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Samsung 3G Metro S5350 – Review, Price and Specifications

Samsung has launched the 3G Metro S5350, a phone that offers 3G connectivity. It’s a first Metro phone that is 3G enabled.This phone is only 11.9 mm thick, it offers easy access to nine social networking sites.

It supports GTalk, AIM and Palringo chat, and also has an SNS shortcut toolbar, so users can upload photos and send messages. There is also a 3D sound experience, 3.2 MP camera and Bluetooth 2.1. The phone comes preloaded with Google applications. The Metro 3G is just available for Rs.8250.

Samsung Metro S5350 has 2.2 inches 256K colors TFT screen with 240 x 320 pixels resolution.
With 100 MB internal storage, Metro S5350 has expandable memory up to 16 GB via microSD card. Other features include 1000 entries phone book with photo call, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, Stereo FM radio with RDS,Music player and Document viewer.

Phone has 900 mAh Li-Ion standard battery by which phone has up to 450 hrs standby on 2G and 3G networks and up to 10hrs 30 min on 2G and up to 3hrs 10 min on 3G network.

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LG KS660 Review,Specs and Price

LG KS660 is a 3 inch display mobile phone with support for dual SIM.This mobile has 5 MP camera and 50 MB internal memory.It also has options extension memory card slot.Mobile also has other good options like  Anti-Theft Mobile Tracker,Document viewer for Microsoft office and pdf. It has a simple touch screen with Vitual full QWERTY Keyboard.

Following are the various other specifications of LG KS660

Camera
Camera Module 5 MP CMOS
Camera Hot Key Yes
Size 5M (2560×1920), 3M(2048×1536), 2M(1600×1200),
1M(1280×960), 640×480, 320×240
Colour effect Off, Black & White, Negative, Sepia
Self-timer Off, 3 Sec, 5 Sec, 10 Sec
ISO Auto, ISO800, ISO 400, ISO 200, ISO 100
Quality Super fine, Fine, Normal
Memory Handset memory, External memory
Image stabilization On, Off
Focus On, Off
Shutter Tone Yes
Digital Zoom Yes (4X)
Brightness Adjustment Yes
Image Editing Image Morphing,Colour Swapping,Red-eye reduction,Face beautify,
Colour negative,Sepia Sharpen,Oil painting,Emboss,Vivid,Antique,
Cartoon,Tunnel effect,Black and white,Blur,Mosaic blur,
Sketch,Solarise,Moonlight,Glow,Water color etc
Camera (Movie capture)
Video size 720×480, 640×480, 400×240(W), 320×240, 176×144
Colour effect Off, Black & White, Negative, Sepia
White Balance Auto, Incandescent, Sunny, Fluorescent, Cloudy
Quality Super fine, Fine, Normal
Set time No limit, MMS
File format supported MP4, 3GP
Memory Handset memory, External memory
Voice Mute, Unmute
Digital Zoom Yes (4X)
Recording speed Slow-Motion recording, Normal recording
Brightness Adjustment Yes
Video editor Trim, Video merge, Voice recording, Text overlay, Time scaling,
Dimming effect, Image merge, Audio dubbing, Image overlay
Audio & Animation
MP3 Player Yes
Preset Equalizer No style, Classic, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Concert hall
FM Radio Yes
FM on Speakerphone Yes
Voice Recording Yes (unlimited upto available memory)
Polyphonic tones 72 poly, MP3 ringtone
Memory
Phonebook Memory 1000 (20 Fields)
Message Memory (SMS) 500
Call History 100
Email Inbox 300
Email Accounts 5
Internal Memory Size 51 MB
External memory slot Micro SD upto 4GB
Others
Messaging SMS, MMS, E-Mail
Text Input Method Keypad, Keyboard, Handwriting-Box, Handwriting-Double Box,
Handwriting-Screen
Group SMS Yes ( Up to 100 nos.)
SMS to all Yes ( Up to 100 nos.)
Phone book backup Yes (on Memory Card)
Call Conversation Recording Yes
Drawing Panel Yes
Calendar Yes
Memo Yes
To Do Yes
Backup Schedules & To do Yes
Alarm Yes
Date Finder Yes
World Clock Yes
Unit converter Yes
Calculator Yes
Stop Watch Yes
USB Charging Yes
USB Data transfer Yes
Flight Mode Yes
Document Viewer Yes
Anti-theft Mobile Tracker Yes
NDTV Active Yes
Embedded Games / Applications Just Cricket, Thomsons & Touch, Data Wallet, LG HelpDesk,
NewsHunt, Pipe game, Flying dices, Wheel mania
Phone Suite Yes
General
Form factor Bar
Network EDGE Triband (900/1800/1900)
Dimensions 104.9 x 45 x 15.4 mm
Weight 115g
Screen size pixels 240 x 400, 7.62 cm Full Touch Screen
Display Main TFT 262K Colour
Connectivity
GPRS Yes (Class 12)
EDGE Yes (Class 12)
USB Connectivity Yes (Ver 2.0)
WAP WAP1.x , WAP2.x
JAVA Yes (MIDP 2.0)
Bluetooth Connectivity Bluetooth Connectivity
Battery
Battery : Type / Capacity Li-Ion Inner Pack 950mAh
Talk time Up to 6H 35M
Standby time Up to 288hrs
Accessories
Accessories Battery, Charger, Data CD, Manual, Stereo ear microphone,
USB data Cable, LCD protection film, Stylus pen
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Best Dual Sim Mobile phones in India

