Samsung X500

  • Released 2006, June
    79g, 19.9mm thickness
    Feature phone
    8MB storage, no card slot
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  • 1.8"
    128x160 pixels
  • NO
    No video recorder
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  • 750mAh
    Li-Ion

Samsung X500 - Specs

Network Technology GSM
2G bands GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
GPRS Class 10
EDGE No
Launch Announced 2006, June
Status Discontinued
Body Dimensions 88 x 45 x 19.9 mm (3.46 x 1.77 x 0.78 in)
Weight 79 g (2.79 oz)
SIM Mini-SIM
Display Type TFT, 65K colors
Size 1.8 inches, 28 x 35 mm, 10.2 cm2 (~25.7% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 128 x 160 pixels (~114 ppi density)
 Second external monochrome OLED display, 16 shades, 80 x 64 pixels
Wallpaper
Memory Card slot No
Phonebook 500 x 10 fields, Photo call
Call records 20 dialed, 20 received, 20 missed calls
Internal 8MB
Camera   No
Sound Loudspeaker Yes
Alert types Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3, AAC ringtones
3.5mm jack No
Comms WLAN No
Bluetooth 1.2
GPS No
Radio No
USB 1.1
Features Sensors
Messaging SMS, EMS, MMS
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML
Games Yes
Java Yes
 Predictive text input
Organizer
Voice memo
Battery   Removable Li-Ion 750 mAh battery
Stand-by Up to 340 h
Talk time Up to 3 h 20 min
Misc Colors Champagne Gold, Metallic Blue, Cool Gray, Pink
SAR 0.74 W/kg (head)     0.50 W/kg (body)    
SAR EU 0.86 W/kg (head)    

Samsung X500 - User Reviews

  • it's okay

  • yes, there are to many problems, but he broke too fast :D but I like his view.

  • other than PIN codes and PUK codes what are the other ways of giving a password to my cell so that i could maintain some privacy?

  • This Tehphone is nice but as the performance is`sucks

  • the phone is okok for non-tech savy user. but i got one big big problem here. I'm changing my phone to nokia and i was not able to transfer all my contact from this phone to nokia. Can anoyone pls advice how? only way is to send my contact 1 by 1 via bluetooth. which is really tedious cos i have over 200 contact. pls help

  • This is to help 'Jobs'to get back the Roman analog clock display on the cover ofthe fon. What u need to do is, follow these step. 1. Go to menu 2. application 3. press 8(for stop watch) 4. close back the cover(w/out pressing any button) note: When this clock on continously, the battery life will be shortened. >>To turn off the clock, repeat the above untill the stop watch mode, press reset and close. All the above function works on my X500 and should be working on others too with the same software rev. Rgds& hope it works on your phone.

  • please help me. asap. reply neesed badly! before this my x500 outer display always show the beautiful classic roman type analog clock but after i sent it for a service, the analog clock only display for about 10 seconds and then it vanished leaving behind only the upper digital clock , battery meter and etc.... how can i make it back to the normal analog clock... please help me immediately

  • I've found that in order to play an mp3 as a rongtone (which means that after downloading, it stays in the Downloaded Sounds folder), it should be below 100kb in size. I used the Samsung Editing Suite (which I got with my X820) to extract the chorus of songs and reduce it to a 64bit rate. By the way, anyone know whether this phone is supposed to come with any pere-loaded games? Or do I have to buy them myself?

  • I down-loaded a JPG-picture from my computer with bluetooth on my X500. When i try to open it, it comes with ? what did i do wrong can anyone help me?

  • does it able to sync the phone calendar with Outlook calendar? either by bluetooth or the USB cable.

  • Thanks for the explanation.

  • well, its a good-looking phone. Has nice features. But i won't say that its solid. its not as solid as many Nokia phones.

  • Dear user, I just read your review which you mentioned you like the green one! How many options we've got about that phone? and is it a well made phone? Solid?

  • i bought it 4 days ago and i love it. its sick cause it can connect to satellit signal and c onnect to other people. my favourite colour is green

  • i love the phone because i can phone my mom

  • i ust bought this HP, my prob is when i send a mp3 ringtone by bluetooth is was save under other file..how do i select it as a ringtone? HELP!!

