Review Exclusive: Samsung i7110
Published by Steve Litchfield at 18:04 GMT, December 3rd 2008
In an All About Symbian exclusive, I present part 1 of my two part review of Samsung's brand new S60 3rd Edition FP2-powered i7110. An OLED-screened candy bar, it's incredibly well built and spoilt only by a silly video bug and a strange control key design. In this, part 1, I look at its hardware. In part 2, I'll go through its software and present my overall opinion of this latest device.
"There's no getting round it, first impressions of the Samsung i7110 are awesome. Awesome. A slim metal chassis (118 x 52 x 12.9mm). Brushed metal battery cover and front fascia. Rubberised, hi-grip coating elsewhere. A gorgeously gorgeous (have I mentioned that it was gorgeous?) OLED 2.6" screen. Optical joystick. Plus the usual 2009 specifications for a top end phone/smartphone: 5mp cam with dual LED flash, VGA video recording, Wi-Fi and GPS. What's there not to like, in this candy bar format that should prove more robust than anything else on the market?"
Categories: Hardware
Platforms: S60 3rd Edition
News Discussion
(Yup, I'm pretty biased towards Samsung)
RAAAFFFFFEEEEEEE!!!?? FX: waits patiently for Rafe to get back from Nokia World.....
Yes, the key cluster on this phone does seem a little cramped to start with, but as with so many of the (horrible) key clusters on N-series devices at the moment, you get used to it pretty quickly.
I think that (software issues resolved) Samsung have another killer handset here!
Samsung need to step up a gear and either licence access to Ovi (etc), or develop their own offerings.
- As we've seen S40 is becoming very capable so the main points for difference (from most users perspective) are multi tasking and after market applications.
These apps and services is the main reason why i have a hard time leaving nokia Nseries phones, even though some great hardware from samsung has come out lately.
Strange, and in the review gsmarena.com videorecording i7110 is named by EXCELLENT