Samsung Beat-SGH-T539 cell phone review - At a Glance (by Noah Kravitz)

Samsung Beat-SGH-T539 Review - At a Glance

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At a Glance

Editor Rating:

3.8

Styling: 3

Ease of Use: 4

Display: 3

Voice Quality: 5

Battery Life: 5

Quality/Durability: 3

What’s Good: Compact, solid flip phone with front-mounted music controls/speaker, stereo Bluetooth support and straightforward music player; Includes 1GB memory card; Good IM support; Inexpensive.

What’s Not Good: Signal strength issues; Low-res display and less-than-pretty UI; Wired headphones require use of proprietary adapter.

Bottom Line: Beat is a simple flip with a pretty good music player and low price tag. The phone’s design didn’t do much for me, and the display is low-res, but for a basic phone with music player, Beat’s not bad. Just make sure you can get good reception with it where you live and work.

Specs:

Make/Model: Samsung Beat (SGH-T539)
Network: GSM Quad-Band
Data: EDGE (2.5G)
Carrier: T-Mobile USA (Locked)
Size: 90 x 46 x 17.8 mm
Weight: 77 g
Form Factor: Clamshell
Display: (Main) Color LCD, 128 x 160 Resolution, 65,000 Colors; (External) Color LCD, 96 x 96 Resolution
Memory: 18 MB built-in, microSD card slot, 1 GB microSD card included
Notable Features: Music player with background play and equalizer; Front-mounted music controls and speaker; myFaves support; AOL, Yahoo, and ICQ Instant Messaging support

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