  • Does this phone come in any other color? and why I can't find this phone in Samsung's website? Thank You "GSMARENA"

  • Please Someone Answer! Is it a solid phone? By solid I mean is the hing loose? Thank you!

  • i want to know how can i silent my mobile without vibreation in want just when my mobile are silent just have some light without any vibreation???? plzzz help me

  • Its 8 times 0 so the password is 00000000 Hope this helps!

  • hi all do you know how to install a game on this phone??? i download some games in the folder "Other files", usually have .jad and .jar files. The phone did not recognize the files. What should i do next???

  • I've bought this phone a few days ago and i love it! but i have some problems with my bluetooth. I can't receive pictures and songs bigger than 50kb. I don't really know much about phone's so i don't know if this is normal or not. Do you have the same problem? Thnx Bertine

  • Stay for the mp3 under the 300kb and it will work! Doesn't know another password ...

  • "Pasword is 000000 (6 times a zero)" It didn't work...

  • I got the phone for a time now and I'm very pleased with it. Only the dutch provider i'm under didn't instal the right settings in my phone for internet and mms. But that is solved now. I bought an bluetoothadaptor for only 9,95 Euro and the transfer goes very well. Only when I tried to upload an cutted mp3 it didn't work. Does somebody now if ther is special bitrate or something else I should worry about? The file was only 396kb. I tried also an mp3 of 6,5 mb. The transfer was ok� but it didn't want to play.

  • Pasword is 000000 (6 times a zero) I got the same probleme and tried it all, but this what worked on my phone...

  • yeah....10x anyway :)) I think i'm going to buy the bluetooth thing for the pc.

  • that's bad...i guess this psw should be pointed out in the cable package..or buy new1..no ofense:)

  • No, men The pass 12345678 or 0000 or 00000000 didn't work. The answer is "Path not found". If someone could help.... 10x

  • PSW: 0000 gl

  • pass is 12345678

  • Does this phone support vibrate + ring at the same time? Also, how is the battery life?

  • I have a problem with this x500. The software (Samsung PC Studio2) recognize the phone but when i try to upload something(with data cabel) it asks for some password. And i DONT KNOW THIS PASS!!! Please HELP!!!

  • Just brought this phone 2 days ago, it's perfect as I don't need camera or to play MP3. I've downloaded 6 MP3 songs (less than 100kb) as ringtone. I'm also able to download picture as Caller ID. Such a wonderful phone with bluetooth is hard to find especially when I can't bring a camera phone to office...oh ya, I still have plenty of space to download more MP3 songs :)

  • this phone is everyhing I need! But I can't see any coment about the battery life, the power of the ringtone ('couse samsung don't support vibration and mp3 ringtone at the same time) and the interface !!! please HELP! I need someone who use this phone!!!

  • Well, I think that people who want a small flip-phone with 2 displays, mp3-ringtones, a good looking phone from a reliable brand really need to choose this one. If you really want a camera then choose anotherone but I don't want one because of the (still) low-quality and I don't think i'm gonna use it so often. 8 mb memory is enough for ringtones and if you want more to play mp3s --> BUY A MP3PLAYER!

  • Anyone know how to use the speakerphone? I just brought this phone and got problem handling it. By the way, for those who just want calling & SMS, this phone is good choice to buy as the price is not high.

  • Oh... got the MP3 working, just reduce the quality of the MP3 and keep the file size below 100kB per file will do. It can't play MP3 file size >100kB

  • What MP3 file format did you guys used? When I copy the MP3 file to the phone, it goes to "others files" folder instead of the "sounds" folder... anyone can help? Can't play the MP3 files in "other files" folder....

  • it would be great if this phone had a camera too

  • It looks rather good, but... isn't it too feminine, I haven't tried it yet and my opinion is based just on few photos and the fact, that samsungs are mostly liked by women :) Anyway, does it record voice during a conversation? Thank you.

