The mobile phone market has become a challenging place for even longtime mobile phone developers and manufacturers. To stay strong in the current mobile phone race, manufacturers have had to adapt to shifting and changing trends in user demand, and they have had to integrate the latest technology into each unit to maximize its selling power by providing top-of-the-line, cutting-edge technical specifications to satisfy their increasingly tech-savvy and multimedia-craving user bases. As such, each new generation of phones emerges sleeker and leaner but more powerful and more versatile, in keeping with the demands of the market. There have been hits, however, and there have been misses.
Communication and digital media icon Samsung has managed to stay on top of its game for the most part, with models that are well-integrated and well-put together if somewhat less intuitive than their competition over at Nokia. One of their better new models is the Samsung Corby, a phone that manages to deliver a decent variety of features for a relatively low price. Many reviews do indeed reveal that there are no bells and whistles on this one, although that doesn’t stop the Corby from being a solid and dependable new model, especially considering its price tag, to add to Samsung’s lineup.
The Corby clocks in at a relatively low price compared to most of its competition, and it expectedly packs a correspondingly low amount of high-end features – but what features it does provide, it provides with considerable depth. It lacks a standard 3.5mm headphone socket and doesn’t come with a memory card, and its 2MP camera doesn’t really hold up against its competition, but the touchscreen works rather well and the web browsing experience is up there with the best of them. In fact, Samsung places such a high level of confidence in the touchscreen’s performance that it’s made most of the phone’s input be coursed through the screen.
The screen is a 2.8-inch capacitive touchscreen with QVGA resolution that ends up seeming a little duller than Samsung’s Icon models’ screens, but delivers a similarly responsive browsing experience with the Corby’s solid processing power courtesy of Samsung’s proprietary platform. While lacking 3G data speeds, the Corby does offer a Dolfin browser operating off of the same Webkit base as the iPhone’s Safari browser, and performs fairly well for a phone of this price, allowing access to Facebook, MySpace and Twitter apps, and a good web browsing experience overall. The phone also comes with 10 preinstalled Java games — or, to be more accurate, trial versions thereof, which require an authentication code to play the full version.
The phone comes bundled with a 2MP camera, which is about as good as one can expect for a budget mobile handset. While it takes average photos and doesn’t even have a shutter-click sound effect for shots, it is nevertheless redeemed in spades by the phone’s versatile photo editing software, which allows a user to edit the photo with some basic correction tools and filters. Even the phone’s battery life, while not stellar, is more than enough for most users to get a good degree of use out of the phone between charges, which reflects the phone’s overall solid status.
Related posts:
- Make a wish on Samsung’s Star Today’s mobile phone market is a far cry from what...
- Samsung has a rough Flight Smartphones have all but taken over the mobile phone landscape,...
- The Palm Pre is back, with a Plus The last few years have seen immense growth and intense...
- LG Tries for Elite Status Similar to how media technology – and most modern technology...
- Nokia 5530: XPress For Less Mobile phones have undeniably come into their own over the...
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
