Samsung i620 review: Whiter shade of pale

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We have seen lots of phones from Samsung with slider form factor but this time it's a full hardware keyboard that is revealed when you slide the Samsung i620 out - the new mid-range smartphone running on the Windows Mobile 6 Standard edition. Packed with some exclusive features - a rotating D-pad wheel and sensor keys all over, you might as well be blown away by the one-off snowy white color too. So, it's compact, it's QWERTY, it's smartphone - yes this is really an offer you can't resist to play with - and neither do we.

Features

General
2G Network
GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network
HSDPA 2100
Announced
2007, June
Status
Available. Released 2007, October
Size
Dimensions
94.9 x 59.3 x 16.3 mm
Weight
126.2 g
Display
Type
TFT, 65K colors
Size
320 x 240 pixels, 2.2 inches

- QWERTY Keyboard
Ringtones
Type
Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3
Customization
Download, order now
Vibration
Yes
Memory
Phonebook
Practically unlimited entries
Call records
Practically unlimited
Card slot
microSD (TransFlash), buy memory

- ROM 128 MB, RAM 64MB- 80 MB shared memory- TI OMAP 1710 (220 MHz) processor
Data
GPRS
Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
HSCSD
No
EDGE
Yes
3G
HSDPA, 1.8 Mbps
WLAN
No
Bluetooth
Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port
No
USB
Yes, v2.0 miniUSB
Features
OS
Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard Edition
Messaging
SMS, EMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser
WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML(Opera), RSS feeds
Games
Yes, order now
Colors
Silver, Black
Camera
2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels, video, flash; secondary VGA videocall camera

- Java MIDP 2.0- WMV/3GP/H.263/MPEG4 player- WMA/MP3/AAC/AAC+/OGG/ASF player- Organiser- Document viewer (MS Word, Excel, PPT, PDF)- Image viewer (jpeg/gif/bmp/png)- Built-in handsfree
Battery

Standard battery, Li-Ion 1200 mAh
Stand-by
Up to 320 h
Talk time
Up to 6 h 30 min