Recommended, reliable mobile phone (Samsung SGH-F400)

Member Name: smoothgroover22

Product:	Samsung SGH-F400
Date:	07/08/09 (30 review reads)
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Advantages: Great features and battery life

Disadvantages: Mediocre picture quality from the camera

I bought this phone in December 2008 from O2 for about £100 including my old phone as trade in, as a Christmas present to myself (well actually I had another phone at the time and it was pretty bad so I needed to buy one, was just coincidental that it was near Christmas!) and have been using it on a daily basis since then.

It's got some good features on it such as a 3 megapixel camera, bluetooth, MP3 player, radio, predictive texting, and (consider this is a mobile phone) some good quality Bang And Olufsen speakers built in to it!

I've had lots of different mobile phones in the past from many different brands, and I have to say this is probably the best phone I have owned out of all of them. I only really use it for texting, phoning and occasionally taking pictures but it serves the purposes well, plus it has excellent battery life to boot (you can also charge the battery from your computer using the USB cable by the way, good if you're at work and don't have access to any power points).

The picture quality could be better. The best pictures seem to be ones which are taken in good natural light and when you hold the camera really steady or rest it on something solid - but then for the price you would be naive to expect a mobile in this price range with all of its features being top of the range.

My only other negative point on this phone is that because it has a large screen area it will be prone to scatches - regardless of whether you have a phone sock for it or not.

Summary: A good all-round affordable mobile phone

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