Samsung L700 review

Samsung L700 review: Cool as Metal
Samsung L700 is a lower midrange fella and its main selling points are solid construction, metal body and fast 3G speeds. Before you frown at the shortish specs list do remember that it's not aiming high. It's set instead to address a chronic shortage of style in this price range.

We are yet to see what kind of difference Samsung L700 will make, but you can bet it's going to be a tough fight against some pretty popular handsets there already. When we pick cell phones to review we rarely go down to this market segment, but our experience tells us the L700 will probably win its share of content customers.

While certainly not the hottest looker there is, we rarely see such commendable build quality and freehanded use of metal in the competition. We hit the pedal to the metal without much further ado to see how the L700 handles the race track.
Key features

* Metallic body and solid construction
* Quad-band GSM support plus GPRS and EDGE
* UMTS 2100Mhz with video calls
* 2.1" display with a resolution of 176 x 220 pixels
* 2 megapixel fixed focus camera with LED flash
* microSD card slot (up to 8GB)
* Stereo Bluetooth (A2DP)
* FM radio with RDS
* Office document viewer
* Smart dialing
* ShoZu integration (direct image and video uploads)
* Basic Google integration

Main disadvantages

* Relatively low display resolution
* Trimmed down user interface as compared to Samsung seniors
* Video recording tops out at QCIF resolution
* Poor web browser