Samsung released its S3850 Corby II feature phone this week in Europe without any fanfare. The phone is a sequel to Samsung Corby which has been enormously successful and incorporates some minor improvements over it.
While the phone further narrows the gap between featurephones and smartphones, it still remains a budget phone with no higher end features.
The Corby II is a touchscreen barphone supporting GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 networks but it does not support 3G.
The Samsung Corby II measures 109.9 x 66.6 x 11.7 mm and weighs 102g. The screen is 3.2" capacitive TFT (making the screen larger than that of Corby) with QVGA resolution (240 x 320 pixels).
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There is 26MB of internal storage and a microSD card slot. It has a fixed-focus 2MP camera which is not much going by the current crop of phones. Corby II supports QVGA video recording @15 fps.
It supports Push Email. It has social networking integration with live updates.
The phone supports WLAN (Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n), Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP, standard microUSB v2.0,and 3.5mm audio jack. The Corby II has FM radio with RDS.
The brilliant colours it comes in make the Samsung S3850 Corby II more attractive to the youth - girls, in particular.
