Samsung S400i Review

Overall Rating

It turns on when you press the power button...

It has tonnes of features that work, just not that well. Every feature on it is poor.

Having had this phone from an impulse buy a couple of months ago I seriously regret purchasing it.
the phone itself looks quite cool and sleek in its jet-black finish. The screen is quite large considering the phone itself is quite small. The screen also produces clear sharp displays which I have to say is quite impressive. However that is about the only good feature I can think of with this phone.
Firstly the box it came in only contained the charger, battery and the manual, which I have to say is pretty poor, to connect the phone to your computer you have to buy a separate cable and to have hands free, you guessed it, you have to go and buy it. Not very good I thought, breathing a sigh of resignation for what I was about to be let in for.
Signal - Great, this phone seems to find signal where no other phone can. Which is a great start
Battery life... even on minimal usage you will be lucky to squeeze any more than 2 and a half days out of it. Which by any standard borders on electricity abuse... Where does it all go? When the slide is shut the power to the screen goes off, how can it use all that energy.?
Memory: Not dynamic, have to flush my message inbox regularly because texts are only allocated so much memory which in turn isn't so much after all. Also its not expandable and not that large.
Video playback is absolutely terrible; it's jumpy, grainy and very quiet.. Also no full screen mode.
Camera: whilst boasting 1.3 mega pixel the camera is surprisingly poor, people cannot move if a picture is to be taken and the flash actually ruins pictures in low light if used on flash mode. If you have the flash on continuous you run the risk of blinding your victims - er , sorry friends, as the light is very bright and better suited for lighting your entire house in the event of a blackout... Also picture quality takes a nosedive when blown up just a little bit even when compared to phones with similar camera quality. Also no zoom function in the gallery, which is rather annoying
Mp3 player: Extremely hard to get to and only usable if you spend the money on a data cable or a Bluetooth dongle for your PC, also you will have to buy headphones too.. Limited usage as well considering the miserly memory the phone has.
Bluetooth: It works, but extremely restricted.... You cannot transfer mp3's onto the phone... But it has an mp3 player I hear you all say. Obviously 2 + 2 does not equal 4.
Menu - messy, tatty, hard to navigate (1st page is great, then it falls apart)
however I have to say that 02 have to take some of the blame for the fallacies of this phone by the rubbish I-mode feature. No it does NOT operate anywhere near the speeds of 3G connectivity and email pictures just don't work with this phone as upon opening the file it decides to close after 4 seconds.
Picture messages: Terrible, if the picture is larger than the screen that's tough luck, you cant scroll from side to side nor zoom in or out.
Ahh but its a phone ... right? Technically yes it is... However the call quality is poor compared to that of its rivals and even its previous models... The sound is very bubbly and either too loud or too quiet no matter how much you tinker with the volume in a call. The quality of sound sent to the recipient is also very poor. I have since given up and switched back to my old nokia phone..
I did like sliding the phone open and closed though.... that was cool.. However
All in all very disappointing and not a phone I would recommend to anyone. Poor show Samsung