GPS, battery, summary
The GPS hardware works fine, positioning is fast, and the signal is stable. There are some problems on the software side, as we’ll get Route 66 preinstalled (aka Samsung Mobile Navigator), which uses NAVTEQ maps. I don’t know how many maps do we get, the software can be activated via the internet and SMS, I’ve tried this method and the result was a map of Austria and six SMS messages full of Wingdings-like characters. Otherwise the software can be used for car navigation, the screen is “large” enough to see the main things and there’s the car holder and charger in the package – but it’s still worth buying GarminXT, which will hopefully run on i7110.
The battery has a capacity of 1200 mAh, it can be changed. It’s probably due to the AM-OLED display, but the new Samsung stays on for a really long time with one charge. It stayed online during the 4-day test period, and when I took it out of the box, the battery meter wasn’t full already. During the four days I’ve been making calls for about two hours, a lot of text messages came and were sent, I’ve been playing around a lot with it, but I didn’t listen to music and used navigation only for a short test – with this I’ve managed to make the battery go dry by the end of the fourth day. I think this result needs no explanation, we haven’t really seen such a long uptime at a smartphone.
Summary: after reading the article probably all of you see that Samsung i7110 is one of the best currently available Symbian Series 60 smartphone. It’s much better in materials and assembly quality than any other rival, as a bonus we get the tons of features and services, the advanced data transfer methods, the rich accessory list, the superb AM-OLED display, the camera that takes nice photos, the FM transmitter and the long uptime. It has only two flaws, the first is that the top part of the keypad is too crammed up, and the other is that we get Route 66 with it – this is of course due to the fact that it’s a Samsung, so it’s not a defect of the phone itself. Of course these aren’t so terrible things, one can get used to the small buttons and it can navigate, even though it’s not perfect. We add the relatively good price of about 320 euros, which is a bit higher than the price-tag of N79/N82, but those lack the professional assembly quality, have no FM transmitter, have a lower quality display and don’t have such a long uptime – and I didn’t even mention N79’s weak CPU. This might be the first handset to receive the highly recommended award and all of our readers will agree.
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Translated by Szaszati
Samsung i7110 has been provided by XXL GSM.
The handset can be purchased at:
Budapest VI. Jókai tér 6.
Budapest VI. Teréz körút 18.
On-line at www.xxlgsm.hu
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