Samsung SGH-i520

This is extremely thin slider with thickness of 17.9 mm and weight of 99 grams. It is run by Symbian OS version 9.2 (S60 3rd Edition Feature Package 1) and supports HSDPA. The technology allows exchanging data with the speed of up to 1.8 MB/s. Besides, the i520 is equipped with a sensory keypad. Also the device is equipped with a 2MP camera, Bluetooth, 2.3" wide-screen display, which is capable of showing the whole web-page. The phone interface uses improved Vodafone UI (TPP VCP) adapted for Symbian/S60.

• Class: smartphone, 3G
• Position in the line: above Samsung i320
• Rivals: Motorola MOTORIZR Z8
• Description based on official information

• General features
  • Announced in 2007, announced on 12 February 2007
  • eGSM 900/1800/1900, UMTS 2100/HSDPA
  • Battery type Li-Ion
  • 2.3” TFT-display the resolution of QVGA (320x240), shows up to 262 K colours
  • Symbian OS version 9.2 (S60 3rd Edition Feature Package 1)
  • Сolours: black
  • Weight: 99 gramms
  • Dimensions: 101.7 x 50.5 x 17.9 mm

• Memory
  • Phonebook, several numbers for a name, assign an image, a photo and a melody, including MP3
  • Unlimited number of user groups, assign a name to several groups at the same time
  • Call lists, no limit on the number of entries, type of call is specified besides of date and duration. Set a storage period for calls in the list
  • 40 MB are available to a user of memory
  • Expansion slot for microSD (up to 2 GB)

• Call management, ringing tones
  • Vibracall
  • Polyphonic call melodies, 64-tonal polyphony
  • Fast dial
  • Automatic redial
  • Voice commands/dial
  • Speakerphone

• SMS
  • Predictive text input Т9
  • Concatenated messages
  • Message templates
  • Sending and receiving graphical messages

• Camera
  • Integrated 2.0 MP camera (the maximum resolution of 1600x1200 pixels)
  • Recording video clips MPEG4/Н.263
  • Digital zoom
  • Effects
  • Frontal VGA-camera for videotelephony

• Multimedia
  • mp3/aac files as a call melody
  • Integrated video and audio player (MP3/AAC/AAC+/Real/WMA/MPEG4/H.263/Real/H.264)
  • Java (MIDP 2.0)

• Connectivity
  • Integrated mail client (SMTP/POP3/IMAP4)
  • GPRS class 10
  • EDGE Class 10
  • HSDPA
  • WAP 2.0/xHTML, fully functional view HTML (S60 OSS)
  • Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
  • MMS
  • Push e-mail
  • SyncML
  • Pictbridge
  • Synchronization with PC (USB 2.0, Bluetooth)

• Organizer and extras
  • Applications for viewing files MS Word, Exel, PDF
  • Dictaphone
  • Date, time, world time
  • Alarm clock, reminder
  • Timer, stopwatch, calculator

Michail Machnaev (michail.machnaev@mobile-review.com)
Published — 28 February 2007

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