Samsung corby s3653

Samsung's S3653 Corby touchscreen cell phone for social networking teens

We have already gotten used to seeing more and more Samsung phones emerge this year so it’s no surprise we have a brand new model to take a look at. The Corby S3653 has just become official. The phone comes with a 2.8-inch QVGA display, quad-band GSM connectivity, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, a 2-megapixel camera, FM radio and microSD card support.

The Corby has a contoured design and comes in yellow, white, orange, and pink with additional

interchangeable and fashionable back covers available.The device is built on Samsung's finger-friendly Touchwiz user interface. TouchWiz should look sharp on the Corby's 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen display, which also includes haptic feedback. Users can download new widgets for the user interface through Samsung's online store with the phone's GSM/EDGE data connectivity. Through Samsung's Social Networking Service, users can update their status across their favorite social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.

Users can also upload content, like photos and videos created with the Corby's 2.0 megapixel camera, to YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, and even Photobucket. Music collections can be saved onto microSD(INFO) cards You can see under the microSD slot, support for up to 8 GB of extra

memory, where you can save lot of photos and clips. Its screen has similar technology as iPhone. Camera of 2 MP is developed fix and without flash, the quality is not what Samsung seemed for.

The manufacturer has provided many treatments and deformation to treat his young viewers.

User Interface

Although the Samsung Corby is an entry-level phone, but Samsung still offering TouchWiz interface in the device. There are three homescreens which you can fill up with widgets and each homescreen selected through by swiping your finger across the display. One notable feature

found in the S3653 is Smart unlock feature (previously known as Gesture lock) which is allows users to simultaneously unlock the phone and open a menu item, application – even dial a contact – just by drawing a letter on the unlock screen.

Social Networking

Speaking with the social networking capability, Samsung Corby just provide several links to websites such as such as Facebook, Picasa and Flickr and the ability to directly upload files. I don’t think this is friendly enough because what we prefer is the abilities to status update

and pop up social networking notifications feature, but it lacked here. However, there are easier login setup in the phone, so you don’t have to login each time you access those websites.

Music and Video

The music player in Samsung S3653 Corby is typical latest-gen Samsung player that you will found on the Samsung Jet and Star. It can play MP3, WMA, AAC and eAAC+ music files and filtering tracks by author, album, genre and even create own custom playlists. The player also supports random, sequential and cyclic playback and able to minimized to play in the background. Aside from being able to set play, stop, next and previous, you can fast forward and rewind the playing song too. Besides of playing music file, there is also a FM radio with RDS come with the phone. All these feature make the music player can compete with portable mp3 player. However, If you listen the music through speakerphone, you probably will disappointed with the quality – you maybe hear the distorted or lacked power sound. To fix this problem, you will need a headset.

As for the video player, the only basic feature has included. It support H.263, H.264 and MP4 codecs and the Mp4 video is only managed to get QVGA samples running. The interface is simple and not many features offered. And the screen size is really not the pleasant one to watching

video.

Application

Although Samsung Corby is not a smartphone, but it still allow you to view MS document through an application called Picsel Viewer. Basically it can open MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat (PDF), picture and video formats on the phone. You can zoom in/out and rotate pages but you can’t edit these files. For surfing internet, the device use the new WebKit-based Dolfin web browser. It is full Flash support and has new one-finger zooming algorithm feature. The surf internet experience is pleasant with this browser and is the fitness browser we

ever seen on an entry-level phone. Other notable application include Community that for allows setting up an account with one of image-sharing services; Goolge page for quick access to Gmail and Google Maps applications.

Final Words

For a low-end phone, the Samsung Corby S3653 is done more than what we expect. It’s not only feature rich but also have an attractive design. Of course, not everyone will like this phone, but if you need a touchscreen device than Samsung Corby S3653 is worth to considered.