Samsung Ch@t B3410W

Discontinued
18th February 2010

A WiFi-enabled update of the existing B3410 Corby Plus, the Samsung Ch@t B3410W is yet another phone aimed at users of social networking sites, in an affordable package that should appeal to younger customers.

The Samsung Ch@t comes with a 2.6" 240 x 320 pixel touchscreen display, a slide-out QWERTY keypad, 2 megapixel camera, microSD expandable memory, Bluetooth and USB connectivity. This is a GSM-only device, but the inclusion of WiFi should partly compensate for this.

Social networking support includes Facebook, Flickr, MySpace and others, and usefully the Ch@t's built-in WiFi means that these sites can be accessed without incurring data charges.

It does seem that every phone these days has support for FaceTube and MyTwit or whatever they're called, and the Ch@t doesn't really stand out from the crowd. WiFi is good, but the Ch@t lacks 3G support. The QVGA resolution display might be OK for social networking sites, but it's not much use for web surfing, and two megapixel cameras are frankly out of date. Samsung's TouchWiz interface is pretty good, and their handsets tend to be well built.. but even so it is difficult to get excited about it.

Samsung say that the B3410W does come with a useful amount of internal memory, either 1GB or 2GB depending on specification. It also takes microSD cards up to an additional 16GB.

The B3410W Ch@t is likely to sell on price rather than features, the non-WiFi version can be had for about €150 in the retail channel SIM-free, so we would expect this version to be available for a street price of less than €200.

It's probably worth considering if you just can't tear yourself away from Facebook, but unless you are on a really tight budget then we would suggest that there are many other better handsets available.

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