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Samsung G800 |
This Samsung G800 was the very first mobile phone offering a 5 megapixel camera with optical zoom! It's a beautifully designed slide phone which comes equipped with an MP3 player, FM radio, accelerated 3G (HSDPA) and Bluetooth wireless connectivity.
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Launched in October of 2007 the G800 was destined to take the gloss off the iPhone boasting a massive 5 Megapixel camera and it certainly achieved that aim. If photos are important to you then the G800 is definitely the business mobile for you!
The closest rivals to the G800 when we reviewd it were the Nokia N95 and Sony Ericsson K850i, which both have 5 megapixel cameras.
But the Samsung G800 is the better camera phone due to the fact that it has a 3x optical zoom. An optical zoom is common in dedicated digital cameras, but is very rare in camera phones, because of size constraints. For this reason the G800 is slightly larger than other camera in this bracket but not by much and if you loves taking photos at 5 mega pixels this camera trumps even many still camera’s on the market!
The G800 is also the first Samsung phone to have a real xenon flash instead of the weaker LCD flashes usually seen in camera phones.
Because Samsung are one of the key manufacturers of digital cameras, they have clearly used their still camera expertise to create a world beater (when it comes to camera phones) with the Samsung G800.
 5 megapixel camera phone with 3x optical zoom, autofocus and Xenon flash
Video camera with built-in video editing
Display: TFT, 256k colours, 320 x 240 pixels (2.4 inches)
MP3 player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, 3-AAC+, WMA formats)
FM radio
Speakerphone
More than meets the eye!
Not only is the G800 an awesome camera phone, it's also a sexy-looking slider that beats its rivals hands down in terms of looks too!
Due to the extra space the camera takes up, it may not be the slimmest phone around, but it's certainly more compact than the N95 and if you turn the phone over and the back is like a real digital camera, complete with a sliding lens cover.
The G800 features a brand new Graphical User Interface too! The on Screen Display shows various camera indicators in a horizontal preview mode. The large 2.4 inch LCD display is ideal for viewing images. There's a built-in picture editor, and direct printing to a Pictbridge-compatible printer is supported. High quality video recording is also available, and a built-in video editor is provided too.
As well as the photographic functions, the G800 incorporates all of the features seen in previous high-end Samsung phones. The music player supports all major formats (MP3, AAC, AAC+, 3-AAC+, WMA formats) and wireless Bluetooth stereo headsets. A stereo FM radio is also included. The G800 is superbly equipped with memory too: 160 Mbytes of internal memory is sufficient to hold around 40 music tracks, and you can expand this with a microSD memory card.
Connectivity is excellent too, with support for Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0 and TV-Out.
Interestingly the G800 is a 3G phone too, in fact it supports the latest high-speed 3G nicknamed 3.5G. Specifically, the 3G implementation is 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, which offers download equivalent to broadband speeds. So if your like us and love surfing the Web at break neck speeds
A web browser is built-in, and the phone can handle RSS feeds and mobile blogging.
Add to this an Email with support for attachments is available and a document viewer can view most common file formats (Word, Excel, Powerpoint & PDF) and you have an outstanding Business Mobile phone.
Summary: The Samsung G800 is an outstanding mobile phone. It is a phone that has set the standard in camera mobile phones.
Features of the Samsung G800:
- 5 megapixel camera phone with 3x optical zoom, autofocus and Xenon flash
- Video camera with built-in video editing
- Display: TFT, 256k colours, 320 x 240 pixels (2.4 inches)
- MP3 player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, 3-AAC+, WMA formats)
- Stereo FM radio
- Speakerphone
- Messaging: SMS, MMS, email (POP3 / SMTP / IMAP4)
- MP3 / Video player
- Document viewer
- Java games (Java MIDP 2.0)
- Personal organiser functions
- Offline mode
- WAP 2.0, GPRS Class 10, EDGE
- High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps) - 3.5G
- xHTML web browser, RSS feeds, mobile blogging
- Memory: 160 Mbytes plus microSD memory card slot
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, TV-Out
- Triband (GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900) plus 3G
Specifications of the Samsung G800
- Length: 102 mm
- Width 52 mm
- Depth 19 mm
- Weight: 134g
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