Review of the Samsung SGH-X430

As I said in one of my previous posts, I considerably downgraded in terms of mobile telephony devices compared to the kind of devices I've used for the past 2 years. But downgrading doesn't necessarily mean using a mobile phone that was created last century. People may not know much about the Samsung SGH-X430, so I decided to write a small review.





My Samsung SGH-X430



Here's a list of the features it holds:

• 65536 Color Screen
• Polyphonic Ringtone or Melody
• Multimedia Messaging Service
• MIDP 2.0 Enabled
• Support for WAP 1.2 / XHTML
• 500 entries for the internal phonebook
• GPRS also known as 2.5G
• Talk time of 150 - 210 min
• Stand-by time of 150 - 260 hrs
  
  

As, you can see, apart from the crisp and nice screen rendering, it's basically a low end phone (no irDA, no support for the Bluetooth protocol, no camera, and I could keep on listing...). The question that you might ask would be what could possibly make me buy such a phone. Well, first you need to read the link to the previous post at the top of this review to understand where I am coming from. Second, although the phone is pretty much low end, it's got a bunch of other cool features that I take in account when my geeky side sleeps for a while:

• folding type of phone (enters your pocket and you don't feel it's there compared to the Nokias I've owned through the years)
• nice and simple design
• 100% stylish when I feel fashionistic!
• and still holds in its light weight the minimum my type of geek would ask for in a cellphone

I would definitely recommend this phone to anyone who wants something good and stylish without necessarily spending lots of money.



On the other hand, if you're a heavy SMS (Short Messaging Service) user and don't feel like learning a new way of writing your SMSs, I wouldn't recommend this phone at all: you'd rather go for a Nokia (I believe they've got the best, easiest and most intuitive SMS writing application).