SAMSUNG i450 - REVIEW

 
+ Samsung rumored to launch i450 - Symbian S60 phone!

Samsung's attempt to clone N95
and its dual slider form factor!
Samsung i450

Folks over at Samsung developing labs are very busy and pretty productive nowadays as we got lot of new S60 phones from them lately. There is no doubt that Samsung working on some truly interesting S60 mobile phones for a future release, phones like recently spotted, i550 and i570.

Actually, it just seems that they must have realized they wasted time too much, they bought and paid license for Nokia S60 platform and they should start to use it and make some money from it.

Anyway, we have already seen a photo of the tinny, stylish and attractive phone spotted as Samsung i450 but without any further info unfortunately.

Now, thanks to the few more official press photos of Samsung SGH-i450 that are available from mobil.idnes.cz and the basic specificati0ons as well I can say that i450 going to be even the most attractive phone in the Samsung S60 family.

Speaking of the Samsung the most interesting thing is the form factor, phone is the Nokia N95 clone as it featuring a similar dual sliding design incorporated in a bit different way.

Instead of a media player control buttons like we have on a N95, when you slide the i450 in other way it reveals a pretty huge and impressive speaker I hope with impressive sound and strong bass as well.

Samsung i450

The rumors have this pegged as a GSM Triband handset with a UTMS and HSDPA data connection. There's a 2-megapixel camera as well as a video call camera on the front and a 2.3-inch 256k colour screen. Apart from that the unconfirmed spec states it's got Bluetooth, a microSD card slot and a 1GB internal memory.

Samsung i450

To sum up, i450 is the real Nokia N95 clone with pretty good specification list but still can’t compete to powerful smart beast like N95 is, it simply dose it all and i450 lacks lot of N95 features and some things like 2 mpx cam are pretty outdated. Last but not less important it will be even more inferior to amazing Nokia N95 8GB that will be announced in next few days.

Samsung i450

Sure because of the style, design and very well known Samsung’s build quality it will be huge competition to Nokia’s midrange S60 phones and if it is their intension it will be successful story but if their intension is to attack on N95 I am afraid that they have failed miserably.

Samsung i450As usually, there is sure sugar on the end. The most interesting thing, actually to be honest the only thing that I am interesting in is the quality of the sliding mechanism.

I think that most of you will agree with me that Samsung makes the best sliders, the quality is unquestionable and therefore I am really interesting in their fist dual slider.

Nokia has failed to keep the quality and most oh the lately released smartphones have some flaw; Nokia N76 is the perfect example. Speaking of the Nokia N95 the slider simply isn’t as good as it should be, they have failed in design and used materials, tinny plastic rails aren’t the best possible choice for the such an expensive smartphone.

The slider is wobbly in all direction in all positions and it becoming even worse wit time. Sure this is the first phone on the world that features dual sliding form factor but it is not excuse and therefore I am so much interesting in first Samsung dual slider.

I'm pretty sure that quality will be outstanding and that Nokia engineers will have to put it on the table and learn something from them, unfortunately I am afraid to late for the Nokia N95 8 GB or the N95 US.

That’s all for now, I’ve put some effort to make an interesting article from few press photos and I hope that I didn’t failed like Nokia with some of the latest smartphones.