Samsung Monte

Samsung's touchscreen mobile phone onslaught shows no sign on stopping, with the Monte arriving on the heels of theSamsung Genio Touch, Genio Slide and Galaxy Portal.

Built around a 3-inch 240 x 400 (WQVGA) touchscreen, the Monte uses Samsung's TouchWiz interface, and that means it has a focus on widgets.

The Monte is pre-loaded with widgets for several social networks, YouTube and BBC iPlayer access, and shortcuts to phone functions and apps.

A physical keyboard is completely eschewed here, in favour of a soft keyboard on the touchscreen. It has haptic feedback, giving a small vibration when you press certain buttons.

GENERAL

2G Network 

GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network

HSDPA 900 / 2100

Announced 

2010, February

Status Available.

 Released 2010, March

SIZE

Dimensions

108.8 x 53.7 x 12.4 mm

Weight 

92 g

DISPLAY

Type 

TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors

Size

240 x 400 pixels, 3.0 inches

- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate

- TouchWiz UI 2.0 Plus

- Turn to mute

- Smart unlock

SOUND Alert types Vibration, MP3 ringtones

Loudspeaker 

Yes

3.5mm jack Yes, check quality

- DNSe (Digital Natural Sound Engine)

MEMORY

Phonebook

2000 contacts, Photocall

Call records 

Yes

Internal 

200 MB

Card slot 

microSD, up to 16GB, buy memory

DATA 

GPRS 

Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps

EDGE

Class 10, 236.8 kbps

3G 

HSDPA 3.6 Mbps

WLAN

Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g

Bluetooth

Yes, v2.1 with A2DP

Infrared port 

No

USB 

Yes, microUSB v2.0

CAMERA

Primary

3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, check quality

Features

Geo-tagging, smile detection

Video

Yes, QVGA@15fps

Secondary 

Yes, CIF

FEATURES 

Messaging 

SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, Palringo IM

Browser 

WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML

Radio

Stereo FM radio with RDS; FM recording

Games

Yes + downloadable

Colors

Black

GPS 

Yes, with A-GPS support

Java 

Yes, MIDP 2.0

- Social networking integration with live updates

- Google Maps 3.0

- Image editor

- MP3/WMA/eAAC+ player

- MP4/H.263/H.264 player

- Organizer

- Voice memo

- Predictive text input

BATTERY

Standard battery, Li-Ion 1000 mAh

Stand-by

Up to 760 h (2G) / Up to 450 h (3G)

Talk time 

Up to 9 h 40 min (2G) / Up to 4 h 50 min (3G)

(price in nepal -- Rs 13300)

(prices may vary)**