Samsung C100 Review

Overall Rating

Good poly tones.
65'000 colour screen.
Java Download.

Slow menus.
Very slow wap and games.

Had my phone for just over a month. Pleased with most the features but a few bad points let it down.
Problems I've had:
Slow Menus,
Slow non-smooth games (default and downloaded ones),
Very slow WAP (The pages load up quickly enough but scrolling and typing in WAP in painfully slow),
If I have the message alert tone turned on and not the vibrate, the tone will stop working after a while but then be back again after a short time (Samsung say it is my handset but I have changed it once and have the same problem),
Can't teach T9 new words and again is slow type,

Must admit that the 65'000 colours haven't impressed me too much, it's colour and that's ok for me. The tones are great, default ones might not be every ones choice but I've downloaded loads and can't fault them, you can even have voice tones and sound effects.


Overall a great phone let down by bugs.

Members' Comments onDisturbed UTT's Review

• joyg on 17th Nov 2003

  could you tell me how managed to set up the wap to actually work, I am having trouble keying in the ip address it will not let me put in the last zero of the last three digits i.e. 012 it stores as 12 can you help

• Disturbed UTT on 22nd Nov 2003

  When I got my phone it was already set up to work with all the different service providers, all I had to do is choose what one I wanted to use. Try getting the WAP settings sent to your phone. I know 02 can do this from their web site.

• blueysea on 1st Dec 2003

  My Samsung C100 is working fine, your WAP problem has got nothing to do with the phone it's your network. I'm on virgin and the WAP is fast. The games on my phone work fast aswell, aswell as the menu's so I can't really see where your coming from there. When you compare the colour screen with other colour phones you will see that it is much better quality.

• tonymontana on 30th Dec 2003

  I too have had problems accessing wap on o2.They,ve texted me the settings but I never received them (twice).Also folowed landline instruction to no avail. Good phone otherwise but I think its going back to the shop.!!

• Disturbed UTT on 10th Jan 2004

  I don't have any trouble accessing WAP, the problem I have is scrolling on a WAP page using the one line at a time scroll option. But using the side buttons is fine. So when the page has already loaded onto my phone it can't be down to the network provider. I think the problems I have had are just down to my phone, but I have taken it back to the same shop and had it replaced but still have the same problems. So, I'm not sure if CELL TALK UK has had a bad batch but they weren't very helpful at all.

• jillybabyuk on 3rd Feb 2004

  I love this phone its great. My only problem is i cant get colour backgrounds can any one help me?? email jillybabyuk@hotmail.com if you can. thanks