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The Samsung Glyde has a lot of potential, with a smooth sliding full-size QWERTY keyboard and a 2.8-inch touchscreen, as well as extras such as assisted GPS, Bluetooth, haptic feedback, and a 2-megapixel camera. It even looks like a smaller version of one of its main competitors, the LG Voyager, but it lacks the former mobile TV capability. Unfortunately, the Glyde’s main input method – the touch – is not good enough for us to recommend the phone. If Samsung solves this problem through a firmware update, we consider changing our tune.

Features and design

The bar-shaped 4.1-ounce Glyde measures 4 x 2 x 0.7 cm – thick, but still very compact – and has a midnight blue shell trimmed in chrome-colored plastic. A 2.8-inch touchscreen, a similar home button, and ear speaker answer the phone front, while the 2-megapixel camera lens and LED flash grace the back. A few speakers and a 2.5-mm headphone jack sit on top, with buttons for power / hold, volume, and camera / camcorder on the right. The charge / sync port is on the left, and the phone pinhole microphone is located on the bottom.

The phone’s thickness is due to the QWERTY keyboard that literally slides on the left side behind the front. We are impressed with the quality and smoothness of the spring-loaded sliding mechanism and the 3-row keyboard is excellent in terms of size and key feel. We found the space bar placement (between V and B) a little clumsy, and the top row, the pressure against the edge of the top half of the phone, but we’re glad the buttons are lit. The Glyde has a microSD slot, the last series of high-capacity cards support, but oddly enough Samsung chose to keep hidden behind the back. At least you do not get the battery to remove it, but cutting away a small portion of the cover for the slot have been exposed would be much smarter.

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Inside, the dual-band CDMA (800/1900MHz) Glyde packs stereo Bluetooth and assisted GPS, and 3G support and a rather competent browser. It has built-in 45MB flash memory for messages, applications, ringtones, media, and ringtones, although you can store up to 8 GB with a microSD card. The Glyde lacks WiFi, but it has very good onboard email client accounts such as AOL Mail, Gmail, Windows Live and Yahoo Mail supports.

Camera

The integrated 2-megapixel camera has an autofocus lens and a small LED flash and can capture video at up to 320 x 240 resolution. The photos that we are not too bad, as long as there is enough ambient light is present. Outside in the daylight, our pictures were pretty sharp with adequate detail and a slight tendency toward softness and overexposure. Indoors, our pictures were often vague and the autofocus seemed to have trouble locking on everything, and the flash is not much help. In addition to being very small, our test videos (except small) looked like the average cell phone video: blurred, drunk and slightly springy. In daylight, the camcorder fared okay, but in most indoor scenes, captured enough detail to give you the general idea, but not much more.

Multimedia

One thing we really miss the Glyde is sort of like Verizon’s MediaFLO mobile TV (supported by the LG Voyager). Instead, the Glyde is limited to your own videos or V Cast streaming video. You can buy music over the air from Verizon’s Music Store, or listen to your own files (MPEG-4, H.264 and Real Video). The screen looks good and downloads are about as fast as they were with the LG Voyager – about one minute of music tracks or a little more than that (low-res) videos.

Supported music files are MP3, AAC +, eAAC + and Real Audio. We tried in our own headphone jack via a RadioShack 2.5-mm adapter, but the pin connections to the Glyde’s do not match the adapter, so sound only from the right earphone to come unless we unplugged is halfway. Music is clearly not very loud from the phone built-in speaker, but we hope Samsung comes to his senses with its upcoming Instinct and has a good 3.5-mm jack.

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Battery Life

The Glyde Battery life is rated at just 3.5 hours talk time (10.4 days standby), which is about half hour shorter than that of the LG Voyager and less than half of the iPhone. We found ways to save on battery life with the Glyde, however, like switching off or reducing the haptic feedback and keeping brightness and volume settings low. There is no WiFi to drain the battery, but if you use EVDO, Bluetooth, and camera features a lot, you may want to pass on the Glyde.

Conclusion

We think the Glyde could be a solid phone if it had a more reliable touchscreen and a better browser (really, Verizon, it’s embarrassing), as it is, we give the borderline pass / fail grade. We look forward to Samsung Instinct, which includes hot features like Visual Voicemail, and we pray they did a better job with the touchscreen.

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These days it seems that smartphones are packed to the hilt with live feeds and social networking widgets, streaming news, and a seemingly endless surplus of instantaneous content. But only one widget or two was not enough for Samsung. Hence, the Samsung Continuum, the world’s first smartphone with a live ticker display that minute by minute updates in the social networking site, weather, news, sports and finance departments will. The rest of the Samsung Continuum is actually a  buoys (both Verizon phones), Android 2.1 with a 5-megapixel camera with flash and 720p video, super sexy and AMOLED screen technology. Is the ticker screen overkill? Marketing hype? An essential tool for digital submerged?

Design

The Samsung Continuum is rather odd-shaped it is long and narrow, with rounded corners, a kind of Humpty Dumpty on a diet. Like the Samsung fascinate the Samsung Super Continuum has an AMOLED capacitive touch screen, although we reduced to a 3.4-inch display on the Continuum. That’s to make room for the adjustable 1.8-inch AMOLED display, ticker Super, who lives at the bottom of the phone. Farewell to the Sea of AMOLED goodness is a thin strip of haptic feedback dressed buttons: Menu, Home, Back and Search. We found that it was easy to accidentally change the ticker display when attempting to access the strip of buttons being so close together, so it will take some fine magic to take to maneuver around that part of the phone.

