Review: Samsung P207

Samsung P207SmartPhoneToday is all over the Samsung P207 cell phone, with many pictures and a pretty nice little review. The most interesting feature of the P207 is its speech to text capabilities which are reviewed as well.

The majority of mobile phone buyers evidently believe that small is beautiful. Despite the obvious functional advantages of bigger, chunkier PDA phones, most will opt every time for little bitty phones.

The trouble is, tiny phones with tiny numeric keypads and tiny screens make it very difficult to enter text for SMS messages, e-mails or to add data to address books or to-do lists. The only text input method available on most involves pressing numeric keys once, twice or three times to select one of the alphabetical characters associated with it. Users eventually get used to it, but this makes for v-e-r-y slow input.

The Samsung p207, a tiny trimode GSM/EDGE camera phone available from Cingular Wireless and in Canada from Rogers Wireless, does not entirely solve this problem, but it goes part of the way—far enough to make it intriguing as a model for future products.

The p207’s claim to fame is that it is one of the first mobile phones, if not the first, to offer built-in speech-to-text capabilities. We tested the p207 on the Rogers network.

September 28th, 2005 Posted by David in Camera Phone, Reviews, Samsung at 3:44 pm 1 Comment »
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1 Comment »

  1. Looks like a fairly good phone. It’s just like my E317, but with a nicer black facelift and some new features. Plus it looks like a normal cell phone for those that don’t need a PDA/computer phone. BTW my E317 has a predictive text entry mode so you don’t have to push the number keys 1-4 times for each letter. In my opinion, the sound quality on the E317 is not too good, but the rest of the phone makes up for it. I’d like to know if they improved the sound on this model of phone.

    Comment by Glenn — October 14, 2005 @ 3:54 am

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