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Author: cellphone-freebies.com

Description: Features
The 499-contact address book on the SPH-M510 supports five phone numbers, an e-mail address, a Web address, a nickname, and notes. You can save contacts to groups and pair them with a photo and one of 19 polyphonic ringtones for caller ID. Other basics include a vibrate mode, text and multimedia messaging, an alarm clock, a calculator, a calendar, a memo pad, and a world clock. On the higher end, you also get a speakerphone, instant messaging, e-mail, voice commands and dialing, and USB storage. Bluetooth for headsets and file transfers is also on board, though you don't get a stereo profile.

As an EV-DO phone, the SPH-M510 offers full support for Sprint's 3G services. You can connect to Sprint's Power Vision, which includes Sprint TV, movie previews, and programming from channels such as ABC News, MTV Mobile, ESPN, Logo Mobile, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon. If radio is your thing, you also can stream tunes from Sirius Radio, while mobile podcasts are available from Samsung on a broad range of topics. But wait, there's more. The carrier's PowerView service offers additional shows and downloadable content as well as the On Demand service for access to a host of information that includes news headlines, sports scores, and weather updates personalized for your ZIP code.

The SPH-M510's music player is similar to that on Sprint's other music phones. You can access the Spint Music Store for simultaneous downloads both to your PC and wirelessly to your phone. The music player interface is nothing too fancy. Though you get album art, the features are limited to repeat and shuffle modes and you can't use MP3s as ringtones. The airplane mode turns off the phone's calling functions for listening to music while in flight. Samsung includes a 3.5mm headphone adapter in the box. (It's doesn't actually include headphones; rather, it's just a microphone and the proprietary connection for the SPH-M510.)




The SPH-M510's camera doesn't include a flash.

The 1.3-megapixel camera takes pictures in four resolutions, from 1280x160 down to 176x220. Other camera features include three quality settings, brightness and white balance controls, a night mode, a self-timer, four color effects, five frames, a 4x zoom, and four shutter sounds, plus a silent mode. The camcorder records clips with sound and a selection of editing options similar to the still camera's. Clips meant for multimedia messages are capped at 30 seconds, or you can shoot for as long as the available memory will permit. For easy photo printing, the SPH-M510 supports PictBridge technology for transferring images directly to a printer. In our tests, photo quality was quite good. Colors were sharp, object outlines were distinct, and there was enough light.




The SPH-M510's photo quality was impressive.

You can personalize the SPH-M510 with a variety of color themes, screensavers, clock styles, and foreground schemes. Alternatively, you also can type a customized greeting. Gamers get demo versions of five Java (J2ME) titles--Brain Juice, Midnight Pool, Pac-Man, Tetris, and World Series of Poker--but you'll need to purchase the full versions.