Slide up, slide down, up, down, up, down; Jørgen Sundgot plays with Samsung's new super-slider, the SGH-E880, in Cannes.
Staying true to the slider form factor, Samsung this week unveiled the newest addition to its arsenal of miniscule handsets at the ongoing 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, the SGH-E880. Yes, it's every bit as nice as its predecessor, still has a great screen and still has the semi-automatic slider mechanism that'll provide hours of entertainment for you and your friends (at least, that's what you think). So, is there anything new and noteworthy about the SGH-E880?
As a matter of fact, quite a bit. You see, it's not that the SGH-E880 has a broad and varied feature set - because it doesn't. It's that it's got just enough high-end features to make it coveted, and couples this ingeniously with a small size and design. For instance, where the SGH-E800 had dual-band GSM connectivity, the SGH-E880 sports tri-band GSM/GPRS 900/1800/1900 MHz. And this time around, Samsung had the wits about it to include Bluetooth as well.
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The screen, you ask? As could be expected from Samsung, it's glaringly bright and sharp, and even improves on the one found in the SGH-E800. The user interface is pretty, response times are best described as cutthroat, and navigation is thankfully intuitive in comparison to certain lower-end Samsung models.
Software-wise, there's also an audio player supporting MP3 and AAC formats, as well as the ability to play back streaming video and print pictures using the PictBridge standard. Minor distortions aside at the highest setting, audio quality proved impeccable, and it doesn't hurt that support for Outlook and SyncML synchronization is present, either.
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An integrated 1.3 Megapixel camera has substituted the 0.3 Megapixel version found in the SGH-E800, and this one even rotates 180 degrees horizontally courtesy of a nifty slider button on the upper half. The viewfinder rate is astonishing, and camera quality - or at least white balance and light sensitiviy - appeared quite impressive. Then there's the comfortable keypad, which boasts surprisingly large keys for such a small design.
On the note of design, the SGH-E880 is more angular than its predecessor, but still manages to look as stylish as ever - and the small size alone is quite a nice trait. So, is there anything bad at all about the SGH-E880? Well, it doesn't have all that many features - but then again, it doesn't need to. Granted, it feels a bit plasticky, but then again you can't get it all right. The SGH-E880 comes bloody close, though.
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