Samsung F480 review
The place on the market Samsung F480 is aiming at is crowded. There are many touch-operated Flash UI devices out there and, most of them are made by Samsung.
The F480 has a pleasing weight and its brushed metal finish feels nice to hold. Samsung has opted for a capacitive touchscreen in the F480, as opposed to the resistive touchscreen technology it tends to employ, and while these technologies are vastly different, the end result subtly favours the F480. Capacitive touchscreens react to fingers only (or contact with any part of your body), so you cannot use a stylus, but the upside is a more responsive display.
The camera lens and flash are positioned on the back of the Samsung F480 that is covered with a sleek metal casing. Quick buttons have been placed on the side of the device and allow for easy and quick volume adjustment, taking a picture and locking the cell phone.
It runs on Samsung’s proprietary operating platform and as such you cannot develop or install third party applications to this phone, other than Java-based software. The F480 doesn’t include Wi-Fi hardware or a GPS receiver, like Apple’s smartphone. Instead the F480 sports strong consumer phone features, including a 5-megapixel camera with an LED flash and access to Next G services and mobile Foxtel.
In unison with 7.2Mbps HSDPA data speeds the F480T has an excellent pre-installed web browser. Its interface is simple and clean, and it does a great job of rendering pages in a single column mobile view. The F480 supports a range of multimedia including DRM-free MP3 and AAC music files and MPEG4, H.264 and H.263 video files.
Key features
- Ample 2.8″ 262K touchscreen color display of QVGA resolution
- Touch-operated flash UI
- 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash
- Camera comes with face detection and wide dynamic range
- 3G with HSDPA
- Great design and high quality construction
- 228MB of internal memory
- microSD card slot
- Widgets
- Excellent haptics
- FM radio with RDS
- Great camera interface
- EDGE, Bluetooth and USB connectivity
- Great web browser
If you’re in the market for a chic-looking touchscreen phone, with responsive input, a decent camera and a standard range of media playback, then the F480 is worth checking out. If you’re looking for a business-capable smartphone, look elsewhere.
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