Samsung SGH-G800 Review

Messaging:

The Messages menu houses the text/multimedia messages and the emails. You can set up to 5 email accounts. For keeping the data-traffic down, one can set downloading limit of 100/300/500KB but there is also an option for automatic polling of emails at intervals of 0.5/1/3/6/12/24 hours. The fast HSDPA data helps for a quick email retrieval.

Templates can be saved for text/multimedia messages, but there are none predefined. T9 predictive text system helps for faster text input. It is the most widely used system of this type.


Connectivity:

Samsung SGH-G800 is a tri-band (900/1800/1900 MHz) GSM phone with 2100 MHz UMTS/HSDPA 3.6mbps support, which means it is targeted for the European/Asian market only. If you plan on using it in America, keep in mind that only the 1900MHz GSM band is supported. We think that Samsung should look at the competition and take Sony Ericsson K850 as example: with its quad-band GSM and tri-band UMTS/HSDPA receiver, it is usable all around the world.

As expected, the Bluetooth is version 2.0 with support for a variety of profiles, including one for Stereo sound transfer.

For wired connection to a computer, the phone comes with USB cable in the box. Once the device is connected, it asks you to choose one of three modes: PC Studio, Media player, Mass storage. The last one is most convenient for data transfer, while the first is used for synchronization with the software from the phone package.


Internet:

As other contemporary models, the G800 is equipped with a full HTML Internet browser (Access Powered) that renders the pages as on a computer, if you’ve chosen “Desktop view”. Complicated page like PhoneArena and YouTube opened without any problem but as the resolution of the display is the standard 240x320, lots of scrolling is required in both directions. We’d like to see more features integrated into such browsers, like the “minimap” when scrolling, or the option to fit the whole page on the screen and then zoom to particular area – features we’ve seen in rival models.