Samsung B2100 Extreme Review – Samsung Solid Xtreme Review
The Samsung B2100 Solid Extreme is a new rugged mobile phone from the house of Samsung. The mobile coalesces the useful feature of sturdiness with elegance and visual appeal.
Samsung B2100 Solid Extreme / Xtreme / Xplorer
The Exterior
Most of the rugged mobile phones in the market today are unattractive. But this is not the case of the Samsung B2100 Xtreme. The highly stylish phone is dust and water proof. It has a high resilience and can withstand drops. For this purpose the phone is made of shock resistant materials like urethane.
It has comfortable dimensions of 113×49×17.5 mm. The phone is light weight at 102.8 grams. The façade of the phone sports a 1.77 inches wide screen. The screen is endowed with a high resolution of 120X160 pixels for better quality images. The TFT LCD screen supports 256K colors.
Samsung Solid Xtreme
Communication
The phone supports SMS, MMS and voice memo. It is equipped with predictive text T9 technology for quick input entry. The phone has a stop watch and a noise cancellation attribute as well. The Samsung Solid Extreme’s phone book can store 1000 entries. The phone supports call records to store a list of dialed, received and missed calls. The phone also supports many types of wallpaper.
Multimedia
The Samsung B2100 Solid Extreme sports a music player that can play MP3/e-AAC+/WMA/WAV audio file formats. The phone has an FM tuner with RDS facility. Blue tooth connectivity complete with A2DP technology enables wireless listening. The phone supports MP3 and polyphonic ring tones to pep up your life.
Although the phone does not feature 3G technology it does have EDGE technology to enhance data transfer rates for more pleasurable internet browsing experience. The phone supports browsing technologies like wap and xhtml for better internet browsing experience.
The Samsung B2100 Xtreme has video recording capabilities at 15fps. The phone has a video player that can play MPEG4/3GP/M4V video file formats.
The phone supports games and also allows download of games from the internet to fill in your leisure hours with wholesome entertainment.
Samsung B2100
Memory and Battery
The Samsung B2100 has an internal memory of 7MB. The memory can be augmented using a micro SD memory card up to a maximum of 8GB.
The phone is powered by a 1000mAh battery. The phone has a stand by time of up to 600 hours and a talk time of up to 9 hours.
Camera
The Samsung B2100 Solid has a 1.3 Mega pixel camera for still photographs. The camera has a resolution of 1280X1024 pixels for great quality images. The camera has a flashlight with a dedicated access button for allowing taking of better pictures in dark environments. The camera also has an auto focus to enhance picture quality even in difficult circumstances.
Other attributes
The Samsung B2100 works on a quad band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz network. The phone has USB ports for connectivity to other devices. It has speaker phones, a second mic, an ambient sensor and vibration profiles as well. The phone has GPRS facility for aiding navigation.
The Samsung B2100 is an ideal phone for those who have to stay outside a lot and for those who work in tough conditions.
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August 6th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
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August 14th, 2009 at 6:22 am
This is not a review. Just mentioning the specification in paragraphs. Even the specs are mostly wrong and mis-leading. You should stop this kind of low life, cheating reviews.
September 4th, 2009 at 9:54 am
I have to agree with the previous poster. This is not a review. Did you even put it in water? Did you even have one to put in water?
October 1st, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Crap review, great phone. If you can live without using the internet much and actually use your phone for PHONING people then it’s great.
I did drop my phone into a water bath at work recently, and I was a bit worried in case it was all hype. I needn’t have worried though – everything still works perfectly.
So yeah, the screen’s a bit poor, browser’s all but non-functional, but I can call, text and get my email with no problems and I know that it isn’t going to break. Ever. Love it!
October 9th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Useless. Did you just read the Samsung site? Did you use it? Did you try and break it? WHAT did you do?
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Just got mine yesterday. Like the robustness and external feel. Kind of combines the best of the Nokia weatherproof phones without the disadvantages. Auto keylock is good too, except it locks too soon. Menu is a bit crap and texting is much less user-friendly than my previous Nokias and Sony Ericssons. Also shocked to be told that one of my texts was ‘too long to go as one text’ and would have to be sent in two halves! How crap is that?!
PNB
October 30th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
hey i have had this phone for a few months now! it great im a sailing instructor, and water sports enthusiast, i have broken 2 other phones, this one is great- it lives in my pocket, it spends hours in salt water- undewater getting knocked about. its great the lock time can be ajusted. dosn’t break, no water leakage, not a fault to have with it and the rubber casing is not slipery when wet like it is with other so called wterproof phones. the battry life is good i charge it once a week and dont turn it off. its vey good!
