Samsung Gravity T

The Samsung Gravity brand has changed quite a bit since its debut in 2008 as a austere messaging phone for T-Mobile. As additional incarnations came along, the Gravity handset improved–the Gravity 2 added3G and GPS, while the Gravity 3 has a vaguely more ergonomic point. The Gravity T, or the Gravity Touch, is the latest recovery of the Gravity line, and as its name suggests, it now has a touch cover. This allows it a few nice touches like a customizable home cover along with gesture-based shortcuts. Aside from that, it has many of the same facial appearance as its other Gravity cousins–a 2.0-megapixel camera, GPS, a music player, and more. The Samsung Gravity T is available for $74.99 with a new two-year benefit contract from T-Mobile.

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The Samsung Gravity T has a akin point to other Samsung touch-cover courier phones, like the Samsung Messager Touch for model. Measuring 4.29 inches long by 2.23 inches wide by 0.59 inch thick, the Gravity T has a wide oval form factor, with a vaguely curved back for a more comfortable feel in the hand. This does mean it rocks ever so vaguely when it’s resting on a flat surface, but we didn’t find that to be a problem. At 4.23 ounces, the Gravity T is also not too heavy, and would fit straightforwardly in a large sack or purse.

 

The Samsung Gravity T has a 2.8-inch resistive touch cover.

 

The Gravity T has a 2.8-inch resistive touch cover, which we found quite pleasing to the eye. It has 262,000 sign and a 240 x 320 pixel pledge, and the phone takes subsidy of that with peculiar and detailed menu icons. You can change the font type, the brightness, the backlight time, and the salutation message on the home cover. Read more at allitreview.com

 

The Samsung  Gravity  brand has changed quite a bit since its debut in 2008 as a austere messaging phone for T-Mobile. As additional incarnations came along, the  Gravity  handset improved–the Gravity 2 added3G and GPS, while the Gravity 3 has a vaguely more ergonomic point. The Gravity T, or the Gr ...

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Samsung Animated

Samsung admits that it hasn’t really attacked the U.S. smartphone promote as aggressively as it’s done with basic handsets, but the company’s preparation to change all that with its Galaxy S series. Launching with all four major U.S. carriers, as well as a link of regional providers, the Apparatus-based Galaxy S models come with impressive stats, such as large Super AMOLED touch screens, 1GHz Hummingbird Cortex A8 PC, and an entertainment content store. But is it too modest, too late? Well, after costs some time with the Samsung Animated for T-Mobile, we don’t reckon so.

Sleek, quick, and packed with entertainment facial appearance, the Animated shines as a CD device and beats T-Mobile’s other top Apparatus offering, the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Slide, in that sphere. Even if, array life is a concern; if you plot on taking full subsidy of the Animated’s CD capabilities, you’d be wise to carry an extra array or mount with you at all times. The Samsung Animated will be available from T-Mobile early July 15 for $199.99 with a two-year contract.

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Out of all the Samsung Galaxy S series models, we’d have to say the Samsung Animated is the sleekest and sexiest one of the bunch. The look is very familiar, but the amalgamation of the slim profile, clean point, and rounded edges is really pleasing to the eye. Also, at 4.82 inches tall by 2.54 inches wide by 0.39 inch thick and 4.16 ounces, the Animated makes for a nice journey companion, slipping straightforwardly into a pants sack and feeling frivolous in the hand. That said, the handset feels plasticky and slick. We wouldn’t say it’s fragile, but it beyond doubt left a lot to be much loved, primarily compared with the solid and durable Nexus One.

 

 

 

The Samsung Animated is incredibly slim and light, but it also feels plasticky.

 

 

Glancing at the Animated’s 4-inch Super AMOLED touch cover, it’s simple to see how the smartphone got its name. The sight chains 16 million sign and has a WVGA pledge, building it sharp and yes, animated. Descriptions look incredible, text is simple to read, and you can in fact see what’s on the cover in the sharp daylight. When compared with the iPhone 4′s Retina Sight, the Animated’s cover beyond doubt looks more soaked, screening richer sign and deeper blacks, but on the other hand, the iPhone’s sight is a tad crisper. We’ll be in succession more-strict tests to rate the cover feature of these phones, so beyond doubt check back for those consequences. Read more at allitreview.com

 

Samsung admits that it hasn’t really attacked the U.S. smartphone promote as aggressively as it’s done with basic handsets, but the company’s preparation to change all that with its Galaxy S series. Launching with all four major U.S. carriers, as well as a link of regional providers, the Apparatus-b ...

