The Samsung Fascinate will be available online today and in stores on Thursday. Each of the Samsung Galaxy S devices is essentially the same at the core, albeit there are subtle differences between the Vibrant, the Captivate, the Epic 4G and the Fascinate.
Although, the HTC Droid Incredible, Motorola Droid X and Droid 2 are offering overall experiences that are hard to defeat by any smartphone, but there’s still room for the Fascinate to beat Droid in some way.
Specifications: The Samsung Fascinate offers a gorgeous Super AMOLED touch screen, a 1GHz processor, and a great multimedia experience.
Design: Samsung Fascinate most closely resembles the Samsung Vibrant, when we compare it with the rest of the Samsung Galaxy S series mobile phones. The handset has an attractive slate design with rounded corners, and it is slim and light at 4.92 inches tall by 2.53 inches wide by 0.39 inch thick and 4.1 ounces. This mobile phone gives a more streamlined design and feels more solid. While, below the screen, on the front side of the mobile phone there are four touch-sensitive shortcut keys: menu, home, back, and search. A long press of the home button will bring up a task manager presenting you with shortcuts to the last six apps you used for easier multitasking. On the left side, you’ll find a volume rocker, whereas the right side features the power/lock button. The top of the device houses the 3.5mm headphone jack and a Micro-USB port.
The Touch-screen: The touch screen is quite responsive, always registering our taps and smoothly moving through home screens and lists. Both the built-in accelerometer and proximity sensor worked well.
Input Methods: The Fascinate offers two methods of input: Swype or the stock Android keyboard. The latter is easy to use, even in portrait mode, but once you experience how quickly you can compose messages using Swype, it might be hard to switch back to anything else.
Camera: On backside of this mobile phone, there is a 5-megapixel camera with flash. There’s no dedicated camera key, so you’ll have to use the onscreen button to take pictures.
User interface: Samsung Fascinate runs on Android 2.1 with Samsung’s TouchWiz 3.0 interface, which is improved from previous versions with some enhanced functionality and a more polished look.
Latest Mobile Widgets: There are new widgets, including Feeds & Updates and another called Buddies Now. Feeds & Updates streams updates from Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace, and you can choose to display content from one, two, or all three of the social-networking sites, as well as set the refresh rate, ranging from 30 minutes to once a day. Buddies Now is like a favorites list and allows you to immediately call or text those contacts, as well as comment on any of their updates. There are a number of other Samsung widgets, as well as Android widgets and other shortcuts, all of which can be added to one of seven home screens.
Home-screens Personalization: The home screens can also be personalized with live wallpapers, and on each screen you get a pull-down notification tray on top, which now includes wireless manager and profile functions, and the toolbar along the bottom with quick-launch buttons to the phone app, contacts, messages and applications. Pressing the latter takes you to a nice grid view of all your apps; they’re spread out over several pages, which you can swipe from side to side to get to. We much prefer this layout over the standard Android one, where you have to scroll up and down. It feels more natural and easier to navigate.
Public Smartphone: Sleek and powerful, the Samsung Fascinate’s user interface won’t appeal to everyone, particularly seasoned Android users, but it’s a good smartphone for the masses. You can say that this latest mobile phone is better suited for consumers or first-time Android users than something like the Droid X is.
Package & Accessories: Samsung Fascinate comes with an AC adapter, a USB cable, a 16GB microSD card, and reference material. There will also be a number of additional mobile accessories for the Fascinate available at launch, including a desktop cradle ($29.99), a vehicle mount ($39.99), and extended battery with back cover ($49.99).
Price: selling for $300 with a new two-year contract. A $100 mail-in rebate will be given when signing up for a qualifying plan. Price In Pakistan
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