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Samsung Factor

One Good Statement :

Samsung Factor has a charming design, an easy-use dial pad, and good call quality.

One Bad Statement :

Samsung Factor has low screen resolutions and the quality of camera are disappointing. The handset is bit slippery.

The Underline :

Samsung Factor is an ideal budget phone for standard calling and texting communications.

Have you seen the Samsung flip phone before? If you have, you will get remind in the deja vu when you look at the Samsung factor Boost Mobile. The interesting Clamshell is a decent device that will meet the requirements of ordinary users  to make calls or write some text messages occasionally. Factor costs $ 49.99 without a contract.

Samsung factor with gray silhouettes and subtle body which is very slippery could be right statements to describe the overall  design. Standing 3.8 inches high by 1.9 inches and 0.7 inches thick. Thanks to its efficient form and design, it could fit comfortably in the hand and slid into the bag or pocket. Weigh by 3.2 ounces., simply said light but not thin.

There is a 1.2-inch CSTN external display on the front  that supports 65,000 colors. The screen broadcasts the time and date, signal strength, battery life, and message notifications. Press and hold the camera button while the phone is closed to switch the display into a self-portrait viewfinder from the VGA camera that sits above the screen.

When you flip open The Samsung Factor, you will find a 2-inch TFT internal display with a 128-by-160-pixel QQVGA resolution and support for 262,000 colors. This resolution is graingier than the QVGA resolution (240 x 320 pixels) that’s often found on entry-level phones. Colors are bright enough, but we expect for a sharper screen. You can customize the foregrounds for both outer and inner displays and of course the wallpaper. You could aslo adjust backlight time and brightness, but not the phone’s font size type or face.

You could find a four-way navigation toggle surrounding a central OK button, plus two soft keys, a camera-and-photo-gallery button, and a back button. A second set of controls below includes the Talk, End, and speakerphone buttons. All the keys are comfortable when typing and wide enough to use.

The Samsung Factor is about as basic a phone you can find, with little beyond the essentials. The address book holds 600 names, each with room for multiple phone numbers, an e-mail address, a URL, an address, birthdate, and note. You can assign a customized ringtone (out of 10 preloaded options) and a photo ID. The Factor also supports calling groups.

In addition to voice calls, text messages are a flagship form of communication. Using the predictive text is easier than pecking out each letter at a time. Boost Mobile gives the Factor a feature boost with its Java app that pulls down Web mail (IMAP and POP3) from the likes of your Gmail, Yahoo, and AOL inboxes.

Specifications

This is not a GSM device, it will not work on any GSM network worldwide.

Price = + $49.99 (Recommended!)

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