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Samsung Corby Mate B3310
Prasad Naik, Jan 18, 2010 1415 hrs ISTYou'll enjoy the messaging experience on this one
Compact design, full QWERTY keypad, decent display quality, simple and fast interface, Bluetooth v2.1, expandable memory, good audio quality, well-priced
Keypad takes time some getting used to, bright colour schemes may not appeal to all, memory card slot under battery, no 3.5mm headphone jack
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The phone runs on Samsung's proprietary operating system found on their low-end non-touchscreen phones. The interface design is pretty decent and is fairly well-known by now.
On the Corby Mate you get the option of three themes, two of which are fairly standard and the one I particularly liked is of a person's hand on the screen showing the wrist watch and the current time being displayed on the watch.
You also get the option of three fonts for the interface. Two of which are pretty basic but one is a bit more stylized and more in tune with the overall theme of the phone. 
A new home screen mode allows you to have a row of icons on the screen for quick access. You select them from a preset list and then access them on the home screen by scrolling through them.
In the Corby Mate the entire interface supports both portrait and landscape modes. You can just slide the phone open in any screen and the interface flips instantly. If you open the phone in the home screen the phone automatically launches the message editor.
Unfortunately, the only place where the interface does not rotate is in Java applications. The applications continue to remain in portrait mode, which means if you want to type something in them, then you have to crane your neck around to see the rotated text.
The interface speed on the Corby Mate is commendable. Never does the phone feel sluggish and the interface is always zippy.
The Corby Mate comes with links to some of the popular social networking sites and others such as Flickr, etc. But these are not applications but merely bookmarks that are launched in the default web browser. 
The web browser on the Corby Mate is the Access NetFront. The browser is pretty decent and works well, but unfortunately is handicapped by the limited amount of memory on the phone. Even pages with slightly high amount of text or images do not load properly and the phone displays "Out of Memory" messages. This limits the usage of the browser to just mobile optimized sites, which work well. For someone who just uses the browser to visit social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter, the browser functionality is perfectly fine. For more complicated websites, you might want to install Opera Mini. Do bear in mind though the aforementioned problem of the lack of landscape mode in Java applications.
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