Like any other phone S Galaxy, Super AMOLED displays are brilliant with a 50,000:1 contrast ratio and bright, vivid colors. Samsung has also incorporated a grip sensor in the bottom of the continuum. By laying our hands on both sides of the phone next to the ticker screen, we could turn it on or off, even when the phone is locked for secret updates.

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The rest of the Samsung Continuum is fairly straightforward, save the external microSD card slot, on the side of the phone fitted with a protective cover. The phone has a camera button, 3.5mm audio jack, Power / LOCK button, volume control, USB port and naked. It is strange to a naked USB connection to see a Samsung, because the rest of the Galaxy and the Focus S phones have covered terminals. The 5-megapixel camera with LED flash live in the back, and a thin plastic back panel hides the rechargeable lithium-ion battery.

Software / Interface

As we have delved into Android 2.1 S with the provisional Galaxy fleet, the Samsung Continuum was all too familiar. Thus, most of our experience involving the addition of the ticker panel. The Continuum is a fast machine, sporting a 1GHz processor Hummingbird, and it is equipped with an 8GB microSD card out of the box. The Samsung Continuum also has a 6-axis sensor for 3D gaming, offers Wi-Fi Wireless-N connectivity, Bluetooth 2.1 and GPS. When we first set the Continuum, it was slow and froze, forcing us to restart the phone a few times. However, the Continuum was polished silver after he shook the OS wobbles. However, the Continuum gets stunned with a lot of programs and applications running, so be prepared for occasional delays.

Now about that ticker panel. We can arrange Feeds Social Networking, RSS, and events, including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, ESPN, Reuters, WeatherBug, and more range updates every 5 seconds. This means that the Samsung Continuum is a never-ending stream of live content, and is particularly suitable for stock junkies and Facebook devils. The ticker will even take calls, text messages, emails, instant messages, voicemails and missed, so it is more versatile than one would expect. The only problem we see with the ticker is that real life social experiences depersonalizes more like a live ticker is like a vortex, sucking a Continuum in his provocative vacuum.

With Android 2.1, the Samsung Continuum brings many useful features to the table, but it lacks Flash for Web browsing and lack the speed and capabilities of Android 2.2. Hopefully we will see a 2.2 upgrade on the near horizon, but until then, Android 2.1 is still a powerful platform. The Continuum includes the Friends Now widget social network feeds, and it also brings Twidroyd, which is a live Twitter feed widget that functions like the Facebook widget with live updates. Continuum has the Samsung Bing Bing Maps with voice search, and rather than Google, but it includes the Android Market, Google, YouTube, and Talk applications.

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The Samsung Continuum’s Applications menu reminds us of an iPhone with four primary applications in a solid bar at the bottom, while all other applications can be browsed in a page order at the top. The Continuum has 7 home screens with the ability to tap and hold the screen to add or delete content. For the most part, our navigation experience, just like one of the first generation Galaxy S phones, except the live ticker. We’re not sure if the ticker will be a standard for future phones, the Continuum lijkt a prototype for us-an experiment in a lab full of stockbrokers, sports addicts, and Facebook junkies.

Voice Quality / Battery Life

We experience the same sound quality with the Samsung Continuum as we did with all other phones Galaxy, and that’s a good thing. Clear, crisp call quality with suppressed background is what we stumbled on the info sync Labs, although battery life was mediocre. With two Super AMOLED displays, the Samsung device Continuum is a demanding when it comes to juice. Most phones we tested side-by-side with the Continuum, such as Motorola and Motorola Droid Pro Citrus, exhibited stronger battery performances, so check the ticker panel use will be essential.

Still image and video quality

We experience the same image on each high-end Samsung smartphone released this year, and falls in line with Continuum Samsung phones, including Captivate, captivate, and recently revised Focus. In bright light, the Samsung Continuum is fantastic, especially when it came to macro photography. However, there were times when the camera Continuum struggled with detail, and we think that has to do with the power of the camera at hand to shake suppress. Little light was not as sensitive as other phones we’ve tested, and the flash had a tendency to more exposed parts of the image. General, the Samsung Continuum cranked a better picture than most phones, but it was not enough for the iPhone or 4 latest BlackBerry phones to beat.

Now the Continuum also captures 720p HD video, which are good in bright light, but they record at slower frame rates vary depending on the shooting environment. The camera is not as sensitive in the dark, no video light, so the Samsung Continuum video quality is a few degrees above average-it is certainly not the best on the market. We also saw the same camera interface on the Continuum, including photo-effects such as Cartoon, Panorama (which works great), and Vintage. The Samsung Continuum The camera also offers touch focus, exposure compensation, three different metering modes, and additional Scene modes. It is certainly one of the more polished camera interfaces on the market, and it made shooting very intuitive.

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Conclusion

The Samsung Continuum is an odd duck. It is certainly nothing we could ever imagine hitting the smartphone market by force, and it almost seems like the addition of the ticker panel starts on the gimmicky side of the spectrum, rather than an essential upgrade. We really do not see the need for the ticker, unless you’re a mobile user who is glued to their phone every waking minute of the day. While the new Windows phones are striving to save us from our phones, the Samsung Continuum comes with its booming vortex of constant notifications, sucking us in our phones even further.

