Samsung SGH-S500

This phone is similar to Samsung S300, but has other design features and monochromic external display. Simpler features enable to reduce prime costs and as a result retail price of the phone. It is a a good fashion phone, which is rather cheap.

• Class: fashion
• Position in phone line: under Samsung S300
• Rival models: LG G7000A

• General features
  • Announced in March 2002, beggining of sales - June-July 2003
  • GSM900/1800/1900
  • Battery type: Li-Ion 800 mAh
  • Autonomy
    • Standby time: up to 160 hours
    • Talk time:up to 2.5 hours
  • Two displays: 1) Internal - graphical display with the resolution of 128x160 pixels, which can show up to 65000 colours (TFD). It contains up to 3 text lines and up to 3 service lines; 2) External - graphical display with the resolution of 96x64 pixels, it contains up to 2 text lines and 1 line with icons
  • Dimensions: 80x43x22 mm
  • Weight: 80 g.

• Memory
  • Phonebook: 500 phone numbers. Up to 5 phone numbers and e-mail address can be added to one contact
  • Up to 5 caller groups
  • Phone memory for up to 20 SMS
  • Lists of the last 10 received/missed/dialed calls with date and time indication

 

• Ringing tones, call management

• Vibrating alert
• 40-tones polyphony
• 41 ringing tones, (including a possibility to compose your own melodies (up to 2), a possibility to download up to 3 new melodies from PC)
• Speed dialing for up to 8 phone numbers
• Minute minder
• Autodialing
• HR, FR and EFR

• SMS
  • Nokia Smart Messaging
  • EMS
  • A possibility to send a receive ringing tones and animated pictures
  • A possibility to send a group SMS message
  • Predictive text input T9
  • Templates

   

• Connectivity
• WAP 1.2.1
• IrDa
• GPRS (3+1)

• Organizer and extras
  • Java
  • 5 screensavers
  • Time, alarm-clock (once, recurrent, weekly), world time
  • Organizer, to-do list, synchronization with PC
  • Calculator, currence convertor, coundown timer, stop-watch
  • 3 games - GO! HAmster, Honey Ball, Bowling

Eldar Murtazin ([email protected])
Published - 4 March 2003

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