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Samsung Genio Qwerty B3210
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| Camera sensor | 2 MP | ||
| Weight | 98 grammes | ||
| Dimensions (mm) | 111 x 59.5 x 12.9 mm | ||
| Talk Time | 5.5 hrs | ||
| Standby Time | 380 hrs | ||
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| Internal Memory | 40 MB |
| Memory Card | microSD |
| SAR Level | 0.553 W/kg |
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Tristan François
Test date: April 27, 2010
Test date: April 27, 2010
The Genio Qwerty as a phone
You'll have no real problems talking on this phone. Even though it's not the best mobile on the market, it's fine for chatting and making calls.
Web browsing could be better, mostly due to 2.5G connectivity. Thankfully, integrated social networking widgets for all the main sites means you won't have to use the browser too often. The Genio Qwerty is sufficient for updating your status or sending an SMS.
The contacts system is basic and perhaps a little over-simplified. Then again, given the target age of most users of this phone, it's unlikely their contacts will have three phone numbers and four e-mail addresses.
Web browsing could be better, mostly due to 2.5G connectivity. Thankfully, integrated social networking widgets for all the main sites means you won't have to use the browser too often. The Genio Qwerty is sufficient for updating your status or sending an SMS.
The contacts system is basic and perhaps a little over-simplified. Then again, given the target age of most users of this phone, it's unlikely their contacts will have three phone numbers and four e-mail addresses.
Samsung is extending its Genio range with two new full-keyboard mobiles: the Genio Pro slider phone and the Genio Qwerty with a BlackBerry-style keyboard. As the name suggests, the Pro has more advanced features like 3G/3G+ connectivity and push mail. The Genio Qwerty, on the other hand, is a more basic mobile that's essentially a different take on the Genio Touch.
Like the Genio Touch, the Genio Qwerty has brightly coloured interchangeable covers that are slightly soft to stop them breaking if you happen to drop the phone. It features 2G/2.5G connectivity, and the screen has been downsized to 2 inches (diagonal) to help make way for the keyboard without increasing the phone's overall size.
The Genio Qwerty has selected multimedia features with a perfectly good MP3 player and an RDS FM radio but no video playback.
The main attraction of this phone is its BlackBerry-style keyboard. If you read our articles often, you'll know that lots of us here at DigitalVersus are big fans of the full keyboard, and even some of our die-hard touch-screen converts admit they have their advantages. However, we're not entirely convinced by the Genio Qwerty's keyboard. To keep the phone small, the keyboard seems to have been squashed together, and as a result, it's impossible to type accurately. Typos abound no matter how careful you are, and the spellchecker is much less effective of those found in better-quality smartphones.
That said, I still think the keyboard will still save you time compared with a regular alphanumeric keypad and, thankfully, direct integration of social networking widgets for sites like Facebook and Myspace means you won't have to use the web browser too often.
The Genio Qwerty is a good phone for younger users looking for an affordable mobile they'll mainly use for sending text messages and social networking.
Pluses
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Full QWERTY keyboard
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Standard audio output / RDS FM radio
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Responsive
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Simplified access to social networking sites
Minuses
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Not the best for photo and video
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Keyboard too small
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Less impressive than a genuine smartphone
Although the Genio Qwerty has a full keyboard, it's no major improvement on the original Genio Touch. Young web-addicts would probably prefer the Genio Pro, which notably features 3G connectivity.
