Samsung INNOV8 i8510 mobile phone review

Posted by Katherine Hannaford on Mon 8 Sep 2008

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Looks wise, the Samsung INNOV8 i8510 deserves an award, due to its glossy black finish, large screen and brushed metal keypad. Reassuringly heavy, it feels like a high-end model, but with a Samsung badge stuck on.

Inside, it's a whole other story. After a couple of weeks of use, we wanted to throw it out the window - it's slow to respond, sluggish to use, and about as frustrating a mobile as your average WinMo. Symbian S60 operating systems work well on Nokias but on this Samsung, it feels very unfinished. It's certainly not aided by the horrible touch-sensitive navigation button, which often means you scroll right past the app you wanted to open.

GPS and the internet work okay, although we've certainly used better HSDPA-enabled phones. Needless to say, you need to have very strong reception to use the GPS effectively, as it was quite patchy when we used it at various locations.

A massive storage eclipses the C905 from Sony Ericsson, with 16GB of inbuilt memory plus a microSDHC card slot meaning you can whack in up to 16GB more. This allows for easy video and audio playback, both of which work well, particularly as the speaker is extraordinarily loud and they've handily added a 3.5mm jack. Albeit on the side, not bottom...

Still, at least if you aimed the heavy mobile at someone's head (preferably a Samsung designer), you're bound to do some damage. That's one of the few good things about the INNOV8, with the camera being the only other feature worth harping about.

It's being billed as the world's first 8.0-megapixel camera phone, although what Sony Ericsson and their C905 think about that is another story entirely. The camera is great, with pictures of an exceptionally high-res, even when blown up on a PC. The only downside is the flash, which is a mere LED instead of Xenon, however regardless of the flash, the picture quality is still fantastic.

Features such as panorama mode, where users can take several photos of a landscape consecutively, which are then stitched together to create a really wide seamless photo, work well. The smile mode, which only snaps the photo when the camera recognises a smile has been made on the subject, is also flawless.

When it boils down to it, we think Samsung should be marketing this product as a camera with a mobile phone attached, rather than a mobile phone with a camera.

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By evs1981

1|07|2009 08:47

Bad Points:

Sluggish navigation

I had to send the phone back 3 times to get it fixed as the callers names were not showing on the phone when they rang, it was just their numbers, which as you can imagine is irritating

Good Points:

Very good camera

Great memory capacity with expandable memory

Conclusion:

Because of the incapapbilities of the Innov8 I have just bought an iPhone and I absolutely love it.

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