Hands On: The Samsung SGH-T809 (Verdict: Hello Lover!)

Last week I was glad to recover a gracious shiny new Samsung T809 arrive from T - Mobile . I powered it on and start up to curb out it ’s lineament right away . The T809 has Bluetooth , a 1.3MP photographic camera with swivel lens of the eye and video recording capability , it ’s a slider phone and about as thick as a RAZR . There is a TransFlash slot , but no card was include . So the phone is very compatible bluetooth - wise . It connected flawlessly to my 12 - column inch Powerbook , and I transport some MP3s and video to the phone to entertain myself with on the subway system . The sound quality is excellent as the T809 has dual speakers at the bottom of the phone for stereo phone . The screen door is a beautiful 262k colors that displays everything perfectly . The tv camera was what I begin diddle with next and results are spectacular in skilful firing , but so - so in low light . motion picture do in at a walloping 1280×1024 resolution , so if you resize them to 800×600 , quality gets even good . After the jump you could see what I mean and read more .

flimsy lean Thin ! About as thick as a RAZR .

The phone also allows you to edit images and video with cheesy , but fun , filters like Venetian red , negative , and black and bloodless . Check out some of the cameraphone pictures below . As you will see , lighting run a big paradiddle .

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The user interface packed with the T809 is what you ’d carry from Samsung , easy to habituate and colourful . It makes acquire around very easy . What about call quality ? first-class and the speakerphone subroutine actually work unlike a portion of cell I ’ve had in the past times ( say : Motorola V300 , Motorola A630 , Nokia 3300 ) . The slide function is nifty and save a lot of space . The phone also includes a build - in IM client with ICQ , AIM , and Yahoo ! reenforcement . The IM works well and is very speedy .

So I ’ve told you how grand everything is , but the telephone set has a few flaw . The big one that sticks out like a sore quarter round is battery life . This phone has catch a lot of day-to-day use out of it for me . I have about 10 MP3s , I like taking pictures , and I make plenty of call . The assault and battery die about 2/3rds of the manner through my daily grind every day . Because of this , I have to carry the proprietary charger around with me to make indisputable I do n’t get screw . I desire Samsung will somehow improve battery living before this telephone set is released to the world .

Overall , this phone is a hit . It ’s made me lose the Blackberry and become a phone - a - holic . Samsung crammed everything you could ever go for for inside a speech sound the size of a RAZR , and they did it right most significantly . There ’s no tidings yet on a final vent date or price point , but T - Mobile customers finally have a reason to stay with T - Mobile , and it ’s the Samsung SGH - T809 .

Lesdilley