Samsung p735 Phone (T-Mobile)

Samsung's P735 is one of a new breed of cameraphones. Not only does it offer a megapixel camera, but it also has a novel form factor that differentiates it from everything else on the market. It opens up to reveal a large display, but its hinge does more than just open and close. By twisting and turning the top half of the phone, the P735 can be put into a 'L' shape configuration, or actually be flipped around completely so that the main display is on the outside of the phone. This is useful for taking photos.

Taking photos is a snap when you twist and turn the main display to the outside of the phone.

The P735 is a triband GSM phone that works on T-Mobile USA's 1900Mhz network and the 900Mhz and 1800Mhz GSM networks found in most other parts of the world, meaning it will work on your European vacation. It weighs 4.5 ounces, and is 3.6" x 1.73" x 0.95" in size, which is a bit large. Included in that package is a battery that was good for over 6.5 hours of talk time in my tests - even though Samsung claims only 4 hours.

The P735's numeric keypad has a nice feel, but has unusual positioning of the its two softkeys and dedicated camera button: the camera button is above the softkeys, which means that you often hit the camera button instead of the right softkey. The P735 has a nice directional controller, or d-pad, but it is raised quite a bit from the level of the keypad. Everything is very usable; it just isn't optimal.

But one buys a P735 for the multimedia capabilities. The megapixel camera takes a decent photograph for a cell phone. Outdoors shots are a bit blue in color, but reasonable. Indoor shots are much better. The camera offers resolutions ranging from MMS to full 1024x864. Normally the P735 shoots photos in a vertical portrait format, but if you twist the phone's hinge into the 'L' configuration, it will automatically adjust the camera to records photos in landscape format.

The RS-MMC memory card slot supports up to 512MB cards.

Unlike most video capable cameraphones on the market, the P735 can record video clips of nearly unlimited length. The phone only stops recording when you tell it to or when it runs out of memory. Since the P735 has 60MB of internal memory and a RS-MMC memory card slot that supports up to 512MB cards, that's a lot of video.

The P735 also has a reasonable MP3 player included. While you can't create real playlists, you can pick and choose the songs to play. Songs can be in internal storage or on the RS-MMC card. The included stereo headset offers good sound, but uses a proprietary connection, so you won't be able to use your own headset. If a call comes in while you are listening to music, the MP3 player will stop so you can take the call.

The P735's very bright and ultra-crisp 262k TFT main display features 176x144 resolution.

The P735 has a nice 262k color TFT display with a 176x144 resolution. It is very bright, and very crisp, and large enough to get the job done. The external 65k color sub-display is an ultra-bright OLED type that you could read from across the room in the dark - it's that sharp. Both displays are used by the Picture Caller ID system so you can see a photo of who is calling you.

While the P735 doesn't support email, except through T-Zones, it does have nice MMS and SMS editors. It also comes with a nice suite of 3D games, including the 3D first-person flying robot game Metalion. New games, including Java based games, can be bought from T-Mobile or found elsewhere on the Internet.

The Samsung SGH-P735 is a good solid multimedia phone. Not only can it take a nice picture, but it has looks that will turn heads and start conversations. Business users will miss voice dialing and a speakerphone, but for the casual user the P735 will offer enough fun for those things to be overlooked.
--Reviewed by Michael Oryl, editor in chief of www.MobileBurn.com

Pros:

Megapixel Camera
MP3 Player
3D Games

Cons:

Big
No Voice Dialing
No Speakerphone

What's in the Box: P735 phone, Battery, Charger, Hands-Free Headset, SIM Card, Euro Plug and 32 MB Multimedia Card.

1 battery life
Did anybody else notice that the batter life is short? It only lasts me about 32 hrs and I don't even use the phone that often. Take two pics and talk for about 10 minutes and battery life is drained.

2 playing mp3 or mp4 3gp videos on samsung p735
In order to play mp3 files you need to transfer files to your RS MMC but make sure less than 20 characters on name of mp3 track (including spaces letter or number) sam p735 will not read items from MMC if it has more than 20 characters .also make sure these are mp3 not real audio or wmf sound format.only reads mp3 sound format .u can rename mp3 sound file b4 transfering to multimedia card .make sure once mmc card inside phone u select the mmc location . that will relsolve your issue .also u can download videos and compress it with (pvauthor) program and copy to mmc card and play on your handset

3 need help
i have a question how can i get the songs to play on the phone with the multimedia card. i added some songs onto the card with a 8in 1 card reader/writer. For some reason its not reading them as an audio file. It reads them as unknown. Could anyone help i would appreciate it thanks

4 This phone is really de bomb ~^^
I like that it moves 360 degrees and that it has an MP3 player. This is my dream phone. For now. Size is pretty good. The front totally rocks. I would definitely recommend this phone for people who likes showing off their phone in front of people. Get this phone and you won't regret having it ^0^. See ya *^^*!

5 Way cool
This is awsome I just got it and it is really cool. The camera is amazing you would swear it wasn't a phone picture. The mp3 looks cool though it is hard to link it to the com unless you have a port for that kind of memory card. This phone is sooooooooooooo hot defenatly worth it!!!

6 If Not, One of the best phone out today.
I has no bluetooth or speaker phone, but it play and records sharp and clear videos. I have movies on my phone that i can watch whenever i want. I have the who Forest Gump movie on my phone! The sceen is amazingly clear and the mp3 player is good. I love this phone.

7 Great design ,loaded with features except Bluetooth
1.0 megampixel cmos camera, 60 minutes video recording , 262k colors supported on bright TFT screen , Mp3 player , 64mb phone memory , additional memory on RSMMC cards up to 1Gb , Infrared port , Gsm Triband 1900/1800/900 mhz , Video wallpapers , 64 chord polyphonic , rotating screen , exterior 256 OLED screen.

No bluetooth , No speakerphone , No mp3 ringtones , CMOS instead of CCD camera , screen seems small , video recorded in MPEG4 instead of 3GP format .