  • I'm able to play mp3 smaller than 400KB in my files - sounds menu

  • My X500 does not come with the mp3 player application, I think this is the reason why I am not able to play mp3 file on my phone. Do any one of you able to play mp3 file?

  • good design but it would be better if it had a camera it would be one of the best phones if it was 3G

  • May be it purpose is just use mp3 as ringtone only, not to play all the song

  • I am not sure why there is problem with the mp3 songs. I have in total around 22 mp3 cropped songs (from 170K to 280K per tune /songs) for my ringtone and still have remaining 3M of memory. I just tried my alarm as well as the bluetooth, all working wonderfully. Perhaps its finger problem and a little patience to know the product more.

  • I am not sure why there is problem with the mp3 songs. I have in total around 22 mp3 cropped songs for my ringtone and still have remaining 3M of memory. I just tried my alarm as well as the bluetooth, all working wonderfully. Perhaps its finger problem and a little patience to know the product more.

  • What about this: It don't even have a mp3 player. I'm working in a gsm shop and sended them all back to samsung. Admin: please change the information about this phone on the site. NO MP 3 PLAYER!!!!!!!!

  • i dont get it what's the use of mp3 player with only 8mb of space? you can only put 2 songs at 128kbps haha looks good but a lil nonsense

  • I have used the X500 for 2 days. I am not able to connect the phone using samsung pc PIM and file manager 2.0 with blue tooth connection on my pc.Next unable to play mp3 and mmf file after downloading to the phone. Other than the above 2 problems the phone work fine for me.

  • Has anyone some problems with the alert? It nerver rings on mornings for me!

  • When I cose the phone in the external displey appears a clock and after a few seconds it disapear. What I have to do to keep the clock all the time on the displey?

  • I just realised there is no 2nd display on the front and also no USB connection as claimed in GSMareana. Other than what I had written, I am still pretty satisfied with this phone.

  • Hi there I think that it would be really stupid if you put A camera on the amsung x500 every phone these days hase one it's nice to be able to get a phone just like well for messaging and calling people There's no need to have a camera! plus it would reck the slim and sexy look of the samsung x500!

  • I have this phone for 6 days because i need a phone without a camera but with bluetooth. I found the phone can assign ring tone to groups and individual as well. Thats really nice but the memory can really be larger. The design is pretty and its easy to use. I also own a Motorola V3x and it has lots of memory to save my mp3 music. The screen is bright and image very clear. Its light and handy, dont feel difficult to sms. No complaints on Battery life. Can last 3 days running without stopping. Bluetooth also easy to communicate. The disadvantage of this phone are: no infra red, memory small,no radio, MP3 used as ring tone but very small files only (

  • Dear alleniuz, when you say "top", you mean it looks top or do you have it and talk out of experience? Indeed, the ring+vibrate is a lack, but the alternation of it is not a bad thing either, I think... I'm really considering to buy this phone, so please please please someone post a real review! :-) Thanx!!!

  • top. but i still wonder. why samsung never add the alert type with ring+vibrate?!

  • nice cell phone.wanna buy it.

  • nice and good, please add camera

  • all i cn say 2 samsung phone... if there is a phone called "user friendly" then samsung is a users enemy... hard 2 use lyk sony ericsson!!!

  • "What do u think?" Well, what I do think is that you shouldn't compare things that are not comparable... "D900 is much better"?! What does that mean? It's like you said "Porsche is much better than Opel"! What does that bring as information for this new mobile?! D900 has more features, THAT is a FACT, but thanx, we already knew it. Many people still don't need to have a camera(which is, on most affordable phones, of a poor quality) or an MP3 player on their cell. What would be interesting to know here is opinions of people who have or experienced this X500 and can report its autonomy, sound quality, speed, keyboard ergonomy, etc. Thank you!

