After two entry-level QWERTY feature phones, look for the Samsung and LG Remarq, Sprint a heavy hitter, the Samsung has released to recover. Although look at the environmentally friendly telephone banner with the limeade version as spring grass, the Samsung Restore is actually a strong mid-tier feature phone, the excellent QWERTY keyboard, fast 3G EV-DO, good Sprint TV and YouTube performance and has nice music player. Throw in a built-in GPS, the well was with Sprint Navigation, full messaging, the Netfront web browser and Sprint One Click user interface for easy access to social networks, Google and Yahoo services, and you have a very nice feature phone at an affordable price . The Samsung Restore is available in two colors, limeade and midnight.
Design
The Samsung Restore is an interesting looking phone, especially the green version. It is not a small mobile phone with 4.6 x 2.1 x 0.6 inches, but it feels good in your hand. The long body gives the phone a spacious keyboard that is easy to type, but not too wide to hold comfortably in the landscape. The green version has a very pleasing young grass green color with silver accents. The front keypad also has a faint green color and the backlit keyboard is on a green background that is very easy to see, makes set. The 2.5″ QVGA display is very bright, with rich colors, but viewing angles are limited. The display washes a little under the sun, but you can still use the screen as a viewfinder when you have to take pictures in direct sunlight. Restore the Samsung has an optical trackpad instead of a D-pad. The trackpad is very responsive, in fact, it is to react in such a way that they are sometimes nervous.
The 4-row QWERTY keyboard is a joy to type on. The keys have some separation and there is not an odd key placements. The top row of letters houses an embedded series of numbers and the space bar is located right in the middle. Dedicated keys on the keyboard and a web browser launch vehicle, launch vehicle SMS, emoticon button and a very comfortable “www” button and “.Com” button. 4 directional keys live in the lower right corner of the QWERTY. The phone has two menu buttons on the QWERTY keyboard directly below the display. The Samsung Restore to start only the volume rocker and the camera shutter button on the side with the charging port, 3.5mm audio jack and a phone charm holder. The microSD card slot under the battery cover, but you do not remove the battery to access it. The phone has been tested with up to 32GB microSD cards and comes with a 2GB card.
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Phone, messaging and Web
The Samsung Restore occupied decent, but it is not unusual. It is half or less of the full signal strength in marginal coverage areas and three quarters of the full signal in good coverage. The voice quality is excellent and the volume ends on a loud and outgoing. The Samsung Restore has acontacts database that stores up to 1,000 entries and 99-speed numbers. The phone comes with the excellent Nuance voice command software, voice dialing, very well made and it can also start messaging and other applications by voice command.
In addition to the hardware features one-click carousel UI is still the largest attraction in the Software. One click provides access to a wide range of functions and provides convenient access to numerous applications such as web browsing, messaging applications, Google Apps (Maps, YouTube and search), Yahoo applications (mail, news, address book and link to homepage) , phone profile personalization, social networking log-ins and much more.
As a QWERTY messaging phone, the Samsung Restore benefits from the One-Click carousel with quick access to text messaging, mobile email, including Yahoo, Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail, AOL Mail and more. And if you’re an avid social network users, there are direct login to Facebook, Twitter and MySpace right on the roundabout. The Samsung Restore comes with Access Netfront 3.5.1, that’s a full HTML pages can. Page loading speed is good, thanks to the EV-DO 3G, but full HTML pages with columns overlooking a QVGA screen closely.
Multimedia
With 3G EV-DO Samsung Restore is a strong contender with multimedia music player, Sprint TV, Video, YouTube videos and more. The Samsung Restore is a great music phone, though it lacks the Sprint Music Store. The phone has a good music player on board, the pieces of MP3 and AAC files. We tested MP3 songs and unprotected iTunes songs, and the phone worked fine. The music player has album art support and playlists. Sprint Music Store Plus is available to the Samsung Restore later this year, but now you can load your music on microSD cards and play them on the Restore. The built-in speakerphone sounds very decent for playing music with nice audio quality and high volume. You can also play music through the 3.5mm stereo audio jack or Bluetooth headphones via A2DP.
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The Samsung Restore is also a good Sprint TV phone. Videos streamed with Sprint TV plays fairly smooth with occasional lags even in full screen mode. Most episodes of all TV programs have a good image quality and play well on the Samsung Restore with audio sync with video. Program selection is impressive on Sprint TV in the number of full episode TV shows that are available. Streaming speed is good, when in good coverage areas, and it does if you are slow in marginal coverage areas. mobile thanks to the One Click Google integration, the Samsung Restore can run YouTube videos with one click. YouTube videos play at about 15 fps in normal mode and about 7-10 fps in High Quality mode. You can use the video in full screen mode in landscape mode for the max resolution.
GPS and Navigation
Samsung Restore has a built-in GPS that works seamlessly with Sprint navigation. The phone gets GPS fix quickly and shows maps and routes. Sprint Navigation powered by TeleNav, has recently updated their POI database and street names shown on your route. Route guidance on the Samsung Restore is fast and turn-by-turn directions are correct in metro and large urban areas. The phone has a speaker and voice guidance of Sprint Navigation is clear and clear voice instructions. Other location-based services include traffic reports, share locations, Family Locator and much more.
Camera
The Samsung Restore has a 2-megapixel camera that is capable of recording video with sound. The phone actually takes pretty decent photos of 2-megapixel camera phone standards. Outdoor pictures look good on a sunny day with enough detail and balanced colors. It’s Whiteout places from the sun made but other than the pictures look good. Interior view more noise, but it is not so bad given the fact that the camera phone does not have a flash. The camera software is a whole range of options including white balance, resolution, recording mode (including night mode), location, and much more. The Samsung R estore also can take both MMS video length or long video clips although the largest file is limited to 512 KB and you can not send long videos. Clips taken with mobile phones look and play decently smooth with synchronized audio with video. The camcorder software also offers many options such as white balance, quality, saving locations and more.
Battery
The Samsung Restore has a user replaceable 3.7V Li-Ion battery that’s 1140 mAh capacity. Battery life is very good at the beginning of nearly 6 hours of talk time and one week standby. Even with watching Sprint TV and Sprint Navigation, it took us 5 days. Since the Samsung Restore is under the green series, the phone comes with an energy start v2.0 qualified charger with standby power consumption of less than 30mW.
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Conclusion
With 84 percent recycled and the Samsung Restore is formed with environmental concerns in mind. The phone’s body contains 27% post-consumer recycled plastics and the packaging is 100% recyclable to print with soy ink. Beyond the environmental benefits, the Samsung Restore offers a very nice video of experience and good GPS performance and a full serving of messaging and social networking. It is a great phone for the price with a contract.
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