Samsung U700 Vs. Samsung G800: Matching With Excellence

The ongoing rivalry between Samsung U700 vs. Samsung G800 is giving fruitful results for the company as well as the mobile lovers. All the features, be it the camera, music player, web connectivity or data transfer, these handsets are equipped and very efficient at that. The race is on. Let’s see who wins it.

Samsung is a leading mobile manufacturing company and is known for its stylish and innovative handsets. Some of the most popular and ergonomic mobile phones in the market are from Samsung. It has created a clear distinct position in the industry.


The Samsung U700 vs. the G800 is the latest rivalry in terms of selling. These two are the latest and finest addition to the Samsung Ultra Edition phones. The U700 has been bestowed upon with some of the most futuristic applications and features applied in the industry so far. It will entice the users and mobile phone lovers. The handset has an amazing sleek and slim sliding design which attracts the users significantly.


On the other hand, the Samsung G800 is a gorgeous slider phone with a whole new set of features. The phone is studded with a 2.4 inch 262,000 colour TFT display offering a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. The phone comes with a massive phonebook in which you can store large number of contact details.


The highlight of this battle is the imaging functions of these phones. The Samsung U 700 offers stunning images as well as some awesome video recording features. Photo settings and picture editing functions are incorporated within this phone. The handset comes with an expandable memory option that allows the user to expand their in-built 20 MB of memory and store as many as music tracks as you want. The memory support gets a further boost from the add-on MicroSD card. An in-built 3 megapixel camera of U700 helps users to capture and get gorgeously clear still and video images.


The Samsung G800 is served with standard connectivity channels such as 3G HSDPA, Bluetooth A2DP, GPRS, EDGE and USB. The device is sure enough to give others a run for their money.


It depends completely on the users that which handset is best for them. However, Samsung has put its users in a fix by presenting the two models Samsung U700 and G800. Both compete to each other for the superiority and excellence. These phones are meant for both tech-savvy as well as entertainment lovers and they will enjoy using it.

Samsung G800 Review - a Heavyweight Contender

The Samsung G800 is one of the main handsets which I’ve been looking forward to scrutinising since its announcement. Obviously the main attraction (and marketing angle) is it being the first of the 5 Mega Pixel cameraphones to come with optical zoom, but obviously that doesn’t even cover half the story. Much in the same vein as the U600/U700 set; the G800 is the upgrade to the G600 and adds 3G into the list of features (amongst other things.)

The first thing to focus on is the dimensions of the G800 when compared with the G600. Frankly, there is no comparison to be made as where the G600 is sleek and compact, the G800 goes in a different direction and tips the scales at a whopping 134 grams, exceeding its predecessor by 30 grams. It’s also thicker though not quite as much as I was expecting, with the G800 at 18.9mm thick, only 3.9mm thicker than the G600. Overall the construction is actually very good; the slider is solid and everything else feels relatively secure, though for something that weighs this much, I would expect that.

A little concerning is the fact that extremely glossy materials have been used all over the G800, resulting in fingerprint marks becoming very prominent. Mind you, this issue pales in significance when seeing what the use of overly-glossy materials does to the display. In the G600, (a phone I have owned for a few months now) the display quality was excellent and also included a light sensor so that it could cope with all kinds of lighting variants. The G800 seems to me like a step backwards as the legibility when under any form of light is practically zero.

In keeping with the negative stance, the User Interface (UI) is much more basic than I expected. It has some similarities with the UI seen on the G600, but the fact is the G800’s reputedly inferior brother has a more advanced version and does a much better job.

The main attraction of the G800 will obviously be the camera with its 3X Optical Zoom, but when put to the test against various other similarly spec’d devices, including the G600 the results were a little startling. Considering the G800 is meant to be Samsung’s premier cameraphone, I was surprised to see that the G600 seems to develop equal or better images around 75% of all the time.

In conclusion, the G800’s bad points do let it down quite severely. The difficulty involved in reading the screen when under bright sunlight is sure to irritate many and the weight issue is enough to make the G800 classifiable as a dangerous weapon. Though this is probably down to the mechanics needed for the Optical Zoom feature, its lack of effectiveness doesn’t really warrant its inclusion or the detrimental effect it has.

The Samsung G800 is by no means a bad phone; it’s just the fact that it isn’t anywhere near as good as it could have been. Considering what it had to build on with the G600’s undoubted success, the fact that the ‘less powerful’ handset eclipses it on so many key factors means that it cannot be classed as anything other than a disappointment.

the Samsung G800 is available on a wide-range of mobile phone offers with various networks.