The Samsung Galaxy Pro is a phone with a different appeal. Its large keyboard and touchscreen interface offer the best of both worlds and its push email interface works a treat. But how does it compare with its biggest competitor in this industry – Blackberry’s RIM? Here’s a breakdown of the key features of the Samsung Galaxy Pro:
The Brilliant
- Ease of Use – As soon as you take it out of the box, Android effortlessly guides you through the set up. Simples!
- Touch Screen Interface – Works better than I ever thought it would! Its just as responsive as any touch screen phone I’ve used and combined brilliantly with the keyboard. Blows the light right out of the blackberry torch!
- Contact transfers – The most annoying thing about changing phones is transferring emails, contacts and so on. Well, with Androids background sync, all you need to worry about is knowing your password and voila – it’s all there in a flash! I was actually using two phones simultaneously and my contacts and emails updated across all of them!
- Free Office as standard! – Now you can immediately view, create and edit all Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. Works a treat!
The Good:
- Battery is immense – On the first charge it lasted more that 48hrs or medium use. That’s more than most smart phones today!
- Email works well – The push email feature works perfect with both the default Android gmail tool and the Samsung own made email feature working brilliantly!
- Android Platform - Better Apps + easy software to use = better feature!
- Navigation works well – Very easy to navigate and get round the phone with things quite intuitive!
- Nice size, weight and shape – Though the plastic feels a bit cheap, the phone does feel nice in your hands and the weight of it is perfect
- Keys are very comfortable – The keys are noticeable bigger than a blackberry without making the phone any bigger, making typing much easier!
- Samsung Social Hub – Combines all the social networking into one tool, though it can lead to a duplication in messages and notifications!
The Not So Good
- USB connection point – This is located at the top of the phone. This makes it really awkward to talk on the phone whilst charging it (though it does beat having it on the side of the phone which makes no sense!
- No Multi-touch – As a practical person, I like to just be able to pinch and zoom my way around. Well here you can’t which is annoying. Also some of the games which require multi-touch won’t work on the platform.
- The Camera - incredibly slow camera focus and no physical button to press aside from the one on the screen! Takes more than a second between pressing the button and taking the photo which is incredibly irritating. It also immediately hides the photo after you take it to get you ready for the next one which can be good and bad, but when the phone takes a week take a photo, you want to make sure it came out ok before moving on to the next. There is also no flash on the camera – why??
- Bottom row in the wrong place – This may be a personal preference and Im sure its something you get used to eventually, but the bottow row has shifted once to the left which make typing a nightmare! The ‘M’ is below the ‘J’ instead of the ‘K’ and so on, making typing an irritating task!
- Small internal memory – From past experience with Android software, it becomes incredible irritating when the internal memory is small because its so easy to fill up! You end up spending a lot of time deciding what to uninstall in order for your phone to go back to normal!
A Sample of the Samsung Galaxy Pro Picture Quality
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