Samsung….sung 230;.sung…succes s (Samsung SGH-M100)

Member Name: bananaman_dan

Product:	Samsung SGH-M100
Date:	20/12/01 (348 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: MP3s!, Small Size, Light weight

Disadvantages: Slight Battery fault?

This phone is the best I have ever had in terms of wiping the floor in all those pub arguments over whose is best. Based on looks alone it has a chance but once you casually let slip that oh yes, by the way put this in your ear, that is indeed music, you tend to carry the argument and get glimpses of jealousy for the rest of the night. I know it is not the only MP3 playing phone on the market but to my knowledge it is the cheapest. I found that the whole set up of the phone once it arrived was very straightforward and the MP3 transfer system is really simple to use if a little slow. USB here would have been nice. In fact this is one of my main problems with this phone, the connection for the PC is the same as that for the charger which means that it has a rather complicated connection and is, as I found to my cost, easy to snap by standing on it. Also, due to the nature of this connector the replacement chargers aren’t cheap: mine was £30.
Another bug is that occasionally my battery dies, sometimes in the middle of calls. Maybe this is a fault peculiar to my own model but it is best to be warned. This doesn’t seriously affect the use of the phone as it turns itself straight back on again.
Gripes aside this phone is great!The MP3 player sounds really good although the earphones supplied are a little quiet for my liking, luckily you can use your own if you can cope without Mega Bass with the jack supplied. The 32MB is a fair size, not massive but pretty impressive for a mobile. You can even have a pretty little graphic equaliser on screen but I tended to stop using this once I realised it shortened battery life.
The other features are good, with the absence of predictive text but then my experience of that is that it takes longer to text people than without it! Special mention must however go to the games: this phone has whack-a-mole on it! Enough said….

Summary: