Samsung SGH F300 - Expert Reviews

Review summary: We wanted to like the F300, but it falls short of expectations. A radical convergence experiment gone wrong.

Verdict: The F300 is the first dual-face music phone. One side is the phone, but turn it over and the full music/multimedia player is revealed.

Review summary: Samsung's two faced SGH-F300 is a push-me pull-you style phone/music player. Does it do much, or do little for Sandra?

Verdict: When rating this phone I wanted to be able to give extra marks for chutzpah, but in the end it is practical real world factors that rule the ratings system here at TrustedReviews. After the initial wow factor I found the SGH-F300 a somewhat frustrating

Review summary: - You want music and you want to stay connected. What most of us do is carry two boxes; an MP3 player and a mobile phone. Samsung seeing the popularity of the Sony Ericsson Walkman brand wants to offer us its solution to the problem in the guise of the SG

Pros: Fully fledged MP3 player, 1GB microSD card in the box

Cons: Why, why, why?

Verdict: On their own, the two elements are average, together two averages certainly don't make a good, and in fact are worst off for the marriage

Review summary: The famous South Korean manufacturer has stopped being afraid of making experiments. Once it used to only make silver clamshells. Today, however, the situation has changed significantly. Samsung already has a fancy portfolio including several new, very un

Pros: unusual dual face construction only 9.4 mm thickness 2 megapixel camera video in QVGA resolution 100 MB internal memory, microSD memory card slot FM radio Bluetooth with A2DP GPRS and EDGE both Class 10 practical case with integrated battery enclosed in t

Cons: not so user-friendly controls the battery in the phone is not replaceable the "phone" part has a 2 line display sensor button is difficult to control and much too sensitive no email client camera pictures cannot be saved directly to the memory card No Jav

Verdict: Samsung F300 is the first phone with dual face construction on the market. It does not have a standard back side in the form of a battery cover. Each of the phone sides features a display and a certain number of keys. One of the sides operates calls and s

Review summary: The Samsung F300 combines phone and MP3 player like none before it. Styled along the lines of the iPod nano, this two-faced handset is impressively slim and even manages to pack a camera into its slender frame

Pros: Slim design; large, crisp screen on the music player side

Cons: Fiddly controls; short battery life; tiny screen on the phone side

Verdict: This twin-face approach just doesn't pay off with this handset -- the oddball design makes it confusing to use. Matters also aren't helped by the phone's sluggish feel and poor battery life. There's little to recommend here