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Samsung Smiley

You can permanently count on Samsung do it two equipment: bury us in new cell phone reviews, and occasionally announce handsets with very silly names. But leave it to Samsung to take up again to outdo itself, for just when we plotting we’ve heard it all, the company unveiled a new phone name that launched us into new realms of the ridiculous.

Now our sources tell that one Samsung employee is exciting with naming its phones. That’s more than believable from a huge worldwide firm, but as Nicole Lee place it, rumor has it that that person has run out of words. Samsung named its SGH-T359 the Samsung  . That’s right, it used an emoticon naturally modest for following post and text-pleased teens. We were appalled when we first heard the news last month and wait so today. In fact, we find it so absurd that we’re going to call it the Samsung “Smiley” in this assess. That will show ‘em.

Names aside, the Smiley is a comfortable and functional texting phone for T-Mobile. It has a respectable midrange figure set and it offers decent performance. And best of all, it will cost you just $19.99 with a two-year contract.

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From the further than, the Smiley closely resembles the Samsung Strive. It doesn’t come in multiple sign, but it has a akin slider phone point and at 3.9 inches long by 2.3 inches wide by 0.6 inch deep, it’s about the same size. At 4 ounces, the Smiley is just the slightest bit heavier than its predecessor, but it still feels a modest wispy in the hand thankfulness to its plastic shell. Despite the roughness concerns, it’s a practically arresting phone and we’re tickled that Samsung didn’t stamp the exterior with an emoticon.

The Smiley’s 2.6-inch TFT sight shows 262,000 sign in a 320×240-pixel pledge. Sure, it can’t equate with the fancy displays on the latest smartphones, but it’s more than apposite on a midrange texting handset. Its sign, graphics, and photos are sharp, even if the cover is fundamentally unreadable in supervise over light. The menuinterface is typical Samsung, which is to say it’s simple to use. The sight’s personalization options contain brightness, backlighting time, and wallpaper.

Below the sight is the steering array. It feels very cramped, but we infer users with smaller hands may not have the same problem. There’s a square four-way toggle with a central OK button, two soft keys, the Talk and End/power control, a back button, and a shortcut for the messaging figure. Most of they keys are flat, even if the toggle is raised. We’d prefer, even if, that the OK button takes you to the menu from standby mode. Right now it doesn’t do anything.

 

 

 

The Smiley’s upright is somewhat cramped.

 

Slide up the Smiley to show the combined numeric keypad and messaging upright. Like on the Stride, the keys are small and squashed collectively. There are only four rows of keys so most buttons serve a dual function (numbers and calligraphy, or symbols and calligraphy). On the whole, it’s a pretty standard agreement, even if we’d prefer more shortcut reins. A combined “www” and “.com” key will save you some time and, naturally, there’s a dedicated emoticon button. All right, Samsung, that is pretty clever. Read more at allitreview.com

 

You can permanently count on Samsung do it two equipment: bury us in new cell phone reviews, and occasionally announce handsets with very silly names. But leave it to Samsung to take up again to outdo itself, for just when we plotting we’ve heard it all, the company unveiled a new phone name that la ...

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PCD CDM8635 Reivew

With cell-phone-makers cramming ever more sophisticated facial appearance into their phones, it’s simple to not dredge up that for some public, e-mail, GPS, and videos are overkill, and call feature and usability are what matter most. PCD’s very clumsily namedCDM8635 for U.S. Cellularis such a phone. It combines the elegant simplicity of a classic flip phone with a few point perks and exceptional call feature to start a satisfactory handset for entry-level users. As with the Verizon Wireless Coupe, the CDM8635′s convenience buttons mapped to 911 and urgent situation contacts gear it headed for seniors and those with health check concerns. Also see our list of other phones for seniors, counting the well-known Jitterbug J.

