Samsung SGH-X830 review | Camera
Samsung X830 - Camera
Samsung SGH-X830 - Camera
The Samsung X830 is equipped with a 1.3 Megapixel digital camera. The camera's performance is reasonably okay. It is not the best camera in the world but certainly not the worst either. The colour reproduction is bright and lively. There is a small mirror on the back that lets you take self-portraits. It's a matter of trying to find the easiest way of holding the camera when taking pictures. Your fingers might cover the small lens all to easily, or just holding it with your finger tips makes the camera move and create blurred pictures for your grip is not too steady. You can also use the camera to record videos. A flash light however is lacking on the Samsung X830, which is a pity.
Samsung X830 - Interval of release
Samsung SGH-X830 - Interval of release
When starting up the camera, one may hope the subject one wants to capture is not too fast or it will have disappeared before the camera is actually turned on. Once the camera is ready to shoot and when you press the release button it still takes some seconds before the actual picture is taken. Unfortunately the Samsung X830's camera is not the only one with a slow start-up time and a shutter release lag. Even on equipment that is twice as expensive you will encounter these intervals. The technology simply isn't that developed yet to build in super fast image processors and buffers in cameras this size. The first digital cameras also suffered from interval of release but later on technology improved and nowadays capturing pictures have been made possible with hardly any interval.
Samsung X830 - Camera settings
Samsung SGH X830 - Camera settings
The camera of the Samsung SGH-X830 offers nice possibilities to adjust settings to your own preference and to improve pictures. It is possible to adjust the resolution as well as the ISO values and the white balance. The Samsung offers adjusting ISO sensitivity because of lacking a flash. This is very convenient because the light sensitivity gets higher, which improves taking pictures under dim light circumstances and trying to capture moving subjects (the shutter speed improves because of the higher light sensitivity). One disadvantage is that increasing ISO level, also increases digital noise.
Samsung X830 - Editing pictures
Samsung X830 - Transfer pictures
If you possess a Samsung SGH-X830, you have the possibility to make pictures a lot more interesting by using frames and effects. You can add all kinds of nice things to people, like glasses or put them in an Eskimo suit. But you can also place a nice frame around them. There is also the possibility of taking pictures in Black & White or in Sepia. After editing your pictures you can send them to other telephones via MMS or Bluetooth. All in all the Samsung X830 offers really nice functions to make the camera function of the Samsung X830 a lot more interesting.
Samsung X830 - Memory
Samsung SGH-X830 - Memory
The Samsung X830 has an internal memory of one Gigabyte. Not many telephones have been equipped with such a large internal memory so far. Of course this large capacity is meant for the consumer who is planning to use the MP3 function of the telephone to the full extent. Personally I regret the fact that the Samsung X830 doesn't offer the possibility to enhance the memory capacity by means of a microSD or a flash memory card. These cards are not too expensive nowadays, but there is still hope that Samsung will offer this possibility in the successor of the Samsung X830. The MP3 enthusiast will be able to keep a large part of his music collection on the Samsung X830. And of course your entire photo collection will fit on the Samsung X830's internal memory.
Samsung X830 - MP3 Player
Samsung SGH-X830 - MP3 Player
Naturally the Samsung X830 has been equipped with an MP3 Player. Samsung definitely planned to emphasize on the MP3 player. And they did a great job. Because when the Samsung SGH-X830 is closed it doesn't look like a mobile phone at all. Nowadays you see more 'music phones' anyway, for example the W-editions (walkman editions) that Sony Ericsson put in the market. The MP3 player can also be used when the Samsung X830 is still closed. Just keep pressing the jog dial a bit longer than usually and the MP3 player will start up. The sound quality of the delivered head set is fine. The sound quality of the telephone's loud speaker is considerably poorer, but the telephone is extremely small and obviously Samsung had no more room to spare.
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