We’re not saying the Samsung Continuum is an unnecessary phone-its Android 2.1 platform and 1GHz processor Hummingbird work very well together, like any other phone Galalxy S. Can we connect the most popular social networking sites, sync our contacts, calendars and e-mail accounts, phone and fully adapt to the best of our ability. But is the ticker panel really necessary for the majority of the mobile population? Not particularly. It is more of an “Oh, that’s a kind of neat”, phenomenon rather than a “Whoa, video chatting on a phone!” Experience. To put it simply, without the ticker panel, the Samsung Continuum is as good as any other S Galaxy phone on the market, so let that be the deciding factor.

The latest Samsung Zeal Verizon Wireless is a perfect messaging phone, which comes in a dual-hinge design and replaces Samsung Alias 2. Well, the new handset specs sheet has a transformative keyboard which have to extract features from two different keyboards, a quality that has gathered much interest in offering mobile buffs.

You can change the shape of the E Ink-based keyboard to your needs. If the phone vertically, the phone offers the features of alphanumeric or numeric keypad while the phone is held horizontally, it immediately turns into a QWERTY keyboard with alphabets, numbers, and symbols.

In addition, the budget-friendly Zeal Samsung also comes preloaded with a variety of social networking apps, its use can easily and comfortably get connected with your near and dear ones.

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Besides, with the addition of social networking applications, company focused on the social networking freaks. Zeal also has a Social Beat widget you can use many SNS sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter access. Using this app, you can also enjoy access to more than 50 entertainment, sports and news feeds.

In addition, the Samsung Zeal also supports Microsoft Office Exchange that you can use to synchronize your corporate contacts, calendars and e-mail.The Zeal, similar to any other mobile phone are being produced in today’s market, also supports prominent messaging options, such as multimedia messaging, mobile IM testing, voice messaging, mobile IM, mobile email and mobile Web email mail.

Other highlights of Samsung Zeal include a 2MP camera and camcorder with autofocus. The camera supports built-in night shots and Panorama. In addition, subscribers to Verizon Wireless also enjoy access to VCAST Music & Video services. With this, you can enjoy listening and watching the latest songs and videos on the display of the Samsung’s Zeal.

Zeal also offers Verizon’s VZ Navigator service, which is helpful for you to locate your POIs (points of interest). Plus you can also benefit with turn-by-turn voice navigation with VZ Navigator. The latest Samsung Zeal Verizon Wireless is a perfect messaging phone, which comes in a dual-hinge design and replaces Samsung Alias 2.

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Well, the new handset specs sheet has a transformative keyboard which have to extract features from two different keyboards, a quality that has gathered much interest in offering mobile buffs.That is: you can change the shape of the E Ink-based keyboard to your needs.

Such as: if the phone vertically, the phone offers the features of alphanumeric or numeric keypad while the phone is held horizontally, it immediately turns into a QWERTY keyboard with alphabets, numbers, and symbols.In addition, the budget-friendly Zeal Samsung also comes preloaded with a variety of social networking apps, its use can easily and comfortably get connected with your near and dear ones.

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The camera supports built-in night shots and Panorama. In addition, subscribers to Verizon Wireless also enjoy access to VCAST Music & Video services. With this, you can enjoy listening and watching the latest songs and videos on the display of the Samsung’s Zeal. Zeal also offers Verizon’s VZ Navigator service, which is helpful for you to locate your POIs (points of interest). Plus you can also benefit with turn-by-turn voice navigation with VZ Navigator.

It seems that Samsung is ready to reach out to the masses. After the enormous range of smartphones that we had discussed in the last few days, Samsung strikes back again with a simple, simple phone, which claims to provide a pleasant experience with making conversation. This is basically all communication. Anyways let’s move forward and see if this could really be the next primary phone that would make the buyers go into a tizzy.

There is no denying the fact that some similarities to the earlier Samsung SGH-T329 bears ie and SGH-A237. It was a pretty slick design for themselves with curves on the sides and opposite ends. Of 3.6 inches by 1.85 inches by 0.75 inches that fits easily into the bag and also because of the curves has a nice feel my hand. At only 2.9 grams this is definitely a lightweight.

This is the flip hinge design and is pretty much solid. I personally do not like the plastic skin just for the plain reason that this would not be suitable for rough users, and most of the time the people who choose such phones are the ones who use their phones in a rough way. It got a 2.5 mm headphone jack which is pretty much good, mainly because that is not supposed to be a phone for music fans. This headphone jack with the microUSB port is located on the right side of the phone and the left spine houses the volume rocker.

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Like the SGH-T329 is a vertical external display this piece. Although it looks stylish, but the alphabet and the numbers are pretty damn small. And anyways M240 does not have a camera, so let me not get into photo caller IDs.

It got a 1.75-inch screen that supports 65,000 colors and has a resolution of 160 x 128 pixels. It loses no points when it comes to brightness, but then the graphics are not sharp and satisfactory. It also offers a large number of customization options and the menus are simple to use. Well I do not think anyone would ask for more as far as the screen is concerned about a low-end phone like the M240.

