Slide the lid divide upwards and the apartment lodgings quantity pad is revealed. This is large, and manageable sufficiently to use. Opened, the telephone is a fair 135mm tall. Closed, it is 101.5mm lanky and either behaviour it's 52mm wide. As for thickness, Samsung lists that at 18.8mm, on the other hand that doesn't contain the back-mounted camera lens contain which protrudes from the leading object of the phone. Encompass the insert and by my calculation the G800 measures in at a relevant 22mm thick. Weight-wise you are looking at 129g.

It might be ample and heavy, however the chart is stylish with a brushed metal finish. The front of the handset is dominated by 2.4-inch 262K hue 320 x 240 pixel QVGA show that is potato chip and free of charge with a d-pad and bell buttons situated at the backside underneath this.

Samsung has already hit the five-megapixel cameraphone end in Europe with its stylish G600 - reviewed here. The G600 squeezed its camera into a guideline frame, on the contrary the G800 has been built from the ground up with the camera as the pivotal component of the phone. That said, it's again equipped with the original 3G HSDPA connectivity, sense maximum download and surfing speeds of up to 7.2Mb/s provided your walking network operator supports it.

Design
For a collection that's famend for production slim phones such as the U700, the G800 is far from ultra thin. It's about the identical immensity as the Nokia N95 and weighs a not-so-pocket-friendly 129g. Looking bygone its chunkiness, this is an pretty handset with a glossy stop congruous to the LG Glowing and a reassuring solid casing fabricated up of metal and plastic.

While the bulk-factor hasn't stopped the N95 hitting the bestseller list, the G800 doesn't compass just the equivalent heavyweight specs - such as built-in GPS and committed heavy metal controls - yet whether it does corner that optical flash edge.


Features
In terms of features, the Samsung G800 in truth takes Samsung's camera ring portfolio to a latest level. Combining a 5-megapixel sensor, Xenon flash, autofocus, LED focus-assist light, 3x optical (inner) zoom, figure stabilization (digital) and red-eye reduction, it's impressively fast on paper to a standalone digital camera.

The draw combines the looks of a sharp moving and a digital camera. It has a exorbitant 2.4in, 320 x 240, 262,144-colour affectation up front with a brunet and chrome surrounding, while the back sports a bold brushed metal-style finish on plastic...Making calls, the G800 deposit in a commendably fine, consistent performance, with clear, top-class sound superiority at both ends throughout calls