Updated 15 Feb, 2012, 10:46 am IST

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Samsung SGH-i450

15 Apr, 2008, 4:00 pm IST | Laiq Qureshi | Mobile phones

Features and Performance
As I mentioned earlier, the i450 runs on Symbian 60 series version 3.1. It's remarkably like most Nokia phones (with the same OS), with minor personalization. The UI is non-complex, and the fact that the phone is fast helps considerably.

The 2.4-inch screen boasts 240 x 320 pixels and isn't very reflective. Of course, under bright sunshine you will be staring at yourself most of the times, so avoid doing it. The phone has 40MB of built-in memory, which can be extended using microSD cards.

There's very little to thrash the phone, as it does what it's meant to do. The i450 is a quad-band phone that supports 3G (no use here). I would have liked to see Wi-Fi, but had to settle for GPRS and EDGE. The inbuilt browser is cool, but no multiple pages. The phone supports many third party applications, courtesy S60.

The i450 comes loaded with Real Player for videos and also a Flash player, but what I like is that Samsung has also bundled support for Word, Excel and Powerpoint.

Now to quirk number two: the downward slide. It so happens that you can activate the music player by simply sliding down, but you cannot use the speakers while talking to someone. Every time I tried it the call got cut and the music player started instead!

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