The navigation array has a hexagonal switch with a central OK button, two soft keys, talk / end buttons. Taking into account the size of the phone, it offers a nice spacious keyboard. The buttons are comfortably placed and I hardly mispresses encountered while using it. They have a nice rubbery feel and are kind of flat. The backlight is bright enough and the numbers on the keypad are large enough.

It comes loaded with a 500-entry phone book, which can have multiple entries with a phone number email address, IM handle, an address, a birthday, a job and business, and notes. The callers can be easily divided into groups and each item can be combined with a polyphonic caller tune entry.

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The other features that one offers tis a calculator, alarm clock, vibrate mode, currency calculator, notepad, voice memo recorder and voice dialing. The major drawback for this one is not to come with Bluetooth facility. A telephone communication actually I expect this one to Bluetooth compatibility atleast have to talk while driving.

For pure entertainment it is loaded with demo versions of three Java games in the first place the Downtown Texas Hold ‘Em, Brain Exercise, Super Street Fighter.

The call quality offered by this is quite a decent but not really surprising. The call quality was moderate and the sound was natural enough. Though there was not this much static ruin the experience. At times I really had to push myself to the talks, when heard in closed places. The calls on the speakerphone was pretty mean.

The M240 has a rated talk time of 6.5 hours which are decent enough for a phone of this caliber. Being a basic phone I expect this one to atleast offer spectacular call quality. But that again proved to be average. It got some simple and easy to use features, but then again it really does not make this one any better. Frankly, this could really be a damper in the true sense.

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A fantastic cell phone we had to test is the Samsung M360, a phone that was designed this year to revolutionize the market. Measuring only 99 x 48 x 18 mm and weighs only 102 grams, this phone is just the perfect size.

The phone is equipped with a 1000 mAh Li-Ion battery, letting a talk time of 5 hours and hours in standby 10.4 days hours. Its engineers included a 2.0 MB memory, enough for a regular use!

An attractive feature of the Samsung M360 is the speaker, which is always useful in loud places! The large screen of this phone is capable of setting wallpapers of 240 x 320 px.

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If you like phones that uses skins you like to know the M360 has customizable themes enabled. The gaming Samsung M360 runs on J2ME, which are fun games to distract yourself!

Not surprisingly, like all cell phones, the M360 supports both SMS and EMS. It also supports MMS messaging to send pictures and any multimedia file!

The text prediction is based on the T9 technology, known as a good tool. We finish by believing the Samsung M360 is a fantastic cell phone that we would recommend it to anyone looking for a good phone!

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Verizon Wireless and Samsung Mobile announced the Samsung Intensity II (model SCH-U460) is now available online and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores in part from recycled plastic, the feature-rich intensity II offers a horizontal slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a music player, one-touch access to social networking sites and a 1.3-megapixel camera with infrared night vision.

Samsung SCH-U460 Intensity II comes with the specifications and features: 2.2-inch QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) screen, full pull-out horizontal QWERTY keyboard with external keypad, 1.3 megapixel camera with infrared night vision, Series and access shared shot modes and color effects, including normal, black and white, antique, negative, aqua and green, voice commands and advanced voice recognition, Bluetooth technology with support for headset, push hands free, stereo, phone book, Basic Imaging – Property for vCard and vCalendar and serial port, microSD card slot with support for up to 32 GB (card sold separately).

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Samsung SCH-Intensity II U460 is also equipped with integrated music player, one-touch contact list to frequently used contacts right away full suite of messaging options, including text, pictures and voice messaging access, Mobile IM, Mobile Chat, Mobile E-mail and Mobile Web, Social Beat application offers customers a single point for accessing social networking sites, including Facebook Twitter and MySpace e-mail, content feeds and instant messaging.

Z-Navigator receive functions for customers audible turn-by-directions to millions of points of interest and share directions with others, # Media Center provides access to downloadable games, ringtones, wallpapers, location-based services and more # Personal Organizer and tools with calendar, calculator with currency converter, alarm clock, world clock and stopwatch, Supports Verizon Wireless, including V CAST Music with Rhapsody (subscription, and PC-only download), V CAST Song ID, VZW Tones.

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With the proceeds from the donated cell phones, Verizon Wireless helps for wireless phones and airtime to victims of domestic violence, as well as funding and other contributions to nonprofit domestic violence protection and prevention programs across the country.

In the universe of Galaxy Samsung S-telephones, Epic Sprint 4G, may be the brightest star, and not just because it is the only 4G model of the series. The epic is frighteningly easy, considering it a third thicker than the others, abnormally light S Galaxy models, horizontal for its slideout keyboard. But the keyboard lifts Epic superiority over not only their sisters but Galaxy S during the first Sprint 4G mobile phone, the EVO 4G, which it is more appropriate to compare.

Features and Design

At the end of August, Sprint subscribers (mainly in the 48-4G-enabled cities) have a choice in 4G mobile phones: HTC and Samsung EVO Epic. What are the differences? Physically, the EVO a hair smaller all around, but weighs half a gram more. In fact, the Epic shockingly light considering its size – you’ll swing between thinking it feels cheap, and glad that it’s not bagging your shirt’s breast pocket. Despite their nearly identical area and mass, the EVO sports a 4.3-inch LCD, while the epic of a 4-inch AMOLED is great.