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With its sleek lines and modern touches, the CDM8635′s classic clamshell body is certainly no blot on the landscape. At 3.85 inches high by 1.96 inches wide by 0.79 inch thick, it’s a honestly compact modest digit that makes for simple toting, even if it could get lost in a cavernous handbag. Its 3.52-ounce consequence feels solid in the hand, but it isn’t overly heavy.

Even if the CDM8635 looks black at first glance, a careful sunlit look reveals dark blue specks set surrounded by the glossy, plastic body. A black border with wavy blue sample surrounds the 1.5-inch grayscale open-air sight. It shows the time, date, array level, and greeting bars. Pressing in on the phone’s number keys illuminates the open-air sight, which is typical for this type of phone.

 

The PCD CDM8635 is a classic flip phone with handy shortcut buttons just below the domestic sight.

 

 

On the right spine is a 2.5mm receiver jack (we permanently prefer the 3.5mm standard), and buttons to trigger both voice dialing and the camera. The left spine houses the number rocker and a Micro-USB charging port. A bare-bones 1.3 megapixel camera takes up residence on the back next to the phone’s open-air lecturer. Read more at allitreview.com

 

With cell-phone-makers cramming ever more sophisticated facial appearance into their phones, it’s simple to not dredge up that for some public, e-mail, GPS, and videos are overkill, and call feature and usability are what matter most. PCD’s very clumsily named CDM8635  for U.S. Cellularis such a pho ...

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Samsung Gusto

As an entry-level hard-gray-and-black flip phone, the Samsung Gusto is the spitting image of the Samsung Charming, even if its figure set and point vaguely clash. Even if there are some nice facialappearance inside, the phone’s build and call feature are pretty everyday. The price, even if, is very low–free from Verizon.com after an online money off and a new two-year contract, and $19.99 with a new contractafter a $50 mail-in discount, if you pick it up in retail stores.

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Even if one on hand the gray-and-black Samsung Gusto is a justly arresting flip phone, a quicker look shows a glossy body so shiny and plasticky that it winds up looking cheap. Other point fundamentals are top bolt from the blue to just a curve above the open-air cover, a slope on the back, and some nubbly texture.

 

The Samsung Gusto is light and small. It’s honestly arresting, even if the ultrashiny black plasticcheapens the look.

 

The Gusto stands 3.8 inches tall, and measures 1.89 inches wide and 0.76 inch deep, so it will slip straightforwardly into a sack or bag. Also, it weighs 3.28 ounces, which makes it light, but not a featherweight. On the front is the lens for the 1.3-megapixel camera and the 1.07-inch open-air color sight that shows the date, time, and array meter. On the right spine sits the Micro-USB charging port, a 2.5mm receiver jack, and dedicated buttons to launch the camera and speakerphone. The left spine hosts the number rocker. An open-air lecturer is on the back.Read more at allitreview.com

 

As an entry-level hard-gray-and-black flip phone, the Samsung  Gusto  is the spitting image of the Samsung Charming, even if its figure set and point vaguely clash. Even if there are some nice facialappearance inside, the phone’s build and call feature are pretty everyday. The price, even if, is ver ...

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Samsung Epic 4G

Out of all the phones in the Samsung Galaxy S series, theEpic 4G strikes us as the most desirable for power users. Like all Galaxy S phones, the Epic 4Ghas a large Super AMOLED touch cover, a 1GHz Hummingbird Cortex A8 PC, and it will have access to Samsung’s imminent Media Hub store. The Epic 4G layers on numerous inviting extras that its line mates don’t have–such as a slide-out upright, a front-facing camera, an LED flash, and most fascinating of all, it chains Gallop’s emerging 4GWiMax network. The latter figure makes it the following 4G phone in the U.S. after the HTC Evo 4G.

I don’t know the Epic 4G’s largest downside is its price. At $249.99, it is the most high-priced Galaxy S phone that Samsung makes, and that price is with a new two-year benefit contract and after a $100 mail-in discount. As with the Evo 4G, Gallop charges a mandatory $10 per month for its 4G data. According to Gallop, the price is justifiable since of the extra air force you get for the price–4G speeds, boundless data, and the use of it as a mobile Wi-Fi hot spot, which costs an bonus $29.99 a month–but we reckon the add-on should be discretionary since its 4G benefit is not available nationally.

