Samsung C100
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The Samsung C100 has a STN (Super Twisted Nematic) 65,000 colour display that is designed to consume little power. In addition, with Samsungs new UFB (Ultra Fine and Bright) technology built into the STN screen, the display is crystal clear to display sharp colour images.40 bit polyphonic technology offers ringtones with realistic musical instruments. Choosing from pop, rock, jazz and classical tunes lets you personalise your mobile, whilst games benefit from arcade-style sound effects.
Features of the Samsung C100 include:
- Games: Bowling, Midpman
- Java games
- SMS (with T9 support), max 50 messages
- EMS (Enhanced Messaging Service)
- Smart messaging
- Calendar
- To do list
- Once/Daily/Weekly alarm
- Calculator
- Currency converter
- Memo book
- WAP 1.2.1
- Infrared
- 500 phone entriesDimensions : 111 x 45 x 17 mm
- Weight: 76g
- Talk time: up to 2.5 hours
- Standby: up to 90 hours
Samsung C100 Consumer Reviews
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Reviewed by Bunts on 25-11-2005
I don't understand some people. I want a mobile that I can ring out on, take
calls from, that does a little bit more.
I can do all of this with this phone. It is small enough without being
too small.
I have bunged my alarm clock, cus this phone will do that for you.
The battery life is so good, you have to remember to recharge it.
I have never got round to playing any of the games that come with
the phone, but they are there.
This is my 4th mobile, and it will see me out. I am very happy with it.
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Reviewed by Godwin on 26-06-2005
is very good and excellent
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Reviewed by Ankit Arora on 10-06-2005
It's a good mobile phone but ther are two main problems that are its sounds are not too loud and it's hangs most of the time..
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Reviewed by anon on 08-06-2005
ok phone but a brick and useless wap, girly games.Although it does have a good weight for its size but dont recommend buying it!
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Reviewed by Christina on 20-03-2005
I am in my mid teens & living in England, so i apologise in advance if i dont cover the important facts you want to know about! ok here goes, speaking from extensive experience........ FUNCTIONS: if you are looking for a bog standard phone then this is for you. if you dont want to do anything else than txt and phone then its perfect! but if you are looking 4 a gadget then this is the wrong phone, lack of all features on todays market will disappoint many, for example no bluetooth, camera, mp3 files, MMS, video, radio. but it does have WAP/GPRS & infrared.....however, i have had it over a year and i still havent been able to work the infrared. LOOK: very sleek, some might say long & lanky! buttons very spaced out for ease of use. shiny bits on buttons give it the edge. i totally LOVE the flashy coloured light on the top left corner. it flashes when you recieve texts or someone is phoning you. best of all you can set it on silent, so you dont hear your phone vibrate or ring in your bag, but you can see it flashy colours! plus you dont have to take the phone out of standby to see if you have a txt or not. THE FLASHY LIGHT IS THE BEST BIT OF THIS PHONE. there are random rubber bits to protect the charger hole & a random hole in the back of the phone. the latter fell out on my original phone & the charger rubber bit didnt even come with my replacement phone. so hopefully that means it can still work when dust and sand gets clogged in the mechanism!!! the buttons light up blue, apart from the on/off button on the front which is red. so far no problems turning on/off (with a choice of tones or not for this function). BATTERY: the battery is easy to take off when needed, & is incredibly slim & lightweight. no faults with battery life, seems to match the time that Samsung state. although this phone doesnt have much on it to wear it down, so its not surprising! PRICE: i would say that it is over priced since it doesnt have many gadgets and i have just seen that it is still advertised at over #100 pay as you go...steep! PHONE CALLS: i must admit i am much more of a txter than a phoner (much cheaper on landline!) but whenever i do make or recieve calls the sound clarity isnt too great, you can always hear an echo to your voice, very off putting! also when you recieve a txt when on the phone it nearly deafens you!! TEXTING: before this i had a Nokia 3310, so i found the texting on this phone slow & confusing to use. a year on and im still getting frustrated with the placement of buttons for different functions. its does have cool emoticons, still & animated and some sounds to put into txts. you cannot use ringtones for text alert, there are 10 set tones for text messages. i can store 50 messages in the phone & 20 in the sim. you can choose whether to save a message in the outbox or not when sending, i like this function! as stated in an earlier review you cannot 'teach' the predictive text new words, VERY VERY ANNOYING. SCREEN: the clarity & colour in the screen is superb. this is contradicted by the small size of the screen & the phones inability to