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Samsung SGH-i300 review

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Thursday 27 April 2006, 5:12 PM

Dire battery life


The features on this phone are fantastic but unfortunately the very poor battery life do not allow you to make use of them for any reasonable period of time. The EXTENDED life battery only has a realistic standby time of 36 hours max. Before I purchased the phone I saw this advertised as closer to 80 hours. Under normal use (considering this is an all singing all dancing communnications device with email, msn messenger, MP3, camera and video player) the standard battery is dead within a few hours of charging it and the extended life one is drained after 8-10 hours. The 3Gb hard disk is good but switches off when the battery falls below 20%. I'm sure as Samsung bring out future Windows-based smart phones they will evolve in to something better.

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Overview

Samsung SGH-i300

Editors rating
Rating: 7.7
Verdict

This Windows Mobile smartphone is remarkable for its internal 3GB hard drive, which, although primarily targeted at music fans, could prove useful to business users too. Samsung's bundle of software extras are also a plus point for the well-featured, if somewhat bulky, SGH-i300.

Typical price

£ 498

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