At first glance it looks very much like a whole lot of other Samsung handsets, but turn the B600 around and you can see an oversized digital camera lens which does look unusual.
In fact, the Samsung SCH-B600 comes with a 10 megapixel camera with 3X optical zoom with autofocus and flash. When you consider that a typical top-of-the-range European phone only comes in a 3 megapixels and only a small number of those have optical zoom, then the SCH-B600 looks quite impressive.
Megapixels aren't everything though, and camera phones tend to suffer from poor quality optics that limit the picture quality. Too many phones have had a high megapixel count spoiled by compromised optics that make the photographs look blurry. The SCH-B600 is different - the lens actually moves out from the back of the handset in exactly the same way as a good quality digital camera (although you can't tell that from these photographs). Essentially, the SCH-B600 appears to be a proper digital camera grafted onto a phone.. or a phone grafted onto a proper digital camera.
The Samsung B600 also supports Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (Satellite DMB), it comes with a 2.2" 240x320 pixel display in 16 million colours, Bluetooth, multimedia support and microMMC expandable memory. As we said, it's a CDMA handset but it also supports 1x EVDO which is a 3G standard.
The Samsung B600 is a glimpse of some of the features we might see in GSM handsets in 2007. Until then, these features will presumably be for the Korean market only.
Samsung B600 (SCH-B600) at a glance
Available:
Q2/Q3 2006
Network:
CDMA 800
Data:
1x EVDO
Screen:
240x320 pixels, 16m colours
Camera:
10 megapixels
Size:
Size/weight not specified
Bluetooth:
Yes
Memory card:
microMMC
Infra-red:
No
Polyphonic:
Yes
Java:
Yes
Battery life:
Not specified
Samsung E500 (SGH-E500)
Showing distinctly more bling than your usual Samsung, the SGH-E500 was originally announced last month, but it's now just about due to hit the market.
The Samsung E500 is being unashamedly marketed as a phone for women, with a selection of patterned designs and attractive detailing. Female-friendly looks are one thing, but the SGH-E500 even comes with an application where you can take a photograph of yourself and paste different hairstyles onto it, there's a calorie counter, biorhythm calculator and some other "girlie" applications too. In addition to this, the E500's screen doubles as a mirror.
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