The Behold II is the additional Android-powered smartphone that Samsung has fabricated accessible in the United States, and the aboriginal for T-Mobile USA. While the Samsung Moment for Sprint was a adequately boilerplate accomplishing of Android, Samsung has put a lot of plan into accepting its TouchWiz 2.0 user interface assimilate Android for the Behold II. The catechism is, does TouchWiz add annihilation to Android? Read on to acquisition out and to apprentice how the Behold II and its 5 megapixel camera perform.
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Physical Aspects
As far as design, the Samsung Behold II is not clashing so abounding added Samsung abounding blow handsets that accept appear to the bazaar in the accomplished year or so, admitting this one offers a added solid feel and accomplishment than Samsung’s Android-powered Moment for Sprint does. The Behold II appearance a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen(INFO) affectation that appearance 320 x 480 pixel (HVGA) resolution like so abounding added Android phones, but does it with adorable AMOLED(INFO) technology instead of a accustomed TFT appearance display. This agency the affectation is thinner and brighter while alms both added blacks and bigger saturated colors.
The controls that sit beneath the affectation abide of the accustomed Android home, menu, and aback buttons in accession to alarm forward and end keys. Notably missing is seek key that a lot of Android phones have, and in its abode is a button committed to Samsung’s 3D cube menu, which I will abode later. The buttons all accept a acceptable feel and beleaguer an appropriately complete 5-way d-pad controller. On the appropriate bend of the buzz sit the two-stage camera bang button and the lock/unlock button, which activates and deactivates the buzz with a individual touch. A aggregate ascendancy sits on the larboard bend of the phone, and a covered micro-USB data/charging anchorage and 3.5mm headphone jack are amid on the top.
The aback awning of the Behold II is something altered and nice. The awning reminds me of the one begin on the Samsung Jet, in that it is balmy and bland to the blow and has a abyss to it that is appealing. The apple map burden on the awning is attractive, if conceivably a bit over the top, and sets the buzz afar from some of its competitors. If the rear awning is removed, the user will accretion admission to the battery, SIM card, and microSDHC(INFO) anamnesis agenda slot. The array doesn’t charge to be removed for anamnesis agenda access. The 5.0 megapixel autofocus camera and LED beam are aswell amid on the aback of the phone.
With the Behold II, Samsung addled a nice antithesis of appearance and design. The buzz is absolutely not as eye communicable as some added smartphones on the market, but it is chic searching and feels accurately solid in the hand