It is smaller, perhaps (although both measure 800 x 480 pixels), but certainly more colorful and bright – except enormously, in sunshine. Regardless of our brightness, during daylight, while surfing the net or framing pictures, the epic screen appeared at a blue-gray filter over it. The Droid 2′s display, by comparison, outshines the sun and the epic in side-by-side comparisons. In all other light that illuminates the Epic AMOLED all but his Galaxy S siblings.

The Epic primary physical advantage over the EVO is its slide-out, four-line horizontal QWERTY keyboard with a dedicated numeric row you without physical cost, taking into account the small size and weight difference between the two phones. The EVO is missing an HDMI output on the Epic, but it’s hard to see how a cell phone missing HDTV connectivity, a negative factor would be decisive. No, that Epic is not a brace.

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Feature-wise, both the EVO and Epic 1GHz processors and offer Android 2.1 (both are upgradeable to 2.2 at some point), although the Epic retarded often interfere with the process execution. Samsung’s Android implementation is slightly different but not necessarily better than the EVO, for none of the differences in implementation level an advantage both.

For example, the EVO Android applications in original vertical screen arranged drawer, while Samsung arrays apps on the Epic on separate screens horizontal, ala Apple IOS. Six others of one, half a dozen. n 4G, the Epic has connections for up to five units during the EVO has eight. The difference is unlikely to consider that is a huge. Both offer 720p HD video capture, and during the shoot EVO 8-megapixel still images in comparison to 5-megapixel imager Epic. This is not a difference maker. Despite the cut-Megapixel Digital Camera land in war, 5 megapixels is enough for anything other than shooting posters or billboards, and the cheap plastic lenses on the high phone cams EVO resolution superiority.

Both have a front-facing camera for self portraits and Qik video chats. Again, the EVO’s lens, 1.3 megapixel, statistically superior to the VGA Imager on Epic, but a megapixel imager for cell-based video chat is an exaggeration, because you see the image on a screen are so small. It could play a role in the future if Qik expanded capabilities to the desktop, but. Stylistically, the EVO is a strict, black square plate, while the Epic has softer curves, elegant black with a silver band perimeter between its two halves. Did we mention how easy it feels?

Multimedia

How the EVO, the epic appears as a multimedia player, as less-than-organize iOS Android’s ability to transfer files. For example, instead of logical placement page loaded videos in the folder Galaxy, they are instead in the phone book is my folder buried. Samsung Media Hub store is not yet open, but the Epic includes Sprint TV and YouTube. As with other Galaxy models that performed Epic AMOLED screen only intensifies the low resolution of these shortcomings Web content. Higher resolution content from the screen like a HDTV display.

Sound Quality

Conversations are crystal clear with plenty of volume, although the volume on the left edge of the Epic is hard to feel different. There is a loudspeaker attached to the underside of the back, you will not be able to place the epic means from the bottom looking down on a table for hands-free or videos, perhaps underlines the lack of EVO’s stand.

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The functionality of the phone

The Epic slide-out QWERTY keyboard feels spring loaded and snaps easily. It is a great keyboard, arranged with square black keys on a black background with a checkerboard pattern lines (instead of staggered) style. While buttons feel flat and therefore difficult to distinguish, they are well distributed so randomly reduced adjacent tap. In contrast to Motorola phones Droid includes a handy dedicated to the epic series of numbers. Unfortunately – and somewhat inexplicably – it lacks a proper @ button on the physical and touch keypads, replaced the slide-out QWERTY keyboard with the seldom-used emoticon button.

The most annoying is an issue with the other Epic S Galaxy phones: backlight on the four navigation buttons below the touch screen – menu to be home, back and search – not synchronized with the screen. This means that the backlight goes out, even when the screen turned on. This is not so unusual, but without the backlight control is invisible in artificial light (the sun, they are a light gray almost indistinguishable). You need the general area where you think the controller, which only activates the backlight when you tap one hit in the right place. If you hit it wrong, you can hit a control that you do not intend. It is unnecessary, frustrating and annoying that little mishap in a software update that the backlight should always be fixed on the screen.

Web

Even in 3G area, the Epic web pages load in a snap. Mobile sites and sites like CNN, The New York Times and ESPN optimizes all load in a rapid three fifty-eight seconds. The advantage of 4G is not loading pages are optimized for mobile and of course hot-spotting. Non-optimized pages, depending on graphic content can be to load up to 20 seconds or more. This is less of a problem, but as more and more large sites to create optimized versions for mobile devices.

Camera

As mentioned above, just because the Evo sport an 8-megapixel camera and the epic “only” 5 megapixels does not mean automatically the EVO has a better camera. But it is, barely, on location shots. Sunshine shots from the epic are somewhat darker than the EVO, although easily corrected in photo editing software programs. Indoors, however, the Epic photos are smooth – if you hold the phone still enough can get a clear picture to get a huge title – in comparison to the EVO’s grain results (both include an LED flash).

The Epic captures 720p HD video at a slightly higher bit rate than the EVO, but with a similar amount of edge blurring. How stupid of navigation backlight synchronization problem the Epic suffers from another problem common to all S Galaxy phones. In camera mode, the power button, the screen and all of the key blocks, showed a status of a tiny, barely visible on the screen padlock icon. Without immediate and obvious locked status, delays often grab snapshots or leaving the camera function.

