Product Description

The Samsung C300 is a compact mobile phone which comes with good quality features for today's mobile phone user to enjoy. The handset comes with a semi automatic slide open mechanism which is a pleasure to use. The slider handset feels solid to hold & looks like a top end of the market mobile phone device with its stunning design & easy to use slider mechanism. The C300 comes with 2 Mbytes of internal memory which allows the user to save their contact details, messages & information on the available memory. The fitted battery provides up to 7.6 hours of talk time or up to 493 hours of standby battery time. The battery provides the user with a large amount of standby time which means the user will not have to recharge their handset too frequently. The phone comes with a large 1.77 Inch screen which displays up to seven lines of text which the user can view when the handset is either open or closed. The screen has a screen resolution of 128 x 160 pixels & displays up to sixty five thousand colours. The phone comes with a text caller identification which allows the user to see who is calling when a call comes in. The Samsung C300 will store a record of missed & received calls which allows the user to access their frequent & missed callers easily. The mobile phone comes with a voice mail feature which allows callers to leave a voice mail message when the user can not take the call.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18184 in Consumer Electronics

Features

• 1.77 Inch CSTN 65k Colour Screen (128 x 160 Pixels)
• Polyphonic Ringtones (16 Voices), Embedded Games
• Downloadable Games, JavaTM Games, WAP 1.2
• 2 Mbytes Memory, 7.6 Hours Talk Time, 493 Hours Standby
• 94 g, 92 x 44 x 18.8 mm Dimentions

Customer Reviews

So Near and Yet so Far...
I examined this phone in the shops and read plenty of reviews about it before eventually buying it. I discounted all the whingeing reviews written by people who had clearly handed over their money first and asked questions later - what possesses anyone to buy something like a mobile phone without first checking what it can and can't do ? I also discounted those written by my new pet hate - people who 'review' a phone they don't actually have ("This phone is brilliant - I'm getting one for my birthday next month."). I can summarise the ones that were left as follows. The phone is well built and looks more expensive than it actually is (TRUE). It doesn't have any of the bells and whistles that we see on most phones nowadays - no radio, no camera, no MP3 player, no Bluetooth, etc - so it's a phone for talking and texting only (ALL TRUE). The sound quality on calls is excellent (TRUE).

Since I only want to talk or text, and I don't really like the idea of paying for cameras and things I never use, I thought the C300 would be the best thing since sliced bread. And it nearly was. But then I started to text with it. I had seen one or two complaints about the text facilities among the reviews but didn't think there would be much of a problem - it would simply be a matter of getting used to a new interface. Wrong. In a nutshell, if you prefer to use predictive text you will be OK with the simplest of messages. But if you do slightly more complicated things, like insert a symbol in the middle of a sentence, the system will start to irritate you. If you prefer to multitap you will be irritated all the time. The problem lies in the fact that the phone defaults to predictive text with an initial capital after you insert a symbol. Put an ampersand in the middle of a sentence and for your next word you will automatically be thrown onto predictive text and the first letter will be capitalised. If you're a multitapper you then have to press one button to get off predictive text, and then press another button twice to get back to lower case letters. And there seems to be nothing you can do about it. Some other phone manufacturers manage to get their phones to 'remember' settings and return to them after a symbol has been inserted. Not Samsung. In addition, capitalisation at the beginning of sentences appears to be governed by some random process that I have yet to work out. Sometimes it does capitalise and sometimes it doesn't. It surely can't actually be random, but it's not at all clear what the rules are and I've lost interest in trying to work them out. Instead, I have given the phone to my wife, who doesn't even know what a text message is, so it is now used for what it is VERY good at - voice calls. I dare say that if I had never used the Nokia texting interface I would have just accepted the Samsung system for what it is. But when you know it could be so much better, it eventually starts to wind you up. Not only that, the number of keystrokes required just to send a message you have (eventually) typed is enough to give you repetitive stress syndrome in your finger. Oh, and the ENTIRE User Manual is on a single sheet of paper, so don't expect many clues from that if you get stuck with anything.

For someone like me who wants a phone WITHOUT bells and whistles that does only the basics, the C300 scores highly in every department except one. If only it had a decent texting interface...

Some frustrating aspects
This phone has a number of annoying design faults & bugs:
Terrible sound quality - the call quality is simply bad, it's frequently hard to hear what the other person says.

Text Messages: There is a bug in the text message system. Quite often a text message will arrive on the front screen, but when going to view it, the phone will show a message the sender sent previously, sometimes a message that is over a month old. This is bad enough that I need to buy a new phone as it is immensely frustrating and hassles people that send me messages.

Text Messages: Once you have sent a message it puts you back at the main menu. This means if you remember at the last sec you want to send the same msg to someone else it is too late. Have to type it all in again. Nokias put you back at the msg.

Samsung C300 Stylish Slide Mobile Phone**Unlocked**Colour Screen**Virgin Boxed
I was as pleased as punch with this phone. Small and fuctional and a very good price, the only thing it lacks is Bluetooth.