accept new moving/still images or pictures. i have tried before and the phone freezed went blank turned itself off, then whe ni turned it back on there was no image, or maybe thats just a fault with my phone. whats the point in a good screen when you cant do anything with it?!! WAP: more problems with the network than the phone, but the small sreen, slowness & freezing didnt help. MENU: not a very quick menu, you have to scroll through everything, but theres not much in it so it shouldnt take you long! i would say that this phone is more suited to a female, due to the menu graphics & screen savers...one of which involes a cute bunny hopping around on the screen, not sure many guys would apreciate that! CUSTOMER SERVICE: i have had 2 Samsung C100's, this is only because the latter one is a replacement. my original phone broke after a few months of having it. it started sending messages to itself which i couldnt delete & they prevented me storing my personal messages. it wasnt even to do with my network or viruses from wap, ringtone companies etc. the technicians @ virgin mobile could not detect that the messages had been sent. so i got a replacement...after about 5 phone calls, not bad since i had nothing to prove over the phone that it had gone wrong. cant fault virgin mobile there. it didnt get round to having to contact Samsung, so i have not had experience of their customer care. SIGNAL: i would give this phone 6/10 on virgin mobile. recently txts have been delayed for over 24hrs, (recieving, no problem sending). when it goes out of signal for a long period of time, e.g at the beach, when it comes back into a signal area it cant pick it up, even when you encourage it to in the network selection menu. this has only started happening in the last few months, so maybe it is hinting to me that it needs to retire & i should move on! VERDICT: as i said i have had this phone for over a year, though it has served me well...with only one major hiccup of gobbledigook annoying random txts!! its time to move on....i crave for more gadgets, less echoey phone calls, easier menus & texting, reliability in finding signal & larger screen! i dont ask for much! if your not as demanding as me then by all means buy one, but dont be disappointed when you realise the price they are still asking isnt worth it. the only thing i will really miss is the flashy light, if i was basing my review upon that then it would get 5*'s! but unfortunatly all aspects have to be taken into consideration, resulting in a dissappointing 2*'s due to its boredom!! sorry for such a long winded review....i got a bit carried away! hope it helps.
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Reviewed by on 20-04-2004
this is very good phone for the price - not all manufacturers give you 65000 col screen at this price. only maybe the lack of mms and the fact that you can't add your girlfriends name to the dictionary is what i can complain about. All in all a really good phone worth buying.
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Reviewed by Laura on 31-01-2004
Aesthetically perfect, functionally poor. After buying this phone I expected a lot from it - and I wasn\'t disappointed in terms of the graphics and overall quality of the phone. There was, however, one main big problem which made the phone unusable for me. The T9 function (predictive text) will not let you add new words to the dictionary. This means that whenever you need to type in a word such as a name, an abbreviation, a town, a swear word etc - you get the picture - you have to type it all in individually and it flips from predictive to normal input text. When you are doing it for every third or fourth word, it becomes more than a tad irritating and a full-blown annoyance. If you use predictive text then this phone is unworkable and will drive you up the wall. If you don\'t text, it is fine. I, however, do not fall into that category.
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Reviewed by on 11-01-2004
It was love at first sight for me with The Samsung C100. Its a month since I bought it and have been amazed by its performance.Though once I had problem connecting to the network, it is working fine now.But I am still not able to figure out whether it supports addition of new words in the dictionary and if it does, how??? any suggestions , please mail to aarthi_ps_star@yahoo.com
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Reviewed by Nigel on 10-01-2004
This phone is sheer quality,it is the best i have ever had.Slim,lightweight with excellent ringtones and wallpaper.For the price it is real value for money.My ratings are 11 out of 10
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Reviewed by ED-philippines on 05-01-2004
I think this is the best cellophone i ever have before..Imagine with in 10 days it was snatched..Therefore lots of snatcher like it..
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Reviewed by Lil_miz_Naughty on 31-12-2003
This phone is great - i bought it because of what the reviews here said - and they r right. its excellent! so good in fact my boyfriend and mum are buying one 2! The colour is great quality and its good that you can store over 70 messages! There ringtones are much loud enough for me! It\'s a class phone for the money!
