Samsung V200 Tri Band Mobile Camera Phone (2)
Overclocker 14 Jun 2003

The Package

Samsung V200 comes in a package consisting of manual, supporting CD-ROM, data cable, charger, 2 batteries - normal & slim, ear piece. The Samsung V200 extends the capabilities of the Samsung S300 by including a rotating camera but stripped off certain goods of the S300. As we know S300 is lightweight and provides a dual colour screen, a 256K and a 65K, the V200 has keeps the 65K colours internal display but replaced the exterior with a black and white blue illuminated screen. In replacement, you have MMS and a camera built into the phone. Compared to most of the competitors that uses attached cameras, the Samsung v200 is lighter and smaller. It has a dimension of 90.8x47.5.23 and a weight of 96g. LCD Internal 65,536 TFD Colour Screen (128 x 160 pixels), External Blue-lit (96 x 64 pixels). Below the external screen, you will see a 7 colour service LED which is attractive while your phone rings.

Ringtones

V200 supports the MMF format 40 polyphonic channel ringtones. The ringtones can be personalised for specific user group. The ringtone is very loud and not only MMF tones can be programmed, voice can be programmed into the ringtone using third party software like psmplayer. The phone has 45 Embedded (40 Polyphonic ring tones) and more than 12 downloadable (* The download memory allocation of ring tone and image can be readjusted according to demands of the user.) Additional ring tones can be easily downloaded via GPRS or through the software and data cable provided using Easy GPRS 2.0.7 or through Infra red port on the phone. You can also select from polyphonic keypad tones, messaging tones, alarm tones and power on/off tones. The background image of the phone to the preloaded images or images downloaded from the web using GPRS or the Easy GPRS 2.0.7 through data cable. The ringtones, SMS tones can be assigned to specific user groups so that you can identify if the calls is from your friend or from your family etc.

Games

The V200 comes with 3 games, X-Flighter, SpaceWar and MyPet. MyPet is like a ‘Tamagotchi’ game and the other 2 is point and shoot type of game. The only regret is that V200 is not Java enabled.

SMS

The phonebook can store up to 500 entries in phone's memory + SIM card entries. The navigation system of this phone is straightforward and customisable shortcut keys. You should be able to find out where most of the functions are located within minutes. The phone comes with T9 input for SMS input which is rather fast in response. SMS can be stored on SIM card (limited to card's space) or phone's memory of 50 SMS. The only thing that it is only available in English and Indonesian. EMS is supported and you can send installed icons with messages.

Organiser

For the executives, you might find many useful functions design for you under the Organiser menu. They include Calendar, To Do list, Time & date, Alarm, Calculator, Currency Exchange.

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