Camera Rating:

The adorable Samsung G800 is a superior 3G phone which comes with high quality camera features
The Samsung G800 is a competitor of other 5 megapixel camera focused handsets including the Sony Ericsson K850i & the Nokia N95 which all have 5 megapixel camera but that is whether the similarities end, they are all unique in design & other built in features.
Optical zoom is not new to cameraphones But in Samsung G800 it goes with a five megapixel sensor and a xenon flash, which makes this handset’s camera unmatched, at least in the number of features it offers.. Finally, we have to say that the G800’s greatest market share rival will be Sony Ericsson’s top shelf cameraphone K850. It has the virtually the same specs save for the optical zoom and, in our point of view, the price will play a major role in this duel.
The built in camera lens is situated on the back of the handset & comes with a protective lens cover which covers the lens when it is not in use to avoid damage & scratches occurring on the lens.
The G800’s camera utilizes a pretty much conventional viewfinder screen with no icons displayed by default, but you can always enable them from the menu.
They have made several refreshing touches like the Auto Panorama mode and Face Detection.

Among the amenities is the ability to quickly call up various features with the help of the number pad – the menu, options, video recording, single shot mode, gallery are all just a click away from you. So if you are into snapping everything around you, these shortcuts are incredibly helpful. It is quite another matter, though, that zipping the slider open in this very case is not particularly comfortable – in the Samsung G600 it was essential so as to actually enable the camera, mounted on the inner side of the top slide.
There are three quality settings available: Normal, Fine, SuperFine, using the best possible level seems to be the best way to go – the difference between these settings is quite remarkable, especially if you are going to view snaps on PC
The camera supports the following image resolutions:
• 2560×1920 pixels;
• 1600×1200 pixels;
• 1280×960 pixels;
• 640×480 pixels;
The camera comes with auto focus abilities; however there are no settings for adjusting it. The G800 also packs a new mode – Face Detection, when the camera (obviously) detects someone’s face while shooting (portrait mode) and then it tweaks all parameters to take a better shot. Nevertheless, we didn’t find the shots taken with Face Detection enabled to be any different from the standard mode. The white balance is set to the default option when you open it for the first time, but it can also be managed manually

The G800 comes with x12 zoom (x3 optical and x4 digital). In our opinion, the optical zoom feature it packs doesn’t provide its shots with some sort of a cutting edge, although it will come in handy when you will be shooting not-so-distant objects. See for yourself – there are two shots below, one taken with no zoom, and the other one – with both optical and digital zooms set to the maximum

The camera also allows you to employ various effects while shooting: Negative, Sepia, Grey, Antique, Watercolour. Taking into account the bundled picture editor, which proposes just the same feature pack, “spoiling” the initial photo with effects seems quite pointless.

Multimedia Rating:

The integrated mp3 player, supporting random, sequential and cyclic playback,
The title of the currently played back track is displayed as well as the number of the remaining tracks. No equalizer is embedded in the G800. Your tracks can be played through the stereo headset as well as the speakerphone. The volume bar has 10 scales on it. And of course the user can make up their own playlists. Player can work in minimized mode – in this case the display will show current track title and music controls, which is a good thing.
The player boasts the following filters: all tracks, recently players, most popular, artists, albums, genres and composers.

Armed with 160MB of internal memory and a microSD card slot, the Samsung G800 will probably seem tempting to many as a portable music player. Therefore it is essential that the music player application is really easy to use and well-supplied featurewise.
Speaking of new options, the player has obtained the rating system, enabling you to award any track with one to five stars. The maker has driven the integration with Windows Media Player as deep as it has never been before; actually, this manager also sports the rating system
you can choose to play either the tracks you’ve recently listened to, or the ones that you’ve played the most. If that doesn’t seem enough, you can create your own custom playlists.
A nice innovation here is that when minimized to play in the background, the music player displays the current track in the standby menu. It can than be controlled with the D-pad straight from the standby menu itself.
The player in G800 looks exactly like the one in Samsung U600 and has just the same functionality. In our unit there was no option for either activating an equalizer or turning on the typical Samsung 3D sound effects. This will probably change in the retail version but we are yet to see. At least, track ratings and marking tracks as favorites are available

Audio quality Rating:

In fact, our tests revealed that Samsung G800 performs slightly worse than Samsung U600, Not that it is something that bad - it is still better than most other handsets on the market, we are just surprised that Samsung has lowered the level with such a supposedly high-end phone as G800.

Battery
Standby : 250 Hour
Talk Time : 2.5 Hour
It will running for at least 2 days with average load

Conclusion

We had high hopes for the Samsung G800 and it lived up to them in many ways. It’s an attractive, solid phone that’s easy to use and packs a good camera relative to the competition. But in certain areas we expected more — the xenon flash, for instance, which is more like a very bright LED photo light than the extremely bright xenon flash on the Sony Ericsson K850i.
The G800 is also on the chunky side and if you don’t have large pockets then you may find it a little challenging to drag it around. We found it slightly too big to put in a tight pair of jeans but it should fit in your jacket pocket just fine. Given Samsung’s thin phone pedigree, we expected something a little slimmer

The reception quality put up by the G800 is in line with other Samsung-branded devices. The ringtone volume is quite decent, as it can be heard in various environments. The silent alert is average strength-wise, no significant improvements have been made here.
its real picture quality is pretty much identical to the more affordable Samsung G600. It turns out the only thing going for the G800 is its advertising campaign. But will they be able to get it popular? I don’t think so. While the G800 goes for about as much money as the Nokia N95, the latter sports a number of trumps – that is, WiFi, GPS-receiver and its smartphone functionality with more punch on offer, which makes it not an imaging-centric solution, but a mobile powerhouse.
The main problem with the Samsung G800 is that this device is pretty late to the market,
The Samsung G800 has neither direct nor indirect rivals from other brands, being a mere niche-aimed solution. This phone should end up on your short-list if only you are a man fond of unusual things and don’t want to be “like everyone else”, yet with no particular interest in superb image quality or extra abilities.
Speaking of promising features, there are user-manageable wallpapers available with the G800. But The rest of the feature pack found in this phone is mostly standard Samsung fare. On top of that, some of its abilities have been downgraded when compared to the previous models (no handset-wide search, for example)

Better than Samsung e900
You can now make the phone ring and vibrate at the same time. This is fantastic as I work in a noisy environment.

Features of the Samsung G800 include:

Camera: 5.0 megapixels with autofocus, xenon flash, 3x optical zoom
Video Camera: Video player (MPEG4, H.263, AAC), Video recording (VGA; 640 x 480 pixels)
Display: QVGA TFT, 256k colours, 320 x 240 pixels (2.4 inches)
Music Player: MP3, ACC, ACC+, e-AAC+, WMA formats with FM radio
Java Games
Ringtones: 64-voice polyphonic ringtones, MP3 ringtones
Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, TV-Out
Memory:160 MB user memory, micro SD™ External memory
Messaging: SMS, EMS, MMS, Email
Internet: WAP 2.0, GPRS Class 10, EDGE, HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
Operating Frequency: Triband (GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900) plus 3G
Size: 102 x 52 x 19 mm
Weight: 134g

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