Entertainment

Able to hold up to 1000 contacts in its Phonebook, the E635 allows users to store up to 5 phone numbers (Mobile, Home, Office, Fax, and Other) and an E-mail Address per contact. Additionally, common PIM (Personal Information Management) applications are included such as Alarm, Calculator, Calendar, Conversion, Stopwatch, Timer, To-Do List, and Voice Memo. Sadly the E635 doesn't contain email functionality.

But it does support J2ME (Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition), the most popular platform for mobile devices. The E635 features two preinstalled games; SnowBallFight, an action game where players attempt to defend their fort from neighborhood kids, and BubbleSmile, a puzzle game where users rotate adjacent bubbles to create diagonal rows of 3 or more identical bubbles.

Should consumers tire of the games, they can download and install additional Java-based games and applications based on the J2ME platform. Deployed on millions of devices, and supported by leading tool vendors, J2ME is the platform of choice for today's consumer and embedded devices. Not limiting users to preinstalled software, there are already an abundant amount of programs to choose from; some are free to download, however most for a small fee.

Internet

Using a WAP 2.0 browser, web pages are rendered in WML markup languages. Consumers can browse web pages specifically designed for cell phones to check weather reports, sports scores, stocks quotes, and travel information.

Capable of GPRS Class 10 transfer speeds, users can surf the web and download multimedia at up to 48 kbps.

Disappointingly, the E635 doesn't support T-Mobile's EDGE (Enhanced Data rate for GSM Evolution) network. Transferring rates of two to three times faster than traditional GPRS networks, EDGE offers broadband surfing on wireless devices.

Storage

The Samsung E635 has 5.6 MB of internal memory dynamically shared among images and sounds, and 3.0 MB for games and applications. While not that much, the E635 doesn't feature any storage-intense applications. However lacking an expansion card slot, users will need to clean out unused multimedia should more space be needed.

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