While reading few posts / reviews before buying the Samsung mobile, one thought which kept troubling me was whether a Nokia fan like me who has been using Nokia for 10 years, will switch over to an alien phone?
While, the days rolled and I have been using the phone for last 5 months and realized that, I kept myself in the dark. Not that, Corby pro enlightened me but so many things are possible with Smart phones now.
Let me stick to the objective of this post – critical review of the phone Samsung Corby pro – poor man’s iPhone. I know before coming to this post, you would have had read and understood the functions, features, capabilities, technology, etc etc, how this post is different?, I am sharing the experience of usage on a day to day basis and what are the some of the practical aspects of the phone.
Pros and Cons of the Phone
Messaging and emailing – I think, I have to agree with the sales guy who told me that, in touchscreen phones you tend to get bored as it may become little cumbersome to type message, the QWRT feature is the savior.
Google Application, Corby comes with Google application; funny thing is I still could not figure out how to link the Google application to the Wigit bar on the phone startup.
· One problem here is, when the phone is tilted when using the Google application, the screen does not change to fit horizontally. Imaging you are using QWRT with on a vertical screen.
Image editor feature is really amazing in this phone – has lots of features crop, reduce image, upload to Picasa.
· Check few Sample photos here - http://picasaweb.google.com/santhguru/MobilePhotos
Installation
· Installing the desktop software Samsung Kies for interfacing with mobile. You get 2 CDs here, one for installing .Net 3.5 and other for Kies software. I struggled to install this, it took an hour to install, UI of Kies is very impressive but it’s heavy
Multi tasking
· When you run multiple applications, it shows a Task manager, which enables you to close the application one by one
WiFi connection is pretty good and fast, no hassles at all
GPRS – I am still figuring this out.
Browsing: for a quick browsing it’s ok
YouTube : plays really well and quick..
MS office support:
MS word documents in the readable format it supports, but editing is not allowed. Does not support opening of excel and power point.
There are few more things I would like to add, please visit again and thanks for reading..