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Battery Life

Where and how to use the phone – 3G or 4G – will have a major impact battery life. In 3G areas, Epic lasted almost two days on and off normal use before charging in the critical region. The EVO for six hours of talk time is valued, so we like the epic to go out with his similarly 1500mAh battery will provide about the same.

Conclusion

Even if you do not or have 4G service, is the epic of a flexible, easy, fun and easy to use Super Phone. The Epic has a value could be adapted for the EVO, thanks to its super-super bright AMOLED display, slide-out keyboard and pre-installed 16GB microSD card, and even taking into account its low operational harassment and comparative specification defects MP camera and hotspot connectivity.

So we do not forget Samsung Mother Earth, here comes the Samsung Evergreen (SGH-A667), a very affordable AT &T messaging phone with a list of low impact eco-credentials. The hardware is constructed from 70 percent recycled material, and the packaging is made of 80 percent recycled paper with soy ink, and is (regular petroleum-based ink) is printed. The manual is on CD. These are similar to measures with other environmentally conscious Samsung phones like the Reclaim taken, restore, and Blue Earth. An attractive slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a large keypad and AT & T’s extra services, such as AT & T music, make the Evergreen appeal to budget-conscious celebrities and environmentalists alike.

Design

You would hardly call the Samsung Evergreen is a small or stylish phone, with rounded corners and a black plastic body, it is similar to most other all-black Samsung Slider Messaging its kind, with just a few colored accents around the navigation and change to the keyboard – light green, in this case – to give it some interest. That is, the Evergreen harmless to the eye and its dimensions (4.56 inches tall, 2.2 cm wide and 0.6 cm deep) is make it comfortable to hold. It was not brickish than other QWERTY phones, and it belongs in weight standard, and at 4.5 ounces.

The 2.4-inch QVGA display supports 262,000 colors and 320×240 pixels. This is not a high-resolution display of mobile phone standards, but it is common for this type of phone and it is bright and colorful. Navigation is simple and appealing the four-way switch, which sits under the screen, it has a central Select button. On both sides of the navigation array are gently curved keys that hosts the two soft keys, a text link, and the combined free and back button. The talk and end buttons are slightly raised and easy to press. We were with the spacious keypad and large screen, the corresponding figures satisfied. Each illuminated large keypad key has an angled bottom edge, which allows the feeling of going through the dial.

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Although the Evergreen’s spines have the usual attributes- a volume rocker, a micro-USB charging port, microSD card slot and a camera shutter –  there is one surprise. Sharing the camera shutter Rocker is a convenience key, an on-screen ticker, which you can run a variety of features such as SMS or gaming module and the music player open. Note that there is a player on board, there are no special headphone jack – eBay Motors, the micro-USB port to use. On the back is a 2-megapixel camera.

We have seen lots of QWERTY keyboards, and Evergreen ranks pretty high. It will be managed without too much spacious, and the domed keys are nice and appealing to push. Samsung also has the high placing soft keys on either side of the keyboard so that it easy to get at.

Features

The Samsung Evergreen has all the basic communication functions, plus a few more. The address book contains 2,000 entries, each with room for multiple phone numbers and email addresses. There is also space for a caller group, you notice customize the message tone, photo ID and one of 11 standard ring tones.

Extras include a calendar, alarm clock, sound recorder, a calculator, a to-do list, notepad, calculator, and a bit. There is also a voice command app (powered by Nuance). For communication and connectivity, there are text and multimedia messaging, Bluetooth and GPS support, AT &T Social Net (powered by iSkoot), the downward pulls RSS feeds and Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and status updates . Several other AT & T-branded apps also make an appearance, such as AT &T Navigator, AT &T card (powered by NAVTEQ and YellowPages.com) and AT  & T Music .In addition, there are third-party applications such as mobile yellow pages and find out.

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If you enable it, supports the Evergreen AT &T’s Video Share feature, the live video stream to another caller who has activated the service. For Internet, there is the highly stylized ATT.net browser. AT &T Locker an online storage for your photos is.

The Evergreen 2-megapixel camera is a step up from many of its 1.3-megapixel cousins. Supported resolutions are 1600 x 1, 200, 1280 x960, 640×480 and 320×240. In addition to sending the above video setting, the camera has an optional night mode, three focus settings, five white balance settings, five color effects, and six shooting modes, including Panorama and continuously.

Additional settings control trigger. The camcorder shoots at a resolution of 320×240, and has an option to limit message length for video messages – about 30 seconds on a 176×144-pixel resolution. Otherwise, the camera and camcorder will share all other settings. The Evergreen has 256 MB internal memory for storing your media. The microSD card slot accommodates cards up to 16GB.

Go as a music player, the Evergreen functional to pause with onscreen controls to play and jump. You can shuffle and repeat a song and create playlists in advance or on the fly. The music player controls to expand and Bluetooth headsets, but do not forget again that there is no special jack for wired headphones. It is an abbreviation Music from the module to AT &T’s Music Store to buy more songs.

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There are six games on board of the Evergreen, some of which Brain Challenge 3, Pac-Man and Tetris Champions. You can have more of AT &T’s storefront online application. The Evergreen’s Earth-friendly features include power-saving settings that automatically time-out and screen brightness. You’ll also find a pedometer (a tool called Eco Walk), an eco-calculator that calculates your driving efficiency and in accordance with the theme wallpaper and ringtones.

