Guest review by: Marc Lynde
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The Gravity, currently on cut-rate sale with a new contract at T-Mobile River for $49.99, is a new Samsung quadrangle-band GSM candybar earphone. With a full glide-out QWERTY computer keyboard on the 122g (4.3oz) device, it feels truly weightless in your pocket – especially for a device packing features that rival a Sidekick, but at a fraction of the monetary value. Further, at 115mm x 53mm x 18mm (4.5″ x 2.1″ x .7″), the earphone is similar in size of it and appearance to the LG Rumor.
The Gravity’s glide mechanism is sturdy and easy to manipulation, and the phone North Korean won’t slide open accidentally. I found that it feels great in the hand, however the finishing is a little too smooth for my liking. The materials and buttons are of excellent quality, and the 3 rowing QWERTY computer keyboard is simpleton to manipulation since the phone automatically starts an SMS when typed upon. A criterion four-means directional pad allows you to navigate the phone’s menu and core functions. Samsung also included 2 dedicated soft keys on the QWERTY keypad for controlling the phone when the display switches to landscape mode.
The Gravity has a dedicated camera push button and battery charger/headphone interface on one position of the device and 2 book controls with a microSD one-armed bandit on the other. The numerical computer keyboard uses 4 horizontal strips of buttons rather than 12 individual keys. While they work accurately, the domed areas that correspond to the particular keypad digits ar a act difficult to discern visually.
As with any candybar shaped earphone, you want a keypad ignition lock that is easy to manipulation, and Samsung kept it pretty simpleton here. The power office is shared with the remainder call option push button and there is a programmable electronic messaging push button that can be instantly linked to SMS or IM.
The 176 x 220 pixel blind, at 2.1-inches, looks great in daylight and nighttime with decent color astuteness for an entry floor QWERTY gimmick. As noted earlier, the exhibit easily switches between portrayal and landscape painting mode depending on whether the QWERTY computer keyboard is hidden or exposed.
Call audio frequency caliber is solidness on the device, producing loud and clear sound on both ends with nonentity that interfered with our test conversations. While not subjected to rigorous testing, the phone successfully held its charge after criterion use and on understudy for several days before coverage a low battery floor. The 800mAh Li-Ion battery is rated for 6 hours (360 minutes) of talk time and 300 hours (13 days) for standby. For the norm user that will manipulation the earphone for messaging friends and family unit, I am confident the battery volition do more than clasp its own. I also tested receipt in urban and suburban areas where it maintained a full EDGE signaling for most of the meter.
Adding contacts is pretty simpleton and follows a menu formatting that is similar to many other Samsung devices. The earphone book supports groups as well as assignable ringtones and painting IDs for person callers. The Gravity also stores contacts’ email addresses for use with the integrated e-chain mail node, however there are no street addresses stored in the tangency records. It is especially easy to quickly telephone dial contacts by typing in their name on either the numerical keypad or the QWERTY computer keyboard.
The Gravity contains several preloaded ringtones and allows easy approach to a variety of tones offered through T-Mobile River. There is also support for just about every type of plangency visibility, including vibration then band, band then vibration, and vibe with ring. You can easily change the band profile by using the dedicated volume buttons on the position of the earphone.
The speakerphone sounds good and there is documentation for voice dialing. Surprisingly, there are only 8 empty speed telephone dial slots, all accessed through the numeric keypad. This leaves all those buttons on the QWERTY keypad incapable of assignment themselves to other contacts. That just seems wasteful as retention down these buttons doesn’t seem to accomplish any function whatsoever.
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