Samsung Corby II review

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The Samsung GT-S3850 also known as the Corby II is a cheap phone that offers more than its price, like most phones it has its ups and downs. The Corby II is a low-end phone that caters the young market, like students and young professionals who’s always conscious about numbers and figures; though cheap, it actually pack a lot of features that exceeds most phones that are in the mid-range class. For 4,990 pesos you’ll be able to get these features; a large 3.1 inch capacitive touch screen with a mediocre resolution, though, watching movies on it is quite impressive, I used an MP4 formatted video in a 320x240 screen resolution. Youtube also works well on this device and its impressive dolfin internet browser keeps me glued on the net, not to mention, the nice user-friendly Facebook interface; it also has a built-in wi-fi that most low-end phones doesn’t have, giving you free connections to the web. What surprised me even more was its multi-tasking ability; yes, you heard me right, it can multi-task, a feature only known to a smartphone and hardly ever heard of, on a java based phone. The Corby II is obviously not categorized as a smartphone it uses a standard Samsung proprietary OS that is Java capable, by pressing and holding the menu button you’ll be able to access the task manager, from there you can shift from one open task to another including java apps and games. It also boasts a music player with a nice user interface and excellent audio quality, based on my comparison it sounds a lot better than my ipod touch 2nd-gen. The media player comes with a 5.1 channel support, giving you a theater like experience on both your movies and music.

The Corby II uses Samsung's Touch-Wiz UI, which revolutionized shortcuts on a touch screen phone, though I encountered occasional glitches, specifically on the feeds and updates, and the google search shortcuts, texting also is a bit of a problem, it uses a small virtual keypads, which makes you prone to mistakes by accidentally tapping the wrong buttons, but that didn’t stop me from enjoying this nice looking phone which I considered as one of my best buy, afterall, I got it cheap.

Samsung Corby II Specs.

Network: 2G GSM 850/900/1800/1900
Display Type: TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256k colors
240x320 pixels
3.1 inch screen
Touch Wiz UI
Alert Type: Vibration, MP3,WAV tones
Loudspeaker
3.5mm jack
DNSe
Memory: Phonebook, Photocall
Call record
26Mb internal memory
microSD up to 16 Gb
Data: GPRS
EDGE
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
bluetooth
micro USB v2.0
Camera: 2MP 1600x1200 pixels
smile shutter
Video, QVGA @15fps
Features: JAVA
SNS integration with live updates
Dolfin Browser
Music player
Document viewer
Find music recognition service
Battery: stand-by up to 620 hrs
talk-time up to 9hrs

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