Slide the lid incision upwards and the apartment lodgings digit pad is revealed. This is large, and cinch sufficiently to use. Opened, the call is a acceptable 135mm tall. Closed, it is 101.5mm lanky and either path it's 52mm wide. As for thickness, Samsung lists that at 18.8mm, on the other hand that doesn't admit the back-mounted camera lens subsume which protrudes from the leading oppose of the phone. Involve the include and by my calculation the G800 measures in at a leading 22mm thick. Weight-wise you are looking at 129g.

It might be burly and heavy, on the contrary the arrangement 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 expo that is potato chip and unclouded with a d-pad and telephone buttons situated at the backside underneath this.

Samsung has already hit the five-megapixel cameraphone stop in Europe with its stylish G600 - reviewed here. The G600 squeezed its camera into a principles frame, nevertheless the G800 has been built from the ground up with the camera as the principal component of the phone. That said, it's extremely equipped with the modern 3G HSDPA connectivity, denotation maximum download and surfing speeds of up to 7.2Mb/s provided your expressive network operator supports it.

Design
For a partnership that's famend for production slim phones such as the U700, the G800 is far from ultra thin. It's about the twin extent as the Nokia N95 and weighs a not-so-pocket-friendly 129g. Looking gone its chunkiness, this is an nice handset with a glossy stop collateral to the LG Illumination 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 retain entirely the alike heavyweight specs - such as built-in GPS and committed classical controls - much whether it does posses that optical hum edge.


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

The model combines the looks of a sharp moving and a digital camera. It has a vast 2.4in, 320 x 240, 262,144-colour demonstrate up front with a clouded and chrome surrounding, while the back sports a effective brushed metal-style finish on plastic...Making calls, the G800 lay in a commendably fine, consistent performance, with clear, top-class sound essence at both ends throughout calls