Although Metallic attires generally don't do good, Samsung i7110 seem to change the perspective of metallic symbians right with its launch. A metallic attire, awesome features and state of art gadget would surely leave many behind. Well we some how got our hands on this beautiful looking piece and started are regular postmortem on it.

Lets take a glance over its main features: Symbian 9.3 OS, S60 3.2 UI (FP 2), 5 megapixel auto focus camera with dual-LED flash, Camera wide dynamic range, , anti-shake, geo-tagging, face, smile and blink detection, VGA video recording at 30 fps and two slow motion video recording modes, Wi-Fi connectivity with DLNA support, GPS receiver with A-GPS,2.6" 262K-color display of QVGA resolution, FM transmitter, Optical trackpad navigation, microSD card slot, Dimensions: 118 x 52 x 12.9mm, Weight: 125g, 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery, 3G with HSDPA support, DivX and XviD playback out of the box

Samsung takes a huge leap with this model and provides the all in one gadget running on symbian. With the other giants in the market like Nokia with their N95 and N96, this samsung baby promises to show its spark. Samsung i7110 isn't all the compact you can think of, but at least it is within the range of comfortable size. The metallic body makes it a little heavier, instead little extra use of plastic could have made this handset a little more light.

The design begins with the frontal part having a 2.6" screen with 16 million color display of QVGA resolution. It has excellent quality of picture and performs pretty well under the sunlight. contrast and other aspects of display are also good. Just above the screen, you have the video call camera and earpiece. The keypad has a 8 way navigation system, that means you can swipe diagonally too! With this, navigation within the browser makes it pretty simple.

This DPad also brings problems. when you are scrolling side ways, you cannot press any option. Now this could have been avoided. The keypad isn't much to speak about and comes within the regular design, hence we will skip that in our review.

The left side of Samsung i7110 has the volume controls and a usb port. Buttons given there are quite large but are rigid enough.

Micro SDslot, camera key and FM key are on the right side of the handset. We wonder why was FM transmitter given a separate key making us believe that Samsung values FM a lot.

i7110's bottom is plain and has nothing there. Behind the handset you have the 5 MP camera lens along with dual LED flash light just above it. Loudspeaker is also embedded in the top right side.

The battery cover is made of steel and opens up when you pull the latch at the bottom. It has a 1200 mAh Li-Ion Battery similar to the previous model i8510 INNOV8. The power consumption is huge with S60 3rd edition FP2 phones, which is well handled by this battery.

Music player has nothing new to be mentioned about. Its same as its previous models. The GPS navigation is pretty good in this smart phone. It has a built in GPS reciever with A-GPS support.

With this model, Samsung is back again for big competition. The only drawback of this phone is its poor soft key ergonomics. Samsung always had this problem and we wonder when it would pay attention to it. Rest assured, a great phone for a great price!