Wow!! This really is a colorful mobile phone from Samsung.You can choose skin color from one among White(Minimal White), Pink(Cupid Pink), Yellow(Jamaican Yellow) and Orange(Festive Orange). Infact you can change the skin colors by just changing the cover. You will get 3 fashion jackets (fashion jacket= cover) . So switch them and have a new phone everyday.
This is an all touch mobile phone from Samsung designed specially for the youth.
What's more, this has widgets which will enable you to be connected to your facebook, twitter , Orkut and Myspace all the time. All you Social networking freeks, go get your hands on this cute mobile. This also has a widget for Youtube, Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket etc.
Features
Camera:
Corby S3653 and S3650 has a 2MP camera with Smile Detection. Video QVGA @15 fps
Battery life
A reallllllllllllyyyy loooooooooooong battery life as compared to other models from Samsung .
The battery life of Corby is as follows.
Corby S3653
Standby: Upto 500 hrs
Talk time : Upto 3 hr 40 min
Corby s3650
Standby : Upto 720 hrs
Talk time : Upto 9hrs
User comments have been pretty good on battery life category . So one need not worry about the battery life while buying this mobile.
Touch Screen
Touch screen in Corby is pretty cool. It has a smart unlock system which prevents the activation of mobile by accidental touches. It makes you write a letter say "S" on the screen to unlock it.
It has "One finger Zoom". Which means if you need to zoom in to something , put a finger and drag on the screen to zoom in or out. (Pretty cool eh)
Music
Has stereo FM radio with RDS. Playes music formats WMA,mp3 and Video formats WMV,MP4
It has a special feature called "Find Music" which will let you record a clip of music and automatically searches song's title and artist.
Applications
As mentioned above has widgets for Youtube, Picasa, Photobucket, Orkut, Facebook, Twitter etc
It has 27 preinstalled widgets and 75 downloadable widgets taking the total count of widgets to 102
Connectivity
Present
EDGE - Class 10,236.8 kbps
Bluetooth- v2.1 with A2DP
USB - v2.0
GPRS- Class 10, 32-48 kbps
Absent
3G
WLAN
Infrared
Price
Samsung Corby s3653 is priced at
Rs.8200 at Sangeetha Store
Rs 7981 at Univercell
Rs8039 at TheMobileStore (But may vary according to the city you reside in).
The prices indicated above were as on date 11th November 2009.(Pls suggest any other stores so that I can put their prices too)
s3650 is priced above Rs10,000 ( I am still searching for accurate value and the store where you guys can buy, if anyone of u know pls let me know)
Disadvantages
1. Camera has no flash
2. No 3G ( Well, most of us dont use it in India, for those who use its a disadvantage)
3. Standard Connectivity Port is not used . Its Samsung Proprietary.
Voting Results
GSM Arena :
S3650/s3653
Design: 7.7/10
Features: 7.4/10
Performance: 7.3/10
OFFICIAL SAMSUNG CORBY WEBSITE
Basically when you are out in a mobile phone shop to buy this mobile have clear idea whether you want to buy a s3650 or a s3653 . Even though there is not much difference between the two the key factors are Battery life and the price.
