The Samsung X520 is a low-cost an lightweight clamshell phone with a fairly basic feature set, wrapped up in an attractive and boldly designed package. It's an attractive handset to look at, and it certainly looks different from most other Samsungs, althouth we have seen this "rectangular" look with the recent Samsung E420 and E870 phones, although it's more pronounced on the Samsung X520. For the most part, the Samsung X520 is a really basic handset - there's a 128x160 pixel display in...
The Samsung E420 is a low cost member of Samsung's "La Fleur" series of fashion phones with a 128x160 pixel OLED display in 65,000 colours, a VGA resolution (0.3. megapixel) camera and that's really about it, apart from the E420's attractive looks. In fact, it's the SGH-E420's looks that give the game away - the interior and basic specifications mark it out as an upgrade to the Samsung X400 (see below) from 2003. Yup, this is essentially a three-year-old phone with a bit of a facelift and a...