Samsung F210 Purple: Do Girls Aloud motivate you to buy?

It has always been “boy’s toys” and “boys love gadgets”, but these days there are also many gadgets designed for women who show that you can have the latest style and high-tech functions.

This new mobile phone from Samsung is the F210 Purple; the face promoting this handset is the girl band “Girls Aloud”.

The Samsung F210 Purple features a 2 mega pixel Camera, a 1.46 Inch LCD TFT Display, 1 GB of memory plus up to 2 GB micro SD, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, an in-built MP3 player and tons more.

Would Girls Aloud motivate you to buy the phone or does it not cut it for you?

Samsung music phone: SGH-i450, SGH-F330, SGH-F210

There's no denying what Samsung is doing with their latest onslaught of cell phones.


They want to get in your ear and they want to fill it with Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, and maybe a little Hikaru Utada. The Korean cell phone manufacturer has just announced three new additions to their music phone lineup, each attacking an ever-so-slightly different segment of the marketplace.

Perhaps the most powerful of the bunch is the Samsung SGH-i450. As you've probably noticed with Sammy phones in the past, the lower-case "i" usually indicates some intelligence and this appears to be the case here because the SGH-i450 runs on the Symbian S60 3rd Edition. This phone is a dual slider like the Nokia N95, except what slides out the top is a Bang & Olufsen speaker. Other features include HSDPA connectivity, touch wheel navigation, 35MB internal memory, and microSD expansion. The Samsung SGH-i450 is set for launch in Italy with an asking price of around 360 Euros.

The skinniest of the three is the Samsung SGH-F330, being billed as the Ultra Slim HSDPA Music Slider. The outward styling has some similarities to the U600, except the four way navigator is more square. Following in the footsteps of the F300, the F330 comes with external music controls, multi-tasking, multi-codec support, 3.6mbps HSDPA, 2.0 megapixel camera, and microSD expansion. Look for the Samsung SGH-F330 in Germany this month for about 260 Euros.

Last but not least is the switchblade of the group, the SGH-F210. This "Music Swivel Stick" actually has a numeric keypad oriented in a conventional kind of way, rather than the 2x6 orientation that some of its predecessors had. Packed with Windows Media Player 10, 1GB of internal memory, and microSD expansion. This phone will launch in Germany this month for abotu 280 Euros.

Samsung F210 (SGH-F210)

The Samsung F210 is an upgraded version of the Samsung X830 "Blush" phone announced last year, and it shares the X830's unusual format. It is also closely related to the somewhat more basic Samsung F200.

As you can probably tell, Samsung also make MP3 players - and the SGH-F210 draws on this experience. When closed you would be hard pushed to tell that it's a phone at all. The F210's slim form factor (just 88 x 31 x 20mm) and the unusual 128 x 220 pixel display make the handset look very much like a compact media player.

Although this is closely based on the X830, and shares a similar rotator mechanism, the F210 comes with a much more conventional (although very slim) number pad, plus a microSD slot in addition to the 1GB of internal memory in the phone. Most people won't need to upgrade the F210's memory, but if necessary it can support a 2GB microSD card which should be plenty.

The SGH-F210 supports various media formats including MP3, AAC, eAAC+ and WMA formats plus various types of DRM. The Samsung F210 doesn't have an FM radio, but on the other hand it has a 2 megapixel digital camera. Bluetooth is also supported, presumably with stereo audio connections.

Underneath all the multimedia stuff, this is a tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz handset with GPRS data, Java and a WAP browser. Samsung haven't specified how much the F210 weighs, but it is probably less than 80 grams. No pricing or availability information was available at the time of going to press.

Samsung F210 (SFH-F210 at a glance)

Available: Q3 2007
Network:GSM 900/1800/1900
Data:GPRS
Screen:128x220 pixels, 262k colours
Camera:2 megapixels
Size:Compact rotator88 x 31 x 20mm
Bluetooth:Yes
Memory card:microSD
Infra-red:No
Polyphonic:Yes
Java:Yes
Battery life:Not specified