Samsung SCH-W699 is a clam shell cell phone from Samsung mobiles, this is a dual SIM card phone that work on GSM and CDMA network. For the GSM, it work on bands 900 / 1800 / 1900 while for the CDMA network, it work on 800/1900. This phone was released to the market on 2009, August. In this post, today we provide some information related to the Samsung SCH-W699 including the review and the full phone specs explanation. For the user manual, it doesnt available online, maybe it distributed in the sales package.

The dimensions of Samsung SCH-W699 is 98 x 56 x 19.9 mm with weight about 120 g, on the display it use TFT touchscreen, 256K colors and the screen resolution is 240 x 320 pixels. The screen width is 2.8 inches. Besides the main display, it also has External TFT touchscreen, 256K colors, the screen resolution is 240 x 320 pixels and the screen width is 2.4 inches. For alert tones, you can use mp3 files as your own ringtone.

On the data storage, Samsung SCH-W699 equipped with external memory card slot for microSD. The maximum space that recognized by the system is up to 8 GB. The phone memory can save up to 1000 phone numbers.

On the connectivity, Samsung SCH-W699 can be connected to the internet via GPRS and EDGE network, the GPRS class is Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps, while for the EDGE speed is up to 236.8 Kbps. To exchange data with another gadgets, you can use Bluetooth and USB port. The Bluetooth version is v2.0 with A2DP while the USB version is v2.0.

Now, we talking about the camera feature. Samsung SCH-W699 equipped with camera 5 megapixel with resolution up to 2592 х 1944 pixels. The features included in this camera are autofocus, LED flash. In addition to take a picture, the camera also support for video recording with quality VGA@15fps.

Here are some features that offered by Samsung SCH-W699:

• WAP 2.0/xHTML browser
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• Games
• GPS
• Java support
• Dual SIM
• MP3/WAV/WMA/AAC+ player
• MP4/DivX/H.264/H.263/ player
• Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
• Voice memo

As mentioned before that the user manual and user guides document for Samsung SCH-W699 doesnt available online, please come back here later to check the manual availability.

In this month (2012, August), Samsung announcing their latest gadget called Samsung Galaxy Camera, it is not a cell phone because it cant used as voice communication both on GSM or CDMA network. For the operating system, it use Android OS, v4.1 (Jelly Bean) and supported by Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A9 CPU and 1 GB of RAM. The main feature of this Samsung gadget is the camera quality that has resolution up to 16 MP and support up to 21x optical zoom. Here, we provide the full specs of Samsung Galaxy Camera, for the user manual will be available later.

Here is the Samsung Galaxy Camera specs, the user manual download link will be available here after the phone released to the market.

 Galaxy Note 8.0 N5100 can now be updated with the Official Android 4.1.2 XXBMF1 Jelly Bean Firmware which comes with the added stability and bug fixes. Just in case if you still haven’t got the update of this firmware, you can now manually update the same. The best part of this update is that this is the Official firmware and not the beta or custom ROM firmware. Before we proceed to check on what are the instructions to apply with this firmware, you will need to follow the list of pre requisites which we have mentioned below.

• Create a backup of all your data with the help of below mentioned steps. Though, you can back up the data with KIES as well, we recommend you to backup manually with the help of below mentioned steps as sometimes KIES refuses to detect the device.

• From the path “Settings > Development Options > USB debugging” enable the USB Debugging Mode. Minimum charge left in your phone is 30% or else there is a risk of device getting turned off in the middle of rooting process.

• Download the Jellybean 4.1.2 Firmware Package and Odin from here to your computer. Once downloaded, extract both the files in your computer and open Odin in your computer.

• Open Odin in your computer. Download Mode in Galaxy Note 8.0 can be entered by first turning Off the device and then hold Volume Down Rocker Key + Menu Button and then Power ON the device. Once the device is booted and you see the Download Mode Green Robot, you can release the button combos.

• Connect your device to the computer with the help of original USB cable and then you will see that the ID : COM section will turn Yellow / Green, indicating that all the drivers are installed successfully.

• Click on “PDA” to select the tar file which you got from the firmware package which is the TAR File which you got after extracting the file from the first step.

• Once all the file is selected, click on “Start” to start the process of firmware update. Once the firmware update process is completed which will be mentioned in the ODIN, the Galaxy S2 device will be rebooted.

• For firmware update to be finished, it will take around 2-3 minutes for applying the update. Once the device is updated successfully, the device will be rebooted. As soon as you see the Language preferences or the Home Screen, you need to disconnect the device from computer and enjoy using your phone.