Samsung SGH-C100

It is the middle-class phone from Samsung. Good quality and reasonable price are the main virtures of this model. For the first time the phoen of this class is equiped with a lithium-polymer battery and has rich features.

• Class: middle
• Position in phone line: opens the line of the middle-class phones
• Rival models: Alcatel 535, Siemens M55
• Specifications based on test

• General features
  • Announced in May 2003, beggining of sales - June 2003
  • GSM900/1800
  • Battery type: Li-Pol 800 mAh
  • Battery life:
    • Standby time: up to 90 hours
    • Talk time:up to 2.5 hours
  • Graphical UFB 65K display with the resolution of 128х128 pixels
  • Java
  • Dimensions: 111х45х17 mm
  • Weight: 76 g.

• Memory
  • Phonebook: 500 phone numbers. Up to 5 phone numbers and e-mail address can be added to one contact
  • Up to 5 caller groups
  • Phone memory for up to 50 SMS
  • Lists of the last 20 received/20missed/20dialed calls with date and time indication
  • 300 Kb can be used for games and applications (not more than 100 Kb for one application)

   

• Ringing tones, call management

• Vibrating alert
• 40-tones polyphony
• 41 ringing tones, (including a possibility to compose your own melodies (up to 2), a possibility to download up to 3 new melodies from PC)
• Speed dialing for up to 8 phone numbers
• Minute minder
• Autodialing
• HR, FR, EFR, AMR

• SMS
  • Nokia Smart Messaging
  • EMS
  • A possibility to send a receive ringing tones and animated pictures
  • A possibility to send a group SMS message
  • Predictive text input T9
  • Templates

   

• Connectivity
• WAP 1.2.1
• IrDa
• GPRS (class 8)

• Organizer and extras
  • Java
  • Color animated wallpapers
  • Time, alarm-clock(once, recurrent, weekly), world time
  • Organizer, to-do list, synchronization with PC
  • Calculator, currence convertor
  • Games - Bowling, Midpman

Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
Published - 24 August 2003

News:

• [ 03-07 18:14 ]Duck Quack Ringtone Interrupts Obama Speech

• [ 03-07 17:54 ]Samsung Launches First Nightvision Cameraphone

• [ 01-07 18:51 ]UK Palm Pre Being Announced on 7th July?

• [ 01-07 12:42 ]Vodafone to Return to Carphone Warehouse

• [ 29-06 20:08 ]Firefox Coming to Android?

• [ 29-06 19:35 ]Micro-USB Charger Standard Gains 90% Manufacturer Support

• [ 25-06 19:28 ]Apple Pulls Nudie App - No More Boobies for $1.99

• [ 25-06 17:06 ]First Adult App in the App Store: $1.99 to See Boobies

• [ 23-06 21:01 ]Vodafone to Offer Femtocells

• [ 22-06 15:05 ]Nokia-Siemens Sold Monitoring Equipment to Iranian Regime

• [ 18-06 16:43 ]Orange and Vodafone to Allow Mobile Calls On Planes

• [ 18-06 16:23 ]O2 Threaten to Disconnect Customers Who By-Pass Tethering Charges

• [ 16-06 19:41 ]Speculation Mounts Over 17th June SE Event

• [ 15-06 18:22 ]Dell Android Smartphone Pic Surfaces

• [ 11-06 22:34 ]X2 Makes Another Cameo ... This Time In White

• [ 11-06 22:13 ]Another Bad Day For O2 - #O2Fail Keeps On Going

• [ 10-06 21:37 ]iPhone 3G S Advert Debuts

• [ 09-06 22:03 ]#O2Fail

• [ 09-06 21:26 ]N97 On Sale in America Today

• [ 09-06 00:16 ]O2 iPhone Upgrade Policy Sparks Customer Anger