player, an FM radio, stereo Bluetooth, expandable memory and support for 3.5G HSDPA networks. On the whole it lived up to our expectations. However, the disappointing Web browser, dim camera flash, and lack of Wi-Fi ultimately put it behind the N95. The price of this exclusive phone is only $550.

Design:

The G800 is definitely not among the smallest phones on the market. With large weight it is also almost as heavy, which combined with the chromed frame makes it feel as a nice high-end phone instead of a plastic toy. It also helps that the lens-cover and a detail on the battery cover are made of brushed aluminum. Positioning the G800 not only as high-tech camera phone but also as high-end device. Samsung has made it with untypical for the brand design. Instead of curved forms everything is rectangular with just slightly rounded corners. The used colors are the classical shining metallic silver and black the G800 looks very classy.

Features

The SGH-G800's phone book holds 1,000 contacts with room in each entry for seven phone numbers, five phone numbers, two e-mail addresses, two URLS, a nickname, a birthday, a company name and job title, two street addresses and notes.

You can save callers to groups and you can pair them with a photo and one of 21 polyphonic ring tones. Other basics include a vibrate mode, text and multimedia messaging, a calendar, a world clock, a calculator, a currency and unit converter, a timer, a stopwatch, a notepad, a task list and an alarm clock. Higher-maintenance users can take advantage of the speakerphone, Stereo Blue tooth, e-mail, PC syncing, USB 2.0 mass storage, and a voice recorder.

On resolution you can opt for 2560 x 1920 (5M) down to 640 x 480 pixels while you can also choose whether you want to choose single shot, multi-shot, mosaic shot, frame shot or panorama.

Here you have two resolution choices 320 x 240 and 176 x 144 disappointingly missing out on 640 x 480 or even higher resolutions. You do still however get control over white balance, exposure and sound.

Short in features :

General	Network	HSDPA / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900
	Anouncment	2007, October
Size	Dimension	101 X 51.1 X18.8
	Weight	134 g
Display	Types	TFT, 256K colors
	Display Size
		240 x 320 pixels, 2.4 inches
Ring tones	Ring tone Type	Polyphonic (64 channels), MP3
	Customization	Download
	Vibration	Yes
Memory	Phonebook	1000 entries
	Call record	30 dialed, 30 received, 30 missed calls
	Card slot	microSD (TransFlash)
		160 MB internal memory
Data	GPRS	Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
	HSCSD	NO
	EDGE	Class 10, 236.8 kbps
	3G	HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
	WLAN	NO
	Blue tooth	Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
	Infrared port	No
	USB	Yes, v2.0
Features	OS
	Messaging	SMS, MMS, Email
	Browser	WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS reader
	Games	Yes + downloadable
	Colors	Black
	Camera	5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, autofocus, video, xenon flash, 3x optical zoom
		- Java MIDP 2.0 - MP3/AAC/AAC+/e-AAC+/WMA player - Stereo FM radio - Face Detection - T9 - Bluetooth printing - Document viewer (Word, Excel, Power Point, PDF) - Built-in handsfree - Voice memo - TV out
Battery		Standard battery, Li-Ion
	Stand-by	48 hrs
	Talk time	12 hrs

While the bulk-factor hasn’t stopped the N95 hitting the bestseller list, the G800 doesn’t have quite the same heavyweight specs – such as built-in GPS and dedicated music controls - even if it does have that optical zoom edge.