why this phone rocks (Samsung SGH-E530)

Member Name: dubs0mality

Product:	Samsung SGH-E530
Date:	19/06/08 (82 review reads)
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Advantages: its diffrent from your standed phone and lasts longer

Disadvantages: its too filled with features

I have owned this phone for the best part of 2 years and it has never let me down. As you can see I have given this phone a 4 star rating because I have a few issues with it. First off I have to comment on the design it is a smooth rounded phone that is almost perfectly oval in shape and sits beautifully in your hand. What I love about it is the originality of the design instead of the usual flat black design this design is fresh and different it is silver but has a band of colour (usually purple) running down the middle As with most flip phone it has a smaller screen on the outside which is useful for a quick glance at the time.

However as much as I love the design it's not that makes me love this phone. It has to be the durability. my phone has lasted me a whole 2 years now with the increasing flimsiness of the newer phones that has become a feat in its self also I have put this phone through more test than you can imagine it has been dropped more times that I can remember and has even been dropped in water twice!! The second time in a river and you wouldn't believe how long it took to get it out I nearly had a heart attack but once again it survived. As you probably gathered im more than a bit clumsy but you can't argue that I haven't proved my point in that it is durable.

now I know most people look after their phones more than I do so you may be thinking so what I don't treat my phone like I hate the thing but what is also great about the phone is it is all you will ever need for years too come simply because it can keep up with all you will ever need for years to come the phone has room for a 1000 phone numbers ok to be honest no one has that many but sill a cool feature. One much more useful feature is it has email and internet connection not quite as fancy as the I-phones however if you want an internet connection like that buy a laptop it would be cheaper and you could see the screen. Samsung E530 has an amazing video camera I can speak from experience here the quality is amazing and it can film for well over an hour The photo is also great and has all those fun options that make it look different like black and while. In technical terns the camera has 1.0 Megapixel Digital Camera Video Capture Video Playback with flash but on paper that means absolutely nothing to me. it of course has blue tooth which is good because it has a great music playing system and again officially it is equipped with mp3 and MP3 Ringtones polyphonic ringtones (which are really good by the way) and a MPEG4 Player most importantly it has great games come with it like bobby carrot(even the name cheers me up ;D).

Finally it has a huge list of organising stuff so much so it makes me wonder if the designer were paid on each new feature they managed to think of it has Calendar, Scheduler, To do list, Short cut, Clock / Worldtime, Alarm, Currency converter, Calculator, Memo book, Stop watch, Count down timer Fragrance Type, Biorhythm, Height/Weight ratio, Calories Counter, Pink Schedule, Shopping list

now ill look at the negative stuff that made this phone lose a star. First off as you may have guessed this is a phone purely aimed at girls with the shopping list and purple colours so this limits its usefulness to everyone. another issue I have with this phone is that the amount of stuff that is in it is a insane amount and hardly used not to mention it takes several days to learn the layout of this phone so you can use the alarm. but the biggest problem with this phone is the designers decided to put a button on the outside of the phone to allow the user to take photos with out opening the phone this was extremely irritating because its not really a useful picture and it meant that it would take picture when it was left in my bag or pocket so I ended up spending ridiculous amounts of time deleting photos I didn't want however over all it is a great phone and one I would definitely recommend. Below I have put a list of features which I was too lazy to talk about.
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nternal display: TFT LCD, 176 x 220 pixels, 262,144 colours
External display: OLED LCD, 80 x 64 pixels, 65,536 colours
Messaging: SMS (with learning T9), EMS, MMS, E-Mail (POP3, IMAP4, SMTP)
Games: Bobby Carrot, Airship Racing, Arch Angel, Freekick plus downloadable Java games
Caller ID (text/photo)
Memory: 92 Mbytes
Connectivity: USB 1.0, SnycML
WAP 2.0, GPRS Class 10
Dual band
Size: 86 x 43 x 26 mm
Talktime: up to 5.5 hours
Battery standby: 200 hours WAP

Summary: its an amazing phone aimed 4 girls

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