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Call records. There are lists of 20 missed, 20 received and 20 dialed calls in the phone. Time and date of each call is indicated in this menu. You can also view time of the last call, total time of all incoming and outgoing calls.

Sounds. The phone supports 40-tones polyphony, which sounds not bad. There are several modes of incoming alert, for example, only sound, only vibracall, vibracall and then a melody. Other settings are standard. You can select signal tone for SMS-messages, MMS-messages, adjust minute minder during the talk, select silent mode (only vibra).

Settings. Apart from greeting messages, you can adjust display settings here. Animation (up to 5 pre-default ones), a photo (pre-default or own one), just picture can be set as wallpapers. It is possible to select font style and location of text.

One of the 4 color schemes is available.

Duration of backlighting can be also different (from 15 seconds to 10 minutes). The longest value is interesting for those who like to play games. In this case they will not move keys to activate backlighting while playing a game.

There are up to 15 points of brightness of the screen.

It is possible to select screen saver of the external screen (clock or balls), the way to change screen’s content (horizontal or vertical scrolling), backlighting duration (20, 40, 60 seconds).

Organizer. You can easily add a new reminder (up to 100 characters). After inputting text, you could select one of the categories (Schedule, to-do list, call, anniversary). Depending on the selected category, different actions will be offered. For example, if you select a schedule, you will see a calendar, then select a day, indicate time, set alarm-clock. Then, this record will be saved and displayed in the separate window. Unlimited number of records could be added to one day, totally up to 25 records of each category are available. When you view several records added for one day, you could see the number of the current one. On the whole, the organizer is well-realized.

World time functions is usual. The same is related to calculator, unit converter, including currency converter. Countdown timer, stop-watch with intermediate results are also available in the phone.

Alarm-clock can be set only for one time. The consumer can use an autopower on/off function. Alarm-clock will be active even if the phone is switched off.

Network service. Just settings, connected with calls diver and etc.

FunBox. Wap-browser of 2.0 version is hidden here. It allows to view color images. The phone supports GPRS 4+2. So, you won’t pay much for browsing.

All received pictures, images, photos from camera and melodies are kept in Media Box.

There are three pre-installed games in the phone: Honey Ball (a kind of archanoid), Go! Hamster (you should open the picture and avoid flying animals), Bowling. These games can’t be deleted from the memory.

A special menu item – Java World is also placed here. There are two pre-installed Java-games there, which can be deleted. The first game is Snow Ball Fight. You move on the map and throw snow balls to your enemies. The second game is well-known BubbleSmile – nice logic game.

Up to 600 Kb can be used for Java applications, this memory space is separate from the memory pool available to store photos, pictures and messages.

Camera. It is the last menu in the phone. To start shooting just press the joystick to the right (in the open phone mode). Images of different resolutions (640х480, 320х240, 160х120, 128х120) can be taken using this camera. There are several types of compression for each of the resolutions (files are stored in JPEG format): Super Fine, Fine, Normal and Economy. The difference is visible on the large images of the highest resolution. Super Fine image size is about 90-95 Kb, Economy image occupies about 40 Kb.

You can view your photos in the photo album, as thumbnails in particularly. Some images can be locked from occasional deleting. There is an opportunity to move several images to own albums.

The user sees a picture on the screen while shooting. Deflecting navigation key, you can zoom in or zoom out a picture (5-x digital zoom). Movements across allow to adjust matrix photosensitivity (from –3 to +3). It is a good diapason, even in the darkness images have rather good quality.

You can select one of the frames during the shooting mode. Graphical editor is absent, so this feature is available only while shooting. There are also different effects, for example, grey, negative, sepia, emboss, sketch. As for me the most amazing are emboss and sketch effects.

On the whole the camera is very pleasing. Photos can be transferred to the phone with a help of software included in the standard delivery kit. You can’t transfer pictures via IrDa. One can synchronize all records from organizer, phonebook, SMS and MMS-messages.

Here you can estimate the quality of images yourself.

Impressions

The main features of this handset are comparable to other modern phones. It has not problems with reception quality. Volume of the 40-tones polyphonic ringer is high, melodies sound nice. Vibrating alert is stronger than average, it is well-felt.

Once again new mode proves that Samsung is a trendsetter in the field of clamshells. E700 offers a new level of comfort and prestige. This handset doesn’t offer many new functions, integrated camera and MMS have already been integrated in V200, but they have improved quality in E700. This phone is more comfortable to use, of the main reasons is smaller dimensions. Interface is considerable revised and became very pleasing. All phone’s capabilities are well though out. Memory pool will be the largest in the phones of this class for today and will remain the same during at least half a year.

Shipments of E700 will begin in the end of October to European market. In Russia they would be available in the middle of November. An expected price is about 450 USD at first (400-450 Euro in Europe, depending on the country, without a contract). E700 is one of the best fashion phones today. The main rivals are Motorola v600, Sony Ericsson Z600. Dimensions play against these models, in case of Motorola external aerial is also a disadvantage. On the other hand, these phones not only support GSM 900/1800, but have bluetooth. In our opinion, bluetooth function is not a defined one for the consumers of this kind of phones, dimensions are more important. As a result, this model from Samsung would be interesting to its segment. Compare at lest a thickness of all these phones.

Until the next spring, E700 will be a top model in the line. Traditionally much money will be spend for its promotion. The phone would be demanded on the market, according to our estimations sales of this handset would be higher than sales of V200.

Here you can listen to some of the ringing tones (mp3, 367 Kb)

Eldar Murtazin ([email protected])
Translated by Maria Sennikova ([email protected])

Published — 27 August 2003

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