Samsung D600
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- tail
- mKC
- 09 Sep 2005
thx for posting that revieuw now i know i wqant to buy this phone and know when u can buy it
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- Ste
- TkJ
- 09 Sep 2005
Oh yeah Alan, i just wanted to know.. the guy in the 02 shop said that it's free on the 02 1000 mins off peak plan, is that true cos i couldnt believe that?
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- Ste
- TkJ
- 09 Sep 2005
Hi, Alan, thanks for that news, it was great. I hope I can get mine sunday then :)
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- Anonymous
- Se8
- 09 Sep 2005
cool its out 11th, even sim free?, but people were saying 15th???? so when is it really? any ideas on price?
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- Anonymous
- Sd}
- 09 Sep 2005
The cable costs little, and together with Picsel Viewer they make a great tandem. Many business users may refuse taking notebooks to short trips with one or two presentations in favour of the D600. This variant is perfect for a city. Your obedient servant has leaded a presentation this way, though I had a notebook with me. Using the D600 is very comfortable for this task, though uncustomary for the first time. You have to hold the device in your hands, since slides are thumbed through using it. If you have a helper during a presentation, then it's no trouble. If you do it all alone, you should remember the cable length is rather short, that's why you are unlikely to come close to the screen. PAL, NTSC modes are supported, select them from the menu.
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- Anonymous
- Sd}
- 09 Sep 2005
Samsung has creatively approached the Picsel Viewer on the D600, besides viewing data on the screen, an image may be sent to external sources, for instance, a TV-set, projector. A TV-OUT cable is included into the kit. One end of the cable is miniUSB and another one is three "tulips" for connecting to external sources. I had a TV-set as an external source. Put all the cables in and connect to the phone. And here it is! The menu is shown on the TV screen, moving along the phone menu you see your actions on the screen. Besides Picsel Viewer documents, you can view any standard applications, full-screen video (pixels are seen too much for 3GP files, the resolution is still improper), photos, play games if you like to. A TV-set not only represents the picture but reproduces the sound from the phone.
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- Alan
- mH0
- 09 Sep 2005
The D600 is out on the 11th September from O2 (D600e out nearer December). Fact. I work in the o2 shop and I have got my hands on one early, I picked it up today :D as I stock has been delivered to all o2 stores. Its a cracking peice of kit. The phone is only in black and silver from O2, I have not seen the red version as we do not sell it. Camera is second to none, comes with 64Mb trans-flash. Its great sound via dual speakers. Looks great on an external screen. Sstill has 3 built in games (same as D500). Also there are more bluetooth spaces than the D500. Quite simply this phone is superb. Any questions just ask!
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- Anonymous
- Sd}
- 09 Sep 2005
Picsel Viewer. The presence of this function is one of the main strengths of the model. Only PDAs, some Motorola (Motorola A780) and Panasonic models could have boasted with the function till today (mainly Sony models). The technology will be mass used with its implementation by Samsung, and the first GSM-product is the D600.
To describe shortly, Picsel Viewer is an application that is capable of opening MS Office files (for instance, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Adobe Acrobat (PDF), graphical and video formats on the phone. All the pressure of the technology is its fast action, opening a 20 MB PDF file will take about a couple of seconds, then you can quickly scroll pages, scale them, rotate. No editing capabilities, only viewing, but that is enough sometimes, especially considering there is no need in extra converting for the mobile phone. The function will have great success, since it can work on various devices, operating systems giving high operating speed. We are likely to see a Picsel Messanger function in the end of this year - all the types of communication from MMS to mail client supporting any attachments (the size will be limited by a manufacturer of a mobile device depending on its characteristics
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- Anonymous
- Sd}
- 09 Sep 2005
Samsung D500 differences from Samsung D600
There are many differences and, hence, let's have a short view of them to have a general notion of the question.
Hardware changes include:
Higher screen resolution, QVGA
TransFlash expansion slot, hot change
Two stereo loudspeakers
2-MP camera
Bluetooth stereo (now there is no own headset, we failed checking the work with the Nokia model)
Bluetooth mistakes are corrected, better compatibility, stable work
TV Out function is present (details about it below)
The main software changes are:
Working with a memory card from all the menus (file manager, transfer files from one memory to another)
SVG support, one of the menu view is based on it
Picsel Viewer - view all the office documents from the internal memory with no need to convert them (there are all the MS Office files, PDF, and some graphical formats)
Video files as a screen saver, video may be assigned to user in the phone book (the function is announced, though is not realized still)
And about the functions currently absent in the phone but still desired. Similarly to the D500 and the D500E, EDGE supporting device is expected, letter "E" will be assigned to it. The company sees no need in EDGE on the market and thus doesn't hurry to integrate it into all its devices. And correspondingly the D500 situation will repeat, I'd like to remind EDGE support is achieved by hardware means and no programs can provide it.