November 21st, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Is is Quad / Tri / Dual band? does it have 3g? GPS? What kind of applications does it have? YOUR REVIEW TELLS ME NOTHING OTHER THAN HOW NICE IT LOOKS
November 29th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
LOL THIS IS A PRETTY PHONE WE ARE REVIEWING IT LOL
February 11th, 2010 at 10:23 am
My Husband is a builder and has to change his phone every couple of months but he bought the Solid extreme and yes it is a basic phone but it does everthing you need and it hasnt broken yet and he’s had about 4 months which for us is a miracle
April 23rd, 2010 at 9:35 pm
I have the old solid extreme and im due an upgrade next month,i will not hesitate to order the new solid extreme as im so pleased with the old one. Im an electrician and work in very dirty and dusty places but the phone has come through all the challenges i have thrown at it, totally recommend this phone if all you want is a phone that dose the basics and dose not break.
May 16th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
i have had this phone for about a year now and have dropped in in water number of times and yes it still works great but the thing i am have problems with is the bluetooth on it, when i yours any handfree kit the phone will turn itselfs off and back on when i make a call, have taken it back a number of times but i am up to about 4 phones now but they all do the same so have given up on the bluetooth part because you can’t have it all.
May 21st, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Spitting back out marketing material and spec sheet is not a review.
This would be a review….
I’ve owned one of these for a few months now. Good solid phone. I ran it under the tap for the hell of it and it still works. Haven’t gone diving with it. I’ve dropped it on the floor countless times and it still works. The built in flash is nice. I use that feature almost daily. The browser sucks but I didn’t buy expecting it to be a smart phone. I bought it as my future backup phone and the phone I toss my sim card in when I go kayaking. This phone is marketed, I think, toward India. Do people in India ever use contractions or possessive nouns when the write? Phases like: Don’t be late or That’s Sally’s car. I ask because when typing a text message you have to stop and change the text input mode to symbol to enter an apostrophe. With other common symbols like : ()?! you just hit the 1 key while texting. Odd like and the lack of built in 3.5mm headphone jack are my only disappoints with a otherwise good phone for what it is.
September 1st, 2010 at 12:03 pm
has it got voice activated calls ?
October 1st, 2010 at 10:55 am
I have been supplied one of these phones in work and I can honestly say it is one of the worst phones I have had! I don’t need a waterproof heavy duty chuck around and get it mucky phone so i don’t need to comment on how robust it may or may not be but i can definitely comment on how UNuser-friendly the settings are…nightmare to text, doesn’t appear to have basic settings for switching the text alert tone off whilst the phone incoming calls remain active, doesn’t appear to have a loud speaker, i find the keys a pain and the whole set up unfriendly so I will not be using it! I have bought myself a cheap nokia to use instead and this one gets tossed to the back of the drawer hopefully never to be seen until my employer is ready to upgrade phones again in about 3 yrs or so.
If I have made any incorrect comments and someone out there knows different then I applaud you for persevering with this gadget and wish you the best of luck. Oh..I guess it isn’t bad to look at (always provide at least one positive statement!)
January 11th, 2011 at 5:05 pm
Try reading the manual Joyce, there is a speaker. All the things you want to do are controlled by the Profile. You can set up how the message indicator sounds (or doesn’t) without affecting the incoming call tones.
I’ve just come from another phone and it all seems pretty basic and simple to me. The only issue I have is that business with the apostrophe. I even took it back to the shop and they couldn’t work out how to get it without going into the symbol menu.
Apart from that it does exactly what I want, looks and feels tough and should survive my mountain biking!
May 5th, 2011 at 6:32 pm
My B2100 switches off in my pocket even when keylock is enabled because my clothing pushes all the keys (naturally) so the phone is off when i go to use it. Nobody else seems to report this problem. Cant find answer in manual. any help out there?
May 20th, 2011 at 8:08 am
I find it a horrid phone as well – yes it survives a war, but its not user-friendly, setting up simple stuff like alarms is overly complicated and the music player is a massive rip-off: what kind of a music player takes all your albums and shuffles the songs alphabetically?! You can’t change that. Besides is anyone else having a problem with incoming calls not showing the callers name? Any way of fixing it?