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

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