14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung was one of the manufacturers that had a lot of newly released handsets to put on display at this year's CeBIT and the one thing they all had in common was their excessive slimness. One of its phones that most likely generated a lot of interest among visitors, was the SGH-P110 messaging phone.
The first thing to catch one's eye is the handset's innovative form factor. It is meant to blend smartphone functionality with the ease of use of a regular mobile phone, offering both a QWERTY keyboard and a typical clamshell-like design.
While some smartphones, like Nokia's Communicator will tend to look like a brick when held up to the year, the P110 should look more like your average handset when used. Depending on how the user chooses to hold the handheld, the numeric keypad or the QWERTY can be used.
When the screen is flipped and in landscape mode, the P110 turns into a very convenient and easy to use messaging device. Unfortunately, the handset is expected to pack only a VGA camera (which is somewhat disappointing, especially after Samsung managed to squeeze in a 3 megapixel camera in their only 5.9 mm thick mobile phone), a media player with support for several audio and video file formats, 25MB internal memory but apparently no card slot, Bluetooth with stereo headset support, instant messaging, speaker phone and tri-band GMS/GPRS/EDGE support.
If used as a messaging device, it will probably be a great choice. Aside from that, it's not really obvious what type of user it targets, but customers looking for a handset with advanced features will most likely not consider the P110 an option.