Samsung SGH P735 - Cellular phone with digital camera / digital player - T-Mobile - GSM - silver

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Product Details

• ASIN: B0006M6FPG
• Item model number: P735
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #68,326 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 15, 2004

Product Description

Amazon.com Hands-On Review

Samsung's P735 is one of a new breed of cameraphones. Not only does it offer a megapixel camera, but it also has a novel form factor that differentiates it from everything else on the market. It opens up to reveal a large display, but its hinge does more than just open and close. By twisting and turning the top half of the phone, the P735 can be put into a 'L' shape configuration, or actually be flipped around completely so that the main display is on the outside of the phone. This is useful for taking photos.

Taking photos is a snap when you twist and turn the main display to the outside of the phone.

The P735 is a triband GSM phone that works on T-Mobile USA's 1900Mhz network and the 900Mhz and 1800Mhz GSM networks found in most other parts of the world, meaning it will work on your European vacation. It weighs 4.5 ounces, and is 3.6" x 1.73" x 0.95" in size, which is a bit large. Included in that package is a battery that was good for over 6.5 hours of talk time in my tests - even though Samsung claims only 4 hours.

The P735's numeric keypad has a nice feel, but has unusual positioning of the its two softkeys and dedicated camera button: the camera button is above the softkeys, which means that you often hit the camera button instead of the right softkey. The P735 has a nice directional controller, or d-pad, but it is raised quite a bit from the level of the keypad. Everything is very usable; it just isn't optimal.

But one buys a P735 for the multimedia capabilities. The megapixel camera takes a decent photograph for a cell phone. Outdoors shots are a bit blue in color, but reasonable. Indoor shots are much better. The camera offers resolutions ranging from MMS to full 1024x864. Normally the P735 shoots photos in a vertical portrait format, but if you twist the phone's hinge into the 'L' configuration, it will automatically adjust the camera to records photos in landscape format.

The RS-MMC memory card slot supports up to 512MB cards.

Unlike most video capable cameraphones on the market, the P735 can record video clips of nearly unlimited length. The phone only stops recording when you tell it to or when it runs out of memory. Since the P735 has 60MB of internal memory and a RS-MMC memory card slot that supports up to 512MB cards, that's a lot of video.

The P735 also has a reasonable MP3 player included. While you can't create real playlists, you can pick and choose the songs to play. Songs can be in internal storage or on the RS-MMC card. The included stereo headset offers good sound, but uses a proprietary connection, so you won't be able to use your own headset. If a call comes in while you are listening to music, the MP3 player will stop so you can take the call.

The P735's very bright and ultra-crisp 262k TFT main display features 176x144 resolution.

The P735 has a nice 262k color TFT display with a 176x144 resolution. It is very bright, and very crisp, and large enough to get the job done. The external 65k color sub-display is an ultra-bright OLED type that you could read from across the room in the dark - it's that sharp. Both displays are used by the Picture Caller ID system so you can see a photo of who is calling you.

While the P735 doesn't support email, except through T-Zones, it does have nice MMS and SMS editors. It also comes with a nice suite of 3D games, including the 3D first-person flying robot game Metalion. New games, including Java based games, can be bought from T-Mobile or found elsewhere on the Internet.

The Samsung SGH-P735 is a good solid multimedia phone. Not only can it take a nice picture, but it has looks that will turn heads and start conversations. Business users will miss voice dialing and a speakerphone, but for the casual user the P735 will offer enough fun for those things to be overlooked.
--Reviewed by Michael Oryl, editor in chief of www.MobileBurn.com

Pros:

• Megapixel Camera
• MP3 Player
• 3D Games

Cons:

• Big
• No Voice Dialing
• No Speakerphone

What's in the Box: P735 phone, Battery, Charger, Hands-Free Headset, SIM Card, Euro Plug and 32 MB Multimedia Card.

