Mobile phone developers usually have a very intense time deciding how best to put together a new mobile phone. Several factors come into play that the developers must consider – how the phone continues the focus of a specific line that it might be fitting into, how much the components cost and how that translates into the unit’s final cost, and what features the unit will be projected to carry. Of course, all this is weighed against what previous models have managed to accomplish, and realistic goals are then set for what the new model is projected to be able to achieve. Sometimes it’s a hit and sometimes it’s a miss, but each time these mobile phone designers take their jobs very seriously.
The designers at Samsung have been working hard to unleash a variety of solid, effective phone models that deliver good service to various demographics. The current Samsung Reality is the product of one such intensive and focused design phase, possessed of a variety of useful features such as multiple home screens, an intuitive display, a good keyboard, a nice 3.2-megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth and GPS support. While not as good as the Rogue in terms of photo quality and overall performance – and certainly not quite worthy of being a successor on its own – the Reality is a good midrange multimedia phone.
Almost identical to the Rogue in terms of size and shape, the Reality has similar relatively compact measurements of 4.23” length, 2.09” width and 0.65” thickness, and clocks in at 0.94 ounces lighter than its near-twin. The glossy sheen all around the phone’s frame leads the eye to the 3.1” WQVGA touch screen, which marks the beginning of the bigger differences between this and the Rogue. The Reality’s 262,000 color support has 240×400 resolution, which, while effective and also adjustable to suit the user, doesn’t really match up to the Rogue’s impressive 3.1-inch AMOLED display. The TouchWiz interface is around, though, to give the Reality a good overall browsing offering for many users.
A Communities widget has been added to the TouchWiz interface and is certainly a highlight of the Reality, as it allows access to seven photo and video sharing sites and social networks: YouTube, Photobucket, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and Friendster. TouchWiz is accessible on all of the Reality’s three different home screens, which are also designed of ease of browsing and usage with helpful shortcuts and a good virtual keypad that works for phone dialing and even text messaging [should you choose to forego the also-good slide-out QWERTY]. The resistive touch screen is fairly solid for these purposes, if not as responsive as the capacitive type, and haptic and audio feedback can be added.
Text and multimedia messaging are of course present and well-executed, and they’re supported by email mobile, corporate and mobile Web] voice messaging and instant messaging via AIM, Yahoo, and Windows Live. An HTML browser much like the ones on other Samsung phones can also be found on the Reality, and using it is very easy and satisfying. The same is true for the music player and eight-resolution-capable 3.2-megapixel camera, and the phone’s excellent-quality call feature as well.
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