Product Review
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We are always interested in unique phones. Whenever we have got the chance to have an unboxing session of those, we are always excited about it. This time we can check out the new B&O Samsung Serenata. Although we have seen some official pictures and understood that it is not a conventional phone. But still wanted to check out how B&O think of a mobile phone.
The box is huge. This is a luxury phone, so there are a lot of things coming out of the box. In the package, here comes a battery, a charger, a luxury metal charging cradle, USB cable, audio out cable, CD, manual and a handsfree adapter (only) . You need to buy a 3.5mm headphones yourself. But don’t worry, B&O is not cheap but just don’t want to be cheap at all. It comes with a Samsung luxury WEP 420 Bluetooth headset that has its own charging adapter and cradle coming with it! Wow.
The box is big and deep. It has three layers of stuff. We are seeing the middle layer, which are the Wep420 Bluetooth & cradle and the Phones cradle.
The phone is made by Samsung and designed by B&O.
Even the USB connector at the bottom has its own sliding door.
The design of the phone looks like a luxury remote control. The top is occupied by the big metal dialing control. At the lower part of the phone is the touchscreen LCD display. Yes it is a touchscreen. However when we are using the dial control, my hand is always blocking part of the screen. Oh, as you can see from the picture, you have to “dial” out your calling number.
You can dial or touch to control the music playing.
At the back of the B&O, it has a metal stand mechanism which can support the phone to stand on the table instead of lying flat. Perfect for music playing.
At the back of the phone, the Serenata has got a big speaker. Sliding out for music playing.
When playing music, if we turn up the music volume, there will be a red line arch indicating the amount of volume. The dial control is actually very smooth to use. Also the music quality is extremely very good even at maximum volume playing. We are definitely having a great B&O experience.
Using a dial control to do texting, this is what you are getting. I believe there will not be many people love to use this.
The Samsung Wep420 Bluetooth with cradle. I have seen people using the B&O Bluetooth before, why not packing that with the phone?
The phone’s charging cradle. At the end of the cable there, we have a multi-plug thing that can attach the cradle to power, USB, and audio.
After playing with the phone for a while, we all think that the B&O Samsung Serenata is a perfect second phone when you need to go to some very fancy dinner or a date. It stands on the table instead lying there like every other phone! Or perfect as a small portable digital audio player (it has got 4GB internal memory) to play music anywhere you go. As a 3G HSDPA browsing device, the screen is just too small. At the end we are still not sure if we can really talk on the phone without using a handsfree nor Bluetooth anyway.