When I heard the name of Dual sim mobile phones, I was wondering why would  anyone ever use two sim cards in a phone? But with so many Operators providing many offers on various ways, and with Prepaid connections going lifetime way, it makes sense to have more than one sim card. So here are the best Dual Sim phones available in market.

Samsung C5212 –

Samsung is possibly the only popular brand which is into dual sim phones atleast for timebeing. But Samsung comes with a differentiator, it is also the only brand which allows actual usage of both the Sim at the same time. What I mean by use is “Receiving calls” with the Samsung C5212 even if you are on a call from Sim 1, you have the ability to receive call from Sim 2, you can switch and put one call on hold or decide to ignore it.
Cost – Rs 5500/-

Karbonn K550 –
Karbonn K550 brings in many features in one neat phone, boasting of a 1800mAh battery and music player functionality all with the Dual Sim does makes this phone a irresistable option. You can go for this phone if you are ready to forego on the full featured dual sim capability. When you are on call on one sim, and if someone is trying to reach you they will get a “Subscriber out of coverage area” message, basically your second sim is equivalent to being swithced off when first one is in use.
Cost – Rs 3000/-

Apart from the Karbonn K550 there are quite a few Karbonn Mobiles which compete for the top spot they include Karbonn K330,K440,K10 (QWERTY keyboard) and K661 etc. Check the Karbonn website for more details. All these phones come with 1 year warranty (as with Nokia,Samsung etc).
Karbonn is ajoint venture between UTL a telecom services company and Jaina a popular distribution firm involved with many Multinational Mobile giants. They source their phones from OEM’s in China.

Fly Dual Sim Phones –
Fly is also a new mobile manufacturer similar to Karbonn specialising in Dual sim phones . Fly has a wide portfolio from Music Phones, Windows Smart phones to the QWERTY phones. Notable models include V180 DS, B430 DS (QWERTY) ,Fly IVORY (Touch screen windows), Fly DS 200 etc.

Intex Mobiles –
Intex also is a popular mobile manufacturer in the Dual Sim area they offer quite a number of Dual sim phones which are GSM + GSM and GSM + CDMA area. IN4495 , IN2020E , IN3070 and IN6611 are some popular models. The intex phones are quite good in terms of features and build quality. Intex has been in the Indian market with its computer hardware spares for the last decade (13 years) and it is headquartered at New Delhi.

Micromax Phones –
Micromax is positioned similar to Intex and has specialiased in Wireless technologies in India since 1991. It also offers quality Dual Sim phones.

Videocon and Onida too offer few models in the Dual Sim space. But everyone except Samsung offer Dual Sim Single Active Phones (Only one sim is Active when receiving call)