Samsung are absolutely venturing into fresh area in 2008 with the i8510 (also accepted as the Samsung Innov8.) Not alone is this Europe's aboriginal 8 megapixel camera phone, but it marks a change for Samsung, with the absolution of their aboriginal boilerplate Symbian smartphone.
Let's allocution about the camera first. At 8 megapixels, it pushes actually above the 5 megapixel resolution of its abutting competitors. But megapixels aren't aggregate aback it comes to agenda cameras. Fortunately, Samsung are one of the world's leaders in agenda cameras and they apperceive what they're accomplishing here. The i8510 moves camera phones afterpiece to the affectionate of user interface that committed camera have. A committed button activates the camera, aperture the lens cover, and toggles amid camera, video and the gallery. There are affluence of settings for avant-garde users to comedy with, such as panorama, smile-detection autofocus and blink detection. The basics accommodate a 9x agenda zoom (no optical zoom acutely - see the Samsung G800 for that) and a bifold ability LED flash. This beam is acceptable abundant at abutting range, but cannot bout the accuracy of the xenon beam acclimated in the Sony Ericsson K850i (although the K850i comes with a host of problems as discussed in our K850i review!) It's arguable which camera buzz is absolutely the best, but the i8510 charge absolutely rank in the top 5 currently. The video camera is additionally noteworthy, as it annal in aerial resolution and at up to 120 frames per second, which agency that you can comedy aback in apathetic motion if you like.
The added best absorbing affair about the i8510 is the actuality that it runs Symbian 9.3 with the Nokia Series 60 user interface. This makes the phone's UI appreciably agnate to the Nokia N95 (although the i8510 runs the best recent adaptation 3.2 instead of the buggy 3.1 adaptation acclimated by the N95.) Samsung accept tweaked some options of course, but this is about a buzz that any Nokia Nseries user could aces up and use after a additional thought. It looks like N95 users will accept a absolute best aback they appear to advancement - should they accept the Nokia N96 or the Samsung i8510?
It isn't alone the UI that looks actual abundant like that of the Nokia N95. The accomplished buzz does! It's a beefy accelerate buzz that weighs alike added than the N95, but is several millimetres thinner. It'll be too abundant for some, but if you like solid phones, we anticipate you'll like the feel of the i8510. The accelerate is bland and the keypad feels acceptable too, although the touch-sensitive aeronautics key is apprenticed to abrade some users (although its acuteness is adjustable.) One of the allowances of a ample buzz is that it can fit a ample LCD display, and Samsung accept absolutely fabricated the best of the accessible amplitude with a high-resolution QVGA affectation barometer 2.8 inches across, and announcement 16 actor colours. Once again, it matches the capabilities of the N95.
The Samsung holds its own aback it comes to music playback too. Its music amateur handles all accepted formats (MP3, AAC, WMA) and includes OMA agenda rights administration 2.0. Able with an FM radio RDS and 3D beleaguer complete DNSe 2.0 technology - Samsung's proprietary agenda accustomed complete agent technology acclimated in its MP3 players - the music capabilities alive up to our expectations for a high-end phone. The media amateur supports DivX playback too, which is aloof as able-bodied back the huge 8GB of congenital anamnesis is abundant to abundance several abounding breadth movies! Alternatively it will authority 2,000 songs in MP3 architecture (more if compressed.) If that's not enough, you can add a 16 GB microSD anamnesis agenda to aggrandize the absolute anamnesis to 24 GB - abundant for 6,000 songs! The i8510 additionally has a accepted 3.5mm headphone jack, so you can bung in your own high-quality headphones.
Like the N95, the i8510 appearance A-GPS accessory navigation, with mappingcomputer application from Route 66. You can additionally download freecomputer application such as Google Maps. The GPS supports geo-tagging of photos.
The i8510 is a acceptable belvedere for accessing the web. It's able with a HTML browser and uses able zoom and switching amid mural and account modes to affectation web pages optimally. The touch-sensitive annal pad works actual able-bodied aback browsing the web. With HSDPA enabling download speeds of up to 3.6 Mbps, you can admission web pages rapidly, and download music and video anon to your mobile. In accession to web access, the buzz is able to affix via USB 2.0 or wirelessly via Bluetooth and WiFi. You can use the TV-Out affiliation to appearance photos and video anon on your TV. It's additionally accessible to beck agreeable wirelessly to a accordant PC or laptop application WiFi.
The i8510 additionally has a 3D cartoon accelerator agenda authoritative it into a mini-Xbox! We haven't played the games, but there are two chargeless anchored amateur - FIFA'08 and Asphalt. You'll acquisition added Symbian applications pre-installed, or accessible for download.
Battery activity is not brilliant. Although the buzz is able with a abundant assignment array (the phone's admeasurement and weight are there for a reason!), with so abounding accessories to comedy with, you may acquisition you charge to recharge every day if you're a abundant user.
The i8510 is acutely advised to go arch to arch with the Nokia N95 8GB and the Nokia N96. Does it accomplish the grade? We anticipate so! Apart from its weight and the affair of the touch-sensitive aeronautics key, the Samsung i8510 matches or beats the N95 8GB. The Samsung has a added good camera and a added good video camera. Does it exhausted the N96? Well, the N96 has added memory, but the i8510 has a added good camera. W'd accept the Samsung, but the N96 comes very, actual close! But be acquainted - all three of these phones use the Symbian operating system, and all three ache from archetypal Symbian problems - apathetic UI, accidental freezing, shutting bottomward andcomputer application glitches.
- 8 megapixel camera phone with 9x digital zoom, autofocus and dual LED flash
- Video camera with built-in video editing, DivX playback
- 3G video calling
- Display: TFT, 16 million colours, 320 x 240 pixels (2.8 inches)
- MP3 player (MP3, MIDI, AAC, AAC+, WMA, WAV formats), OMA DRM 2.0
- Stereo FM radio RDS
- 3D Surround Sound System
- MP3 ringtones / 40-voice polyphonic ringtones
- Speakerphone
- GPS satellite navigation
- Messaging: SMS, MMS, email (POP3 / SMTP / IMAP4)
- Document viewer
- Java games (Java MIDP 2.0)
- Personal organiser functions
- Offline mode
- Memory: 8 Gbytes plus microSD memory card slot (up to 16 GB)
- Internet: HTML web browser, WAP 2.0, GPRS Class 10, EDGE, 3G HSDPA (3.6 Mbps)
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, WiFi, TV-Out
- Quadband GSM plus dual band 3G HSDPA
- Size: 107 x 54 x 17 mm
- Weight: 136g
- Talktime: 5 hours (3G) - 8.5 hours (2G)
- Battery standby: 310 (3G) - 330 hours (2G)
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