Samsung SCH-U420 calling and messaging phone: Part2

Messaging - Good

The U420 did a competent job of handling incoming SMS and MMS messages. The phone cannot display a full, 160-character text messages at once, but messages can be stored in subfolders, and the phone will send you a text acknowledgment when a message has been delivered. Outgoing SMSs can be viewed in various colors and font styles, as well. Unfortunately, the U420's tiny keypad renders moot the phone's above-average messaging features. We made frequent mistakes, even with predictive typing enabled, and scrolling through and selecting messages was problematic due to the diminutive five-way button.

Odds and ends

The U420 packs in a VGA camera (not the greatest resolution, but more or less standard for a phone in its class), and pictures can be sent via MMS, but cannot be transferred via Bluetooth. Content on Alltell's 2.5G 1XRTT network is pretty good, especially the 20 channels of XM content. Though our New York office is outside of Alltell's network (and thus the phone roamed at a slower speed), we were able to stream audio without a problem.
10/11/2006 11:54:45 AM
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