Introduction
Less than a half months since the launch of Samsung Corby Pop or also known as Samsung Genoa, this time Samsung issued a new phone again at the end of March. Samsung S6520 Monte design looks elegant and slim, it relies on a touch screen mobile phone as the primary access to enter text into the screen. If we compare with the Samsung Corby Pop, Monte class has features that are more complete as a Wi-Fi, 3.2 megapixel resolution camera, GPS with A-GPS, etc.. Below are the official specs Samsung S6520 Monte.
Specifications:
-Network Quadband GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 900/2100, HSDPA 3.6Mbps
3-inch touch screen TFT WQVGA (240 x 400 pixels)
-Display Touchwiz
-Slot microSD hot-swap
-Resolution 3.2 megapixel camera and QVGA video recording @ 15fps
-GPRS and EDGE class 10
-Wi-Fi, GPS with A-GPS, Bluetooth version 2.1 (A2DP)
Accelerometer, 3.5mm standard audio jack
-Bluetooth version 2.1 (A2DP)
-FM Radio with RDS support
-DNSe (Digital Natural Sound Engine)
-Compact design
-Integrated social network (Facebook, My Space, Twitter, etc.)
Weaknesses:
It is equipped with application-opening office documents
-The camera is equipped with flash
-There is no bonus microSD in sales box
Box of Sales, Small Sized
The black color looks dominated Samsung Monte sales box, the size of the box looks small when the sale price of this phone is quite expensive. Inside the box there is a sale of accessories such as mobile phone batery, charger, 3.5mm standard audio jack, data cable, user's manual, and warranty card. There is no bonus in the box microSD mobile phone sales.
Dimensions, Thin
Samsung Monte comes with dimensions of 108.8 x 53.7 x 12.4 mm and weighs 92 grams. Samsung Monte different weights just 0.2 grams of weight Corby Pop that we reviewed some time ago. When viewed from the side, this phone looks slim and compact design, while the orange color on both sides of the phone make it look stylish.
Design and Design
If you do not notice the obvious, you might think that Samsung is the Samsung Corby Pop Monte. However, significant differences seen in the design of buttons found on the bottom of the screen. Monte looks slim button design while the design of the Corby Pop look bigger. Samsung Monte uses a plastic material on the front and back of the phone, is intended to suppress the cell phone in order to be light weight.
The front of the Samsung Monte seen Pop is dominated by 3-inch TFT touch screen WQVGA resolution (240 x 400 pixels). Dgunakan can display well when we use the sun but it looks a little effect on the black screen.
At the top of the screen are the earpiece, light sensor, and the Samsung logo.
At the bottom of the screen there is a button call maker, back button, and the call disconnect button. The third button is easy to use when we are testing.
On the left side there is the Samsung Monte volume and handphone strap hanger holes.
On the right side there are hot-swappable microSD slot, the screen lock button and camera shutter button.
At the bottom there are only a latch to open the batery cover.
At the top there is a standard 3.5mm audio jack and port chager that doubles as a USB port as well.
On the back there is a 3.2 megapixel resolution camera that is equipped with flash, earpiece, and the Samsung logo.
Input Text
There is no flat type or stylus on the Samsung Monte, so you have to use your finger to enter text into the screen. When we use a nail, the screen may not work. Samsung Monte as sensitive screen with a screen Corby Pop when we were testing. When the screen is pressed, there is little to indicate that vibration diteka screen, but you can disable this if you do not want to use it.
Inter-view Touchwiz Recent Advances
Just like the Samsung Corby Pop, Samsung Monte also use the display interface with the latest TouchWiz widget on the homescreen. There are 3 screens which you can fill homescreen widget that allows you to access shortcuts to your favorite menu and to provide notifications such as Facebook widget that is useful for example to inform on the status of your friends, people who add you to friends, etc..
When you hit the virtual menu keys located on the bottom of the screen, it will display a menu with a 3 x 4. There are three pages on the Samsung Monte same menu as the menu on the Samsung Corby Pop.
Samsung Monte can do multitasking of Java applications up to 3 as we test for congenital Java multitasking 3 game.
Phonebook
Samsung Monte Phonebook can store up to 2000 contacts. To fill in the phonebook you must fill in your first name followed by last name. You can also fill in contact details like email addresses, contact groups, personal photos, anniversary dates, and notes. Unfortunately when we fill the anniversary date of the contact, the contact can not perform synchronization with the calendar date anniversary.
Options Theme
There are only two options on the Samsung Monte themes, namely Rhytimical Surface and Groovy. In addition to the theme, to make kustimisasi on your mobile phone can change the wallpaper found on the mobile phone or microSD.
Call Notes
Samsung Monte call records to display records incoming calls, outgoing calls, failed calls, data calls, total SMS, call duration, as well as a record of all calls
Message
Corby Pop can send messages such as SMS, MMS, Email, and IM. To change the SMS into an MMS, you have to do is add multimedia content into SMS. To send and receive email, you have to do is fill in the username and password and choose POP3 or IMAP server you will use.Besides being able to send messages such as SMS, MMS, and Email, Samsung Monte also be used to send instant messages (IM) using Palringo application. You can use several types of accounts on the Palringo IM such as MSN, YM, Gtalk, AIM, Facebook, etc..
