There's no getting away from the Z130's showstopping trick - the rotating 176x220 pixel 262,00 colour TFT display is meant to make video calling easier, and in the "wide" position it reveals the secondary camera for video calls.
If you ignore the somewhat gimmicky rotating screen, this is a fairly standard Samsung 3G handset with Bluetooth, but it appears not to have expandable memory. Still, the internal memory is 48Mb which isn't too bad but limits the amount of media the SGH-Z130 can play back, even though it supports audio formats like MP3 and various video formats.
It's a lot heavier that the Z500 too, the Z130 comes in at 120 grams and 112x46x20mm. In addition to UMTS (3G) network support, it comes with tri-band GSM and GPRS. Like other Samsungs there's a WAP 2.0 browser, email client and synchronisation support too.
Rotate the display back into place and it looks a little like a the Samsung X600 in design terms, just a lot bigger. To be honest, we're not convinced by the rotating display and really it's the only interesting thing on this fairly ordinary 3G handset.
Samsung Z500 Features |
General
Network: UMTS / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900
Size Dimensions: 89 x 44 x 24.5 mm
Weight: 95g
Display
Type: TFT, 256K colors
Size: 176 x 220 pixels
- Second external OLED display (80 x 64 pixels)
Ringtones
Type: Polyphonic (64 channels)
Customization: Download
Vibrating Alert
Memory
Phonebook
Call records: 20 dialed, 20 received, 20 missed calls
Card slot T-Flash
- 50 MB shared memory
Features
GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots)
Data speed 32 - 48 kbps
Messaging SMS, EMS, MMS, EMail
Clock
Alarm
Infrared port
Games
Colors
Camera 1.3 MP, 1280x960 pixels, video, flash; secondary video call VGA camera
- Bluetooth
- Java
- WAP 2.0
- MP3/AAC/MPEG player
- SyncML
- T9
- Organizer
- USB port |
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