Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Samsung F330


Handset
Battery
Wired stereo-headset
USB data cable
Software CD
microSD memory card (1Gb, size and availability vary by region)
User Guide
Positioning

The second device in the BeatZ line-up, unlike the Samsung i450, makes use of a standard hardware platform and Suwon’s software for 3G terminals. In fact, this is the good old Samsung G800 yet coming in a different wrapping and with a new camera. Also stemming from this is the fact that the F330’s sound quality is no different from the G800 or the U600, for it employs the same hardware solution, so you won’t hear much of a difference when using one and the same pair of earphones with these handsets.
The only reason why the F330 saw release is that they needed to start the new music-heavy line-up with something. This way, over at Samsung they thought a mid-range phone with a knack for playing music should be pretty much standard, and so they didn’t put much effort into it. And the line taken by the manufacturer is rather straightforward – if music is the main focus, then the phone should come in a white iPod-esque casing and with a pair of decent earphones in the box. However what they rolled is in fact neither fish nor fowl.

While it packs all the traits of the U-series, it also retains a youth-aimed design, putting it in one league with less expensive offerings. The handset’s positioning is centered on music alone and the range of music-savvy devices. But does this range really exist, or it hasn’t gone beyond the company’s roadmap? Essentially, three members of the line-up are way too different to suppose that someone will actually be making a choice between them. The future sales of the F330 don’t look promising at all either. Its predecessors housed in the same form-factor have already proven this point – being not a fashion-savvy phone, the Samsung F330 can’t withstand the competition of Samsung’s own solutions. And those consumers looking to get a top-notch sonic experience are very likely to go for the Samsung i450.

All this means the only purpose of the F330’s release is to create an illusion of choice – nobody expects this model to do summersaults, hence it has only one available color scheme (white).

Source : http://www.mobile-review.com

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