Product Description
Truly revolutionary. The Samsung P735 is a flip phone with a twist--it also swivels open so you can rotate the full-color screen horizontally. Take film-quality pictures using the megapixel camera and store them on the memory card to print at sizes up to 4x6. Listen to music on the integrated MP3 player, relax with Java and 3D games, or create your own video wallpaper using the CIF camcorder.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great phone with NO SUPPORT!, May 17, 2005

By	Maricela Perez "be blu" (Northlake, IL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a great phone for someone who doesn't care for new games. Although the phone has been in the market for nearly a year, there are no games available for it through tmobile besides the few that come with the phone. Don't get me wrong, I love the games, but I'd also love to play Tetris which has yet to appear at the tmobile site.

Here are the more intriguing features.

MP3 PLAYER
The MP3 player is mediocra at best. The nice thing about it is that it pauses when you have an incoming call and allows you to resume right where you left off. The bad part is that you can't fast forward. Many of you may be saying, "It's a phone, what do you expect?" But the truth is that it's built-in video player that does allow for rewinding and fast fowarding so that aspect is a disappointment.

Another HUGE disappointment is that you can't use your stored MP3's as ring tones. Again, the phone allows you to transfer videos from the memory card (RS MMC) to the phones memory and save them as your wallpaper (yes i mean video wallpapers) So again, this is somewhat of a let down since mp3's aren't nearly as complicated (or as large) as videos. Also, MP3's need to be encoded at over 128kbps. I think I encode them at 196kbps. Whenever I tried to go lower, the phone wouldn't recognize them as valid MP3 files.

ADVANCED VIDEO CAPABILITIES
Now for the clincher. Using simple media conversation tools like psp video 9, you can watch music videos and movies on your phone in .MP4 format! I purchased a 512MB RS MMC stick for $65 in December and use it to store videos and music that I enjoy everywhere such as on walks around town and on the bus or train. For those of you that love subtitles, they'll still be legable on the phones screen.

HEADSET
Another saddening fact is that it doesn't include a headphone jack. But it makes sense since headphones don't have buttons that allow you to answer calls so this can be overlooked. It's also comfortable, stay in place and are discrete with its unique design.

CAMERA = 1.1 MEGAPIXEL, BEST OUT
The camera is decent but its still the best US camera phones have to offer. The lack of a built-in flash makes it useless in poorly lite homes or at night.

BUMMER?
Hm, another thing that I noticed some people may miss is that the battery status bar stays idle while charging. I personally don't mind since the adapter itself has a status light (red for still charging, green for go time) so who cares right?

SUMMARY
So it's a media center in your pocket. A 512MB stick can probably hold a single movie, 3-4 20+ min episodes, or tons of songs and pictures. (You can throw your own pictures in there as well). Hope you found this helpful!

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars playing mp3 or mp4 3gp videos on samsung p735, January 5, 2005

A Kid's Review

In order to play mp3 files you need to transfer files to your RS MMC but make sure less than 20 characters on name of mp3 track (including spaces letter or number) sam p735 will not read items from MMC if it has more than 20 characters .also make sure these are mp3 not real audio or wmf sound format.only reads mp3 sound format .u can rename mp3 sound file b4 transfering to multimedia card .make sure once mmc card inside phone u select the mmc location . that will relsolve your issue .also u can download videos and compress it with (pvauthor) program and copy to mmc card and play on your handset

16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The BEST Phone!, May 12, 2005

By	S. Lindsey (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I LOVE this phone, I have been a longtime devotee of Samsung and this phone just rings my bell. Swivel feature best for using the mp3 player and just plain showing off. Great reception and battery life is what I would expect.

Tip for those purchasing new mobile phones: Condition your battery! This will greatly extend the life of your battery (in between charges and replacements).
Step 1: The first time your charge it, charge for 12 full hours for lithium ion battery (most common these days).
Step 2: Let it die COMPLETELY and then charge it FULLY again.
Step 3: Repeat step 2 one to two more times.

Always try to let your battery come as close to depleting as possible before recharging, this will extend the life of your battery as far as replacement. Your battery's longevity is based on "cycles," from one charge to the next. The more times you charge the battery, the sooner it will need to be replaced. Also, avoid using car chargers whenever possible, these are a "rush" charge that do not last as long (in terms of recharging) as traditional wall "trickle" charges.