Mobile phones continue to be one of the fastest-evolving exemplars of the modern technological age. As super-sophisticated avatars of the cosmopolitan modern citizen, mobile phones have become ubiquitous and irreplaceable in pockets, handbags and hands as mobile users are increasingly able to bring everything to everywhere with them courtesy of their mobile handset. This is largely because each new iteration of the mobile phone is more flexible and capable than the past, can do more things for longer, and is more compact and portable than its predecessors. The days of the clunky and oversized portable phone that could only do one thing at a time are long over.
Mobile phone manufacturer Samsung is among those leading the charge into a bold new age away from such old, single-purpose mobile phones by introducing new models that blend the best of new technology into compact, flexible mobile phones. Their new Gravity T is one such phone – an attractive touch-screen messaging handset that offers a great interface with Samsung’s TouchWiz touch and various user-friendly, streamlined features. As a worthy update to its predecessors, the Gravity, Gravity 2 and Gravity 3, the Gravity T adds touch-screen functionality while maintaining a great design. Its multimedia offerings, 3G support and great call quality are a good combined feature set for users to want to enjoy a well-rounded touch-screen phone.
At 4.29” long by 2.23” wide by 0.59” thick, the Gravity T is a fairly sizeable phone with a curved back that rests neatly in hand but wobbles a bit on flat surfaces. This isn’t as much of a problem as it seems, though, and at 4.23oz the Gravity T is light enough that it doesn’t gather a lot of inertia AND fits well in hands, purses and pockets. Its 2.8” resistive touch screen is bright and colorful at 262,000 colors and 240×320 pixel resolution, and it offers a customizable home screen with colorful and detailed icons for the menu. The responsiveness is not as good as a capacitive touch-screen phone’s of course, but it works well for a resistive phone and offers a calibration wizard and optional haptic feedback.
The TouchWiz interface does a lot to help users customize their mobile experience, from dragging and dropping widgets to the three customizable home screens to reaching the message inbox and Web browser with ease. The Gravity T offers a rather unique smart-unlock system as well, allowing some features to be accessed with specific gestures on the screen without having to unlock the phone fully. An etiquette pause also allows you to use the phone’s motion sensor in interesting ways: turn the phone over to silence an incoming call during a meeting, and so on. The full slide-out QWERTY is functional but not stellar – its keys are a little too flat to make for quick texting, but their texture helps one type by feel – although it is considerably roomy.
The phone’s 2000-entry phonebook, GPS with TeleNav support, voice recognition, POP3/IMAP email support, full HTML browser, Bluetooth, and Facebook/Twitter-accessing Social Buzz app round out the great feature set that is capped off by a functional media player, a 2.0-megapixel camera, and a customizable lineup of apps and games. Call quality is so good it’s almost landline-like, and reception is similarly pleasant.
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