Samsung Monte S5620 review
Samsung has a wide range of handsets in the Indian market at the moment, including its popular mid-range Corby series which comes in a variety of flavours, such as the front facing mini qwerty keyboard, a slide-out keyboard and good old fashioned touchscreen. You might think that with these three options Samsung has the mid range sewn up. But no, here comes the Samsung S5620 Monte, a slightly different take on the middle of the road, though to be frank we don’t think it has anything that makes it stand out from the crowd.
You can buy the S5620 Monte online for around Rs. 8,850 and for that price you get what seems to be a headline grabbing range of specs… Capacitive touchscreen, HSDPA, GPS, Wi-Fi, accelerometer, even Microsoft Exchange Activesync support, which almost sounds too good to miss.
Technical Specifications:
| General | 2G Network | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 |
| 3G Network | HSDPA 900 / 2100 | |
| Announced | 2010, February | |
| Status | Available. Released 2010, March | |
| Size | Dimensions | 108.8 x 53.7 x 12.4 mm |
| Weight | 92 g | |
| Display | Type | TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors |
| Size | 240 x 400 pixels, 3.0 inches | |
| – Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate | ||
| – TouchWiz UI 2.0 Plus | ||
| – Turn to mute | ||
| – Smart unlock | ||
| Sound | Alert types | Vibration, MP3 ringtones |
| Speakerphone | Yes | |
| – 3.5 mm audio jack | ||
| – DNSe (Digital Natural Sound Engine) | ||
| Memory | Phonebook | 1000 contacts, Photocall |
| Call records | Yes | |
| Internal | 200 MB | |
| Card slot | microSD, up to 16GB, buy memory | |
| Data | GPRS | Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps |
| EDGE | Class 10, 236.8 kbps | |
| 3G | HSDPA 3.6 Mbps | |
| WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g | |
| Bluetooth | Yes, v2.1 with A2DP | |
| Infrared port | No | |
| USB | Yes, microUSB v2.0 | |
| Camera | Primary | 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels |
| Features | Geo-tagging, smile detection | |
| Video | Yes, QVGA@15fps | |
| Secondary | Yes, CIF | |
| Features | Messaging | SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, Palringo IM |
| Browser | WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML | |
| Radio | Stereo FM radio with RDS; FM recording | |
| Games | Yes + downloadable | |
| Colors | Black | |
| GPS | Yes, with A-GPS support | |
| Java | Yes, MIDP 2.0 | |
| – Social networking integration with live updates | ||
| – Google Maps 3.0 | ||
| – Image editor | ||
| – MP3/WMA/eAAC+ player | ||
| – MP4/H.263/H.264 player | ||
| – Organizer | ||
| – Voice memo | ||
| Battery | Standard battery, Li-Ion 960 mAh | |
| Stand-by | Up to 769 h (2G) / Up to 454 h (3G) | |
| Talk time | Up to 9 h 42 min (2G) / Up to 4 h 58 min (3G) | |
| Misc | SAR EU | 1.02 W/kg (head) |