Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7 Phone Review
Samsung Focus phone, with state-of-art Windows Phone 7 OS, a huge 4" Super-AMOLED display and photo enhanced function for better viewing, and ultrathin body for grasping. Now let's see Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7 Phone for more details.
1. Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7 phone—Body & Design
Samsung Focus cell phone is light and slim, with the dimension of 123 x 65 x 10 mm and weight of 115g, because of its plastic material. The streamlined body with ultrathin 9.9 mm thickness makes Samsung Focus glossy, elegant and grasp-friendly.
(1) Samsung Focus Cell Phone—Front
Samsung Focus cell phone offers 3 virtual keys (Return, Menu and Search) underneath a 4-inch huge touchscreen. The logos of "Samsung" and "AT&T" on the face, as well as "Windows Phone" on the rear indicate its identity—Samsung Focus is a cell phone with windows Phone 7 OS and is co-developed by Samsung and AT&T.
a. Samsung Focus—Screen
The selling point of Samsung Focus cell phone is its vivid Super-AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 480x 800 high resolutions, which is ever applied to Samsung Galaxy series, bringing vivid viewing experience. Even in the open air, the image of screen is still vibrant.
b. Samsung Focus—Interface
The innovative interface of Windows Phone 7 OS breaks the stereotype, offering users different experience. Thanks to the WP7 OS, all the operation on Samsung Focus cell phone is smooth. It is worth mentioning that the screen switching and the speed of power on/off are faster and steadier than other phones. Samsung "Focus" focuses on every details, even the Samsung Hub and lock screen interface is also more authentic than that of HTC surround.
(2) Samsung Focus Cell Phone—Rear
Samsung Focus cell phone is glossy with engineering plastic material and the drawing processing in the rear, which greatly improves its quality. Distinguished V-lines in the rear of Samsung Focus makes it seem to have a third dimension.
In addition, you will also notice an AF 5MP camera with LED flashlight and a loudspeaker on the rear side. After removing the rear cover, you will find SIM and microSD card slots, together with a 1500 mAh battery like Samsung Galaxy S. Please don't remove the Micro SD card when it is in use, otherwise Samsung Focus will restore to factory reset. If you insert it again, everything will return to normal.
(3) Samsung Focus Cell Phone—Keys and Ports
Top: a 3.5mm headset jack and microUSB port
Right: The power key of Focus is present on the right, which is not the same as most others that are found on the top side. You will also find a shutter key on the side.
Left: a volume rocker with chrome accented trim
2. Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7 phone—Configuration
Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7 phone comes with 1GHz Snapdragon QSD 8250 processor, but the 256MB of RAM seems to be slightly smaller than other Windows Phone 7 phones (512MB). But according to the news, Samsung confirmed they will offer 512MB RAM in November.
In addition, Samsung Focus cell phone also supports a microSD expansion slot for up to 40GB memory, including 4GB internal). When it comes to connectivity, Samsung Focus supports a 3.5mm audio jack, Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi 802.11b/g/n, microUSB 2.0, A-GPS and more.
(1) Samsung Focus Cell Phone—Camera
Samsung Focus windows phone 7 phone is impressive in terms of color restoration and details, with an AF 5MP camera with LED flashlight, but you can't half press the shutter key to focus. Similar to HDR in iPhone, Samsung Focus adopts the WDR (wide dynamic range) technology, bringing a good performance on capturing still life photos. However, we are a bit disappointed with its 720P video recording effect with Low saturation and frame rate.
(2) Samsung Focus Cell Phone—Battery
Some people are likely to be worried a 1500mAh battery of Samsung Focus can't feed its electronic-guzzling functions, like those Sky Drive photo syncs. In the test, we find that Samsung Focus will keep on working for more than one day even on heavy days of calling, emailing, gaming and browsing. Focus will support about 2 days with moderate use. When it drops into 10%-15% of battery power, please remember to charge it ASAP.
(3) Samsung Focus Cell Phone—Speech Quality
Samsung Focus Windows phone 7 phone has a good speech quality in normal environment. Although it supports dynamic noise reduction chip, the performance is not satisfied in noise test. Besides, Samsung Focus has high volume with powerful loudspeaker, but it will cause volume distortion at the same time.
3. Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7 phone—Summary
Do you focus on this "Focus" phone? Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7 phone is your best bet, which left us a deep impression on its vibrant super-AMOLED display, innovative Windows Phone 7 OS, and smooth & steady performance. We really hope more functions, like Fast Application switchover, copy and paste, will be applied to Samsung Focus cell phone in the near future.
(1) Samsung Focus Cell Phone—Pos:
- Fast, smooth and state-of-art Windows Phone 7 OS
- Vibrant Super-AMOLED screen display
- Ultrathin and light body
- Expandable memory up to 40G (including 4GB internal)
- Good battery endurance
- Enhanced photo effect
(2) Samsung Focus Cell Phone—Cons:
- Absence of key features, like Fast Application switchover, copy and paste function
- Remove MicroSD will cause hard reset
- Disappointed video recording effect
4. Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7 phone—Specification
- Operating System: Windows Phone 7
- Processor: 1GHz Snapdragon QSD 8250 processor
- Network: GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS: 850/1900/2100 MHz
- Data: EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA 7.2 Mbit/s/HSUPA 2.0 Mbit/
- Dimension: 4.84 x 2.56 x 0.39 inches (123 x 65 x 10 mm)
- Weight: 4.07oz (115 g)
- Display: 4-inch Capacitive, Multi-touch Super AMOLED screen display (480 x 800 pixels)
- Camera: 5MP camera with LED Flash and 4 x digital zoom
- Battery: 1500 mAh Li-ion, 6.5 hours (390 mins) of Talk time, 300 hours (12.5 days) of Stand-by time
- Memory: 512RAM, 1GB ROM, expandable up to 40GB microSD (including 8GB internal)
- Sensor: proximity sensor, light sensor, G-sensor
- PhoneBook: Caller groups, multiple numbers per contact, Search by both first and last name, Picture ID, Ring ID
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi 802.11b/g/n, 3.5mm audio jack, microUSB 2.0, HTML Browser, GPS, Outlook Sync Capability
- Multimedia: FM Radio
Music Player: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, WAV, AMR
Video Playback: MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV
- Other Features :Alarms, Calendar, To-Do / Tasks, Document Viewer, Calculator, World Clock, Email, SMS
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