Unfortunately, voice dialing is absent. The function is announced and is most likely to be implemented similarly to the E620. That is a dialing system independent from the pronunciation, its detailed description is given in the E620 review, I recommend appealing to the material. Unfortunately, the company plans no realization of any other language modules except for the English, since it sees no potential demand on the market. There is no voice dialing still, and thus we won't discuss it.
The processor equals to the ones for the last company model line, here it is ARM9TDMI with 104 MHz clock rate. Operating system is RTK-E. The polyphony is 64-tones; the max midi-file size forms 300 KB, no limits for mp3 files. Sound and video may be both active.
Java CLDC 1.1 MIDP 2.0 with 16-bit per a pixel are supported. Also JSR-75 File API, JSR-120 WMA 1.1, JSR-135 MMAPI, JSR-184 Mobile 3D (software realization) are provided. About 2.2 MB of memory are kept for Java, 900 KB are taken by the virtual machine, 1.3 MB are for images. Max application size forms 50 KB. Totally 4 MB are provided for Java applications. There is no upload of Java-applications via a cable, Bluetooth, only using wap. Received applications are saved in "Others" and can't
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- Anonymous
- Sd}
- 09 Sep 2005
First, two colour solutions will be provided for the D600, and namely, black and titanic. The second colour is light, it is not as bright, but pleasant. Both bodies are hardly soiled, fingerprints are not well seen on the black body, though are notable on the screen. Like the D500, the device is normally soiled by fingers.
The first change, that is striking is the screen size. Physically the screen got slightly larger, and if in the D500 that is 30x38 mm, then the D600 has a 31x41 mm one. The feeling of a larger screen is formed by a couple of extra mm in height, a bit different display position and its edging. Thus, having practically not enlarged the physical size of the screen, the company increased the resolution from 176x220 to 240x320 pixels (QVGA with a 2" diagonal, TFT). Three are few models with similar in characteristics screens, only Sharp models come to mind. The screen chroma forms 262K, which is typical of today phones. The picture is saturated, looks well and vivid. The colours are changed smoothly, this and small grain give high clearness of an image. Today the screen is one of the best in its class, it has no slider rivals.
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- Anonymous
- Sd}
- 09 Sep 2005
In October 2004 Samsung announced its D500 which has become the basis for the majority of middle and high-end today models. As a device of a new class, it absorbed several innovations at the same time, and namely they are Bluetooth, 1.3 MP camera, much memory, a screen with perfect characteristics and an unusual slider form-factor. Software also has been changed, unlike the previous models the interface improved, new capabilities appeared. The Samsung D500 became a qualitative leap ahead and came alongside the best products by other manufacturers announced before. And there were no rivals for this device in this form-factor.
And thus the continuation of the device, the D600, shortly displayed at CeBIT in March 2005 attracted even more interest. On the one hand the set of differences was only quantitative (this or that characteristic was better), but in actual fact many changes were carried out including software ones. It's impossible to call the D600 an event of the same level as the D500; this is eliminating errors in some kind, the improvement of the existent phone functionality. Taking into account, the D500 provided with a long list of characteristics, it only was necessary to increase them and get the leader. The model that will dominate on the market till the end of 2005. And the question was completely solved.
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- martin
- Sc4
- 09 Sep 2005
any chance you can give us the open and closed dimensions of this beauty?
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- Anonymous
- Sd}
- 09 Sep 2005
over 8000 votes over 1000 opinions this phone will take over the market
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- 02 Worker
- MME
- 09 Sep 2005
I work for 02 and when we take on new phones they go through a testing process months before release. The D600 isnt even on our list yet! What are you playing at Samsung!
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- Derk
- S3P
- 09 Sep 2005
mmmm.. that's right
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- samsung fans
- TSR
- 09 Sep 2005
guess this is the 1st cell phone that has already 1000++ opinionsss posted while it's still "coming soon". hey beauty, when will u be available? lotz of ppl are waiting eagerly for u~ right guys??
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- Zulfikar.E.Yusuf
- MEm
- 09 Sep 2005
Samsung GSM dept have creating latest model every month like
SGH E700 (gain market share)
SGH D410 (loss market share)
SGH E800 ( medium market share)
SGH D500 (excellent & like through worldwide)
write now Samsung Leads Other Follows
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- Zulfikar .E. Yusuf
- MEm
- 09 Sep 2005
Its a classic Phone
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- stan
- PM%
- 09 Sep 2005
Yeah, Podge is right! Apple didn't delay release of the Ipod Photo or Ipod Nano even though the Mini is selling better than ever. Some people can afford to get the best model in the range, but a lot can't. It makes perfect sense to have the cheaper d500 and the top of the range d600.
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- podge
- PM%
- 09 Sep 2005
why does everyone keep saying that this phone is being delayed by the success of the d500? Samsung could easily have released the D500 and D600 at the same time, at different prices. The D600 is their flagship phone, the d500 is the mainstream phone. It's like Kodak, or Ipod, who have plenty of different models of simililar products, but with different features at different price tiers.