Samsung Monte S5620 is an affordable & feature-rich phone

The Samsung Monte S5620 is a performance based phone which can boast of features laid out in latest kind of smartphones and yet available at an affordable price. Its highlight is its Wi-Fi, 3G & GPS support, swift and responsive TouchWiz UI & OS and sturdy battery. Call quality on the S5620 is also quite clear. It lacks a virtual QWERTY keyboard and its plastic make makes its design a compromised one, besides attracting dust and fingerprint impressions.There are no embedded games, but JAVA games may be downloaded for free.



Three homescreens allow customization with widgets and shortcuts. Its 3-inch screen with a resolution of 240x400 px gives a color output of 256K. The body is slim, colourful and sharp. The Monte also has a 3.15MP camera but with no auto-focus and flash. Its a bit disappointing. You can shoot in panorama mode but taking close-ups is a bit lousy. The Monte comes with 200MB of internal memory and a microSD card slot that supports cards up to 16GB.

The browsing on Samsung Monte’s default browser is easy and lets you manage bookmarks but can’t render full web-pages very well. The Monte has a powerful FM receiver complemented by a very good interface. Auto-scanning for stations happened very quickly and the phone manages to hold on to FM reception well. To top it off, the radio’s interface is easy to navigate and manipulate.

The Samsung Monte S5620 price is Rs. 9,300 which is quite affordable as it also facilitates users with hell lot of advanced connectivity features.It performs well and thus, it satisfies its customers via a perfect balance maintained in terms of performance, features, looks and price.