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REVIEW: Samsung BeatDJ
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Hello, lovelies!
This post is somewhat different from what I usually update (ie random whines and grouses about my life hahaha) and it’s definitely something new, which made me rather excited when I was first informed about it! Hehe.
Much thanks to the good people of 24seven who gave me this opportunity, I had the chance to review the Samsung Beat DJ M7600 for this past week! I was honestly pretty damn excited at the prospect of getting to review a new phone that’s just been launched in the market. Totally sparked off the closet geek in me, heh heh.
The Samsung Beat DJ is a shiny little device marketed as a nifty little media device, with its key feature – the Beat DJ.
Beat DJ is a program included and featured in this mobile that essentially gives you the power to be a DJ spinning records and scratching discs, like on a turntable. Sounds like pretty awesome stuff eh?
There is a playlist of Beat DJ tracks included in the phone, most of which feature an upbeat rhythm easily suited for ‘scratching’ on the phone.
The Beat DJ program is easy enough to figure out, and start scratching away on the tunes. You can also use any track that you put into the phone for scratching. I tried it out with a Worship song and rolled around laughing at how ridiculous it sounded with the ‘scratched’ sounds, hahaha!
You are able to record the musical creations you come up with, as was Samsung’s intention to enable you to create music with this device.
Dawnie tried out the Beat DJ feature when I met her last week.
She was skeptical at first, but this quickly turned into amusement as she discovered yet another feature – there are sound effect, or filters as it is called, that you can add onto your track while you mix the tunes and scratch the disc!
Personally, I think that the Beat DJ is a bold attempt by Samsung to bring something new to mobile phones. It is a novelty feature on the phone that could be fun when you’re with a bunch of friends creating a new track together. It could be my age, but I also felt that this feature is a bit too gimmicky for me on a mobile phone… but heyyyyy I’m young, I swear!
At first glance, I thought the phone’s design resembled a mini PSP, with its two curved ends. As per feedback from the people around me who saw the phone, some liked it and some didn’t.
I think the design is alright, but mostly I like it for it’s sleek size. See how fat my fingers look next to this sleek thing! The Samsung Beat DJ is almost completely a full touch screen phones, with just 3 buttons at the bottom of the device – the answer and hang up bottons, and a back button.
It features a 2.8″ touch screen, which makes it comfortable to watch videos on. The screen is also AMOLED, a fascinating feature for a screen which I first discovered on Pinkie’s MP3 player! This basically means that as long as you can see the screen, you are able to see what’s going on the phone from different angles – convenient for watching videos with a few friends because everyone will be able to see what’s going on!
Watching an episode of “Rules of Engagement” on the go
As with other Samsung phones, they haven’t disappointed with their screen’s resolution, clarity and sharpness. When I first accessed the menu, I suspect I let out a gasp because of the crisp colour that was displayed. Hahaha. I think it’s a decent device to watch videos on.
Aside from the chance to be your own DJ, the Samsung Beat DJ also has another prominent feature – Bang & Olufsen’s ICEpower. It is a technology that is energy efficient whilst amplifying good sound quality. You can read more about it here on Bang & Olufsen.
The speakers on this phone surprised me with its audio quality. They produced loud and crisp sounds, and impressed me because I think most mobile phones have average speakers at best.
The phone has a 3.2 megapixel camera on its back, with auto-focus and a host of other features such as smile recognition and face detection.
With its awesomely sharp screen, the camera was a total disappointment for me. It’s nothing new that I love photography and camwhoring (heh heh) so it was a letdown. The shutter lag is astounding to be totally honest. It resulted in half the photos that I took under various lighting conditions being blur or missing the subject totally because I’d already moved the phone thinking that the photo was already taken. I thought that the camera could have been a lot better to take advantage and to compliment the screen.
Below are some sample photos taken on the phone. They’ve only been resized, and were not edited in any other way.
Dawnie and me!
This was taken in a room with bright white lights.
Pam and myself!
This was taken in the same room as the above photo.
HEEHEE so cute, the poems!!! I burst out laughing when Dawn read it out to me hahaha!
This was taken in McDonald’s at night. The most decent shot I had out of the bunch of test shots I took, actually.
And that’s Pinkie playing “Flight Control” on my iPhone decked in hot pink. Actually, he’s also next to me playing the game over and over obsessively right now!! Pft.
This was taken indoors, with that standing lamp lit, as well as with the curtains drawn with sunlight pouring into the room. Erm.. I kinda forgot to test some shots outdoors in the sun. Sorry! I think it’d work better in bright sunlight though.
The Samsung Beat DJ has points that I both love and hate about it. I adore the resolution of the screen, and the speakers on it. Screen resolution is something important to me, and Samsung clearly didn’t disappoint with this handset. The speakers pleasantly surprised me when I turned them on, and I was rather impressed with it.
I also liked that you could control the intensity of the vibration of the phone – something that I don’t have on my iPhone hehe. I’m not sure if it’s a common feature in other Samsung phones, but kudos to them for thinking it up!
What I didn’t like about this particular handset was the less than average camera, the slight lag when navigating through the phone and also that it couldn’t sync on my Macbook!! *frowns*
While the Beat DJ program is a novelty feature and main selling point of this phone, I think that it is a tad too gimmicky for my liking but I suppose that could be argued that I don’t belong to the Beat DJ’s target audience. Shame, really. I do, however, think that the younger teens would have a field day with this fun feature, driving the people around them up the wall with the constant scratching of tunes everywhere they go! Hehehe.
All in all, I suppose the phone is alright if you are simply looking for something unique to have fun with, and not a device to organise your life. It is not something I would pick out and purchase, because I want a lot more than a novelty feature and good speakers on my handset. After all, this is the closet geek in me speaking heh heh.
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