Features / Performance
The E840 is said to be the slimmest slider phone in the market, although I think the U600 is thinner. Yet for a slim phone, this one is bundled with a lot of goodies. To begin with, the interface is quite fast. I did not experience any lagging while browsing across menus. The look of the UI is quite chic too. However, once the memory card gets loaded, using the phone becomes a pain. I experienced a time lag between songs, while surfing between menus etc.
The phone is a quad-band GSM handset that sports a 2.2-inch QVGA (240x320 pixel) screen, which is easy on the eye. The mirrored front, however, makes the screen reflective. I found the sun reflecting in my eye quite a few times when I brought it out on sunny days.
I haven’t used a lot of Samsung phones in the past, and with this one my main issue was messaging. After every letter, the phone prompts duly with three options. You will need to go and select the matching option every time the phone fails to do so on its own. So you end up running from the down key on the D-pad for selecting letter/word options to the ‘Hash’ key for space. This sucks!!
The phone has an internal memory of 70MB and a hot swap slot of MicroSD cards. I tried my 1GB card and it worked well. The phone supports Bluetooth 2.0 and it paired and transferred data successfully from each and every device. The E840 features the Access NetFront web browser that has a fully functional document viewer for your email attachments and is Java MIDP 2.0 supported.
The phone also supports picture ID, so you can assign an existing picture or click one and attach it to people in your phonebook.
I want to connect my samsung SGH-E840 mobile with PC having operating system windows Vista for internet facility with airtel. the driver pc studio provided with handset is of XP version.hence facing a problem in installation.