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Reviewed by kristy on 28-12-2003
my last phone was a nokia 3310 so as you can imagine this is a lot better. it is much better than any other phones i have looked at and the colour screen is suberb. I have had this phone since christmas and have had no problems whatsoever so far. there are wonderful little animated images on the menu screens, and a fair choice of wallpapers. the polyphonic tunes are unique, although a more conventional \"ring ring\" tone would be appropriate in addition to these. what shocked me the most was the huge storage capacity. there is room for about 600 phone numbers, and 50 text messages. for each name in the phone book you can store a home, business and mobile number in addition to an email address. has good games, and you can download more JAVA\'s. it coems with bowling, which is repetitive but amusing, and a bizarre pacman type thing that i have not yet mastered. non-JAVA games are a silly little png-pong type game and a bizarre hamster box thing. another bonus is the amazingly light weight. this is because of a special lithium-polymer battery which has never before been used in phones of this class. the phone is also tiny, when i opened the box i literally couldn\'t see it and thought they\'d forgoten to put the phone in. this phone does not have the ability to sedn/recieve MMS, although most people wouldn\'t use this feature a great deal anyway the best phone in its class, no doubt about it
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Reviewed by NICK on 18-12-2003
THE PHONE IS AWESOME.IT HAS ONE HELL OF COLOUR SCREEN THAT OUT CLASSES NOKIA.ITS POLYPHONIC RINGTONES ARE GREAT AND ITS PRETTY COOL WEIGHING IN AT 76g ITS PRETTY LIGHT AND SLIM.GREAT PHONE.
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Reviewed by JoyG on 06-11-2003
I have just bought the C100 and I am very pleased with it, although I would have thought that wallpaper would be available to either dowmload or be bought over the net. Does anyone know if there is a website which does wallpaper for this phone. Its a neat little phone very easy to use and the graphic are very good. If anyone can help me re wallapaper downloads please contact me email:joy.gasston@ntlworld.com
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Reviewed by Melissa on 03-11-2003
i got this mobile about 3 months ago and its great myne is a pay as u go, i bought it offline and got it cheaper than i could find on the net! i got it for #100 (about $120-$130) its better than ordinary mobiles and i recommend it for any one who wants a stylish, smallish mobile it has a great colour screen with brilliant graffics and polofonic ring tones and java games. I think this mobile is the best mobile i have ever had.
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Reviewed by Ramkumar on 03-11-2003
This is of acceptable quality. This doesnt have good organiser facility. It ofcourse has a menu called organiser but you cannot mark birthdays. You have to repeat the reminder for every year.
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Reviewed by Soren Christiansen on 28-10-2003
A very nice phone, rather slick but lacks MMS and good synchronisation SW towards Outlook.
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Reviewed by Max on 19-10-2003
Hi, One week of usage, I can tell ya it has the competition LICKED!! The display Resolution is 128X128 same as Nokia 6610, But this Display is smaller- So it has a sharper Display(Coz of higher pixel per mm) Also 16Bit color is a delight, Im amazed by its clarity and Strength... Poly\'s are not too loud but I use PSM player to make mmf format ringones with Custom vibration and Led Patterns and upload to my phone using Easy GPRS... Also u can put Animated Screen saver(Using Easy GPRS u can create Animation using 4 Jpeg Pics...).. Overall I find this phone to be best value for money... Best in the class... I have Had 3510i and GD67... This is light years aghead of the others.. MMS is absent, but i dont miss it... This is a good basic [phone with Color screen
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Reviewed by Muhammad Zeeshan Khan on 19-10-2003
friends I never seen such a beautifull thing in this price. It is really really an wonderfull gift from samsung. Young boys and girls can find eatch thing what they want from mobile. what I sa about c-100. simply its v v coooooooooooooooll thanks
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Reviewed by Chris Lewis on 19-10-2003
This phone could have been fantastic, looks great, lots of features and a realistic price. But after trying 3 sets in under a week I gave up. Unfortunately it would appear this model has a major floor. Everything seems ok to start with, but all of a sudden it will either return to the PIN entry screen or shut down altogether, once it starts doing this the problem then seems to get worse as the first one I had was ok for a couple of days then after the first time it did this the glitch happened more and more frequently. If Smasung fix this problem I would have no hesitation in recomending the phone, but until then beware.
