| Design | 3.8/5 |
| Display & Interface | 4/5 |
| Calling | 3.4/5 |
| Talk time | 4/5 |
| Messaging | 4.4/5 |
| Music | 3.2/5 |
| Video | 2.4/5 |
| Camera | 2.8/5 |
| Memory | 3/5 |
| Web browsing | 2.8/5 |
| Connectivity | 3/5 |
| Productivity | 3.4/5 |
| Scheduling | 3.4/5 |
| Laptop sidekick | 2.5/5 |
| Navigation | 4/5 |
| Gaming | 3/5 |
| Mobile services | 4.2/5 |
| Accessories | 3/5 |
| Value | 4.5/5 |
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Pros:
Nice, advanced feature set at a great price. Great improvement over similar predecessor, thanks to improved hardware and interface design. Corporate e-mail app. |
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Cons:
Web browser sluggish and unreliable. Lacks all the tiles of other Sprint One Touch phones. Multimedia options are very basic, not compelling. |
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| We're sure that Sprint and Samsung will forgive us for thinking this phone was a rip-off of the older LG Rumor, because after some time using the Samsung Rant we're ready to recommend it to anyone looking for a fun, easy-to-use QWERTY phone with some surprisingly robust messaging options. This isn't a complex, corporate smartphone, it's still very much a consumer-level device, but if you'd like to be able to check your work e-mail on your little personal phone, it packs all those features at the best price. Sprint's One Touch interface, with all its shortcuts and included apps, makes this phone much smarter than the average bear. We think the combination of improved hardware and interface design, the nice selection of messaging features, the great price, plus a few multimedia functions thrown in at the end for good measure, makes this an easy phones to recommend. There's plenty of room for improvement, but for only $50, we wouldn't want this phone to get too smart, would we? |
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