an anonymous user selected this story @ 16-03-2011 12:53:46

Samsung Monte

All curves and rounded edges, it's a phone designed to fit in your palm. But it has a comprehensive set of pre-installed widgets that will probably deliver all the functionality you could ever want from a phone, and you can download more Samsung widgets if you like.In the upper-left-hand corner of the screen is a static widgets hotkey, which brings up a menu showing you all the widgets at your disposal. TURNED ITSELF OFF ON REGULAR OCCASIONS,BATTERY ONLY LASTING ONE DAY EVEN WITH MOST APPLICATIONS TURNED OFF .

Stylish and intuitive graphics guide you to the mobile’s applications in a home screen that extends so favorite links aren’t limited to a few widgets and apps.
Whether through a Wi-Fi hotspot or 3G connection, you will have ready and convenient access to the internet, email and blogs.
Through Google Latitude and Geo-tagging, you can share your lives and experiences with friends.
Checking friends’ updates or uploaded photos right on the mobile has never been easier. checking friends updates or uploaded photos right on the mobile has never been easier. True life sound quality through DNSe offers you various 3D sound effects and find music function helps you identify new songs and purchse them directly to your mobile.

Through Google Latitude and Geo-tagging, you can share your lives and experiences with friends. It has haptic feedback, giving a small vibration when you press certain buttons.For mobile internet lovers, there's speedy 3G mobile broadband for browsing when out and about, and Wi-Fi connectivity means you can get even faster connections from hotspots.A-GPS location finding is present, along with Google Maps to make use of it.A built-in accelerometer enables switching to landscape mode automatically when browsing the web and viewing media.The 3.2-megapixel camera on the Samsung Monte's rear is without a flash, but does feature video recording and numerous shooting modes. The only reason i got this phone was fot the price i got it for.
Sending Text messages is tiresome as T9 predictive text is useless and unresponsive, the onscreen keypad isn't QWERTY either so it makes it even worse, The camera is always out of focus and the photos are poor - no flash either, the reception is quite poor (the same sim card in a different phone has far better reception).