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Reviewed by mahesh on 16-10-2003
i like it its so sweet
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Reviewed by SAMEER on 11-10-2003
..YUP FRIENDS ...NO DOUBT ITS A FANTASTIC THING IF WE COMPARE WITH NOKIA,,,7210 OR 6610 OR 6100.IT HAS ANIMATED SCREEN SAVERS,WHICH NOKIA HADN\'T ,,,IT HAS 40 POLYPHONIC..WHILE NOKIA HAS 4 POLYPHONIC TUNES.... LIGHT WEIGHT ,,,N SLIM ,,WITH INFRA RED. DISADVT. R DAT ITS COVERS CAN\'T CHANGE...VOLUME IS BIT LOWER ..ALTHOUGH QUALITY IS BETTER ,,,NO PROPER SOFWARE AS I HAVE DOWNLOADED EASY GPRS FROM SAMUNGMOBILE.COM WHICH ONLY SUPPORT THE TUNES,,N PICT. TO ENTER 2 MOB. THE REAL PROBLEM IS DAT SOFWARE DON\'T SUPPORT ANIMATED SCREEN SAVER WHICH R GIVEN BY SAMSUNG...NOR THE TUNES,,,AS TUNES FOR C-100 IS IN .MM EXTENSION...BUT SOFTWARE SUPPORT .MMF TUNES...I.E OF N-620. PICT...CAN BE INSERTED 2 MOBILE BUT STATIONARY.... WELL I HAVE ALSO USED NOKI 3650 WHICH IS FANTASTIC..BUT SIZE WAS 2 BIG SO I BOUGHT DIS SET....I THINK SAMSUNG SHOULD IMPROVE THEIR SOFWARES...AS THEY HAVE GIVEN US IDEAL MOBILE IN BEST MONEY.
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Reviewed by Carolyn on 03-10-2003
this phone is absolutely amazing. the screen display and ringtones outdo any nokia phone and the size is just perfect - big enough to type with but small enough to fit in any pocket. I honestly couldn\'t ask for something better. the only possible downfall is that the volume does not go very high but the ringtones are so distinctive and funky that it does not matter. anyone considering the phone, get it. i promise you won\'t be disappointed unless ya want mms. this is the only actual downfall of the phone but come on, how often do most people use mms. Samsung have finally outdone nokia, sony and motorola providing us with a bbig phone book, big memory storage and a gorgeous little phone.
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Reviewed by vivek@greatvivek.com on 28-09-2003
i have been using this phone for abt 3weeks and its a SUPERB buy and pretty much outstanding values for money. the phonebook is the best, it stores 50messages and the colour display is totally stunning and i hope if i download the pc suite i may be able to copy color images - if i can this is the best phone u can get !! but it doesnt support MMS, remember that ! and battery life aint too good either
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Reviewed by Shital on 27-09-2003
Well well.....we have something really cool to look at!!!It\'s a cool phone .I recently purchased a samsung c100.The color display quality is really good.Its got a cool user interface.u can store around 610 phone numbers!!!There are 40 ring tones.Additionaly it has features like wap,downloadable games.etc....If ur looking out for quality and low price..this is the phone u got to buy.Go ahead for this sleek little magical thing......
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Reviewed by Abhi on 18-09-2003
i have been using this for 45 days now and apart from the battery which needs to be charged every two days there is no apparent problem. The display kick\'s ass out if every other mobile i am yet to see this kind of a display in any other phone(of the same catagory), but a word of caution for buyers the phone only supports ems and wap version 1.2. The display is like a tft panel its ringtones are not very loud but with 40 chord ringtones and at the price it is available this is the best buy. All in all an outstanding phone which cant be matched even by nokia 6610 above that there is no comparison. rgds, abhi
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Reviewed by Dill (South Africa) on 13-09-2003
i bought my Samsung C100 yesterday and its first pressions are still shocking me! its colour screen outmatches the nokia entry level phones by 150% and its really easy to use! the only problem iv expirienced so far is the saving and using of the normal black and white picture messages! wots more is WHY cant i download colour backgrounds and only polyphonic ringtones? oh ya, the ring tones are BRILLIANT to listen to (u dont need a radio they\'re so dam good!) i give this phone a 4 - excellent only because i cant use my conventional pics and download the colour backgrounds! but overall, SAMSUNG HAS FINALLY OVERTAKEN NOKIA!!!!!!!
