Samsung SGH-P730

This is the first phone by Samsung equipped with megapixel camera, has an integrated slot for RS-MMS.

• Class: fashion
• Position in the line: top
• Rival phones: Sharp GX30, Nokia 7610
• Test based description

• General features
  • Announced in March 2004
  • GSM900/1800/1900
  • Battery type Li-Ion 1050 mAh (expanded capacity)
  • Battery life:
  • standby time up to 200 hours
  • talk time up to 4 hours
  • Outer part of the clamshell can be rotated in different angles, inner one can turn into outer part
  • Two displays, inner one is graphical with the resolution of 128x160 pixels and shows up to 65000 colors (TFT), outer screen has the resolution of 96x64 pixels (TFT, 4096). Inner display can show up to 7 text lines with 16 characters in each and up to 3 service lines.
  • Digital megapixel camera (CMOS), jpg file format . A possibility to rotate the camera for 180 degrees, a possibility to rotate an image on the screen, various effects, frames, video format - 3GP
  • Dimensions: 94x45x24.5 mm
  • Weight: 120 g

   

  • Memory
    • 50,5 MB of memory for different data (photo, video and etc)
    • Separate blocks of memory 1 MB in size are used for audio messages, MMS and games.
    • Phone book memory for 2000 entries (up to 5 numbers, e-mail address, network address for a name), up to 250 entries in SIM-card memory
    • 10 users' groups
    • Call register for last 20 outgoing, incoming and missed calls

   

  • Call management, ringing tones
  • Vibrating alert
  • 64 tones polyphony
  • Speed dialing for 8 numbers
  • Minute minder
  • Automatic redial
  • Triple voice codes, HR, FR and EFR

   

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

     

  • Connectivity
  • WAP 2.0
  • MMS
  • GPRS (4+2)
  • Integrated mail client
  • IrDA
  • A possibility to transmit video files
  • Synchronization with PC
  • SyncML DS

   

  • Organizer and extras
    • mp3 player, a possibility to replay a track
    • Dictaphone - 5 records for 30 seconds, doesn't work during a conversation
    • Animated headbands
    • Time, alarm clock (once, recurrent, weekly), World time
    • Organizer, to-do list, synchronization with PC
    • Games - BubbleSmile (favourite version of bubbles), Fun2Link (game for logic), Mobile Chess. Also 3D games are available in the phone - Metalion (space arcade, you fly and shoot enemies), Bomb (a version of Tetris), Zio Golf (a version of Golf).

  Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
  Publsihed — 1 June 2004

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