my Samsung Corby Pro (B5310)

Samsung Corby Pro (B5310)

I recently purchased a  Samsung Corby Pro (B5310) for 12,500PHP (278USD)  at Samsung Mobile in Megamall. All I can say is: it’s one of the best phones I’ve ever owned! It isn’t a hi-end phone like the iPhone, or the Omnia 2 but it does deliver on the commonly used features people look for in a mobile device at an affordable price point… Something other mobile manufacturers have miserably failed at.

Here are some of the features which persuaded me to forgo with the purchase:

• 320×240 TFT resistive touch screen with 16M colors
• qwerty keyboard
• connectivity:
  • Wifi b/g
  • 3G
  • Bluetooth
  • GPS
• built in email and IM client
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• clear fonts (for people with poor eyesight)
• …and did I mention the price tag?

Those were mainly the things I really appreciated with the phone. Once I configured it to send/receive emails from my gmail account I was just hooked! It does lack variety in terms of applications and games, but the bare essentials are there. You can do your facebook, watch youtube videos, check your email, do some instant messaging and what not. What it lacks in variety it makes up for with it’s price and the well polished user interface bundled with the phone. Personally I don’t think you can ask anything better for 12,000PHP.

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