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Reviewed by Dev on 26-08-2003
The phone is value for money considering competition(India). The most remarkable feature about the phone is the display. The clarity is amazing.I have used nokia 6610 but the depth of the images are stunning.The polyphonic sound qualy is very good too although i have some doubts about the ringtones provides. The battery is superslim and powerful. The grey areas of this phone are lack of blue tooth connectivity and its size. I personally prefer the size of nokia 8310 so its a little big acc to me. Considering the pros and cons and the competition in the market this is the best value for money.The only competition in the price segment is t310 from sony.
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Reviewed by Rici on 23-08-2003
This hp is extremely good of his technologies, but it still some minor value which is until now i cannot find any software & cable data that support this type of samsung. Does official samsung have the software that support c100 ? hmmm ... but 4 class of mid-end c100 is very good.
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Reviewed by sunjoo on 16-08-2003
When firstly you take this phone, you'll be surprised by a small thickness of the case (17mm). Engineers could reach this effect due to a lithium-polymer battery (firstly applied in the phones of this class). This battery has 720mAh capacity. According to the manufacturer, it could provide up ot 3 hours of talking time and up to 145 of standby time. In reality the handset operated about 4 days in case of 10 minutes of talking per day (Beeline network) and up to 15 minutes of using other applications. Time of full charging is about 2 hours. The phone has optimal dimensions (111x45x17 mm). It is neither large, nor small. It weighs 76 g., what allows to wear it as you like. We think that this model has a well-developed form-factor. A double volume key is placed on the left-hand side of the phone. IrDA is also positioned there. Most of manufacturers consider that IrDA is unnecessary in the model of this price segment, but Samsung decided to increase demands to the phones of this class and set it. The phone's exterior is rather unusual, side edges are raised and the keypad is placed deep into the phone. There are no problems while pressing side keys; you don't touch the edges. All keys are made of plastic, they are well spaced and have middle size. The keypad is comfortable, it has a blue backlighting, but characters are not always visible. The screen is located above the keypad. It is not large by sight, but has a resolution of 128?128 pixels. It allows to show up to 5 text lines and 1 service line. This phone is equipped with UFB-65K display. In the sunny day the information won't be clearly visible. Even when you are inside, it is difficult to say that this dispay is really capable to support up to 65000 colors. The picture is not sharp, color rendering is worse than on similar clamshell phones from Samsung. But it is necessary to remember that C100 is a middle class handset and in this group it doesn't have any rivals as regarded to screen quality. Phonebook. You can store up to 500 phone numbers in the phonebook. Up to 3 numbers (home, office and mobile) and e-mail address can be added to one entry. When you create a new contact, you are offered, firstly, to choose a phone number type and then to enter it. Auxiliary numbers can be entered from the edit submenu, not at once. Such arrangement has both advantages and disadvantages. It depends on how often you enter contacts with one phone number. Messages. It\'s possible to keep up to 50 messages in the phone memory and it is not by chance. Actually, the phone supports EMS standard. So, there is a good set of icons, melodies, sounds and animation in the phone. A rather unusual set of smiles is also placed here. Funny faces have now a body. You can easily personalize your phone menu. You can set language, wallpaper (by default phone has 22 animations). FINAL VERDICT: This phone has an excellent reception quality. It didn't have any problems. Volume of the sound is high. 40-tones polyphony is also loud; you can easily hear it when the phone is under clothes. Sometimes you can miss calls in too noisy places. In this case a vibrating alert can help you. It is average, but you can fill it rather well, probably because of the thin case. Lithium-polymer battery is the other virtue of this handset. It decreases the phone's weight and allows using a handset for a long time without re-charging. If you don't talk much, you can use approximately 5-6 days. I didn t find evident shortcomings and technical bugs. Originally the phone is stable and it is a great advantage of it. In the near future this phone will become one of the most popular models from Samsung and repeats success of Samsung R200/210. Samsung C100 will be available in July in the shelves of the shops and an expected price is about 150 USD. It will make the phone very popular, as there are not similar models for such price on the market. Among novelties, C100 stands out by its technological functions, which are for the first time used in the phone of the middle class. I think that namely Samsung C100 will be an outstanding product in 2003 and may be even the best in its class.
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