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Thursday
Feb112010

Samsung Moment

DateThursday, February 11, 2010 at 7:58PM

This evening on the way home from work I missed a connecting bus which left me with around thirty minutes to kill while waiting on the next bus to come by so I decided to pop over to the Sprint store on Capitol Blvd. in Raleigh to play with some phones.  Specifically I wanted to get a little more hands on time with the Samsung Moment.  Granted, it was only about twenty minutes with the Android powered smartphone but it gave me a fairly good idea of how the phone operates.

One thing of note is the AMOLED screen.  It is really a beautiful bit of display technology and I can see the wireless industry moving to this over the next couple of years.  It does an excellent job presenting colors and it's a low power consumption part, something very handy in most of the power hungry CPUs found in most smartphones today (the Moment has a CPU running at 800Mhz).  The screen is also a capacitive touch screen and this was one of the failing points I found on the Moment.  It's laggy at times!  Seriously laggy.  Just switching between the three home screens sometime took two or more swipes.  Granted that this was a display device and had been running all day with people coming in opening and closing all sorts of apps.  However, this is just what I would be doing on a daily basis and it makes me wonder if it's a symptom of the hardware of the software.

I had about two weeks of hands on time with with the HTC Hero back in November which was running the same version of Android, 1.5, that the Moment runs but also had the SenseUI custom overlay by HTC along with a slower CPU (524Mhz) but didn't seem as laggy as the Moments screen.

The slide-out QWERTY keyboard on the Moment is both nice and a pain at the same time.  It's got a lot of nice spacing between the keys while the keys themselves have a nice feel to them, something like a rubbery/plastic feel that is nice to type with.  The issue I had was the layout.  The space bar is between the V and B keys.  Awkward is an apt description.

I really didn't do more than launch a few apps and browser a couple of websites to get an idea of the workings of the phone.  Maybe with some of the many options to customize individual Android powered phones via the App Store this might be a more interesting phone.  As it stands right now I don't know if I'd be willing to give up my Pre for it.

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