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Samsung Behold Review

By Sam Lee

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Published: 09May2009
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The Samsung Behold is a phone which has some great touch-responsiveness, something which everyone craves on a touchscreen phone. The orientation switch was also very fast, as was the change from a 12-key to a QWERTY keyboard. However, the biggest problem is actually the widget-based home screen. There just isn't enough space for some good widgets on a 3.1" 240x400 pixel screen. It becomes a mess if you try to put as many in as you can. Something annoying was when you dragged a widget outside and got your finger off the screen, the phone clicked that widget.

However, this shouldn't detach from the fact that the other parts of the UI are very responsive, unlike the Dare. There is also haptic feedback. The calls on the Samsung Behold sounded very good. However, the person on the other side complained that our voice sounded metallic! There were some slight reception problems. 5.5 hours is what we managed as far as talk time is concerned, which is a good feat. The contact list was also very strong and had a number of fields to organize the contacts. The speakerphone is extremely loud, which is how a good speakerphone should be. Little distortion was heard only after it was put on full volume. The calling interface is also very neat and clean.

The on-screen keyboard is one of the best we've seen. IM fans have good news as most major email providers are supported. The messaging client wasn't very advanced, though it was fairly OK. The on-screen keyboard is very responsive and very accurate.

The media player of the Behold is solid. It has a nice interface and a decent range of features. Playback could easily be controlled with our fingers and the phone synced without a problem with WMP. The music player has a widget on the home page, so you can control it from there. Data transfer between the phone and the computer was really fast.

A 1GB microSD card comes with the phone. It can take up to 8GB, which is really good considering the music player and the 5 megapixel camera. However, a 3.5mm headset jack would've been greatly appreciated, or at least a 3.5mm adapter. The phone works with stereo Bluetooth.

Due to the strange resolution of the screen, the videos that we played had to be downsized to QVGA, which didn't really make for a pleasant viewing experience.

However, web browsing is a real letdown, because the phone boasts to have a full-HTML browser, but it's pointless if the phone is recognized as a mobile device, which means that the content displayed by most websites is extremely bad. Also, due to scrolling problems, navigation was a bit of an annoyance. The camera seems to be fairly impressive with 5 megapixels, but it was a bit of a small disappointment, to be honest. It has auto-focus lens, but even under the best lighting, it isn't as super sharp as a 5 megapixel camera should be!

GPS was considered average as the phone didn't really follow us enough, and even tended to go ahead despite the fact that we had stopped at a signal.

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