| Design | 3/5 |
| Display & Interface | 3/5 |
| Calling | 3.4/5 |
| Talk time | 3.5/5 |
| Messaging | 3.4/5 |
| Music | 3.2/5 |
| Video | 3/5 |
| Camera | 2.4/5 |
| Memory | 2.8/5 |
| Web browsing | 3.4/5 |
| Connectivity | 3/5 |
| Productivity | 2/5 |
| Scheduling | 2/5 |
| Laptop sidekick | 2/5 |
| Navigation | 3.6/5 |
| Gaming | 2.5/5 |
| Mobile services | 3/5 |
| Accessories | 2/5 |
| Value | 2/5 |
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Pros:
Large keyboard. Good price. GPS navigation and capable, mobile Web browser. |
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Cons:
Interface looks very yesterday. Messaging options are limited, a real shame on an inexpensive QWERTY phone. |
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| Following the most recent trend toward stout, square-shaped, QWERTY messaging phones, the Samsung Propel comes out somewhere in the middle. It's not as basic and clunky as the Verizon Wireless Blitz, and it's not as classy and refined as the LG Lotus on Sprint. The interface is woefully outdated, and actually looks more pinched and drab on the Samsung Propel than it does on, well, every other AT&T multimedia phone. And that's the real problem. The phone just isn't very special. It's a below-average AT&T multimedia phone, when it should be a unique messaging device. We would have liked to see a unique UI built around messaging alerts, full support for as many messaging and social network services as would fit on the phone, and less worry about Cellular Video and location-based services. If AT&T and Samsung had just focused on the messaging, this phones would really take off. |
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