  • i still don't like this mobile! d900 is much better what do u think

  • i like the design but i hate the fact there is no camera

  • Hello! It's true, the memory is quite ridiculous... for an MP3 player or if you want to open a mobile video store! But for those you mainly want to phone, send messages, I think it's quite enough. MP3 functions? Why not with that little memory?! I don't always carry my MP3 player, but I always have my cell phone ; so with the bluetooth, I can transfer a song from another computer, or a friend's phone. Plus having an MP3 ringtone. Same thing for images someone would send me, I can store them just for a while ; 8Mb is relatively enough for that. I think the more memory you have, the more you will tend to use your phone for... anything else but a phone! So it's all about the use you'll make of it... Oh, Peter, you seem to own that X500 ; what about the battery life then? Better than z500, ok, but that doesn't mean anything to me! lol With a normal use, how many days more or less? And is the sound quality good? Especially loudspeaker... Thank you in advance! wal from belgium too.

  • A great phone for a low price! 139 euro's in Belgium! Battery life is much better than the Z500, what about 8Mb and MP3??

  • this is just an improve version of x300 so this will cost more than x300 thus it will not be cheap. at least it will cost more than 6,600 philippine peso.

  • Come on, the battery life is relatively low. Anyway, its SAMSUNG's trademark of having low battery life.

  • Samsung, it does not make sense when you bring to the market a phone with MP3 player with 8Mb memory size, not even with a radio! What kind of files.mp3 do you expect users to use? The design is Ok as, the daily use and the practically are major lack from this phone. So, I fully agree with most of contributors here. Thanks, Blaise.

  • calm down everyone. I think people should wait till they see the price of a phone before they judge its buyability. As someone mentioned, this phone is most probably aimed at the lower-end market. When it does come out, it will probably be at the same price as the old x150 or x200. If someone only wants to pay $99(AUD) for a phone and they get features like external display and mp3 ringtones, I think they will be fairly happy! As for the ongoing war between samsung and nokia that seems to permeate this web site, well all I can say is... brand loyalty is a fast diminishing concept in this day and age, where information is easily accesible to consumers. Go by function, reliability, and value for money - don't go by brand.

  • let me remind you those phone samsung release in korea only are not mass market, or widely spread. its easier to manufacture strong components at a small scale. like the motorola VIP series motorola have 1.3mpx ED-VOCDMA in a small phone when the market was still with vga cameras just a few 1.3mpx. but now that technology its outdated. and motorola its only selling because its design and price. still it high end features quality are not best (when the rokr E2 in mp3 maybe...) and samgsung well they have 8mpx cameraphone but it lacks all the other features. its user interface its begin all the other manufactures, their designs are the same silver/black slider clamshells (even though now they are thin), they cameras are of average quality. same with their mp3s. lacking fm radios in lots of high end models. from a long time will not heard about samgsung. The best mp3 or the best camera. they are just average.

  • wow...amazing...bluetooth nd mp3 player...nice...but wouldn't this fone store 2 average sized songs MAX?...what wid this 8mb memory...what's the point of bluetooth then?...no memory or camera?...huh?...Samsung...what's goin on here??

  • Totally waste!!!These are the two words i can say about this phone.Absolutely illogical of the samsung team to provide a music player when the internal memory is a miniscule 8 M.B.If we can condone this fallacy again there crops up another grave mistake of not having a camera.Common man!!give us something good loaded with what are becoming the basic features of every phone......

  • Hell Whats the use of mp3 player when it has only 8 mb shared memory

  • Hi Everyone thats a good looking mobile and its price will be as low as X200 or same,,,,, Good it has MP3 player....

  • No for everything! no edge, no sd card, no camera... It�s a good phone 10 years ago... Samsung boring! Changing to SE.

  • atleast the quality of samsung phones arent cheap like nokia or boring like SE. design and function wise, samsung has always been infront of the pack. its nokia who is always last to catch on to a good idea. have a look at the phones being releasd in the korean market, and u will see that samsung are lightyears infront of anyone. i must admit this phone isnt that good, but it seems to be a lower range phone. in saying that, this is a much better lower range phone than nokias useless vomit smelling low range phones

  • sigh... samsung is getting duller than ever - every design is the same old thing and extremely typical and predictable. nokia and ericsson are well into the future. come on samsung... totally behind and dying out

  • what is it with samsung and flip phones god make some thing else please

  • huh? no radio? At least give us a radio, whats the use of the mp3 player when internal memory only 8mb?