Samsung SGH-D900 Black Carbon slim slider: Part2

Camera - Good

The Samsung SGH-D900 features a 3-megapixel camera capable of very good images, if you can hold it very still. Unlike most digital cameras that let you focus by pressing the shutter release half way, the SGH-D900 begins a lengthy focus and shutter routine after you click, requiring a steady hand while it works. We took solid landscape shots outdoors, but portraits or low-light pictures ended up blurry or stretched as we pulled our hand away too soon. The camera also lagged from shot to shot, with about a three or four second load time. Strangely, images go to the phone's ample 60mb of memory, instead of your memory card, and you have to copy them to the card later. The Samsung PC studio is lousy at photo management, unreliable at transferring files and lacking in any organizational editing software for images, which keeps this handset from being a real camera-phone contender. PictBridge printing via USB or Bluetooth is a nice addition, but we prefer working off our PCs.

Odds and ends

The menu system on the phone is similar to that on the Samsung SGH-E900, with embedded pop-up menus that show two levels at once, saving some digging. It is a convenient way to navigate menus that we'd like to see more often. The phone also features a music player, capable of handling not only AAC and MP3 files, but also Stereo Bluetooth headphones, the setup of which is a snap. An included document viewer, a variant on the Picsel software we admired on Samsung's IP-830w, handles Office documents and PDF files cleanly, though zooming was a multi-step process and input is out of the question.
11/9/2006 4:20:53 PM
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