There I was alone in my working holiday on Lake Constance and was with my double with a torn ligament on traveling with us better half hindered only communicate by mobile phone and now we das. us had vowed to stay together till death us do that. And now it was time.

samsung S5230 reviews Samsung S5230: The ipod for the poor?

So that no mistakes, I mean the cell phone, my Siemens ME 43, which is almost as old as I was. It fell to my place from the ladder and gave up his life. Of course, better than the other way, but I was now far from home. A little desperate I went to the next media market to Friedrichshafen and from the wealth of the offer was shocked. Only, not just the cell phones had become very small, even the keyboards with them.

I knew with my sausage fingers do not know how to avoid the operation of the buttons by the dozen. Since I recommended the friendly sales a touch screen mobile phone. Something to beta Chen? I looked doubtfully at the little bit. With her I would have even imagined yet, but they can in a mobile phone? She patiently explained to me and slowly I realized then and finally.

I was in such a duster to television advertising with the unwanted knick-knacks in the back, but for almost 130 Euronen? In the days following my attendance at work suffered a bit under the newly awakened playfulness. But the connection to the homeland was secure.

What came up to me?

On the small colored box stood Samsung GT-S5230 and the images were already promising. The advertising copy was handled fairly sparingly, which I took to it immediately. EDGE Quad-band stood, 3.2 MP Camera, 3.0 “WQVGA TFT LCD display, Touch Wiz 1.0, online widget, MP3 player, FM radio and Bluetooth. Stuff seemed familiar, others not so. So first once unpacked. eierkartonähnlichen What came to light everything in a bowl?

Mobile
Accumulator
Power Supply
USB cable for PC connection and charging
Stereo Earphone
New CD with software Samsung PC Studio
Manuals in German and English

After I had set my crashed SIM card and battery in the phone, I realized that the battery was on the back burner. So just tested the PSU, which I quit the mobile phone on the display and clearly grateful. In the next three hours I had enough time to look at my phone and it theoretically to operate according to the manual.

In the version noble-looking black text is really noble. The front is almost entirely occupied by the 3-inch screen, silver on the listeners, down from the left also in silver, the selection button, the Back button and the Ein-/Aus-/Menü-Ende-Taste. On the left side volume key in the form of a rocker switch, including the multi-function connector for charger, USB cable and earphones. On the right side of the lock button and the camera button and on the back of the camera lens and battery cover. The lock button is on a touch screen mobile phone, especially with the Internet, very important so it is not independent in the pocket and makes surfing charges.

Tell me where the buttons are

I had no idea how much nonsense has such a phone, but the above pop songs I’ll just follow one another: one can get used to it.

After switching on the power before it became apparent once and then asked me the same thing about the PIN. I learned for the first time the advantage of the 13 x 9 mm large buttons to know, not a failed attempt. Then came a Christmas wallpaper image, his feet the button of the keypad, the phone book and menu. To the left is an arrow button to open the widget bar and closes. This, however, later. At the top of the display or a toolbar with the following information:

Signal strength
Connection or data transfer over the GPRS network
Connection and data transmission over the EDGE network
active call
Memory card inserted
Alarm activated
surf the Internet
active connection with protected website
Roaming
Call forwarding activated
Bluetooth enabled
Bluetooth hands-free kit or headset connected
Synchronization with a PC
New SMS
New MMS
New E-Mail
New voice mail message
Normal profile activate
Mute enabled Profile
Battery strength

Current Time

A variety of information, but which are now highly desirable in terms of safety. Looking back is not constantly so reported, at least if there is insufficient charge the phone with a warning tone and a message. Not responding one time, it switches off automatically.

To the memory card is worth mentioning that the phone itself an internal memory of 100MB available that can be expanded via a micro-SD memory card up to 8 GB.

Keypad

To the size of the keypad, I have already commented positively. Selected numbers are immediately transferred to the phone book, or could alternatively be a message attached.

Phone book

In the phone book, you can choose between contacts, groups, or favorites, depending on the device when carried out selection. Groups are predefined as an office, family, friends, but can be expanded indefinitely. You can store favorites in numerical order.
Menu

This is divided into the main menu, Communications menu, Tool menu and multimedia menu. All four can be obtained by horizontally moving the finger to activate the touch screen.

Main Menu

Call List
Phone book
Music
Internet
News
My Documents
Organizer
Camera
Communities
Applications
Alarm
Settings
Communications menu

Myspace
Facebook
Youtube
Flickr
Photobucket
Picasa
Friendster
Google
Home
Enter your URL
Favorites
Tools

Calendar
Memo
Task
World Clock
Calculator
Conversion
Exchange ActiveSync
Bluetooth
Synchronize
Timer
Stopwatch
Multimedia Menu

MPs Player
Music recognition
FM Radio
Games and More
Voice memo
RSS Reader
Images
Videos
Tones
Other files

I think many of these functions and buttons are sellbsterklärend, so I do not have to list everything here. I will limit myself to a few basic functions.
Connection to PC or other devices

1st Bluetooth

This compound is applied not only to PCs, but especially headsets and earphone. By pressing the push button Bluetoothsysmbols the Tools menu is called, used to enable or disable Bluetooth. Activation is very fast. Can then be started within a radius of 10 m all Bluetooth devices by the Search .Button to look for. My PC was quickly recognized and connected. About settings can e.g. the visibility of their mobile phones regulate. The button Bluetooth services are very good evidence for the usefulness of the function. He is a part of the very well-illustrated help function of your phone.

