Samsung SGH-T659 – This One Doesn’t Offfer Flash But Surely Provides You With A  Flashback To 2006

Sum n substance:

Thumbs up: Admirable call quality, good camera, decent display, good battery life.

Thumbs down: Drab outdated design.

THE WHIZ KID SPEAKS: History repeats itself… and in the case of Samsung it keeps on happening so many times. LOL. Frankly I don’t understand whats the point in launching a phone which is similar to many that were launched three years ago again. I mean is it so tough for Sammy to move on?? Anyways all my lame wisecracks aside let’s move ahead with the review of this one…

Razzle-Dazzle: This one is BAH… again a slider… nothing new. No no, I aint saying this one is unattractive but then it’s like u get bored of seeing the same thing again n again. Anyways, this is a sleek silver one with a smooth slider mechanism. At 4.06 inches by 1.93 inches by 0.88 inch and weighing 3.28 ounces this one easily slips into the pocket.

Its got a 2.25 inch display with support for 262,000 colours and a resolution of  320×240 pixels. As such there isn’t any real drawback with the display, it’s a pretty much average plain jane display. Right below the display we have a navigation toggle, the talk and end buttons along with the clear key and two soft keys on each side of the navigation toggle. Pushing the slider reveals the keypad. The buttons on the keypad are pretty much flat and don’t offer much hindrance while dialing. They are pretty much well spaced, but speed texters might face a few problems getting used to the keypad.

The left spine houses the volume rocker and the micro SD slot and on the right side we have the camera shutter and the headphone jack. To click a photo you need to slide the phone as the camera lens and the self portrait mirror are located behind the slider.

Inside Dope: Like the other phones from Samsung even this one has a 1000 entry phonebook along with other features like the vibrate mode, alarm clock, calculator, timer, speakerphone, memo list, a unit and currency converter. Keeping the basic features aside this one also offers support for Bluetooth, GPS and PC syncing. This one also includes the POP3 email support.

This one also comes loaded with a 2 megapixel camera and lets the user take pictures in four resolutions ranging from 1,600×1,200 to 320×240. It also offers a few editing options. The camcorder offers a decent 176×144 resolution. The photo quality is pretty much decent and exhibits hardly any noise. The photos are also bright and quite vibrant. Once the user is done taking the pictures, the pictures can easily be transferred using the Bluetooth support or can be stored on the phone itself which offers an inbuilt memory of 80MB. However the memory is expandable so I would recommend using a separate memory card for storage.

Coming to the music player… it’s a basic simple music player with an user friendly menu. The songs are categorized according to artists, genres, albums and tracks. As in most of the phones the audio quality of the speakers ain’t all that great, it would better to use a pair of headphones while on the go.

The call quality… not that I wasn’t expecting it but then the call quality was excellent. No static or interference with strong signal. Also the callers on the other side could not tell that I was using a cellphone. Speakerphone quality was also pretty decent except for at crowded places.

The battery of this one offers a 5 hours talktime and 12.5 days on standby mode which is again decent enough for a phone like the T659.

Nitty-Gritty: I kind of totally understand the attachment that Sammy has towards the slider design because it didn’t launch one or two but a total bundle of such phones around 3 years back and now again its come out with the same design. For Pete sake’s Sammy move on… anyways this one is a decent basic phone. It’s almost got everything that a decent phone must have. I would recommend this one to anyone who is looking out for a decent phone for longterm use…

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