Samsung S100

So to be short, this Samsung S100 mobile phone is a good allrounder. It has its flaws but also has its strong points.

When opening the pack, i found two batteries, a headset and a data cable with software as the standard accessoiries. the data cable is really a plus. You can easilly manage your contacts, copy them to you sim or phone's memory, even to your computer. Also, you can manage ringtones, wallpapers and the organizer. The handset is recognized very fast and transfer is quite fast through the serial port.

One of the things that caught my attention is the external display of this handset. It is backlighted in blue color, but with the backlight off, the background color is green. Not something you'd expect. The green color causes the display to be harder to read when ther's no backlight. The inner display is a 65k Color STN display. It is hard to read in an angle and sunlight.

The ringtones are nice. Though a better volume was expected. As more of the Samsung phones, this one doesn't have the capability to vibrate and ring at the same time. The option wich is the closest to that, causes the phone to vibrate 3 times before starting the ringtone, but then the vibration stops. When carried in a pocket, the ringtones can be hard to hear in noisy places.

The phone supports java, thus letting the user download games and applets (MIDLETS). My favorite is the bowling game.

The performance of this phone is good. Even in spots when some of my other phones have a hard time, this one has good reception.the handset also functiones quite good. The menu is quite fast and direct. Writing messages can be confusing. I had an a800 before this one, and this phone has clearly a harder message write system.

The phone has a medium sized memory. That's a bit odd, since there's more space to put memory chips in that the A800 for example. The phone memory supports up to 50 numbers (with subnumbers) and 80 messages, along with the organizer entrys.

Last thing: the phone was targeted to the small business user and therefore is triple band, has GPRS and Infrared communication. But the majority of the users keep the phone in their pockets. That is when the external aireal comes to bug you. See to get it replaced by a mini aireal.

Summary: Average phone, for the small business man who wants to have all it's functions and accessiories. He has to have good ears and a bit patience to learn its functions.

The Samsung T100 is a lovely phone to use except in bright light , and seeing as I work outside a lot of the time don't bother trying to text someone . The phone is no worse off with other similar colour phones these days , they all suffer in bright sunlight (T100 ,M720i,3510i,S300) Not really supported by the samsung fun site except for a few tones ( you can't download the games even though they work on this phone because Samsung haven't made it compatible with the models allowed to download). If you work inside then the phone is brilliant , plenty loud enough and so bright you can use it as a torch at night . All in all a good phone but think twice if you work outside in bright light . One problem is the keys are not reccessed like the T100 and S300 and do scratch the internal screen if kept in trouser pockets which you work in , you need a case to stop the keys and screen rubbing together .

The Samsung S100 is a very good phone would recommend it to any of my friends

Funky, Flash and Fun. The S100 is an excellent Phone, with the best colour screen around - it compares to the 3G phones for the number of colours.

With styling similar to the T100, this phone brings it to the for front of mobile phone technology. The only way up is the new 3G phones but a few more years development to reduce the size and a reduction in cost will have to occur before they are the next must have.

Well the S100 is very similar to the T100 in size and

the good thing is that it catches evryones eyes as they

pass as it's a very impressive piece of technology compared

to most phones it makes most of them look nothing!

It's very useful for when your abroad as most phones arn't

but the only bad thing is the arial.

Overall for the business user this phone is fantastic for the price. If you travel the world then the Tri-band facily will definetely come in useful as this lets you use your phone in the USA, Europe, Asia etc. With other phones you would need another phone for the USA.

The colour screen is stunning and people really take notice of your phone. Everyone HAS the Samsung T100 nowadays so it is nothing special but this is the latest release and looks as good as it functions.

For kids or general use then maybe paying this much isnt worthwhile but if you are going to make use of the GPRS, Triband, IrDA etc then this is a great phone, it is a real power phone with many features.

The fact that you can download more games/applications using the Java (J2me) system is brilliant. The only down side to this is the fact it isnt the best phone at running these applications as games you see on TV adverts like MotoGP run real slow on the S100.

The size of the phone is my only other gripe, it isnt huge, infact its pretty much the same size as the T100 but due to the different design of it it looks slightly bigger. The aerial/antenna sticks out a bit also.

Apart from that this is a top class phone, if you need all the features it offers then its definately worth getting.