Samsung S5690 Xcover - big endurance

Well, the tittle told you everything. Samsung created model for people who live very fast, adventurists or fans of extreme sports, combining two extreme elements into one device. First element is sophisticated Android OS, and the second is casing of the phone, with huge endurance to outside conditions. The leader in this section is Nokia with numerous models, then Motorola with new Defy models. It looks like Samsung is trying to follow the race...

Samsung S5690 Xcover is made of high quality plastic, which Samsung get certificate IP67 which guarantee water resistance 5m depth for half hour, dirt and hits. Dimensions are 122 x 66 x 12 mm, with 116gr and it fits in the hand perfectly. We can say that Samsung Xcover s5690 has smooth design, compared to other models who have high level of resistance. Back side cover is connected with screws, so the battery is good protected, but it makes problem when you want to take out the battery.

Galaxy Xcover s5690 hasCapacitive touch sensitive display of 3.65 inches with 16m colors, developed with Corning Gorilla Glass technology that guarantees maximum resistance. There is something that we didn't like about this phone: colors looks very poor, like they've been washed. Camera is solid with 3.2 MP and images made with this camera has full resolution of 2048 x 1536. Camera has LED flash technology and Geo tagging application. Samsung Xcover s5690 has WiFi connection and expendable micro SD memory up to 32GB.

The operative system is Android v2.3, powered by 800Mhz processor. Speed of Samsung Xcover s5690 is very high and smooth, and because this is Android phone, your application warehouse is unlimited. It is supported with A-GPS navigation, Image/Video and Document editor, Google search, Maps, Gmail, Youtube, Google talk and Picasa integration. Gadgets like MP3 and MP4 players are in the phone as well, but there is also very powerful loudspeaker.

We can say that Samsung made very good phone, with lots of applications and nice design, so the phone doesn't look like the piece of rubber - like others similar brand new mobile phones. This phone will take his place in the market, that is certain. Nice thing is when you finish with you sport activities you can use this very elegant phone that doesn't look like a brick in your pocket.