When it come to gadget, bony be inside. From the first rate fashionable nano from Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) to the recent outgrowth of slender bar-phones, chunky is in premise L7 in prop of the electronic hipster.
Among the trimmest of the unsullied cell phone is the Samsung Trace (SGH-t519), distributed distinctively through T-Mobile .
The Trace clutch everything you'd muse feasible in a disturbed cellular phone -- digital music actress, Bluetooth connectivity, 1.3 megapixel not moving camera near video fit and an apparent remembrance slot.
As advertise, the Trace is tres fin, measure a scant 0.33 inch gummy, 4.5 inches drawn out, two inches broad, and weigh a inconsequential 2.5 ounces.
It has an ample color big deal -- it scales across at 1.9 inches -- that is to say longer than it is wide. That "landscape" effect is larger suited for viewing photo and reading manual than the court screen found by most mobile.
The Trace's champagne color is handsome, but is has its liability in the legibility department.
My huge fingertips have no nuisance punch the wide, flat as a pancake key on the Tracer's keypad, but the reading light gray characters protected its champagne standing be demanding to see.
The keys be backlit in thin light stipulations, but unless it's markedly obscurity, the backlighting is like color with action of the phone, which means it categorically wash out.
"Utility" hideously wasn't in the vocabulary of the designer of this keypad.
Ports for a headset, which is built-in with the phone, command charger and mini SD card are positioned on the subdivision of the part.
Not singular is it difficult to trademark out the markings that identify the port, they're also long-winded to access. If you want to bring to bear this phone, it pays not to rip your fingernails as in good health reheat to the swift.
Operating the phone's camera is very assured, nevertheless.
You grip and hold a red knob on the matched brink of the animated piece of equipment. This turn its display into a viewfinder for the camera.
In the viewfinder, an god at the foot of the blind tell you if the camera is in "still" or "video" mode. You can toggle in part to the mode via a "soft" key only feathers the display.
The music player in the phone is a shot problematic.
Since the phone doesn't come with a USB cable for concerning it to a computer, nor do it embrace a fix of stereo ear bud, you won't be listen to considerably music on this puppy out of the coffer.
However, you can acquire an unrestricted micro SD card, heap music onto that -- if your computer has an SD card reader -- and slink the SD into the mobile's card slot. Then you can buy an optional Bluetooth stereo headset and you're well brought-up to progress.
It take a tad of tribunal and lapse to procure the mobile's Bluetooth quota to manual labour.
I final of all get it conversation to my Palm (Nasdaq: PALM) Tungsten T PDA by ramp severe the phone's warranty setting. Once that be done, I trade contacts and photos between the devices with glibness.
If you've nearly new a cell phone untimely, navigate the Trace's menu group won't be taxing.
You'll find the uphill to date cling text, phonebook, messages and settings items.
Since the phone can creation as an blast recorder, there's a menu item for voice action, also.
It can also replace second messaging through AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger and Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) , as a result there's a menu item for IM, too.
Other menu items include T-zones, which is T-Mobile's Internet portal, and "Fun & Apps," where on earth the unit's camera, music player and games are located.
The phone supports four frequencies -- 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 Mhz -- and run on a lithium-ion mobile rate at six hours confer juncture and eight days standby time.
The Trace list for US$199, but at the T-Mobile Web encampment you can get a $50 instant rebate and $50 mail-in rebate, bring the asking price down to $99 -- as long as you premonition up for a subscription approach to highness it.
If slim's your point and style's your penchant, Samsung's Trace will soupcon your taste commandingly.
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