Samsung SGH-E720

When I viewed the Samsung e720 I didn’t think much about the style of the phone, but have you ever heard the saying "A wolf in sheep's clothing"?
I was given one of these not so long ago, soon as I started putting it through its paces I suddenly realised it was a Samsung D500 in a flip/clam format. First of all was the clarity of the screen, it was as sharp as a crystal and bright with vibrant colours. The next thing to do was make a phone call to my wife. When she answered, the volume through the e720 earpiece was loud to the point of being painful, I had to reduce the volume about 50% then it was crisp and clear as a bell. My wife commented on the clarity of the incoming call to her from the e720, so it passed that test hands down! It has an excellent MP3 player, which can be accessed with the phone shut and viewing the tracks on the outer screen and selecting tracks to be played with the ability of 3D stereo sound through the use of earphones and a graphic equaliser to adjust sound quality.
The bluetooth is faultless and with the typical setup on most Samsung phones you are able to roam about in other phone files selecting the files you want to download. The ring tones are loud and have the option of setting your own personal ring tone via a file downloaded to your phone or a voice, recorded by the voice recorder function. Sadly no personal option for text alerts, you can only use the preset ones built into the phone and are short and quiet.
The 1-megapixel camera is up to the job for taking pictures and also video recording with sound, and has two super bright LED's for use as a flash or torch in dark conditions, but the LED’s are only good for very close pictures, approx two feet distance away from the phone.
Battery life is excellent, the phone I have on test has been running for about five days (on standby) and is still showing half full, it also has a very short charging requirement of approx an hour for a full charge.
For an older phone this will still keep up and in some cases pass the more modern phones, and is a cheap buy compared to more modern phones of today.