Samsung Steel Reviews and Full Phone Specifications

Introduction:

Now we have the Steel, a handset exclusive to Vodafone in the UK. It bears more than a passing resemblance to the Soul. Both are sliders, and their general look is very similar with silver and black as the colour scheme, and a very samey front panel design. The casing's steel parts include the battery cover, which forms three quarters of the backplate (more than the half-backplate of the Soul), and the phone feels pretty tough. Overall, though, there isn't quite as much steel here as in the Soul, and this probably accounts for the slight weight difference - 109g as opposed to the Soul's 113g.The sliding mechanism is just as impressive with the Steel as it was with the Soul. A gentle push is all that you need to get it going, and thereafter it follows its own spring-loaded design to become fully extended or fully closed.If you've large hands the slide should be a joy to use, but in my smaller mitts I found that closing the phone meant applying pressure to the keypad or D-pad beneath the screen thereby hitting something I didn't want to. The alternative is to use both hands to shut the thing, which isn't that convenient when you are standing on a swinging, bumping swerving bus and holding on for dear life.That comment should lead you to the fact that the Steel is a bit large. At 104.2mm tall when closed, 48.9mm wide and 14.2m thick it troubled the smaller pockets in my clothing. Opened, it stretches to about 145mm tall.The good news about the overall size of this phone is that there is plenty of room for both screen and keyboard. The screen measures 2.2 inches diagonally and indoors it is clear and readable. Outdoors in bright light, I found the screen really difficult to read, though.The front buttons are well sized. Beneath the screen, the softmenu keys and Call and End keys are all big enough to find with a thumb without any hassle at all. The D-pad, too, is sizeable at 21mm wide and 19mm tall.Open the slide and the number pad is well thought out. Its keys are flat and lie on perfectly straight horizontal lines, despite the curved separator bars between them giving the impression that they don't. Above the 1, 2, 3 row is a shortcut to your music, the delete key and an application switcher. Press the latter and up pops the QuickSwitch menu. Rather than letting you flick between opened apps this seems to concentrate on Vodafone Live!, messaging and the call screen, so it isn’t as powerful as you might at first think.When you are on the main screen, the right softkey is hardwired to a toolbar that offers shortcuts and this gives you quick access to Internet services, missed calls info, messaging, profile switching, calendar events and a range of shortcuts that you can personalise. If you want to delve deeper, the main menu is on the left softkey.In terms of comms capability, this is a tri-band GSM handset with HSDPA for fast Web surfing and a front-facing camera for two-way video calling. The main camera’s lens is protected behind the slide when not in use, which should mean it remains scratch free for as long as possible. The location is mirrored in the Samsung Soul, but while the Soul’s camera shoots at 5-megapixels and has a self-portrait mirror and flash, the Steel comes in at 3-megapixels and drops the flash. Not surprisingly, then, the camera is closer to average than it is to outstanding, though its autofocus does help it out.The coloured dish lacks vibrancy and seems dark. The camera was left on its auto settings throughout my tests, and indoors it didn’t manage to let enough light in all the time. Outdoors it struggled with wide variations in light too. The white chair was in partial shade when photographed and illustrates the problem well.On the other hand, colour capture and close range work were impressive. The flower really is that colour and I took this photo quite close in. There is no macro mode, but unless you want to go mere centimetres from the subject, I think it’ll cope OK.As a music playing handset, it is always disappointing to see a proprietary headset connector, but that is what you get with the Steel. It is one-piece so using your own 3.5mm headphones will not be an out of box experience.But then this handset doesn’t really major on music. There is just 30MB of internal memory. Admittedly, this is expandable with SDHC microSD cards but it isn’t a lot to get started with these days. And while you can boost the memory you are stuck with the dreadful battery. I managed four and a half hours of non-stop music from a full battery charge, with the phone staying alive a bit after music playback was cut off, so that I got a total of 6 hours of life from it. The Soul, remember, managed 11 hours 40 mins of non-stop music from a full charge and a total of more than 17 hours of life.Other applications not already mentioned include an FM radio, alarms, calendar, memo tool, task manager, calculator, unit converter, timer, stopwatch and voice recorder. Oh, and there is access to Vodafone’s Mobile TV too.
Feature:

General:
2G Network :GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900,3G Network:HSDPA 2100
Announced:2008, May,Status:Coming soon. Exp. release 2008, June

Size:
Dimensions:104.2 x 48.9 x 14.2 mm,Weight:109 g
Display:,Type:TFT, 16M colors,Size:240 x 320 pixels, 2.2 inches.

Ringtones:
Type:Polyphonic (72 channels), MP3,Customization:Download
Vibration: Yes.

Memory:
Phonebook:1000 entries, Photo call,Call records:30 dialed, 30 received, 30 missed calls,Card slot:microSD (Trans Flash).

Data:
GPRS:Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps,HSCSD:No,EDGE:Class 10, 236.8 kbps,3G:HSDPA,WLAN:No,Bluetooth:Yes, v2.0 with A2DP,Infrared port:No,USB:Yes, v2.0.

Other features:
Messaging :SMS, EMS, MMS, Email,Browser:WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML,Games:Yes + downloadable,Colors :Silver,Camera :3.15 MP, 2048x1536,pixels, autofocus, image stabiliser, video(QVGA), flash, secondary videocall camera,Java MIDP 2.0,MP3/AAC/eACC+/WMA player,FM radio with RDS,T9,Picture editing,Organizer,Built-in handsfree.

Battery:
Standard battery, Li-Ion 880 mash,Stand-by:Up to 570 h,Talk time:Up to 4 h 50 min

Hot feature:

Samsung Steel is a mobile phone in the slide form factor. The phone's dimensions and weight are: 106 x 50 x 13 mm and 120 g. The device is designed to operate on the following networks: GSM 900/1800/1900 HSDPA 2100. It is necessary to note the presence of a digital camera 3.15 MP. microSD, GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps, EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps, HSDPA, Bluetooth, v2.0 with A2DP, USB, v2.0, WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, Predictive Text Input T9.

Problem: Submit to me.

Diagram:Not available.

Code:
Reset code: *2767*3855#

Unlocking your Samsung Steel via codes is one of the easiest methods to unlock your phone. A simple three step procedure where you provide us with your phone’s serial number (IMEI) during checkout and within a certain time frame, we will return an unlock code for your Samsung Steel phone. All you have to do is dial in the unlock code and your Samsung phone is now fully unlocked. A Your phone's IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity)number is an international "Serial number" for your phone to properly identify it. Your IMEI can be found at the back of your phone behind the battery or by pressing *#06#* it is a 15 digit number. If your phone prints out more than 15 digits for your IMEI , please only supply us with the first 15 digits the phone provides, no dashes or space. The remaining numbers are unimportant as they are just checksum.

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