Samsung M340 (Mantra) Cell Phone Review

Everyday Use and Additional Features

The Common Cents service is powered by Sprint, so if Sprint has good service in your area, you will be happy with using this phone for calls. All of our calls were crisp and clear. Call volume was adequate, although the speaker phone was not very loud.

This phone has built-in Bluetooth, which worked well with the devices that we tried. It also has a camera. The camera, however, is VGA, which is less than 1 megapixel. So pictures are quite fuzzy. Even with a 4x zoom, the camera is pretty terrible. There are a few basic camera settings like a self-timer, a few white balance settings, and color tone settings like sepia and monochrome.

You can use the phone to send MMS messages and the camera even includes several fun-type frames for MMS messages. You can also set a picture as a caller ID for a contact or as wallpaper. The camera may be adequate for something like that, but you won’t want to use if for any important picture taking. And if you want to transfer pictures to your computer, you will have to purchase a transfer cable for the proprietary port on the phone.

The phone has all the common features like voice mail, text messaging, picture messaging, email, IM, call-waiting, and speaker phone. Several additional features including an Alarm, Calendar, Calculator, Tip Calculator, Notepad, Speaker Phone, and World Time Clock. It also has a very useful voice recording feature. Even better, it has voice dialing and voice services. You can set the phone up to respond to voice commands like Call, Send Text, Send Picture, Lookup, and Go To.

The phone comes with several game demos and you can download more. It also comes with an email app. You can surf the web on this Samsung. The phone uses Opera Mini, which is a pretty good mobile browser, but the phone is painfully slow and the screen is unaccommodatingly small. If you do a lot of email and/or surfing on your cell phone, you will want to look elsewhere.