Samsung E590 : The Simple Phone

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Samsung E590 : The Simple Phone

Post by genial.soul » Sep 03, 2007 Views: 5981

Designwise, the Samsung E590 is stunningly different from pretty much everything you would expect in a modern mobile phone. Yet, its armory includes a high-quality TFT display and a decent 3 megapixel camera. Plus, it's delightfully minimalist and comes at a relatively low price. All in all, though not a seducer, the Samsung E590 is a downright square deal. You are more than welcome to take the official GSMArena tour of the Samsung E590.




Key features:

3 megapixel autofocus camera with a half-shutter key
Tri-band GSM/GRPS/EDGE support
Square 1.8" 262K color TFT display with 220x220 pixels resolution
Stereo Bluetooth (A2DP)
FM radio
MS Office documents viewer
microSD memory card slot
microSD card in the retail package (512MB or 1GB varying by market)
Really compact body and ascetic design
Intriguing bean bag in the retail package




Main disadvantages:

Slow memory-card reading
No TV-out functionality
Slow document viewer
Java applications can be installed only through WAP
Only preset message ringtones

Small but fine
The Samsung E590 has a relatively small 1.9" TFT display with a resolution of 210 x 210 pixels. It's not a groundbreaking resolution, but the display is really fine. The legibility under direct sunlight is alright, but we've seen better displays by Nokia. The handset features the so-called Sunlight mode to improve visibility, but this mode is only available in the camera interface. The Samsung E950 (don't get the E950 and E590 mixed up), which we reviewed recently had that option throughout the whole user interface.

We liked the keypad of the Samsung E590 very much with its big rounded keys with ample space between them. Typing is easy and the keys have excellent tactile feedback. Navigation is entrusted to a joystick, which is not common for the South Korean company. We suppose the Jasper Morrison studio is pretty much responsible for it. The joystick is comfortable enough, no reason for grudges.

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