Even if, we reckon the Epic 4G truly deserves its name as its point and figure set make it the all-in-one motivating force in the Galaxy S family tree.

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While it is not the sexiest of the Samsung Galaxy S models–that honor goes to the Samsung Animated for T-Mobile–the Epic 4G is not a terrible-looker any. Its rounded edges, curved corners, and glossy black surface give it a sleek and elegant look that is minimalist and eye-transmittable. Yet, at 4.9 inches long by 2.54 inches wide by 0.56 inches thick and 5.46 ounces, the Epic 4G is I don’t know the SUV of the Galaxy S phones and might be a tight fit in most pockets. Still, we be thankful for its heft as it contributes to a obviously solid and durable feel in the hand.

 

 

The Samsung Epic 4G has a very impressive 4.0-inch Super AMOLED sight.

 

 

The Epic 4G’s 4.0-inch Super AMOLED sight categorically mesmerized us. It can sight 16 million sign and has a WVGA pledge, which enables it to sight animated graphics and fantastic looking video. The cover also has a wider viewing angle and a higher draw a distinction ratio when compared with a habitual LCD. Thankfully, disparate older OLED displays, the Super AMOLED cover also looks fantastic under sharp sunlight Read more at allitreview.com

 

Out of all the phones in the Samsung Galaxy S series, the Epic 4G  strikes us as the most desirable for power users. Like all Galaxy S phones, the  Epic 4G has a large Super AMOLED touch cover, a 1GHz Hummingbird Cortex A8 PC, and it will have access to Samsung’s imminent Media Hub store. The Epic 4 ...

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Samsung SGH-T369

Even if new smartphones are raining down every day for major carriers, the prepaid promote is one of the fastest-growing segments in the mobile handset industry, and figure phones like the Samsung SGH-T369 for T-Mobile make up the bulk. You could do a lot worse than the T369, too. It has a compact point and a well-built sliding means on the slide-out QWERTY upright. It also packs in more hardware goodies than the austere shape and stock black color would suggest. By this we mean the camcorder, the music player, and the microSD card slot, of way.

Yet, there are also some brow-slap point flaws. The shared Micro-USB charging port/earphone jack is a no-no in our book, and we’ve gone blue in the face stating our inclination for expandable memory slots to live anywhere but behind the back cover, where the T369′s microSD card slot is located.

Still, the $79.99 price tag isn’t terrible for all you get with this prepaid phone, and usability is excellent. In addendum, you get T-Mobile’s excellent-natured carousel interface and access to its open customer benefit.

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“Bland” was the first word that came to mind when we laid eyes on the Samsung T369 for T-Mobile. The phone is matte black with rounded corners, with devious matte gray and hard gray accents. If you peer closely, you can see fine ridging on the black face. There’s also an understated point on the back cover. “Compact” was our following impression. Not that the slider phone is the most diminutive we’ve ever seen. In fact, at 4.5 inches tall by 2.1 inches wide by 0.6 inch thick, it has the exact same dimensions as Samsung’s Gravity family tree, and in fastidious the Gravity 2. Yet there’s a fastidious efficiency that the T369 conveys, with very modest atrophied space. There’s a 2-inch LCD sight that chains 240×320 pixel pledge and 262,000 sign. We had no problem with the brightness or color infiltration, even if we wouldn’t urge viewing it in supervise over sunlight if you’re outdoors and have the choice to step into the shade.

 

 

The Samsung T369 is simple in the palm and on the ear.

 

Below the cover is the steering array with the Talk and End buttons bookending two soft keys, a Clear button, a shortcut button that you can curriculum to one of four functions, and a central OK button that’s also surrounded by a four-directional control. The buttons are on the small side and a bit cramped; those with thicker fingertips may have a harder time building strict selections. Apply that sentiment of smallness to the numbered dialpad as well. The backlit keys are wide and narrow. While fully separated, we find them overly slim and sometimes trying to get nearly. Read more at allitreview.com

 

Even if new smartphones are raining down every day for major carriers, the prepaid promote is one of the fastest-growing segments in the mobile handset industry, and figure phones like the Samsung SGH- T369  for T-Mobile make up the bulk. You could do a lot worse than the  T369 , too. It has a compa ...

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