The Samsung Focus is one of the first Windows Mobile 7 devices. It has a 4-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, 8GB memory, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless networking, GPS and a 5.0 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom and LED flash.

BUILDING & DESIGN

The Focus is a great phone, much larger than the Motorola Defy that I recently reviewed here at Brighthand. It measures 4.84 inches high, wide, 2.56 inches, and 0.39-inch thick.The before the Focus is black, with chrome band around the top and on both sides of the phone Wraps. The back has a striped platinum finish.

The main material is plastic, and the surfaces are all in very smooth indeed. I did not pick up the phone fixed, I fall from the hand to hold. It is also trying a little uncomfortable for me, one hand operation, so I tend to keep to it in one hand and interact with the other hand, to the device. The phone will fit in the pocket of my pants, even though it makes a significant bulge because of its size. I suspect that most women, especially the wearing professional clothes are elegant, find that they prefer to keep the focus in her purse or briefcase; guys should not have the same problem.

Display

The 4-inch AMOLED display is simply amazing and makes me that the withdrawal of all praise I bestowed on other phones I’ve reviewed. It is not the slightest hint of pixel errors, no matter how closely I examine the screen. The only rub I can see on the screen is on the edge of some of the active panel on the startup screen appears and that more of design than an actual limitation of the screen.

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Keyboard

The Samsung Focus not on a physical keyboard, so you will be using a virtual on-screen. And while the keyboard itself is not my all-time favorite, it is not bad. Even after practicing a bit, I have to look at my hands to make sure I have entered the correct letters, but it’s OK. This is mainly due to the fact that the word completion utility for Windows Mobile 7 works so well that I actually use – and this is a first for me, as word completion is usually the first function that I turn off when I get a new device.

There is a separate smiley button that opens up a list of different emoticons to choose to improve your messages and texts. You are not animate, as on Android phones, but I have fun with them and I am glad that have the function – so I try not to and I remember how to bring about the typical smile.

Other buttons & Controls

believe at first glance may not be that there are any buttons on the Focus, but they are there – just hidden from sight. The charge sync and headphone jacks are on the top, with the power button and the camera button on the right side of the phone. The volume buttons are on the left. The only other buttons are three touch-sensitive surface directly below the screen. From left to right they are back home, and searching. While the device certainly looks lean no obvious buttons, it would be nice if the buttons under the display in any way mark, so it would be easier to find when you try to work the phone with one hand.

PERFORMANCE

The Samsung Focus is my first experience with Windows Mobile 7, and the phone in my experience a pleasant one. Although I was not familiar with the new operating system, I felt at home very quickly. Of course I had in every little corner of each menu stuck to me quickly get acquainted, and the focus was to keep up with my every touch and application launch. The only time I had to wait to complete a task were when I first had the unit and for all my personal data to be synchronized have to wait.

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Wireless/ Call Quality

The quality is good but not overwhelming, a critic friend of mine has the  Focus, a B + when it comes to quality call. I had no problems hearing or being heard, but the fidelity was just not all there. This could be due to active noise reduction, as my test callers could not hear any noise at all in the background during our conversation, even if I stood outside in the middle of a busy parking lot. I was pleasantly surprised by the signal strength surprised even in my office when I had only one bar, I was still able to make and receive calls. Because I know that my office is basically a dead zone that an item is in favor of the Focus. Microsoft has a long list of hardware requirements for appliances with the new operating system, and this is 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS.

Camera

The 5-megapixel camera has autofocus and an LED flash light. It can be a little slow to capture the picture while you are waiting to focus on them, but the payoff is in improved results for each image. The photos I could have survived with a Focus some of the best I’ve ever been in a position with a cell phone camera to achieve, and that includes both macro and zoom shots.

Of course there is some loss of detail and quality on enlarged photographs, but they still look good enough to share, and that’s better than passing shot because you do not get close enough. Low-resolution versions of the photos are automatically SkyDrive, where they can be shared with friends or uploaded archives only for their own use. You can also optionally geotagged know if you know where each shot was taken, you know that even your photos via e-mail or can upload it to Facebook with captions if you want to share photos in full size.

Battery Life

I really have very good results on the power front – I never had a low battery warning on the Focus, even though I only be charged it every two or three days, and I got the phone heavily for calling, SMS, and ( especially) games. Maybe you can get away without the charger on a weekend trip, but even better, you need not fear running out of juice when you surf the Web while you have the evening commute home.

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CONCLUSION

The Samsung Focus is a winner in almost every category. Although it is a bit larger than I would personally like (I prefer more pocketable phones with the ginormous cinematic displays), so I like pretty much everything about it. The display is really beautiful, the phone is quick and responsive to my every whim, and the battery life is great. The external speaker is something of a disappointment, but apart from that the Samsung Focus is an excellent choice if you need on the market for a Windows Mobile 7 device.

The Samsung Intrepid of the company is the successor to the moderate-Ace, and unfortunately only mediocre. It is a reasonable impersonation of a BlackBerry for entrepreneurial-minded Microsoft fans. It is also an OK place for Globetrotter by including CDMA and GSM radios. But despite the updated Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, Intrepid, it brings almost nothing new to Sprint’s lineup and pales in comparison to other smartphones available from the carrier.

