Samsung J400 (SGH-J400)
Discontinued 22nd January 2008
A familiar looking handset from Samsung,
the SGH-J400 is based closely on a design that
Samsung have used all the way back to the Samsung
E700, and cropping up again last year in the Samsung
M300.
This particular Samsung clamshell is
a pretty basic 3G phone which is presumably being aimed
at the value end of the market. There's a 1.3 megapixel
primary camera, a secondary video calling camera, a
176x220 pixel internal display in 262,000 colours plus
a small 96x96 pixel monochrome display on the outside, Bluetooth
2.0, USB 2.0, microSD expandable memory and the SGH-J400
also has a multimedia player, web browser and email
client.
There's
nothing really special about this phone, in fact it
has been a long time since we've seen anything quite
this basic in the 3G market. The specification is not
much different from the three-year-old Samsung
Z500, so we can assume that the key selling point
of the Samsung J400 is going to be cheapness.
It is a nice looking phone though, although
if you only have a 1.3 megapixel camera, it's probably
not worth mentioning it on the case as some of the publicity
shots show.
At 101 grams, the SGH-J400 is pretty
typical for a 3G device, although we have seen better
specified phones that are much lighter. Talktime is
quoted as 3 hours with up to 10 days standby time.
Samsung say that there are two colour
schemes - "Luxury Brown" (which has sand
coloured highlights) and Noble Black (which is actually
grey). We have seen a third colour, an attractive
black/steel blue combination (left) that may also be
available in some regions.
There's no word on pricing or availability,
but from the looks of things, the Samsung J400 should
be in the shops during Q1 2008.
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Samsung
J400 (SGH-J400) at a glance
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Available:
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Q1
2008
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Network:
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GSM
900/1800/1900 + UMTS 2100
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Data:
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GPRS
+ EDGE + UMTS (3G)
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Screen:
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176x220
pixels, 262k colours
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Camera:
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1.3
megapixels
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Size:
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Medium
clamshell 99 x 50 x 16mm
/ 101 grams
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Bluetooth:
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Yes
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Memory
card:
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microSD
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Infra-red:
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No
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Polyphonic:
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Yes
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Java:
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Yes
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Battery
life:
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3 hours talk / 10 days standby
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