Samsung F300 review: A phone like no other

21 May 2007
The famous South Korean manufacturer has stopped being afraid of making experiments. Once it used to only make silver clamshells. Today, however, the situation has changed significantly. Samsung already has a fancy portfolio including several new, very untraditional models. One such phone is Samsung Ultra Music F300 of the Ultra Special line up.

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  • marios
  • ixN
  • 13 Jul 2007

no calculator
no java
no calendar (it show only the one day not the month)
no HF speaker

    • M
    • Mitchell
    • TIE
    • 10 Jul 2007

    This phone is wonderful! For those who keep commenting on the small screens, fyi, the messages and the phone book can be read on the large screen. You have to really hold the phone and use it to get the feel of how great this phone is!

      • b
      • boogja
      • Sd2
      • 18 Jun 2007

      this phone is verry nice
      i was thinking about getting it but i got the soe k810i because the little screen
      i love the disinge of the fone but thats all

        • ?
        • Anonymous
        • mEe
        • 17 Jun 2007

        So they've glued together a 1997 phone and a music player. Great... Nice to read text messages with a 2 row screen - what is the point with the big screen on the "music side"? And has samsung heard of this thing called internet that you can access with your phone?

          • ?
          • Anonymous
          • Py%
          • 27 May 2007

          2 screen displays in one of the slimmest phone..that is so HOT baby!! Samsung has done another gr8 job again!

            • S
            • SeF
            • whB
            • 24 May 2007

            Lucienium:

            be more precise, M-R didn't say it's better than walkman phones, instead it's slim multimedia counterpart W880. but only with the presence of the better DSP audio algorithm and radio, better imaging algorithms in the camera, F300 "only" aheads on the music and imaging side against W880, but all in all W880 is proven to be better in general aspect.

              • L
              • Lucienium
              • DQn
              • 23 May 2007

              Definitely better sound quality than Sony Ericsson Walkman phones according to a blind test survey ( http://www.mobile-review.com/review/f300vsw880-en.shtml ). 5 out of 5 gave F300 a thumbs up on sound quality as compared to Sony Ericsson which only gets 2 out of 5

                • k
                • kal
                • Pxq
                • 23 May 2007

                They have already invented First true Double-sided LCD for mobile phones. So one can expect upcoming dual side models to have 2 large screens and to get even thinner. Cheers!

                http://www.samsung.com/PressCenter/PressRelease/PressRelease.asp?seq=20070104_0000309294

                  • s
                  • ss
                  • TIE
                  • 23 May 2007

                  hey gsmarena, this is music ph, and i only want to know how is music quality through branded ear piece, is it comparable to SE walkman phs????

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                    • Anonymous
                    • U2T
                    • 23 May 2007

                    You can't twist this one. That's a different model.

                      • A
                      • Arbab
                      • PDT
                      • 22 May 2007

                      it's a good phone by spesifications bt it's looks are so dull.... it's not atractive lol....

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                        • TheGman
                        • S35
                        • 22 May 2007

                        This looks like an experiment which hasn't been thought through thoroughly! Respect to Samsung for trying something new, their handsets have been far more refreshing recently than the consistent portfolio expansion of Sony, Motorola et al. It seems like a very good idea, if only they hadn't concerned themselves overly with slimness and just built a functional media device. Oh, and making the music-player more friendly wouldn't have gone amiss either. I'll be sticking with my W810i, but this is a very positive step in device integration :-)

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                          • Anonymous
                          • Pv9
                          • 22 May 2007

                          sony will sue :P

                            • A
                            • Andrew
                            • mts
                            • 21 May 2007

                            Nice phone, indeed!
                            But, please do a Mega Review of Nokia 5700 as it is one of most popular phones thees days! Please :)

                              • p
                              • papa
                              • nCM
                              • 21 May 2007

                              Like no other whaaaaaaat!!!! that's a sony phrase what was they thinking

                                • ?
                                • Anonymous
                                • Py%
                                • 21 May 2007

                                wow...ipod control keys..i love it..so slim..twistable..nice camera..i cant wait any longer to get this phone T-T

                                  • S
                                  • SeF
                                  • whB
                                  • 21 May 2007

                                  anyway being this thread a comments regarding the review. i may say gsmarena commited some mistakes wih regards to this:
                                  "Key featuresi" is this another language or it's a proven small mistake.

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                                    • Original_Jamaican
                                    • kaL
                                    • 21 May 2007

                                    Just want to say that Nokia is the original experimenter even though they aren't experimenting much these days. However, I will give Samsung credit where due, regardless of which year or age, I still believe Samsung Polyphonic tones sound richer than every other brand. Most of all I just wanted to be the second poster...for the very first time. One day I will be first (smile).

                                      • S
                                      • SeF
                                      • whB
                                      • 21 May 2007

                                      "like no other"? GSMArena uses Sony slogan? makes me wonder sometime=D

                                      otherwise, the phone is nice.