The Samsung M6710 BEAT DISChas a partial touch [...]]]> The Samsung M6710 BEAT DISC is a new music phone released by Samsung. It is a medium large pretty conventional looking slider phone with a 2.6 inch 240 x 400 pixel display in 16 million colours. The display is pretty large for this class of phone.

The Samsung M6710 BEAT DISChas a partial touch screen with the touch sensitive surface extending outside the bottom of the display. It has a scrolling type function which can be used with the main menu .It comes with the latest Touchwiz UI user interface and the DiskUI music player.

The phone has an internal memory of 80 MB which is expandable up to 16 GB using the micro SD card slot.

The Samsung M6710 BEAT DISC has a slide out keyboard with a normal keypad.

Connectivity options include a USB 2.0 HS connector making file transfers quick and easy. This phone is a 3.5 G phone allowing download speeds up to 7.2 Mbps over HSDPA. It also supports quad-band GSM.It has a Bluetooth v 1.2 with A2DP and class 10 GPRS allowing speeds between 32 and 48 kbps.It also has the HSCSD data transfer making packet data transfer much faster and easier. There is no Wi-Fi on this phone.

The M6710 has a pretty standard 3.15 MP primary camera with QVGA video quality up to 15 frames per second. It has no secondary camera.

The phone has excellent music options with Bang and Olufsen audio technology. It also has advanced multimedia features allowing users to find, purchase and recommend music easily. It also has a 3.5 mm audio jack increasing the range of earphones the user could use. It comes with an FM radio.

The main criticism about the phone is the ineffective touch pad which isn’t intuitive. The camera and video quality are poor seeing that some phones come with 8 MP cameras.

Still this is chiefly a mid budget music phone and is well suited for this function. For the best value for money you can check out the mobile phone contracts at Moby 1.