Messages

The Samsung SGH-T809 comes with SMS (short messaging service), EMS (enhanced messaging service) and MMS (multimedia messaging service). With the MMS feature, you can share multimedia content with your friends and family by emailing them content such as ringtones, screensavers, wallpapers, 3gp videos and more.

Instant messaging is also possible with this phone via the following softwares:

- MSN Messenger
- Yahoo Messenger
- ICQ
- AOL Instant Messenger

Thus if you have a friend who is not available at his phone when you call him, you can instant message him! This makes communication so much more easier and convenient. Furthermore, typing of keystores is made so much more easier thanks to the T9 predictive text input. The T9 will predict the words you are about to type, and bring up a list of options. You can then choose from a list of options and hit Enter and the word is fully typed for you!

Screen

Many consumers get freaked out by how small and unusable other cell phones are. Not with this one! The LCD display of the Samsung SGH-T809 provides a huge display screen making it very usable.

Samsung has built in a 262K vibrant and beautiful LCD color display screen with a resolution of 240 by 320 pixels. This makes usage of the phone much more fun than other cell phones that have a 65k color display. Thanks to this, viewing time, date, signal and battery levels is very easy on the eye, no matter how dark it is!

It can create a superb picture display thanks to the built in TFT (Thin Film Transistor) technology which has higher refresh rates. With higher refresh rates, the screen remains vibrant and vivid causing a beautiful picture display.

Audio

The audio side of the phone is also very sophisticated. You can literally store thousands of songs into the phone and carry them around wherever you go by inserting a TransFlash 512mb memory card. Using Bluetooth to download songs directly from your PC, you can play all your songs via the built in MP3 player, set them as tracks and sort which one plays first, 2nd, 3rd, etc. Other functions include:

- Volume Controls
- Rewind/Forward
- Shuffle
- 3D Sounds and Skins
- Visualizations

You can download lots more MP3 songs and .Mid ringtones from T-Mobile's T-Zone Multimedia service at pretty low prices. The hardware side of the audio provides following features:

- Handsfree communication thanks to the packaged stereo headset
- Dual external speakers allow you to listen to your songs loud on the air.