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Samsung Behold SGH-T919 – Rose (T-Mobile)
The Samsung Behold has an attractive design with a responsive touch screen. The feature set offers a range of options and call and photo quality meet the mark. Also, T-Mobile’s phone 3G network is lightning fast.
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It seems that ever since the iPhone was released, every wireless carrier is rushing to release their flagship touchscreen phone. Everyone wants to be the best, so they are all competing for the most features and the most power. From Blackberry to Google, almost everyone has already released theirs. Well, Samsung may have taken a little longer, but they definitely used that time to pack their phone full of features. The question, though: Is it enough? Can Samsung’s new baby compete with all of this powerful competition? Let’s take a look and find out.
Design
At first glance, the Samsung Behold T919 looks similar to most phones of its type. The sleek, sexy design is the perfect answer to what modern consumers are seeking. Compared side-by-side with most of the touchscreen phones, it is a little bit smaller – which does mean that the screen is a little smaller as well. There is no keypad, of course, so most of the phone’s face is dedicated to the screen, helping to maximize usable space. Total resolution is 240 pixels wide by 400 pixels tall, which is quite good for a phone!
The three slender buttons at the bottom of the bright, crisp screen offer basic functionality. The larger button in the center is a “Back” button for navigating the touchscreen, and the small buttons on either side can be used for making calls.
Overall, the phone looks like what you’d expect, and doesn’t vary much from the tried-and-true design for touchscreen phones. It is very eye-catching, and is sure to get you some glances whenever you pull it out to snap a high-resolution camera using it’s built in flash, or to check your email on T-Mobile’s blazing fast 3G network.
The Samsung Behold’s candy bar design resembles previous touch-screen phones like the Omnia and the Dare. Below the prominent touch screen are the few physical controls; the camera lens sits on the phone’s rear face. It’s not terribly unique, but it is slick and eye-catching. You can get it in two colors (espresso or rose), but the features are the same on both models.
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At 4.12 inches tall by 2.1 inches wide by 0.5 inch deep, the Behold is almost the same size as the Dare, but is a bit smaller than the Omnia. And at 4 ounces, it falls just between the two in weight. We liked the comfortable, sturdy feel in the hand and the way it slips easily into a bag and a larger pocket when you’re on the go.
Features
The phone has a huge, 2,000-contact phone book with room in each entry for four phone numbers, four instant-messaging handles, a Web site, a birthday, an anniversary, a street address, and notes (the SIM card holds an additional 250 names). You can save callers to groups and you can pair them with a photo and one of 18 72-chord, polyphonic ringtones.
Other essentials include a vibrate mode, text and multimedia messaging, a calendar, a calculator, a notepad, a task list, an alarm clock, a world clock, a timer, a stopwatch, a currency and unit converter, and a speakerphone. A big miss, however, is Wi-Fi. That should be standard on phones with a full Web browser.
The Behold isn’t a smartphone, but it offers a respectable set of higher-end options. You’ll find speaker-independent voice dialing and commands, USB mass storage, PC syncing, Web-based POP3 e-mail, instant messaging, a voice memo recorder, GPS support with Telenav Navigator, and full Bluetooth with a stereo profile.
The Behold’s camera offers a flash and a self-portrait mirror.
The 5-megapixel camera is one of the Behold’s strong points. It takes pictures in four resolutions, from 2,560×1,920 down to 640×480. You also can choose from two “wide” resolutions that use the full expanse of the Behold’s display. Other editing options include four quality settings, exposure metering, an adjustable ISO, a self-timer, an auto-focus, six “scene” settings (night, landscape, action, etc.), brightness and white balance, four color effects, three shutter sounds (there’s no silent option), an antishake feature, and a setting for shooting backlit subjects. You also can use three shooting modes (continuous, panorama, and mosaic), and the “smile shot” mode promises to detect when a subject is smiling.
The camcorder shoots clips with sound in two resolutions (320×240 and 176×144). Camcorder options are fewer than on the still camera, but it’s a decent assortment. Clips meant for multimedia messages are capped at about 4 minutes, but you can shoot for much longer in the standard mode. The camcorder has 180MB of internal memory, but the microSD-card slot will accommodate cards up to 16GB. The camera menus are easy to use and we like the explanatory text that helps you identify the camera functions.
The Behold takes quality photos.
Photo quality was very good, with sharp colors. There was some image noise around the edges of our shots, and photos suffered in low light conditions because of the weak flash, but on the whole, we were quite pleased with our pictures. Once finished with our shots we could move them off the phone easily using Bluetooth, a multimedia message, or a USB cable. When selecting mass storage mode and using a USB cable, our PC recognized the phone instantly. Alternatively, you can compose an audio postcard with sound and a photo. Video quality wasn’t as great, unfortunately. Though admittedly our clips were better than many other camera phones, they were still grainy.
Performance
We tested the quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) Samsung Behold SGH-T919 world phone in San Francisco using T-Mobile phone service. Call quality was quite admirable; we enjoyed a clear signal, with loud volume. Voices sounded relatively natural, though some callers sounded a bit breathy. The phone also picked up a small amount of wind noise, but it wasn’t a big problem. The handset is compliant with M3 hearing aids.
Speakerphone calls weren’t quite as good. Though the clarity was fine, we had to turn up the volume to the highest levels if we wanted to hear. And at those levels, voices sounded a bit distorted. Callers could hear us when were using a speakerphone, but we had to speak close to the handset. Bluetooth headset calls were satisfactory.
The Behold supports T-Mobile phone growing 3G network (UMTS 17002100). As we noticed on the T-Mobile G1, the 3G speed is lightning fast. We connected to Web pages within seconds and were pleased by the browsing experience. So far, T-Mobile has impressed us with its 3G network and we see it as an improvement over AT&T.
Samsung Behold SGH-T919 Specifications:
- 262k color 3″ touchscreen
- 3G high-speed
- 5.0 MP camera / camcorder
- HTML web browser
- Virtual Qwerty
- Music Player
- Bluetooth stereo
- myFaves
- 16GB microSD card support
- MMS / SMS / IM
- GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
On the T-Mobile Network, to unlock the Samsung SGH-T919 (Behold):
Power on without SIM
Type in #7465625*638*Unlock code# (8 digit unlock code*)
Device should say: “Network Lock Deactivated”
Phone may automatically reboot
The 8 digit code can be obtained by calling T-Mobile Technical Support and given the representative the IMEI number. In exchange they will give you the Subsidy Unlock Code.
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