Samsung really appears to have a thing for slider phones. The company keeps on producing them, and the G600 is the latest Samsung mobile phone to feature the slider design. But is there any real point to yet another model like this?
What the Samsung G600 has going for it is its camera. To all intents and purposes it’s almost like a digital camera with a phone attached. It might be only five megapixels, but the shots are crisp and clean, and it comes with autofocus built in, as well as 4x digital zoom and plenty of options for changing settings, including panorama mode for those stunning landscape shots and an assortment of macros. Photo editing software on the camera allows the user to make changes to the pictures taken.
That’s all great, and it turns the Samsung G600 into a very good camera phone, even if something like eight megapixels would have made it outstanding. Beyond that, though, there’s certainly nothing to make the G600 stand out from the crowd. There are no special features, no GPS, no Wi-Fi – there’s not even 3G, so uploading pictures directly from the phone would be a slow, tortuous process.
So yes, it takes good pictures, and you can edit them handily on the phone before loading them onto your computer. There are other phones that accomplish exactly the same thing and come with more features. That makes it very hard to recommend this. Other than the camera, it’s just another in the slider pack.
