Samsung C3510 Genoa Review

The Samsung C3510 Genoa is a cheaper version of the Samsung S3650. Most of the Samsung C3510 Genoa’s hardware specifications are almost the same as the Samsung S3650. The Samsung C3510 is also known as the “Corby Pop” being included in the colorful Corby/ Genio range.

The Corby Pop’s market targets the young people and young adults through its form and specifications. One of the most obvious characteristics of the Samsung C3510 Genoa is its oval shaped with a slightly rounded look that is totally different from the other touch screen phones in rectangular and edgier forms.

The Corby Pop is lighter than most of its contemporaries. It only weighs a little over 92 grams, unlike the other phones of its kind weighing over 100 grams. One reason may be that the Corby Pop is compact at 104 x 55 x 13 mm dimension.

The C3510 Genoa has a 2.8 inches TFT touch screens. Its resolution is at 240 x 320 which could accommodate up to 256,000 colors with cartoon UI. It also has Samsung Smart Unlock Feature which enables the phone to unlock by tracing a certain letter on the screen.

One of the more important features of this phone is its audio quality. The audio quality is rated as good to excellent by most users because this phone model supports the DNSe or Digital Natural Sound Engine.

Because it is a phone for the outgoing ones, it includes a 3.5 mm audio jack for the headset. Different music and audio file formats can be played by the Corby Pop. WMA, MP3 and AAC formats are supported. In addition, H 263, H264 and MP4 video files are also supported by its media player. The Samsung C3510 Genoa also has FM radio with RDS support and an FM recorder.

The internal memory may be low at 30 MB compared to other similar phones. However, there is a slot that supports micro SD memory card for the card with up to 8GB storage.

Because it is a phone for the younger generation, the C3510 Genoa is capable of messaging and able to support social networking that is integrated which means live updates from the social networking sites are sent to the device, real time. Web browsing uses WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML.

The Samsung C3510 Genoa has Bluetooth 2.1 which supports A2DP transmission for stereo Bluetooth. Corby Pop is also MMS capable. Additional features are organizer, voice memo and T9.

The Samsung C5310 Genoa has its weakest points in the imaging features. The phone only has an integrated camera with only 1.3 mega pixels resolution or 1280 x 1024 pixels. Quality of photos is not good. The camera though, is capable of video recording at only 15 fps with QCIF resolution.

Connectivity for the C3510 Genoa is also weaker than similar phones. GPRS (32-48 kbps) and EDGE (236.8 kbps) are limited to Class 10. There is also no 3G or HSDPA in Corby Pop.

Most of these disadvantages are brought over by the fact that Samsung has made C3510 Genoa cheaper.