This is my second review. I have purchased this phone on 19 april 2010{within 2-3 week of release} for 9500 including 8gb card. One thing I would like to share that after looking for this phone in gaffr markrt, district centre(delhi}, hotspot, planet m. I got it cheapest n best sealed condition in my nearby shop now back to mobile review , i would like to go in detail {as I have habit to speak a lot}
but my review is totally baesd on 10k segment mobiles(it would be stupid to compare with smartphone)
LOOKS-it has nice refreshing look than other cuboid mobile present in market, wht I liked its anti slippery feauture
TOUCH &USER INTERFACE-its capacitive touch is very very good compared to nokia 5800, 5233, 5230, lg cookies variant etc.
ui is much better than earlier samsung ui
it has 3 wallpaper page to arrange all ur widgets, with 3 menu page too
BLUETOOTH & WI-FI-Both r good as all other phone
NET XPERIENCE- ITS great although I personally dont like dolfin browser but with opera mini its great
with 3g sim its give good speed
CAMERA. -- it support 3.2 mp but no flash(samsung should have to include it)
but it work good in night mode (i hav include comparitive photo/darker 1 is without night mode )
smile shot, panorama, etc is good
- MULTITASKING-I dont know is it available or not as still now I m unable to do it
6 BATTERY- ITS give 2 day backup with normal all thing usage
- FM & MUSIC PLAYER--ear phone is really good
music player gives wide range of option(play list , recently added , composers etc)
on music player page only u get all shuffling and repeat option
wht I really liked is ALMOST FULL SCREEN MUSIC ART
FM comes with RDS, u cannot save fm chanel name
it is bad AS only few fm channel is providing RDS facillity but its not a phone cons
- SNS-it has facebook, palringo, twitter orkut preloaded but it wuold be better to use them with opera
palringo is very quick
9 OTHER FEATURES--dictionary is very good, active sync
right now ihav to leave but I will soon share practical experience
I M BACK WITH PRACTICAL XPERIENCE
WIFI WORK VERY SMOOTHLY with airtel wifi itried it with 1 mbps speed youtube plays without any disruption
with samsung monte comes samsung kies pc software which is very very useful
it reads all pdf, word , xl files with 1 touch zoom
stiill I coudnt figure out multitasking
i assure there is no call hang off in this phone
even in all critcs reviews of all new channel it is highly praised