Samsung pioneer in manufacturing mobile phones has always offered a mid range phones under its ‘T’ series has recently introduced the Samsung T369. There are no gimmicky features; the phone is designed for its purpose, to make calls, plain and simple. A user friendly messaging device build to especially target the SMS fanatics and allow them to remain constantly connected with their family and friends. With its customized features and great messaging options it lives up to the current line-up of ‘T’ series.

The compact design Samsung T369 with its very spacious slide out QWERTY keyboard is attractive to those who text message a lot. Though simple in look has many goodies like the camcorder, the music player, and the microSD card slot to attract its target audience.

The phone with its rounded corners is gripped easily. Though pettier in size at 4.5 inches tall by 2.1 inches wide by 0.6 inch thick, has very little wasted space. There's a 2-inch LCD display that supports 240x320 pixel resolution and 262,000 colours.

A 1.3-megapixel camera takes photos in one of five resolutions (1,280x960; 1,024x768; 800x600; 640x480; 320x240). There are three timer modes, five lighting presets, and five colour effects. The photos taken were of not good quality; however it gets the job done. 

The Samsung T369 comprises of 50MB internal memory on board along with an option for 16GB expandable memory which needs to be bought. The phone book can keep a record of  1,000 contacts -entry phone books fits multiple phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and other details like group calling, e-mail, a picture ID, and notes into each entry. The battery expectancy of T369 is of 5 hours in talk time mode and 13 days in standby time

The Samsung T369 is great messaging phone, with support for text, audio, and photo messaging. In addition, it supports several kinds of instant messaging services: Yahoo, AOL and ICQ etc. You can even configure POP3, SMTP and IMAP4, accounts.  Though there is no e-mail onboard the T369, however this isn't affect the decent phone of this quality, but it's always an additional benefit. The lack of Wi-Fi is covered up with the Bluetooth support.

The other features incorporated in T369 include a calendar, an alarm clock, a to-do list, a notepad, a calculator, a tip calculator, a world clock, a unit converter, a timer, and a stopwatch.

So the Samsung SGH-T369 is easy to use messaging phone which is affordable and fulfils the basic needs of its desired customers.