Samsung X520

First of all the phone is targeted at youth, and thus has quite interesting design and rather plain functionality. And as follows, quite moderate price. The clamshell provides a 0.3 MP camera and FM-radio.

• Class: middle
• Position in the line: above Samsung X510
• Rivals: no direct rivals
• Description based on official information

• General features
  • Announced in 2006, official announcement on the 31 October 2006, on the market since the end of November 2006
  • eGSM 900/1800/1900
  • Battery type Li-Ion
  • Internal TFT-display with the resolution of 128x160 pixels and support for 65000 colours
  • Colours: black
  • Weight: 80 gramms
  • Dimensions: 89x42x18 mm

• Memory
  • Phonebook for 500 names, up to 5 numbers, e-mail address and text note, assign a photo, an image and a melody, including MP3 files, AAC
  • Create user groups (up to 10), assign own call signal and an icon to a group
  • Call lists
  • Phone memory of about 2,8 MB

• Call management, ringing tones
  • Vibracall
  • Polyphony, 40-tones polyphony
  • Fast dial for 8 numbers
  • Automatic call redial
  • Speakerphone

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

• Camera
  • VGA-camera (the maximum resolution of 640x480 pixels)
  • Shooting modes - plain, multishooting, night
  • Effects, frames

• Multimedia
  • stereo FM-radio
  • mp3/aac files as a call melody
  • J2ME

• Connectivity
  • GPRS class 10
  • WAP 2.0
  • IrDA
  • MMS
  • Synchronization with PC (USB 1.1)

• Organizer and extras
  • User profiles
  • SMS alert on SIM change
  • Dictaphone
  • Date, time
  • Once and daily recurrent alarm clock, reminders
  • Timer, stopwatch, calculator

Michail Machnaev (michail.machnaev@mobile-review.com)
Published — 6 November 2006

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