As we continue to move into an age where technological development is exponentially faster than it has ever been before, we acknowledge the fact that life in turn also moves faster than we have ever known it to. Our work has all but blended into our personal lives, and virtually every waking moment – the total number of which is fast outgrossing our total sleeping moments – is spent juggling elements of both, whether n the appropriate venues or on the ways to and from them. It’s no surprise then that one of the most important items to be carrying around is the mobile phone, which turns technology to our advantage in a way that we can immediately and fully realize and maximize.
The modern age of mobile phones is, of course, populated with phones that do just this. One such model is Samsung’s new Messager Touch, which despite its unusual name stands as a reasonably decent multimedia-and-messaging phone release from the longtime mobile phone manufacturer. This is largely due to a good, compact design that fits well in hand even when using the full QWERTY keyboard, and its fairly good call quality. Looking much sleeker than its forebears, the Messager Touch is also endowed with – as its name suggests – a touch screen featuring Samsung’s popular TouchWiz interface, which is sure to be reason enough for quite a few to give it a chance.
Looking like its other touch screen Samsung brethren [such as, say, the Samsung Seek], the 4.13” long, 2.12” wide, 0.99” thick Messager Touch is a sleek and slender model with rounded corners, curved contours and a soft touch plastic frame that make it a comfortable fit in hand. On the face of it is a 2.6” QVGA touch screen that works well and shows clearly despite not being the biggest touch screen out there, with 240×320 pixel resolution and 262,000 color support. It’s a resistive touch screen that will require a bit more pressure than most capacitive touch screens, but it isn’t as laggy as others tend to be [a calibration wizard helps] and comes with optional vibration and sound feedback for registering finger taps.
Three home screens and Samsung’s TouchWiz intrerface help streamline a user’s navigation needs, with widgets that help a user access tools quickly. There’s a touch phone dialir, but no virtual keyboard, although this is not an issue considering the Messager Touch’s slide-out physical QWERTY keyboard. The four-row keyboard slides out on a smooth mechanism, and is easy to use thanks to its roomy setup and raised keys [which could admittedly be a bit larger].
The Messager Touch supports handling text and multimedia messaging with a threaded conversation view, along with instant messaging, voice command and recording, and mobile email. GPS, stereo Bluetooth and an HTML-based Web browser are also available, although the last [along with email] doesn’t have quick access. The Messager Touch also has a typical microSD-card-based Samsung music player, and a 2.0-megapixel camera that shoots somewhat mediocre photos in four resolutions and three quality settings. Finally, the Messager Touch works well for calling, featuring reception that is better than transmission.
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