Samsung M 2710

Samsung has recently unveiled several decent phones and have allotted neat classification to these sets. The customer can select the option and the page leads to its relevant category-music phones, camera phones, touch screen sets and the like.

One such model introduced by Samsung in the Music Series is the Beat Edition-M2710 launched in July 2009.

A decent slider phone available in Black- Red and White-Purple (which is hardly available in the stores) the phone provides battery back-up of up to 10 hours talk time and 2 days in stand-by, the phone avails GPRS (Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps) Edge and WAP Connectivity with data transfer mode is restricted to Bluetooth and USB alone (USB and Software CD provided).

The display is standard Graphical with coloured TFT Screen supporting 262K colors and a modest 240 x 320 pixels resolution. The 2.0 MP camera (1600x1200 pixels) is pretty impressive whilst the image editor functions extra ordinarily well, almost at par with picasa that we use so frequently. The video recordings are above average although they cannot be zoomed-in while being played.

Among the usual functions, the Samsung M-2710 doesn’t go amiss with to-do-list, Calculator , Alarm Clock-Supporting as many as 8 personalized alarms, Java Applications (empowered with Java games that includes Sudoku also, to my delight), Currency Converter, Stop Watch, Offline Mode (that affiliates to the Air-Plane wireless functions), Voice Recorder , MMS, SOS Messages (emergency messaging to relatives/friends) and not to forget the Mobile Tracker . The sleek 2.10 inches light weighted phone with smooth slider is a treat with music lover as the MP3 and MP4 format supported music playes on well (nearly as good as Sony Walkman series) notwithstanding the Radio to linger on. The dedicated music keys are of no use when the phone is in slider down mode. Besides, for these music keys Samsung has sacrificed on the Call and End keys that I miss perpetually. With these keys missing the slider has to be pulled on and off every time the call is to be made or ended causing much irritation. Besides there is no provision of auto keypad lock and the slider has to be tampered with to lock keys all the time which goes a long way in pulling down the phones rating.

The phone supports up to 16 GB external memory (microSD TransFlash) which supplements the 50 MB internal memory (Done expect to get the memory card inside the pack like he Nokia Phones)
In this age of free messaging provided by the generous service providers the Samsung Phone fail to offer message counters that I miss fervently when I lose track on the count of sent messages. The message memory is 300 which I find sufficient (though I have heard many complaining about this)
On a lighter side Samsung has launched Etiquette Pause which automatically turns off all sound being played the moment phone is kept up-side down. Besides the BEAT edition (unlike several other Samsung series) provides the facility of locking the Phone Book, Call Log, Messages and the File Manager by a personalized password, which I personally liked a lot.

All in all it’s an average set according to the cost incurred. The phone in my opinion can be overlooked as Samsung Omnia is almost in the same range and offers much more to its users. Wait for a while until I buy that and offer you the review of the same. Amen!