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Samsumg Champ Pros
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" A owners pride , a neighbour's envy " - a user comment at GSMarena .
A very basic but functional and elegant looking phone with a good mobility . Slim , small in size , light weighted and easily pocketable media player ( mostly for audio purposes )that one can call and text with . Cool UI , bright and vibrant display , a good balance between price performance and design . Simply speaking , a good alternative as a back up phone . Suit for those who seek an elegant but basic touch screen phone within a budget reach

A fairly new default browser version , Access Netfront 3.5 which has a good clarity and do a PC like web page rendering

Lengthy hourse of music play back . With a single charge you can have the party

Call logs integrated with message logs

Good light up behind images

Conference calling upto 5 parties

Clear audio recording

Voice memo function

Bluetooth file transfer confirmation is optional

A global GSM phone

FM recording

Without a trace ! . A conversation can be recorded unknown to the other party . They wont realize its being recorded

Good music speaker output . Loud audio on speakers . Audio quality is quite satisfactory . Stereo dual speakers are on front of the phone . No need to turn it back to have the maximum effect . Many consider it as a music phone as it deliver a good music play back

Music player , FM radio auto sleep function

Vibration feedback

Placable widgets for calendar quick notes etc

Easy contact management like updating new numbers , assigning default numbers and storing multiple phone numbers can be done with a breeze of ease

Picture zoom and movability to all directions

TouchWiz Lite UI

Can send longer texts . Upto 480 characters supported

A friend in need ! . SOS feature sends a message upto ten pre selected contacts hinting that your in trouble . Calls from those numbers are auto answerd with a message notifying them that your in need of help

Seven customizable home screens with nine widgets for each

An image editor

Fair visibility under direct sunlight

Good Standby Time and Talk Time

Dual Stereo speakers

Fast rendering , user friendly , simple but elegant User Interface

Inbuild internal FM antenna .No worries to carry headsets that many phones in the same price range use as an antenna

Good battery backup

4MB JAVA run environment and increasable Max Jar Size

QWERTY keypad for effective texting

Switchability between QWERTY keypad and standard Numeral keypad

Good reception

Ingoing call speaker output is loud enough

EDGE powerd

Excellent touch response / sensitivity . Many positive comments , reviews on touch response

Durable . A survivor of rough usage conditions

Impressive resolution

Build in Mobile Tracker

FM schedule , programme reminder

Downloadable third party browsers

A non cam version is also available which may suit some strict working environments

Music , audio playback is another plus attribute

External memory slot that can be loaded with a 8GB memory card

10 placable
widgets upto 10 contacts with images

Customizable widgets

A back up manager which takes back ups of SMSs , phone book contacts etc to the memory card

The music player can be run in the background

Softreset and Masterreset options

1000 nos of contacts

A Privacy Lock . You can lock your private stuff like pictures , videos , messages , logs , contacts and memos with a password

Threaded view ( conversation mode )
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Samsumg Champ Cons
Creating play lists in order you want them to be played , is rather a frustrating and a heavy time consuming task

No search option in audio player

Music player doesnt resume after a call

When you have got 1000 or more songs stored in memory card , its tough to maintain them in play lists

No custom equalizer in audio player . You have to be accustomized with pre configured options . No bass metallic sounds available while there is no any significant difference between available surround and wide sound modes

Social network integration is a fake . They are just links that take the user to their mobile web versions . So , no any integrated apps for social networking

An unstable Operating System ( refer JAVA table )

Video recording is limited to 295 Kbs

Cannot answer a call through headset while listening to audio player . You have to unplug the headset first and attend the call next

Camera image capture is slow . Slaw shutters

Keypad is not for big thumbs . Two thumbs down !

