SAMSUNG: Samsung T539 Beat

Saturday, 7 July 2012

Samsung T539 Beat

Samsung and T-Mobile have been firmly joined at the hip the last two months. We've seen the Samsung SGH-T729 Blast and the SGH-T429, and now we've set our sights on the Samsung SGH-T539. Also called the Beat, the SGH-T539 is a middle-of-the road flip phone with a relatively ordinary design and a feature set that centers on music. It's no Nokia 5300 Xpress Music to be sure, but it's still a decent phone for playing some tunes and making calls. The Beat is $99 with service. To find accessories for this phone, see our cell phone ringtones and accessories guide. The SGH-T539 has a 1,000-contact phone book with room in each entry for five phone numbers, an e-mail address, and notes (the SIM card holds an additional 250 names). You can save callers to groups or you can pair them with a photo and one of 33 polyphonic ringtones. And lest you lose your phone, you can sync your contacts with T-Mobile servers for safekeeping. Other essentials include a vibrate mode, text and multimedia messaging, an alarm clock, a calendar, a task list, a calculator, a world clock, a unit converter, a stopwatch, a timer, and a tip calculator. The Beat also offers Bluetooth with a stereo profile, a speakerphone, instant messaging, a voice memo recorder, and voice dialing and commands.