Samsung SGH-u600
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The Samsung SGH-U600 is a mobile phone
manufactured in Korea
by Samsung
and is part of the Ultra Edition II series of Samsung phones. It is one of the slimmest Samsung phones to date with a slimness of 10.9 mm, behind the SGH-E840 at 10.6 mm. One of its main features are the call and select buttons, which do not need to be pressed and function in a similar manner to a touch screen.
Settings are available which allow for the phone to stay unlocked when closed. This is also the first Samsung phone that provides the availability to use MP3 files as SMS message tones.
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Mencoder
can also be used with this command line to convert file inputName.flv (or any other video type) to outputName.mp4:
While recording you cannot pause the video in this phone. The output framerate of the video is 8 frame/s.
Mobile phone
A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
manufactured in Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
by Samsung
Samsung
The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea...
and is part of the Ultra Edition II series of Samsung phones. It is one of the slimmest Samsung phones to date with a slimness of 10.9 mm, behind the SGH-E840 at 10.6 mm. One of its main features are the call and select buttons, which do not need to be pressed and function in a similar manner to a touch screen.
Features
The phone has features including:- 85 MHz Processor
- 2.4" TFT Screen
- Quad-band capabilities, allowing it to be used as a mobile phone on all major GSMGlobal System for Mobile CommunicationsGSM , is a standard set developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to describe technologies for second generation digital cellular networks...
networks across the globe - Touchpad
- Built in hands-free function
- Built in BluetoothBluetoothBluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...
wireless technology - Custom animated backgrounds (varies with country of sale) known as uGo. For example- when you are in ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, the background will turn into Arc de TriompheArc de Triomphe-The design:The astylar design is by Jean Chalgrin , in the Neoclassical version of ancient Roman architecture . Major academic sculptors of France are represented in the sculpture of the Arc de Triomphe: Jean-Pierre Cortot; François Rude; Antoine Étex; James Pradier and Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire...
etc. ; When its daytime, the picture will be in daylight and vice versa. - Memory card slot for optional MicroSD memory card up to 2GB
- 60 MB internal memory
- MP3 Ringtones*
- Speakerphone
- Digital audio player with MP3MP3MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
and AACAdvanced Audio CodingAdvanced Audio Coding is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates....
/AAC+ playback - 3.2 megapixel digital cameraDigital cameraA digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images via an electronic image sensor. It is the main device used in the field of digital photography...
with an integrated LEDLight-emitting diodeA light-emitting diode is a semiconductor light source. LEDs are used as indicator lamps in many devices and are increasingly used for other lighting...
flash, autofocus, and the ability to perform basic image editing functions - MPEG-4MPEG-4MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual digital data. It was introduced in late 1998 and designated a standard for a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology agreed upon by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group under the formal standard ISO/IEC...
video recording/playback (3gp also supported) - Java games
- Alarm clock with infinite configurable alarms
- Calendar
- Calculator
- FM Radio (Headphones must be used)
- Smart Search
- World Clock
- Converter for Currency, Length, Weight, Volume, Area and Temperature
- Timer
- Stopwatch
- Offline mode (Flight mode)
- A shortcut to the WAP Google/Yahoo page from the main menu. On some versions (depending on country/firmware) this icon is replaced with a BluetoothBluetoothBluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...
icon. Built-in internet browser Access NetFront 3.2. - The Samsung U600 Vibe (U600i) offers HAPTIC technology which is basically a small vibration whenever one of the touch sensitive keys are tapped
- Black * White UI with the Samsung technology uPlus/uTrack/uMenu interface
Slider settings
The slider can be configured to accept and close calls, as well as to close all open applications (except the MP3 player when settings are set properly). (These are the only settings).Settings are available which allow for the phone to stay unlocked when closed. This is also the first Samsung phone that provides the availability to use MP3 files as SMS message tones.
Mp3 ringtones
In some firmware versions, the first 1.5 seconds (approx.) of an mp3 ringtone is cut off. This can be circumvented by inserting 1.5 seconds of silence in the beginning of the audio file, using a digital audio editorDigital audio editor
A digital audio editor is a computer application for audio editing, i.e. manipulating digital audio. Digital audio editors are the main software component of a digital audio workstation.-For use with music:...
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Video playback and conversion
Full length movies can be converted by using Samsung Pc studio which comes with the phone or Internet video converter which is a free video converter.Mencoder
MEncoder
MEncoder is a free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool released under the GNU General Public License. It is a close sibling to MPlayer and can convert all the formats that MPlayer understands into a variety of compressed and uncompressed formats using different codecs.MEncoder...
can also be used with this command line to convert file inputName.flv (or any other video type) to outputName.mp4:
mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of lavf -lavcopts aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac:vbitrate=256:abitrate=64 -lavfopts format=mp4 -ofps 15 -vf scale=320:240,harddup -o outputName.mp4 inputName.flv While recording you cannot pause the video in this phone. The output framerate of the video is 8 frame/s.