Samsung SGH-T919 Behold brings a nice blend of multimedia features to new 3G network T-Mobile. If you are looking for a ‘wow’ without springs for a smartphone, see the large touch screen, fun and unusual interface, and 5-megapixel camera can fill the bill. Remember that improved versions of each of the individual features can be found other handsets, just not all on a single phone.

The Samsung Behold looks and works a lot like Sprint’s Samsung Instinct or Verizon’s LG Dare. All three phones are equipped with extra bells and whistles, they look and feel a bit like a smartphone, but are not as expandable or complex. The 3.9-ounce Behold is a 4.1 by 2.1 by 0.5 inches (HWD) black plate with a nice plastic back that looks like brushed metal.
On the front of the handset, there is a large, 3.1-inch, 240 by 400-pixel touch screen above the Pick Up, hanging, and Back buttons. Camera Lock and Volume buttons are on the sides of the phone, and a whopping 5-megapixel autofocus camera lives on the back. Design a sour note: the microSD slot is hidden underneath the battery, which allows you as a challenge.

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Samsung’s TouchWiz interface makes using the Looks fun. Just like on the LG Dare, the splash screen is very customizable. You can drag icons for various apps including the music player, photo viewer, the IM client, web browser and a sidebar of them anywhere you want on the home screen Plop. I found the touch screen and accelerometer response.
As a voice phone, the Behold is not bad as long as you do not venture into areas with high background noise. For this is a 3G phone (T-Mobile’s 3G only but worldwide EDGE), I experienced the rich tones of a 3G conversation, without the noise I hear a lot of 2G on T-Mobile phone. Indoors or in a quiet environment, the earpiece volume was fine, and a lot of in-ear feedback made pleasant talk. But outside the earpiece had triumphed over trouble very noisy places and a lot of background noise came through the microphone.

The speakerphone was loud, so tinny, and also have a lot of background noise. The phone comes with a wired headset for her eccentric, proprietary Samsung connector. It worked great with our mono Plantronics Voyager 520 and Motorola S9 stereo headsets, including the activation of the excellent Nuance voice dialing system. Battery life was very good for a 3G phone, at 5 hours and 10 minutes talk time.
If the carrier usually does, T-Mobile has locked the phone, a ban on you from installing your own apps, in all honesty, though, the Behold not a smartphone. But this means you are stuck with a mediocre browser and underwhelming e-mail and IM programs. The IM app handles AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and Windows Live Messenger, e-mail program supports AOL, Gmail, Yahoo, and a few other ISPs, but not a generic POP / IMAP e-mail. The browser is the popular NetFront 3.4, but with a twist: T-Mobile all pages through a WAP portal translation that makes it easy to read the basic text content of Web pages, but also mangles their layout. It is safest to stick with the mobile-formatted pages on this phone.

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The 5-megapixel camera is not quite measure up in the Motorola ZN5, yet it is a lot better than the 2-megapixel shooters you get on many feature phones. Does the camera captured about 25 percent fewer rules than the ZN5, resulting in blurred images. The LED flash is very weak compared to the ZN5 Xenon flash, and shutter lag was disappointing 1.93 seconds (compared with a spicy 0.45 seconds in the ZN5).
On the positive side, using the Imatest test suite, the Behold showed a low amount of noise at all light levels, and photos show was cooler than the ZN5′s. Behold and has a better movie mode than the ZN5 does, capturing relatively smooth 320 by 240 videos at 15 frames per second. You can view your photos in over the phone 200MB memory on board or on a MicroSD card up to 16 GB.

Using the included USB cable or Bluetooth, the Behold synchronize with free Samsung PC Studio 3.1.2 software for Windows Vista. You can also transfer files to and from Macs or PCs with Bluetooth, file transfers were unusually fast for a phone, at about 1 megabit per second, but PC Studio is rougher than either Nokia or Sony Ericsson PC Suite.
You can copy single contacts, calendar entries, tasks and notes from Outlook or type them on your PC, but you can not select a folder or copy entries. The program imploded when I tried to copy back all my calendar until 2004. PC Studio allows you to copy music and video files to your phone but it does not transcode them to the correct format for on-the-go viewing.

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MP3, AAC and WMA music files are supported, and you can create your own songs as ringtones. The music is very attractive, does album covers, and supports the typical sort options. In my video tests, see a play 320 by 240, 30-frame-per-second MPEG4 movie file smoothly in landscape mode, but an H.264 video stuttered badly. You also get directions TeleNav GPS software.
But since the phone was not satellite-only and Assisted GPS, but had trouble locking and finding a location when we tried it in two different boroughs of New York City. Behold the Samsung is not the best at one thing, but it gives you a lot on a single device. On T-Mobile, the Motorola ZN5 is a better camera phone, the T-Mobile G1 offers far superior web experience, and the BlackBerry Pearl 8120 offers free Wi-Fi calling and syncs with iTunes.