File Manager
File manager you can use to view the file, both contained in phone memory, microSD, or on the phone memory. As usual, the file manager separate folders based on file type (images, video, audio, and received files) and you can do file categorization based on type, file name, date, and file size. You can also use the file manager to move files, delete files, duplicate files, and send files contained on the microSD. Samsung Monte is equipped with 200MB of internal memory which is large enough to store the song files, photos, and videos.
Photo Gallery
Photo gallery you can access from the file manager, you can view pictures full screen, view photos and next photo, and zoom-in and zoom-out the photo gallery. To view previous images or next images you can shift the screen to the left or right, to zoom-in and zoom-out you can tap the screen twice. Equipped with a photo gallery slide show, in fact there are features for editing photos, but this feature was found on the menu and not on the photo gallery.
There are several options such as photo editor enlightening contrast, cropping an image, rotate images, add emoticons, and image effects.
Music Player, Comes With DNSe EQ and Options
Monte Samsung music player comes with DNSe technology and EQ options. Technology DNSe (Digital Natural Sound Engine) allows you to make voice sounded clear and natural. When we test, a music player can play songs with MP3, WMA, and AAC. In addition there DNSe technology, music player also comes with a choice of EQ such as jazz, rock, live, classic, mega bass, concerts, wide, bass, etc..
Samsung Monte also supports Bluetooth A2DP, so you can listen to songs through your favorite Bluetooth headset. You can track the input using several media such as USB data cable, microSD card reader, or file submissions via Bluetooth. When your song entries, automatically feeding music player will detect the new songs that you input. The song will automatically be sorted by the singer, the kind of song, and album.
FM Radio, Equipped with RDS
FM Radio with Samsung Monte has dilengakapi RDS (Radio Data System) is the same as Samsung Corby Pop, FM Radio with RDS Occasionally you can find an FM radio station in place you are. Just like music player, FM radio you can also listen to the background of a cell phone. Unfortunately the FM Radio can not be played without a headset.
Video Player
The video player can play video formats MP4, H.263, and H.264. The video player can also be played with full-screen landscape or portrait mode. To share a video to your friends, you you can easily share video using various media such as Facebook, Youtube, etc..
Camera
Samsung Monte rely camera 3.2 megapixel resolution as its flagship, unfortunately the camera is not equipped with a flash light so the picture looks dark at night. The photos look bright and clear, detailed picture also looks good. Below are the results of Monte Samsung camera photos that we have to resize without re-touch without the photos.
There are many camera settings found on the left and right as the camera viewfinder shooting modes (single, continuous, mosaic, smile shot, panorama, frames), Scene Mode (landscape, sports, portrait, sunset, and night mode), Auto White Balance (daylight, incandescent, cloudy, fluorescent), Self Timer, EV, and the choice of resolution and picture quality.
Video Recorder
It can be used to take pictures, Monte Samsung camera can also be used to perform recording QVGA resolution video at 15 frames per second, the video is saved in MP4 format.
Connectivity
For a non-smart mobile phone, connectivity found on the Samsung Monte classified as complete as Quad-band GSM networks (GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz). To make a call there is data connectivity such as GPRS and EDGE class 10 and HSDPA which can run at speeds up to 3.6 Mbps.
For local connectivity, there is Bluetooth version 2.1 with A2DP support and Wi-Fi. To connect the Samsung Monte to your PC, you can use the USB data cable. You can also transfer data using a card reader.
Browser
Samsung Monte is equipped with a browser version 1.5 Dolfin. This browser has a view that looks better than NetFront browser found on the Samsung Corby Pop. Advantages of this browser is already equipped with a zoom in / out, JavaScript, and allows you to share the URL via email or SMS. Below is a video demo of the Samsung Monte browser Galaxy vs Samsung Spica browser which both use Wi-Fi.
Samsung Monte browser only takes less than 2 seconds when we use the Wi-Fi to open the Google site. When we opened our favorite sites, namely kassa9.com which contains many images, the browser takes almost a minute to open it when we use the Wi-Fi.
Organizer
To support your activities, you can use a variety of organizer features like calendar to view daily, weekly, and monthly and install an alarm in the event that you do not forget the event that you please register.
Second, there are alarms.
Third, there is a voice recorder.
Kelempat, there is a memo.
Fifth, there is a world clock.
Sixth, there is a timer.
Seventh, there is a Task to record your activities.
Eighth, there is a calculator for counting.
Finally there is a Stopwatch.
GPS with A-GPS Support
Samsung Monte is only equipped with congenital classmates Map Google Maps version 3.0. Map is the same as Google Maps before, only there is the addition of a function like Google latitude to share the location. So you can see the position of your friends who also use Google latitude to search for it. There are two map display, the satelite and map. To use this map, you live determines where you are now and decide where your final destination, then the map will soon find the shortest route.
Games, All Free Trial
There are six pieces of game on Samsung Monte like Tetris Refresh, Monopoly, Millionaire, California Gold, Brain Challange, and Asphalt 4. This game is the sixth version of the Free Trial of all, for the full version you have to make up for the cost of some twelve thousand dollars.
Durability Battery
Samsung Monte with batery Li-Ion 1000 mAh which can last up to 700 hours on standby and 10 hours when used for talking. Batery test conducted on the condition only using 2G networks when testing takes place.
