Samsung X600

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.

The Samsung SGH X600 fone is da bomb, I've had it for about 6 weeks, and I'm still learning new stuff about it. The camera is wicked and has a light, the light makes it look pretty spekky. Other people have said the camera looks bad, but it looks wicked. With the rotating camera and the cool rounded corners.

Whats wrong with the Samsung people? Cant they change the software? If you have experience with the earliest Samsungs in the market ,you wouldn't have any problems using this one, because all of them samsungs are exactly alike and that kind of makes you think you are not going along with technology.

Dont try messaging alot with the Samsung X600 mobile phone. You need to type a number in your text? Better type it in letters than go back into the menu one step and switch to number mode , type the number and then go back again and switch to letter mode. If you have symbols in your text you have to go back one step in the menu again, switch to symbol mode and ....weird.

The rotating camera quality is great(640X480 on a 65k screen). However the flash isnt of much use(I used it as a torch).And you can't shutdown the camera click sound. That means if you want to capture a moment without making a noise , you simply cant....unless you turn down the key sound volume to minimum.But even that doesnt shutdown the sound completely. (One good news ,unlike the A800 and the V200 , Samsung has finally added an option to shutdown the phone turn on/off music). When you rotate the camera 180 degrees , remember to press the volume up/down key on the side of this device to get a straight image and not an upside down one.

At Samsung people dont realize the importance of Bluetooth. They have lately noticed the advantages of infrared so they installed that. But if you think that would be a way to transfer images to and forth phone and PC, you are mistaken. Infrared is only used to transfer ringtones and games(yuck).In case you wanna transfer images to your PC you have to buy the cable. At the time of this review, it wasnt available.

What? You wanna attach pics to your contacts? well sorry....u cant...

Considering above I cant figure whats the camera good for.oh...I forgot, you do get zoom capabilty while looking at the image and even after you take the shot.

I use speakerphone alot. But you dont have a speakerphone here. Much to my astonishment however,if you are sending an MMS you can attach voice tags....and you can listen to your voice tags on the speakerphone:)) Seems like Samsung folks forgot to use the same loudspeaker in calls. Maybe they didnt know the phone has got this ability.lol.

Ringtones? Same old Samsung 40 polyphonic ringtones. Nothing new. They are loud enough but too embarassing in public.

Games? comes with 2 games but they are games you might expect to play on a larger screen. more games are downloadable however. But i never tried it.

Contacts? well...Samsung has its own version of UIQ. It is good. Could be better though. You can assign personal ringtones to different people or groups now.

So much for the negative side of the device. The good part is:

The reception is wonderful, even in places with low signal strength.

Sound quality is loud and clear.

Its got a great battery. I had to charge it every 2 days under maximum use. My Nokia 6600 lasted for a day at the most.

conclusion:

If you are looking for a simple but stylish phone and no flashy features , good reception and long battery life this phone would do.

Otherwise try Symbian phones.

I hope this was useful.

I decided it would not be a good idea to get low range phone as it would unfortunatly not last me more than year. It was suggested that it would be much better to go on pay monthly because I could get a decent phone which would last me ages on value tariff. So I went to find a phone from free to £50. That's when I came across the Samsung X600 on a £15 02 tariff for free on special offer till the end of March. So of course, with my birthday coming up my mum decided to get it for me. When I got home and opened up the phone, it looked amazing. I almost forgot to charge the phone up! It is absolutly amazing. This phone has it all. No Bluetooth, but I don't see that feature as nessecary. This phone is excellent, high quality, and does everything very well. It is absolutly georgeus as well, I can't recommend it enough!

The Samsung X600 mobile phone has a better camera than my mates Nokia 6220, but then again the Nokia camera won't go to that resolution anyway. No video clips.

The "flash" is really just a torch - it doesn't flash but it does help with close up pics in the dark (and it has pose value lol). Not used Night Mode much (it works pretty well without it, or by using the flash), but I think that you need quite a steady hand...

You can change the "brightness" of the pic you want to capture by pressing the left/right key, which is pretty useful.

The screen is nice and clear, but could be a bit more colourful I guess.

Getting about four days from a charge.

Reception (T-mobile in the UK) is ok in towns, but soon goes off when you get out in the country.

The Polyphonic tones are pretty naff, but the speaker quality is good. It doesn't work as a handsfree. No sound clip recorder. You can't use MP3 or WAV as ringtones, but you can use midi and get short clips of sound/music as MMF files (8 bit sound, a bit scratchy)

You can't assign pics to callers, or to caller groups (there are predefined "drawings" though which you can't change). You can assign ringtones to caller groups.

The T9 predictive text is what annoys me the most...

I am used to Nokia, but with this you can't go back to a word you have earlier written and change it again. You have to delete it. But in Memo mode, you CAN change a word you wrote earlier! What's more if you just press one button in memo mode, you can press the up/down key and scroll through all of the words you have saved using that button (ie press 3 and you can scroll through the normal letters and then show you words you have saved into T9) If I could have this in SMS mode I would LOVE this phone. I sent a email to Samsung, but they said that it wouldn't happen.

I miss the FM radio of my old 8310...

The menu structure is a bit frustrating sometimes. You can get yourself into a menu, but there is no way back out of unless you press the end call key and go back to the wallpaper!

Accidentally press the end call key while writing an SMS, and it's gone. That's quite rubbish really...

The phone is full of good ideas, but they haven't all been thought through - I'm hoping that a firmware release will improve things for this phone.

Only had the phone for about a week so still finding stuff out!

I got it for free on T-mobile for £13.99 a month which can't be bad!

I would recommend the phone, but not to ppl who text all the time (i do unfortunately), or someone looking for a massive feature list.

Cheers

The Samsung X600 is pretty much a mixed bag -- good value for the multimedia conscious -- especiallt the camera and the flash, but it is ugly and the reception could be a lot better.