Until the messages are sent , you cannot attend any other tasks . Incoming calls are an exception

Not your typical video player nor video recorder . Many users agree that the video aspect of the phone is not appreciable . According to them , CHAMP is lot better at audio than video . The video player plays only QCIFs at a low bit rate but non of QVGAs . Also videos are recorded in VGA format

Many reported failures to handle large number of SMSs in conversation mode . Phone keeps restarting at every attempt , approach

The phone is notorious for not accepting the memory card as the default download location for online direct downloads , video recordings etc

The screen is a TFT resistive touch screen , but not a scratch resistive one

A minor reports of bluetooth dysfunctions after some usage

In overall , the bluetooth ( of the phone ) is considered as slow

Sometimes it supports direct downloads while doesn't let install apps through memorry cards , written by a PC . Sometimes it installs games and apps from SD cards placed by a PC while adamantly demarcating direct downloads . Sometimes it hesitates JAVA file transfer through bluetooth but let the data cable do the work . Sometimes it allow the bluetooth to perform the task in behalf of the data cable . Many are pleased to have experienced the true Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde during their life time

File recognition and handling is pathetic . Many reports of auto switch on offs while handling , managing files

Scrawling is sometimes troublesome

Stylus usage without a screen guard may lead to scratches

FM reception is not that good without the headset

Back end is hard to remove

When dragging , the screen is not so responsive . Misspresses commonly take place

Many users recommend that the phone is not for heavy browsing

Too glossy top . You can easily pass dirt , finger prints to the next generation

Customization options are average . It has got only two pre-instilled themes . No downloadable themes so far


Lack of OS / Platform . What we have got here is a budget phone with a touchable screen that provide a poor JAVA run environment , in the era of ANDROID

Poor video play back . Video converting formats are hard to measure . Supports only 3gp , MP4 formats ( only in H263 format ) at 15 frames per second

The keypad is not backlit . But the three buttons are rarely used . All major functions can be done touching the screen

While browsing , you cannot read the message just arrived . Apps cannot be minimized either

Video full screen mode doesn't fill the full screen in full

A considerable amount of auto turn off , restarting , switch on / off incidents while accessing SMS inbox , texting , browsing , calling , pausing audio player etc ( refer the the tips and facts table below for further details )

Contacts are auto Black Listed without owners prior permission

Direct downloading for JAVA apps is a pain . In many incidents the message " invalid jar" is displayed and apps go hide and seek In the game folder

Dont read PDFs and .txts

Default browser doesn't load large web pages . An infection reportedly being transmitted from old browser versions like Netront 3.1 (law cash)

The phone is widely accepted as a music phone because the music capabilities are more targeted than apps at a time where apps have become the entertainers with ever growing demand


The handset is said to be carrying MIDP 2.0 compatibility but dot jar files are hardly recognized . " INVALID JAR " is a common sight . Thousands are searching online for solutions . I suggest if you register the domain invalidjar.com - which is available at the present - and park it , you can have a good income easily

Files that exceed 52 characters in title are invisible

Local variations may apply .
C3300 - No cam version
C3303 - Comes with a cam
Also there are two further VGA and 1.3 MP variations available

The touch screen is relatively small for a touch screen phone

Poor camera . Many negative reviews towards a poor camera capture quality

No multi tasking . You cannot even minimize a single JAVA app . If you want to make a call , to do some texting while surfing etc , you have to walk around . ( have to close the running app ) . But many browsers like OPERA , BOLT , UCWEB support simultaneous calling texting etc . But not many apps , games let that happen

Average radio output

Poor JAVA support [refer the JAVA Table below]

QWERTY keypad is available only in portrait mode which makes keys so tiny that hard to press seperate

No text copy paste function

Frustrating PC support . Latest PC Studio doesn't recognize the phone . A data cable is not included in the original box either . A bad omen ?

Many have found that added words to the T9 no longer exist there

When messages get the maximum allocated number , they are auto locked . Unlocking them deleting them in most times leads to restarts

Multiple SMS sending is erroneous . " Some text is missing " is prompted

Downloaded games , apps go nowhare . While some directly downloaded apps cannot be found in the game menu , they still occupy memorry

SMSs recieved from automatticaly black listed contacts , go to Spam Box making sure that any kind of communication is not taking place between both parties

Only 500 messages can be stored . Inbox + Sent

3000 file limitation

Only QCIF videos supported , not QVGAs

Not the cam many spec sheets boast as 1.3 MP which should cover an area of about 1280*1024 . It's only 1.23 of about 1280*960 pixels

Cam doesn't Autofocus . It's a fixed focus which has to be manually zoomed in or out

Memory card reading writing failures are to be expected

File crashes , incomplete downloads places some junks in the "C " that cannot be deleted manually
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JAVA Table
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Samsung GT-C3300 Champ technical specifications