To virtually anyone seeking a situated historical perspective on mobiles, today’s mobile phones are indeed a far cry from their predecessors in virtually every way specifiable. Where the older generation of mobile phones was filled with large, clunky and monofunctional book-sized chunks of plastic, today’s phones have emerged as multitasking-capable, diversely-designed, sleek and sophisticated tech items that have truly found their way into our everyday routines and must-bring lists. It’s no accident that mobile phone manufacturers constantly try to push the envelope, making new technology both accessible and portable as each phone hits the market and finds users eager to maximize their the hardware and software aspects.
Some try to push the envelope in different ways. As one of the first mobile phone manufacturers to lead the charge in pushing an eco-friendly manufacturing stance with its solar panel-loaded Samsung Blue Earth, Samsung has kept working on environmentally sound releases, such as the Reclaim, which is partly made of recycled and recyclable materials that come together to make a fairly sturdy phone. Now they’ve put out the Samsung Restore, also a solid standard messaging handset made out of recyclable materials, free of hazardous PVC, wrapped in packaging also made from recycled material, and Energy Star certified. All this doesn’t keep it from being a solid phone with a good slider design, music player, EV-DO Rev. 0, and even a passable 2-megapixel camera.
More like its Rant cousin than its fellow eco-friend the Reclaim, the Restore has a number keypad on its face but slides to the side to reveal a full QWERTY. Sturdy and solid despite the impression its recycled-material construction might give, the Restore is a comfortable 4.6” long by 2.1” wide by 0.6” thick, making it larger than its relatives but lightweight and easy to grip and carry. The 2.4” QVGA display supports 262,000 colors at a 320×240 resolution, making images rather colorful and text very crisp. The menu interface is customizable, and the home screen uses Sprint’s easy-use One Click interface. The slide-out full QWERTY triggers a portrait to landscape mode display switch and a text-or-email prompt. The keyboard is roomy and the keys are raised to make texting easy.
The Restore has a 1000-entry phone book, vibrate mode, speakerphone, USB mass storage, stereo Bluetooth and voice command support. It’s also got instant messaging along with the standard text and multimedia messaging support, the latter of which supports threaded messaging. Like the LG Remarq, the Restore also has an eco-calculator to help you manage your carbon usage and keep it in perspective. The Restore also has a strong social-networking setup, with social networking apps like Facebook and Twitter, as well as various GPS-supported services. There’s also IMAP and POP3 email and Web email support.
The Restore has the same average-quality 2.0-megapixel camera that the Reclaim did, which isn’t stellar but works reasonably well for stills and video. Much better is the service that lets you upload them straight to a number of venues, including YouTube, Photobucket, Facebook and Flickr. Call quality is similarly decent, especially for the natural-sounding call reception, although voice sending is a little rough and distorted at times despite the good volume level.
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