Design and voice quality

The Intrepid is not much of a catcher. It measures 2.4 by 4.9 by 0.5 inches (HWD) and weighs 4.3 ounces. It is rounded black plastic with a dark chrome band around the front. The 2.6-inch plastic resistive touch screen offers only 320-by-240 pixel resolution. It is small and stubborn enough that you need the pin in the lower right corner for pretty much anything not on the home screen or main menu (more on that later) hidden. Six function keys console a large, rectangular five-way directional pad, all were easy to press in regular use. The four-row QWERTY keyboard felt a little cheap, but it was good for modest typing tasks. The keys do not wobble noticeably, and I made some mistakes.

As a dual-band EV-DO Rev A (800/ 1900 MHz), Quad-Band GSM (850/ 900/ 1800/ 1900 MHz) and UMTS (2100 MHz) device, the Intrepid a true world-phone as well as their namesake implies. It also includes Wi-Fi. The voice quality was determined in both directions, with a triple, crisp sound in the listeners and good wind rejection. Reception was average. Annoyingly, the OS could not keep up with numbers that all sounds a second or two later and piled cut from each other. The booming speakerphone was plenty loud for outdoor use. Calls sound through a Plantronics Voyager Bluetooth headset in order. Battery life was excellent at 6 hours and 34 minutes of talk time.

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Windows Mobile, Business Support and Apps

Without the right mood a la HTC TouchFLO or Samsung TouchWiz, Windows Mobile looks archaic. Version 6.5 brought a much needed update to the home screen looks like, and actually works well, with its large buttons and clear fonts. But the rest of the operating system is ugly and outdated-up to the old-school touch screen calibration on the first start-up. At least Internet Explorer Mobile 6 is somewhat improved from earlier versions and even make horrible static Flash content in a pinch. But it’s Desktop or very slow and freezes when loading scripts and still feel the touch-screen controls as an afterthought.

As a true Microsoft-powered smartphone, which creates Intrepid views, and edit Microsoft Word and Excel documents and view PowerPoint files. It connects to Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Server accounts for Direct Push e-mail. The Intrepid is not a bad smart phone for third-party applications, thanks to its 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM7600 processor, 266 MB of internal memory and 193MB RAM total, for a generous 153MB user programs. A microSD card is located under the battery cover is located and to the side. You have to replace the battery cards to draw a royal pain. An ill-fitting battery cover composed the misery, he always took five or six occupants properly tried.

Multimedia fans will receive the usual compliment of Sprint Power Vision services, including dozens of Sprint TV (live and simulcast), Sprint NFL Mobile Live, NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile. The GPS radio hooks into the TeleNav-powered navigation Sprint for voice-enabled, turn-by-turn directions. The Intrepid on my site spoke quickly and clearly blocked, although the low-res screen and Windows Mobile UI fixed upper and lower bars made for a tiny window card. Sprint included quick links to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and social networking duties. Instant messaging was a disappointment: the tabbed interface works with AIM, Windows Live and Yahoo accounts, but charges for each message as a 20-cent text messages.

The Intrepid includes TellMe, Microsoft’s voice control. Press and hold the TellMe near the lower right corner of the QWERTY keyboard, and the phone can such a friend, complete with the transfer of the entire message order and call a colleague to bring a Web page, or run Bing searched. It worked pretty well in my tests, and fired once (at least after a long 45-second long first initialization). But it has only half the work sometimes. Say “Barnes & Noble” educated Bing examined the next two stores, but it was just up the street and city. But the “1-click directions” pipe does not address the Sprint Navigator. Instead, the address was Bing who began to ask different routes decidedly not just a single click and not as useful.

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Multimedia and conclusions

A standard-size 3.5mm headphone jack adorns the upper left edge. It is hidden under a large, stiff, floppy port cover, which is likely to break away in the first year of ownership. Music sounded fine through Motorola S9-HD Bluetooth headphones. The integrated Windows Media Player application was clunky and frustrating for both music and video playback. Videos play smoothly, though, and MP3 and WMA music tracks displayed album art if available. The app took about three minutes to a cue in full, 320-by-240-film.

The 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera lacks an LED flash. Test photos looked vibrant but excessively hot, with a strong cast pink inside and out. There was not much noise, but. Auto-focus slow shutter speeds of approximately three seconds for a couple of shots that felt unbearable. Recorded video lacked contrast and good lighting, but otherwise looked OK at a reasonable 478-by-359 resolution and 13 frames per second. (Oddly, the camera app reported a 320-by-240 resolution at recording.)

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Competition in the Sprint Smartphone lineup is tough. Spring has four powerful smartphones, all about the same price as the Intrepid. First is the BlackBerry Bold 9630, Samsung intended target of the Intrepid. The tour offers better BlackBerry push e-mail a more useful OS design and a higher resolution screen, even if it does not respond to touch. The Android-HTC Hero has a larger and more responsive capacitive touch screen and a much better Web browser, although it lacks a hardware QWERTY keyboard. The Palm Pre offers a similarly brilliant touch screen and browser, but Palm App Catalog is still a waste. Finally, the HTC Touch Windows Mobile Pro2 the Intrepid compatibility but reserves the right to receive UI, at least on the uppermost layers. And its 480-by-800 pixel screen and spacious QWERTY keyboard blow away the Intrepid.