Samsung SGH-X820 Review

The World’s Thinnest Cell Phone, that is what the Samsung SGH-X820 is marketing itself as currently on the marketplace, as it looks to show how thin a cell phone can really go. Mobile Burn takes a look at it.

The first thing that caught our attention is the claim of the thinnest phone in the world. Some say that Samsung has cheated, as the camera module at the back protrudes out slightly, bumping the thickness to 9.9mm (0.39″). When you take into account a two megapixel camera module measures at least 6mm in thickness, Samsung really has already done a remarkable job.

So how thin is the X820? What do these numbers mean? To make it easy for everyone to understand, I can say that the X820 is as thick as an iPod nano. A lot of us are still a haunted by build issues with slim devices; the X820 weights 66g (2.33oz), and apparently, there is not much metal reinforcement in there. It would be just too ambitious to test how much pressure the phone can handle, since it doesn’t come free, but I haven’t scratched or cracked anything carrying the X820 in my jeans pocket for a week.

In the end they conclude that the X820 is a highly recommendWed device including excellent portability, good multimedia functions for its size, good keypad, excellent build. Some of the things that Mobile Burn was not as impressed with is the lack of a vibration mode for a ringer, average battery life, lack of USB Mass Storage mode, and absence of ringtone profiles.

September 13th, 2006 Posted by David in Reviews, Samsung at 3:17 pm Comment Now! »
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