Samsung Corby Pro Review

Other than search engine optimization and social media marketing, my interest also hovers with buying intriguing and exotic cell phones. It’s really cool to be carrying a new cell phone every now and then and some of my hubs will be reviewing some handsets I have owned so that you can have an idea before you buy them. So today, we will be reviewing the Samsung Corby Pro.

Complete Specifications Of Samsung Corby Pro:

GENERAL: 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network: HSDPA 900 / 2100

Announced: 2009, September

Status Available: Released 2009, November

SIZE Dimensions: 105 x 56.8 x 15.7 mm

Weight: 135 g

DISPLAY Type: TFT resistive touchscreen, 16M colors

Size: 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches

- Full QWERTY keyboard

- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate

SOUND: Alert types Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones

Speaker-phone: Yes

- 3.5 mm audio jack

MEMORY Phonebook: 1000 contacts, Photo call

Call records: Yes

Internal: 150 MB

Card slot: microSD up to 16GB Buy Memory

DATA: GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps

EDGE: Class 10, 236.8 kbps

3G: HSDPA 7.2 Mbps

WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g

Bluetooth: Yes, v2.1 with A2DP

Infrared port: No

USB: Yes, v2.0 microUSB

CAMERA Primary : 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, video

Features: Geo-tagging, smile detection

Video: Yes, QVGA@15fps

Secondary: Yes

FEATURES: Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, IM

Browser: WAP 2.0 / xHTML, HTML

Radio: Stereo FM radio with RDS

Games: Yes

Colors: Black

GPS: Yes, with A-GPS support

Java: Yes, MIDP 2.0

- Fashion Jackets (changeable battery covers)

- DivX/MP3/AAC/WMA player

- Organizer

- Office document viewer

- Voice memo/dial

- T9

BATTERY: Standard battery, Li-Ion 960 mAh

Stand-by: Up to 560 h

Talk time: Up to 8 h

( Features table courtesy: GSMARENA)

First Impression of Samsung Corby Pro:

This phone is like that Nokia N97 (mini) and first look suggests that its an answer to that. Although the QWERTY keyboard with a slider gives a very business oriented look but all the social media and geo tagging features make it work for the youth and teens too.

The Real Experience ( of course which matters most)

Although the touch technology introduced in this hub is pretty much responsive like the Iphone and Ipod, but still it seem as if there is a lot of inconsistency in the touch design. I am saying this because some times the screen will start zooming and running and at times it will act like snail. the logos for different application on the screen are some times confused with scroll and select commands too so I guess this is the major disadvantage of this phone. Apart from this the phone seems to be user friendly and incorporates a very friendly TouchWiz UI. Features like Facebook and other social media apps with Geo tagging etc has the ability to make this phone highly youth oriented and like-able. the QWERTY slider keyboard is poorly manufactured and the keys are very narrowly separated hence giving a tough time while trying to write and email or sms. The camera is so so for this kind of a phone but with 13 Frame-per-second the video quality really proves to be a menace and hence is not a good buy if you are looking to make videos on the run with your phone. The call quality and in-call features are ok but it will really take longer calls to figure out what each in- call feature is made for and its detailed functionality. The media player streaming sound and ring tones of Samsung corby Pro are Ok.

The Final Word:

If you are looking for a highly sleek and trendy phone then Samsung Corby Pro will adequately fulfill your need and style and is a comparatively cheap and inexpensive substitute for iphone.