Samsung has announced today its the newest high-end touch screen phone called the S8300 UltraTOUCH. It comes in a slider form-factor. Samsung presented its new flagship of Series UltraTOUCH - Samsung S8300. This is the first touch sceen slider from Samsung and the thinnest 8 MP phone in the market at all. In addition, a very stylish flagship - in addition to 12.7 mm thickness, it has metal elements in the case. Price, of course, all this is above average.
Samsung S8300 looks impressive, the dimensions are not large. It is colored up in red with blue along it. Metal is used only partially. Rear side is textured, front - fluted texture. Slider mechanism works perfectly just as Samsung likes to make it - smooth and clear.
The keypad is very comfortable with large and distributed buttons. Korean producer prepared a pleasant surprise - the company is moving towards a universal connector microUSB, and the S8300 is a pioneer. But in the rest is disappointing - there is no 3.5 mm audio jack, there is no navigational joystick (instead there is a return key), and the expansion slot under the battery.
Samsung S8300 is not a Smartphone, is a regular phone without an operating system, but with multitask supporting, you can minimize active Java-applications. There is a developed system of widgets that you can make to the main screen and clean, with a screen scrolls vertically for more capacity. Traditionally unusual widgets are added, reporting how many days have passed since your diet or you quit smoking. By the standard set of core applications are also available adding, note Picsel Viewer for viewing office files and Share pix for direct blogging. However, the latter in the absence of Wi-Fi in person we see suspicious activity. Transitions on the menu in general, accompanied by pleasant effects animation, but it slows down the menu, it is hoped to start to optimize sales. Of the methods of digital-only input letter may activate T9. No QWERTY keyboards because of the small diagonal of the display by the standards of touchsceen, well, a handwritten input is missing following the stylus. Perot, by the way, in the management of S8300 did not require an interface perfectly sharpened by a finger; the problems start only in the cold.
OS: Proprietary Samsung Touch UI, latest version of TouchWiz UI (1.5)
Camera: 8 megapixel auto focus camera with dual PowerLED flash, Face detection, Smile Shot, Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) and VGA video@30 fps
Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, standard microUSB port, GPS receiver with A-GPS and optional Samsung Mobile Navigator by Route66
Misc: Accelerometer for screen auto rotate, Proximity sensor for auto screen turn-off, Anti-scratch screen surface, FM radio with RDS, DivX/XviD video support
Battery: 880 mAh battery
Samsung S8300 has notable, above all, a powerful camera. Here, 8 MP, flash, full settings - all seriously. Video 720×480 pixels at 30 fps, but the sound recording traditional for Samsung is not good. With respect to photos, it is all good - Samsung S8300 comparable to that effect PIXON M8800 - to record the thickness of a very worthy. Moreover, the screen does not leads - the image quality (high brightness, excellent behavior in the sun including). Technology OLED, 2.8 inches diagonally and 400×240 pixels resolution. View captured pleasure, and Gallery makes use of motion sensor - just tilt the body to scroll through the list.
As noted, Wi-Fi in the S8300 does not exist, in principle, a small loss for the majority. It’s a pity only the photos that download to a blog or costly, because from wireless communication is available only Bluetooth. But the availability of GPS with preloaded cartography will be useful to many. Initially, the phone is ready for navigation, there is even a voice prompt. In addition, the presence of common functional - slot microSD, FM-radio and EDGE support, etc. S8300 works all on small-capacity battery, 880 mAh - affects tenuity corps - and so get a half or two days at an average load, not much.
Samsung S8300 - this is the case when Samsung isn’t following LG, but the vice versa, at least until the announcement of Mobile World Congress next week. The model develops the idea last year had KF700, offering a masthead functionality. Samsung S8300 has a unique combination of a thin shell, a powerful camera and the touch screen as well as form-factor “slider.” This is a key product for Samsung in the first half of 2009 on the purchase and appropriate for its audience. This model is a hit out of a niche will not be because of the high prices and a series of compromises, in particular metal in the shell could be bigger and the screen resolution is not very high. Moreover, even without comparison with the analogs is not a smartphone, there is no Wi-Fi, and the battery isn’t top class also. As a result, we get the device for wealthy lovers of stylish touch solutions for this class of rare sliding structural, not a mass product. But Samsung S8300 is out of competition, especially taking into consideration its thickness.
Well, the final verdict is, Samsung has added the its 2 most popular phone features into this phone and I am pretty sure that it will be a major hit of 2009 in UK
