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When it comes to cheap mobile phones, Samsung does them well. The Samsung Genoa C3510 is amongst their latest offerings targeted to the pre-pay market – more specifically, to youth seeking to own their first prepay phone.

The Genoa C3510 looks a lot like the Samsung Genio phones, with an oval shape and smooth rounded look. The screen is a 2.8 inch TFT with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. Physically, the phone is small and lightweight, measuring 104 by 55 by 13 mm and weighing slightly more than 92 grams.

One of the key features is messaging – another indication that this is a young person’s phone. The Genoa C3510 integrates live update capabilities from all of the major social networking sites.

For music lovers, the phone offers good music audio quality and a microSD memory card slot allows the on-board 30 MB to be expanded to up to 8 GB so you can store additional tunes. The phone also includes a 3.5 mm headphone jack so that you can use your own headset.

The phone does support Bluetooth 2.1; however, connectivity for the Samsung Genoa C3510 is restricted to Class 10 GPRS and EDGE – with neither HSDPA nor 3G supported. Another indication of the budget nature of the phone is the camera – a mere 1.3 megapixels with not-so-great image quality results. However, it works fine for sending as MMS.

The Samsung Genoa C3510 is available on pay-as-you-go deals through several popular UK networks.