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Would you like your cell phone to be a cell phone (of course), a portable camera, a web browser, an e-mail client, a document viewer, a music player, and a fashion statement all rolled into one compact unit? If that's what you want then the new Samsung SGH-i300x Cell Phone is tailor made for you. It's a tri-band GSM phone with support for GPRS as well. The i300x (with a 4GB hard disk) is actually an update to the older i300 model (with a 3GB hard disk).

This cute looking phone comes with a bright 240x320 262,144-colour TFT (QVGA) display, 64MB of flash memory, and a spacious 4GB hard drive inside. As Samsung puts it, "Save your work, your music and your memories and if you run out of space, you can capture the rest of your life on the hard drive." If that's not enough, there's a MicroSD expansion slot as well. The included 1.3 megapixel camera should take care of your on-the-spot photography needs.

The SGH i300x measures 113 x 48 x 20 mm and weighs 121 grams. The standard 1000 mAh Li-ion battery is good enough for a talk time of 4 hours and a standby time of up to 130 hours. Upgrade to a 1700 mAh one and you push these values up to 7 hours and 200 hours respectively. Connectivity options include ActiveSync, Bluetooth, WAP 2.0, USB, SyncML, and IrDA - but NO Wi-Fi and NO UMTS.

The phone runs on Windows Mobile OS for smartphones (which version is yet to be announced). So you have some pretty useful applications like a Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe PDF etc.), File manager, and other PIM applications. The i300x is SAR certified. The highest SAR value for this model phone was 0.742 W/kg.