Overall, this is, by far, Samsung's best effort to date. The operating system is much improved, with new shortcuts to find phone contacts, one-tap zoom-in controls on the phone's browser and a fast 800Mhz processor under the hood.
The 5-megapixel camera, although not Samsung's best, is impressive. There's a 3.5mm jack on board (thank Christ). And the quality of the Amoled screen is very high.
It has couple of new gimmicky features, such as a 'Find Music' function that can record a few seconds of background music, analyse it and tell you the song's name and singer (it doesn't work a lot of the time).
Despite the improvements, the touchscreen technology still lags the iPhone (I've photographed them together to give you a sense of the phones' size). You need a really firm press on the screen and it sometimes skips or breaks off. It's workable but still not optimal. Texting, too, still presents one or two niggling challenges.
Lots more on all of these issues this weekend in a substantial review in the paper.
Looks nice but from reading your comments I won't be even going near the Samsung. Doesn't look as slick as the iPhone either, which still holds the throne!
Posted by: Donagh Mc Sweeney | July 15, 2009 at 03:17 PM
This phone looks great. I plan to take it, but my concern is divx codec. Does it support all divx files? I had bad experience with divx codecs on previous phones, since I had to convert files.
Posted by: Biz | October 03, 2009 at 12:53 PM
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