2nd USB connection

With pleasure, I use them because their use while the phone is loaded with the same. If even the Samsung PC Suite installed on the PC, it will be loaded during manufacture of the USB connection the same. On the screen appears the My Computer icon on the left and right of the computer the mobile search, with the mobile phone has been increasingly recognized automatically. In the footer I have a choice between Communikator, organizer and media manager, automatically the Organizer is addressed. By double-clicking the My Computer icon and the phone I can call each one Explorer, between which I can move files at will. The transfer end message. Thus, phonebook information, appointments, but also music and video files are easily replaced. The synchronization of data is easy. On the MP3 player, the formats MP3/AAC/AAC + / e-AAC + / WMA / WAV to play. The video player mp4 akzetiert and converted automatically to the appropriate size. The transmission of a video file of 25.6 MB lasted 70s, so 22 MB per minute.

With the PC Studio, you can also make direct connection to the Internet and download data to a mobile phone.

MP3 Player

The format I have already mentioned, also optimizes DNSe the sound quality, including virtual 3D sound effect and equalizer. Toll also the music recognition. A few bars of a song recorded with the phone via the detection function sent to the Internet and the title is detected within seconds.

The sound quality of the included stereo earphones is excellent, even through the internal speakers, the titles are still listenable.

Camera and video function

The 3-MP .Kamera has many adjustment options and a Smile Shot function, ie they recognize the smile of people. Even night shots are available at a tolerable quality. Of course, this camera can replace a digital camera, but I was surprised by its possibilities. Especially if you want to send an MMS from the road, you will not be disappointed. The video function of the camera surprised me. A digital 2x zoom is not the world, but it helps sometimes.

Definitely surprised me was the video playback, because of this little screen I had not expected. The dubbed music videos were played back from the PC automatically converted to the screen size and in a well-es Early and audible Qualtät. Turning the phone 90 degrees, the picture switches to landscape mode and has a viewable size, comparable to many commercially MP4 players. Playback works even without earphones.

FM Radio

It should be said in particular that the radio only works with earphones attached, as this corresponds to the antenna. About the search function are quite many stations, depending on the location, retrieval and stored. The station display via RDS: The quality of reception is more than satisfactory. Thanks Bluetotth-streaming the music can be transferred as in the MP3 player to Bluetooth headphones.

E-mail function

The e-mail function has POP3, IMAP4 and SMTP. Thanks to the QWERTY keyboard swiveling 16:9 display the letter is very simple. The selection is via the message function.

Internet

By Jasmine browser to surf the Internet from any location is made possible. Here, too, does the swiveling display well. Access to Gmail, Google Search and Google Maps is straightforward. The widgets are very useful here. The RSS reader will automatically stream information to the mobile phone. Of course we can not ignore the attendant costs. Since I have no contract that is not worth it to me before, I bought a contractual, simlock and brandingfreies phone and after several attempts on the Internet this off. Still, I think the opportunities offered really great.

Touchscreen

Do not forget I want the touch screen itself, to which I have indeed been some scattered, but also brought me the greatest problems. The display with 262,000 colors and WQVGA resolution is really brilliant and the automatic Mitsch Wenken the display in motion is a great thing. Not so great, I think the handling. I miss in the lists, which can be moved with your finger vertically or horizontally, a scroll bar. Very quickly it happened that one focuses too strongly on the display, then we open an application, where you happened to be. Then you must close this first before attempting a fresh start. If you’re unlucky, you run a few times.

Conversely, it is on the screen blocking. As useful as this measure is often when you unlock the display does not responding, so you must rely on the lock button. This is not a big problem, but what is shown on the display next to the lock information Entsperrbutton one, then if that does not work?
Widgets

Through the many widgets can be a very individual screen design. Clock and calendar for example, are thus directly accessible. The numerous online widgets about stock prices, weather forecasts, news and more. However, this is always in the background of the charge meter, if not careful.

Offline mode

Now and then it will happen again so that it is in the hospital or in the plane, which states categorically: from mobile phones. Here comes the offline mode to the train. Listen to music, take photos, look up appointments, respond to e-mails, play games, no problem in offline mode. And is the critical phase over, it goes back online ruck twitch.

Conclusion

But now I will sometimes twitch ruck come to an end. I was at the presentation I focused on some seemingly essential features. Of course, there are more, but should be enough for a first look it. My experiences and small concerns that I have explained to you, and must point out once again, it’s not a super phone, but it must not hide from the large total. Who as frequent callers with a favorable contract is a great get for next to nothing, may smile at me mildly. I once thought of those who are not so often in the net and feel for its advanced mobile seniors still a little too young. Who wants to see something more about it can be like trying times in my video I have just placed online. Finally, I forgive nor quickly 4 stars, the fifth is stuck on the display.

Pro : cheap Touchsreenhandy with ample
Cons : a bit sensitive display