Samsung S5600 Preston
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- Karthikeyan
- F}w
- 16 Jun 2009
GT S5603:-) Proud to be one of the owner of the phone, everything works on touch only.
advantages
--responsive touch screen - no need for stylus at all
--16M resolution makses us take camera shots
--A-GPS [only google map is present ]
--good usefull widgets - facebook,goodlemap,gmail,favorite 5 contacts ,profile shortcut
--good camera
--sound of the phone - amazing loudness
--good battery backup - lasts for 2days inspite several camera shots and movies playback.
disadvantages:
--lack of qwerty keypad atleast for sms could have been good
--idoitic phonebook - once entered difficult to find contacts from a big list and not easy reachable
--fm radio - no internal fm antenna requires of old style wired headset.
--Browser is stupid - no hardware button for selecting the links or for scrolling up& down , need to use fingers only for scrolling. When I press volume button the webpage zooms in and out.
--back button. a D-pad instead of centre back button could have helped a lot.
Playing with contacts is very difficult.
There is no interpretation of names from keypad, every time we need to open the phonebook and type the name fully.
From keypad it recognises the names after you type the first 5 digits of the phonenumber .
This makes sending SMS or calling immediately very very difficult.
here's where we feel the importance of qwerty keypad.
We have alternatives like favorite 5 contacts widget and call history on call button.
But searching for contacts from phonebook is very very difficult.
I was surprised that this phone has google map , acting like A-GPS when i was interior part of tamilnadu,I clicked with google map widget accidentally and it showed me where I was in the map. Seems it needs gprs connection to work.
If samsung is clever , they should introduce a widget for qwerty keypad else this model is going to loose its ease of working.
Movie clarity was very very good, but we need to convert the ordinary movies file to the mobile format to work , not like windows mobile which plays anything.
not sure why they show such importance for wheather widgets which we never use at all in india.
Overall a touch phone with what you need alone.
spec|windowsmobile|5603 :[compared to windows mobile]
Interface&GUI|difficult|easy
softwares|many|nil
battery|poor|good
camera|poor|good
As the touchwiz is a new OS no softwares available, so we need to use the phone as it comes. even themes are not avaliable.
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- Vinay
- vG5
- 16 Jun 2009
I wnat to know abot the sms feature...how much amount of sms can be store in the memory..
- G
- God of GSM
- ij9
- 16 Jun 2009
Ramya, 16 Jun 2009Hi Guys i brought this cell in hyd for 12000.Can anyone say... morecheck out the samsung mobile India website, you'll find everything there mostly free.
did you just say you shelled out 12000 bucks for this?
You could have got it for approx. 9800 bucks form buysamsungmobile.com, shipping and a BT headset was also free as a limited period offer.
Anyways, I'm looking forward to buying this, any cons or issues I might need to know about?
ciao
- R
- Ramya
- vGD
- 16 Jun 2009
Hi Guys i brought this cell in hyd for 12000.Can anyone say where can i find wallpapers and themes for this s5600 mobile.Pls anyone reply me quick......
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- Anonymous
- pY9
- 15 Jun 2009
APP, 15 Jun 2009I have used the samsung star,with rotaton the normal keypad... morethe phone is awesome i have one and its fab does everything i need it to do !
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- APP
- upe
- 15 Jun 2009
I have used the samsung star,with rotaton the normal keypad turns into an QWERTY key pad... reading the reviews it seems that this doesnot happen with the Star 3G.. is it so...? and how about PDF format books... how fast is it... comparable to a windows 6.1 mobile...?
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- TUSHAR
- v{W
- 14 Jun 2009
Ankka, 03 Apr 2009can u tell me what the difference between the 2 is?? pls thanx!the diffrence between 2 of them is that u pay 4000 more for flash,3g,bright screeen. thats it.
- T
- TUSHAR
- v{W
- 14 Jun 2009
Shantanu, 02 Jun 2009Is this phone available in mumbai???? in which store?? ... morehi shantanu if u have more buget just a bit more then go for the dj its great
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- Sabya
- ut6
- 14 Jun 2009
If u hv an orkut account..u can join in d community of samsung star 3g...here i m giving u the link.
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community.aspx?cmm=90937094
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- G Jain
- vGq
- 13 Jun 2009
Its been just 12 hrs i bought this... and i am in luv with this phone.
Amazing.. phone..!!
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- raj
- vGk
- 13 Jun 2009
im plannin to buy tis cell phone. in future will i get any problems with the touch screen????
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- Anonymous
- UD}
- 13 Jun 2009
is this the phone they used in Boys over flowers??
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- Anonymous
- 0Fc
- 13 Jun 2009
cheers paul, it's a sick phone
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- Anonymous
- vaQ
- 12 Jun 2009
Anonymous, 12 Jun 2009I see turn to mute option in the specification of the phone... morethere's an option in the phone settings to enable it.
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- ramanpreet singh
- PGj
- 12 Jun 2009
hi i just bought samsung s 5633
can any tell plz how to use its front camera
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- Anonymous
- F}w
- 12 Jun 2009
why are you selling this phone, does it have any fault or drawback.
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- sunil
- 2T7
- 12 Jun 2009
Can I browse word,excel,power point docs on this phone?
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- Anonymous
- F}w
- 12 Jun 2009
I see turn to mute option in the specification of the phone , how to enable or make use of it.
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- Anonymous
- vGj
- 12 Jun 2009
sound from speaker is loud , easy to use interface ... alpha keyboard is disgusting but easy to type faster than qwerty one.
5603 looks beautiful and square screen easy to use than the 5233 rectangular one.
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- ravi
- utj
- 11 Jun 2009
i m planning to buy samsung 5603 in india.......i want to know hows the battery life? is it just 3hrs or more? and hws sound output?