The Christmas and holiday season has seen great offers and smart models coming the smartphone way. The Samsung Galaxy Apollo i5800 is aimed at younger persons who want to stay connected and are keen on social networking. A widget can bring together data from Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. The phone can integrate contacts, e-mail, SNS contacts into the phone book. It can seamlessly integrate the social networking sites and calendars that are used everyday . The Social Hub Inbox manages all incoming and outgoing messages. The mobile phone has advanced multimedia capabilities. Its DivX compatible player plays movies and music covering most file formats and receives stereo FM.

The 3.2" capacitive touch screen with 400x240 pixel resolution does a good enough job in displaying the Homescreen with two skin options. The TouchWiz 3.0 user interface can open up to 7 homescreens with advanced widgets, helping the user to personalize the settings. The phone works on the 2.1 (Eclair) version of an ever growing platform of Android, on a easy multi-touch screen. It has a Proximity sensor for auto turn-off and an accelerometer to help auto-rotate the UI screen. The HTML browser is also good at its job. There's a PC Sync App with Samsung Kies to manage data. This Samsung mobile phone has AGPS capability too.

The 667 MHz Qualcomm processor inside is fast enough to download countless Apps from the Android Market. It can pull in contacts from Google, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Hotmail, Yahoo, as well as from Microsoft Exchange. The user can use ThinkFree Office Mobile to access manage and update numerous documents. The AllShare widget can be used to share all digital content with any other Samsung DLNA-certified devices and also with any other such DLNA-certified devices.

The Samsung mobile phone you are here with works on GSM, GPRS & EDGE. It is also compatible with HSDPA (3G) and offers downloads up to 3.6Mbps, depending on signal conditions.

The Samsung smartphone Galaxy Apollo i5800 is a feature rich phone but comes at a good price. The phone measures 113.5 x 55 x 12.85mm and weighs 109gm. It takes the traditional slab form but is curved to fit. The Galaxy Apollo E5800 has 512MB of internal memory with 256MB RAM. Memory can be extended up to 32GB by inserting a MicroSD memory card. The hardware includes a 3.1MP camera which takes reasonably good pictures and has different in-built modes to shoot. Some offers on this model on a pay as you go contract are around for £150, which is good enough.