Samsung X600 Review

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Samsung X600
3 stars
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MerckZ's Review of Samsung X600

21st May 2005

Overall Rating

3 stars
  • Value for money
    3.5 stars
  • Time Phone Owned
    Over 1 Year
  • Battery Life
    4 stars
  • Reception
    1.5 stars
  • Reviewers Network
    Vodacom
  • Screen Quality
    3.5 stars
  • Features
    2.5 stars
  • Style
    3.5 stars
Good Points

Stylish; Good Display (except outdoors); Nicely Spaced Buttons; Good Camera; Good Battery Life.


Bad Points

Bad Reception; Pointless, Ugly Antenna; No Bluetooth; Annoying Call Disconnections; Poor Load Times; Bad Text Messaging; No Proper Silent Mode; Annoying Camera Noise; Very Bad Phone-to-PC linking.


General Comments

I really had high hopes for this phone. The way Samsung had been showing the ad for the X600 you would have thought they would have sold millions. But it seems that is not the case, because it seems next to impossible to find accessories, spares and other equipment for this phone. I would have given it a nine for style if it weren't for the antenna that does nothing but spoil the aesthetics and jab you in the leg when you walk.
The camera is good; not as sharp as the Nokia 6600, but better colour. The fact that you couldn't turn the camera sound off was also annoying.
This phone lacked a proper Silent Mode, the Quiet Mode resets when you start up (I don't know if this is just this case with my phone or if this is the case with all of them) meaning instead of using this function it was better to switch off all the sounds on the phone manually - an especially annoying task.
I really wanted to like this phone. Maybe I'm just being picky, but I found that this was really quite a half-hearted job, it was more like a "style-toy that you could make calls with" than a "practical cellphone which looks stylish". The call disconnections were also annoying, my experience with Nokia phones in the past is that when you get bad signal the call "hung in there" and allowed you time to move to a better signal location. Not the case with the Samsung X-600, it cuts when the signal goes lower than two bars! Especially annoying and expensive.
Otherwise a pleasant phone. If you have that extra bit of cash it's worth it to go for the D-500 (from what I've seen a marvelous phone - Samsung got it right with that one) or even the E700, but if I were you I would steer clear of this one.

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