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| Samsung Moment |
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 The Samsung Moment is a solid piece of Android hardware with some specs that put it at the top of the pack. That AMOLED screen, for one, is the best of any Android phone we've seen, and you'll love watching movies or just flicking around the interface on the sharp, rich display. The phone lacks the heavy customization and extra features of other new Android phones, especially the Motorola CLIQ and HTC Hero on Sprint, but the secret to Android is that, if you're willing to do a lot of research and digging through the Android App Market, you can find almost all the features you're missing, often for free. If anything, we miss great video support the most, especially with that large, sharp display, and we'd like to see more apps and widgets to bring our favorite social networking services up to the desktop, and into our address books and calendars. But the Moment is still a solid piece of hardware, and even if it doesn't match the others in interface design, it sets a new bar for speed and hardware features on Android. Release: November 2009. Price: $180.
Pros: Great AMOLED screen makes videos and Web pages look sharp. Android is a highly customizable and extensible OS.
Cons: Very large device. Lacks many necessary apps, though most can be found in Android App Market.
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| Samsung Intrepid |
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 The Samsung Intrepid is not a very exciting Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone, especially compared with some of the new models that are hitting the market. It mostly reminds us of AT&T's Samsung Jack, though there are a few solid improvements beyond the addition of the touchscreen and the new WinMo OS. The Samsung Intrepid has a great keyboard, for one thing, and for battery life the Intrepid ranks among the best Windows Mobile phones around. Web browsing has been greatly improved with the new Windows Mobile, but it still lags behind the best of the best, and some apps, like the calendar, Windows Media player and all those system settings menus, have seen little or no improvement at all. If you're looking for a BlackBerry alternative, the Samsung Intrepid makes a compelling choice, though it isn't as adept at handling messaging and social networking as the BlackBerry Tour, for example. Still, with the new Windows Mobile Marketplace app store and some great new services from Microsoft, Windows Phones are getting more interesting all the time. Release: October 2009. Price: $150.
Pros: Great keyboard. Long lasting battery. Improved Web browsing over older versions of Internet Explorer mobile. Windows Mobile Marketplace still blossoming.
Cons: Media player, scheduling apps untouched, need serious work. Buggy system had strange problems. New interface design hardly an improvement. Touchscreen seems unnecessary.
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| Samsung Rogue |
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 If you just read the hardware specs on the Samsung Rogue and don't actually pick it up to use it, it's quite an impressive phone. That 3.1-inch AMOLED screen is really top notch, with a high resolution and gorgeous color. The phone also packs some nice features, like music and video playback, corporate and civilian e-mail access, a comfortable slide-out QWERTY keyboard and more. It does everything a feature phone can do, but it performed so poorly in our hands-on tests that we'd have trouble recommending the Samsung Rogue, a phone that is unresponsive and frustrating. Navigating the phone's interface is a sluggish, slapdash affair, as any errant press could land you in an unwanted feature. Some apps, like the music player and the e-mail client, were just poorly designed while others, like the Web browser and the phone's TouchWIZ interface, suffered from a touchscreen that had trouble distinguishing our flicks from our taps. This isn't surprising, considering the Samsung Glyde, which the Rogue replaces, had similar issues. The Samsung Impression, a near-identical phone on AT&T, performed a little better, but we're still waiting for Samsung to impress us with a touchscreen, full QWERTY phone. Release: September 2009. Price: $100.
Pros: AMOLED screen is crisp and colorful, packed with pixels. Great features, including 3-megapixel auto focus camera, corporate e-mail support.
Cons: Unresponsive screen hurts performance in most key apps. Unimpressive software design hurts the rest.
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| Samsung Gravity 2 |
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 With the Samsung Gravity 2, T-Mobile is finally filling in some of the gaps in their lineup, specifically low cost phones that work with their blossoming 3G network and appeal to their text-heavy fan base. It isn't a great phone, but it's up to speed with most modern feature phones, and you get everything from e-mail and IM to a reasonable Web browser, a media player for music, a basic camera and even GPS for turn-by-turn navigation from TeleNav. We weren't fans of the interface, a counterintuitive design we've seen before. We also had trouble getting the e-mail client to keep up with our current conversations, though IM and text messaging worked with no trouble. In the end, we liked the wide, roomy keyboard on the Samsung Gravity 2, and we liked the snazzy colors. Those might be the most important features for the Gravity crowd. Release: August 2009. Price: $30.
Pros: Cool colors. Wide, spacious keyboard. GPS and other 3G services.
Cons: Poor interface design. Sluggish network response in e-mail and Web browser.
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| Samsung Reclaim |
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 The Samsung Reclaim may not be as green as the Motorola W233 Renew on T-Mobile, but while the former phone made compromises on features and design, the Reclaim feels much more like a regular old feature phone that also happens to be fairly green. How green is it? Well, some of it is made out of corn, most of it is recyclable, and the documentation is printed on soy ink. Is that green enough? Then enjoy Sprint's One Click interface, our favorite for simple feature phones, which gives you a customizable carousel of tabs to quickly access key features like Sprint Navigation and the Sprint Music Store, as well as your favorite social networks like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. The Samsung Reclaim doesn't feel as green as the Moto device, but it doesn't feel like such a compromise, either. Release: August 2009. Price: $50.
Pros: More recyclable, and made from more renewable materials. Full featured 3G feature phone. Great One Click interface design from Sprint.
Cons: Call quality wasn't great.
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