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| Samsung Behold II |
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 With the Samsung Behold II, Samsung tries to make Android better by using the TouchWIZ interface, but in stead the phone's performance takes an obvious hit compared to other Android devices we've reviewed. Samsung has also redesigned many of the system menus and apps on the phone, but we think the original Android approach is better. We had hoped to see improved multimedia and video playback on the Behold II, but yet again we've seen standard Android phones performing better. All that said, if you're looking for a mix of great battery life, call quality, camera, GPS navigation and Web browsing in an all-touch phone, the Samsung Behold II will not let you down. But beware that obvious "multimedia cell phone" footprint, as there's little here that deals with the latest trends in social network integration or the latest and greatest in messaging trends. Release: November 2009. Price: $230.
Pros: High-quality OLED screen looks great.
Cons: Samsung's TouchWIZ interface hurts Android experience. Keyboard is cramped and difficult.
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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: $100.
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 Instinct HD |
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 The Samsung Instinct HD is like the coolest kid you knew in the 8th grade. Fun at parties, and at one point it seemed like all the tricks and bells and whistles would measure up against the serious competitors, but as the market grows up, the Samsung Instinct HD lags behind, except for a couple neat tricks left up its sleeve. In fact, the Samsung Instinct HD is the best phone on the market for shooting video, with high definition movies recorded at 720p resolution and even a video output port (cable sold separately) to let you play your movies on a real HDTV. The Samsung Instinct HD has learned how to dress a little nicer, though the look hasn't quite grown up like the rest of the smartphone market. It's also caught onto the latest fads, like Twitter and Facebook, though it hasn't quite gotten the hang of these, and the dedicated apps lacked great features and behaved poorly. For navigation, it's not a very good driver, and it's taste in music is still immature, though for movies it does a bang-up job and can quote from your favorites like a trained actor. All the big kids know their way around the Web, and while the Samsung Instinct HD can take you to all your favorite sites, it just isn't mature enough to comfortably fit in, and sometimes network and reception problems held the phone back. Release: October 2009. Price: $250.
Pros: Great camera with top-notch, high definition video recording. Feature-packed alternative to smartphones. Quality screen does a nice job playing movies.
Cons: Interface a bit basic and unresponsive. Menus are poorly organized and bloated with less important features. Some apps buggy, underpowered compared to smarter versions.
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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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