Samsung B2100 Extreme Review

13 October 2009 | cell phone

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Design

Carried candybar form, Samsung B2100 Extreme relatively small for outdoor mobile media ever in the market. As is known, the model output this Korean vendor is not the first enter outdoor segment. If seen again, Samsung B2100 is a mobile outdoor Extreme with the view that led to the concept of stylish than macho. In fact, compared to several similar products in the segment ever launched by some other vendors, the phones are the leanest.

Design concept was too manly, sweet inclined rounding the corner and body elements are coated with black trim on the sides red. however, strong impression body protruding through the solid with the weight on the average size of other mobile phone. Still in the sector body, the Samsung can be a little proud Extreme with anti-shock material owned urethane. Protective layer has. Protective coating such as hard rubber but is able to protect your phone from a variety of things that can damage the phone are like shock, impact, scratches, dust and even though the water.

There are several buttons and slots pinned on the edge of this cell phone. Among others on the left side are the controls the flashlight and volume keys and charger port which together with a headset and USB on the right side. At the top left pinned to the flashlight (power LED) to glow bright enough. Expanse of the phone’s keypad is made of rubber material which is comfortable when pressed by a finger. Each section is made separate buttons and prominent with a rectangular shape, it is easier to use.

Expanse of the Samsung B2100 Extreme keypad is made of rubber material which is comfortable when pressed by a finger. Each section is made separate buttons and prominent with a rectangular shape, it is easier to use. While the navigation button is made of plastic components. We use this section a little less intuitive and does not provide the optimal feedback. Fingers often slipped on executions while pressing the function is used to make navigation directions.

Screen and interface

Extreme B2100 Samsung TFT LCD screen brings with 1.77-inch diagonal. Fortunately, the viewer is relatively small display on this phone helped with the color variation that is rich enough to 262,144 colors (120×160 pixels). As for the clarity and sharpness of the color screen that has been relatively adequate. For outdoor activities, displays Extreme Samsung B2100 is considered promising because it can perform optimally even though the sunlight.

Dig this phone user interface, user interface menus served with the usual Samsung contained in the series down the middle of the grid menu with unique icons. View the menu options on this phone that is only one grid. Users can not expect much in terms of variation, such as belonging to confrontation and interaction between the standard menu somewhat monotonous and less dynamic. But, this phone provides the home screen and shortcut to set the navigation buttons plus a choice of four themes.

Messaging
Referring to the business of sending messages, this phone is a better class of low end mobile phone. The reason this Samsung B2100 Extreme messaging services already provided a good start from the short messages (SMS), multimedia messaging (MMS) and email.

Competitive Features
Protection
In terms of durability, as mentioned previously, Samsung B2100 Extreme is equipped with anti-shock urethane material that protects your phone from a variety of things extreme.

The phone is able to protect themselves from dust and water to a depth of 1 meter for 30 minutes. In addition, Samsung claimed Extreme can adapt to erratic weather, like rain, fog, and the air temperature is very cold or hot, according to the 810 military standards (MIL-STD-810F).

Camera

For the middle class, brought a camera that is relatively less extreme Samsung promising. Resolution lenses used only powerful 1.3 megapixel camera. The result, images produced were limited to a resolution of 1280×102 pixels. Not only that, this phone was not accompanied by the availability of feature autofocus or flash. Quality in indoor conditions (low light) also have their own predictable. There is relatively little noise and sharp and tend to be dim.

To help optimize the shots, Samsung Extreme provides several settings for the camera function. Such as white balance, brightness, until the timer mode (self timer). Other than that, no reliable than cell phone cameras ii. This phone can be used to record, ability to record video with CIF resolution format (176×1 pixels). Meanwhile, for the mp4 file format but the results are a little stilted because the frame raten is only 15 fps.

Media Entertainment

Samsung B2100 Extreme provides several choices in matters of entertainment ranging from music player, video player, FM radio to the game. But, performance standards only just with regular features. For example, a music player that only provides the option to play the song without the support of several complementary as equalizer, effects to the bass settings. Meanwhile, the audio output generated from luodspeaker loud enough and clear. Indeed, external speaker phone specially made hard to support the performance of the maximum outdoor conditions. Samsung B2100 Extreme also has a stereo headset provided with plugs incorporated into a single shared data cable and charger. Quality resulting from congenital headset included in sales package pretty. For a video player, nothing special shortcut option allowing users to access the first video folder in My Files (similar with features file manager). The default view is relatively small player and less than satisfactory, also not fully supported unless this option to set the video function. FM radio into another entertainment alternative in my spare time, to gain access to user radio headset plugged before that served as an antenna. For the game, it is only available in trial versions.

Internet and Connectivity
Samsung B2100 Extreme rely on EDGE technology for data bearer that only level better than GPRS. In fact, if you see some of the phone at the same price range, most are already carrying 3G.

when trying to access the Internet, the process is still considered unsatisfactory. Do not expect to open a website with dynamic content through this browser. But, to access the wap service is still quite promising.

In terms of connectivity, Nokia Extreme is equipped with a data cable and Bluetooth. Enough to be used to transfer data between phones or from mobile to other media such as a PC.

Memory
In this sector, Samsung B2100 is able to satisfy Extreme users. Although only provide internal memory with a capacity of 7 MB, but this phone’s external memory slot offering to increase the data capacity. Unfortunately, no microSD card included in sales package.

Other Features
Although not supported abundant features, but there are enough additional benefit of this mobile phone users. Among other things, noise cancellation, a flashlight, mobile tracker, Java language features and image editors.

Batteries
Samsung B2100 Extreme uses Lithium Ion Battery 1000 mAh as the power supplier. Capacity is still powerful enough to serve the needs of mobile class. In so charging, the phone can last for 3 days for normal use.

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4 Responses to “Samsung B2100 Extreme Review”

  • 1 ayush banerjee Says:

    i have just recently bought this handset. i transferred some music through bluetooth. i reived the files but everytime i am trying to play it, it mentions file not supported. please help!!!!!!!

  • 2 siob Says:

    Hi,

    Just received this phone and having the same problem as AYUSH. I transferred video files in 3gp format and they wont play stating ‘NOT SUPPORTED CONTENT’. Any ideas?

  • 3 Pintu Says:

    Hi,
    I am also facing the same problem. I transferred some mp3 files via bluetooth to my 2 gb SD card but when I try to play, it says Not Supported. The file is playing on my PC.

  • 4 Shreeji Says:

    Hi All,

    I am also facing the above said prob ie not able to view videos transferred thru Bluetooth. Videos recorded thru the phone play, but not the external ones. Msg I get is ‘Not Supported Content’.

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