Samsung SGH-U600

The U600 forms part of the Samsung Ultra Edition range. This phone is equipped with a 3.2 Megapixel camera, auto focus, music player and 262K colour screen. It is also a quad band GSM compatible phone with GPRS / EDGE data capability. This phone has a 2.2-inch screen and a series of touch sensitive buttons. The U600 has the dimensions of 106.4mm x 43.6mm x 11.7mm and weighs at 81g. The LCD display has QVGA resolution of 240 x 320 pixels, measures at 2.22 inches and 34 x 44mm. There are the left and right touch sensitive soft keys, navigation keys and the touch sensitive End and Send keys. On the back of the phone, when the slider opens, is where the 3.2 megapixel is located. To switch on the camera, there’s a token shutter button on the side of the handset. The phone has 60MB of internal memory and it supports microSD card of up to 2GB. The battery provides a Talktime of 4 hours and Standby time of 270 hours. It is available in the colour, Sapphire Blue. Samsung advertises the U600 as “the world’s thinnest slider phone”.

Features

The U600 features a camera of 3.2 megapixels with 4x digital zoom, LED flash and autofocus. Other features with the camera are fullsize portrait/landscape view, single/multi/Mosaic shot and white balance/ISO. Highest resolution for shots taken is 2048 x 1536 pixels. The “Sunlight Mode” which gives optimum contrast setting for outdoor use in bright light conditions. The media player included can play multiple audio formats including MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, and WMA. Onboard, there’s the ICEpower Mobile chip that stands as an amplifier for music playback. There’s a SmartSearch feature that automatically starts offering phone numbers as you dial them in. There’s the Smart UI/ Smart Messaging/Smart LCD feature that allows you to search your phone for files like with a PC. Other features are an FM radio, TV-out, Bluetooth, calendar, scheduler, calculator, document viewer, mobile printing, converter and OPUS (Optimized Power Usage Solution). Accessories supplied with the phone are User Manual, Standard battery, Travel adaptor, Stereo headset, OC datalink kit and Samsung PC Studio CD-ROM. A wireless stereo headset, speakers and other peripheral devices can be connected through the phone’s Bluetooth application.

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The Samsung SGH-U600 is a stylish and easy-to-use phone that is said to be big enough for the hand but small enough for pocket or purse. It is also part of Samsung’s elite Ultra Edition range of mobile communications devices. Many think that when Samsung releases a phone, it automatically makes a statement. The U600 forms part of Samsung’s release of Ultra range models that are known to be exceptionally thin (10.9mm) and can slip into the snuggest shirt pocket with scarcely a bump. A few advantages or rather features that both reviewers and users have appreciated about are its super slim profile, its neat design and its decent 3.2-megapixel camera. Some defaults that users have found with this phone are the touch-sensitive buttons are somehow unintuitive and the fact that the regular buttons don’t travel enough doesn’t help either. It has been noted that with phones that have touch-sensitive buttons is that, users risk of activating them with your cheek. Thankfully, the phone locks after a second or so to prevent this. Its music player can call on the 60MB of embedded memory and a microSD memory card (not included) to save tracks on. Users can listen to tracks via cordless headphones, or use a wirefree headset to talk on the phone while the handset is stashed away in a pocket.