Samsung Corby
I received my first Christmas gift of 2009 – A Samsung Corby from Chewy. It was an early gift as we wouldn’t be celebrating Christmas together this year. He’s going back home to Kuala Lumpur so I’ll be alone during Christmas. 
Chewy seems to like the touchscreen of Corby. I can’t remember how many times I’ve said this but I am not a fan of touchscreen phones. I think I’ll need some time to get use to using such phones again because I spend 10 minutes trying to send an SMS this morning. I know I fail. 
My friends from school highly preferred the Corby over my INQ mini. They are like “oh my gosh Dayna, your new phone looks great. Glad you decided to get a new one.” when they see me with my new phone in class. By the way, my INQ mini is still alive and I gave up my LG Viewty for adoption today. I’m going to miss it. So, back to the Corby… there are 3 colours – white, yellow and pink. There are also green and orange in Korea but somehow they didn’t bring those into Singapore. I like the orange and yellow one but Chewy is a fan of white and black phones so I got the white one. Even though I’m a huge fan of pink, I decided a universal colour will be better. It’s easier to sell it off in the future since not everyone is a fan of pink like me. On a totally random note, according to the korean drama, You’re Beautiful (which I’m so in love with), white stands for purity. It’s not a bad choice eh? 
Close up of Samsung Corby
Each set comes with 3 covers – plain white, white with prints and a plain black. I like the plain white one because I was going to get some pop-up stickers to decorate the phone but Chewy prefers the one with prints. I’m still going to get the stickers though. It needs something to be branded as “Dayna’s mobile”. =D
Back cover - White with green and grey prints
Side buttons - I always press the wrong one when I'm unlocking it
Default wallpaper of the cartoon theme
Animated main menu
I was quite wowed by the google maps. The location shown wasn’t exact but it was within a 1 kilometre radius of where I was so I guess it can be considered pretty accurate. For someone who has a poor sense of direction, this will certainly comes in handy when I get lost.
Google Maps
Wallpaper from my own illustrations
After playing around with it for a day, I think it’s not too bad. The set doesn’t comes with a data cable which may be quite troublesome for some. However, I use bluetooth more often so it doesn’t bothers me much. Similar to the INQ, the camera of the Corby is 2MP and takes quite decent shots. The quality is slightly better than the INQ mini. It isn’t a 3G phone and does not have Wi-Fi. Internet speed is a bit slower but it’s not a big deal to me. I don’t surf the net often with my phone. Most of the time, I use it only for twittering and twitpic-ing.
The Corby also has the smart unlock feature which is really cool in my opinion. You can set the phone to unlock by writing any one of the alphabets on the screen. I tested quite a few letters and I think V is the easiest to unlock. This feature is more convenient since the “press side button and hold” option is slower. There are also 3 types of fonts for users to choose from. I’m using the cartoonish font (type 1) and it’s really cute.
How do I like this phone? Quite a lot, considering the fact that it was a gift from Chewy. 
Hopefully, it will be my trusty phone for the next 1 to 2 years.
11 November, 2009 at 9:19 pm
ah this phone! haha… one of my fav Korean boyband did a commercial for this hehe. Oh the yellow one is nice… hehe k I’m biased! But great tat it’s nt too bad!
11 November, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Yellow one is not bad. I prefer the lime green one but since they don’t carry it in Singapore, I got the white one. White is not as catchy but more neutral. I like brighter colours and it’s pretty sad they don’t carry the lime green.
11 November, 2009 at 10:36 am
Sorry for the long awaited comment that’s been sitting on my site. Wait, that didn’t make sense, lol. Sorry for taking so long :P Yeah, spam is ridiculous. It’s like.. if you ARE going to post something on my site, let it have a good meaning!
Cute present! That’s sad that you aren’t going to be with Chewy for Christmas, but at least you got an early present :P
10 November, 2009 at 8:50 am
I love the new phone, especially the theme, it’s adorable! Is it just me, or are phones in Asia just so much cuter? I got a new samsung phone as well, and I thought it was pretty until your phone put mine to shame. Damn US phone market
10 November, 2009 at 8:11 pm
I guess only phones from Japan and Korea are a lot cuter! Korea brands like LG and Samsung are more popular in Singapore. We rarely have Japanese phones in the market.
10 November, 2009 at 8:13 am
That display theme is the most adorable ever! I wish the phones here had cuter themes
I am the exact opposite — I love touch screens! I’m almost jealous of your cute new phone, but I love mine too much
I especially like it since it has a keypad with a full keyboard as well as a touch screen on the front, so I don’t accidentally call or text with the touch screen!
12 November, 2009 at 11:15 am
Oh, I think it’s a good idea to have an additional QWERTY keyboard on top of the usual touchscreen features. The kind where you can slide out the keyboard is really cool! I like to have both to play around with.
10 November, 2009 at 6:50 am
It looks really nice! *jealous*
I’m sure you’ll get used to it and stop pressing the wrong buttons, etc. :P
10 November, 2009 at 4:54 am
Awesome! A new phone! Your phone backgrounds are cute
10 November, 2009 at 4:41 am
I think this is a cute phone! There are so many cute phones overseas that doesn’t come to America that I want! Like your previous phone!! I wonder how the pink looks like. I think I’m going to check it out. How much was it? Do you know? If not, then nevermind.
Uggh, I want a new phone!! 
I want a pink one!!
Take care!
10 November, 2009 at 4:46 am
I just checked on eBay. It’s going to be expensive!!
Uggh, I really want it! Really badly!! 
10 November, 2009 at 8:09 pm
I got it for SGD 338 without contract and trade-ins. The pink one is really nice. Pity it’s out of stock in Singapore.
But it’s not a universal colour though, I might have problem selling it in the future. White is more classic and pure. 
10 November, 2009 at 12:56 am
Wow that is a great phone especially with the adorable little backgrounds!
I need a new phone desperately my LG rumor turned out to be the biggest mistake of my life… *sigh*
9 November, 2009 at 11:40 pm
I think it’s an adorable new phone.
9 November, 2009 at 7:08 pm
That phone is cool! It is called the Samsung Genio in England (I think it’s the same as that one). I was going to get it, instead I got the Samsung Tocco. :P Have fun with your new phone.
9 November, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Oh, I didn’t realise it has different names in different countries. However, I did notice that the interface of the Korea version is nicer than the one in Singapore.
9 November, 2009 at 6:08 pm
looks like a pretty awesome phone dayna =D can’t wait to see how you make it DAYNA! =D
9 November, 2009 at 9:08 pm
I’ll be getting pop-up stickers this weekend. Shall be posting photos once I finish branding it.
9 November, 2009 at 6:06 pm
WOW… new phone!!!!!!!!!