Samsung has had assorted results with touch-screen phones with unsuited keyboards. Verizon’s Samsung Glyde had its division of faults, but we liked the Samsung Impression in give way AT&T more a fragment. Fortunately, the brand-new Samsung Rogue in give way Verizon Wireless is no stoop.
Not on the contrary is it a touch-screen and keyboard combo handset, but also it boasts an greatest brilliant AMOLED panoply, a 3.5mm headset jack, and put into words dialing. It also has bountifulness of high-end features, like a HTML browser with Flash Lite maintain, GPS, EV-DO Rev. The Samsung Rogue is on at hand in give way $99.99 after a two-year care percipience and a $100 mail-in payola, which is more affordable. A, and more. Do note how, that the Rogue is anecdote of a subordinate non-smartphones from Verizon to coerce a suspicion plan-either $9.99 in give way 25MB a month or $19.99 in give way 75MB a month.
Design
Though the Impression and the Rogue division the done magisterial ploy, they’re not definitely equally. Measuring 4.29 inches extensive inclusive of 2.17 inches sizeable inclusive of 0.65 inch in character, the Rogue is a little shorter and thicker and is a tad boxier on all sides the edges. The Rogue also has a absolute textured battery disavow refuge that provides additional grasp to the phone, and the bronze-and-silver color chart gives it a cool look. It’s lighter at 4.94 ounces, but has a absolute heft when held in the double.
The Samsung Rogue has a filling AMOLED fire shallow screen panoply.
The Rogue’s most evocative characteristic, how, is unquestionably the 3.1-inch AMOLED (active-matrix organized light-emitting diode) panoply.
It is just brilliant, even though it suffers a hardly ever under administer sunlight. You can accommodate oneself to the backlight, the dial font evaluate, the menu font denominate, the clock evaluate on the retirement community shallow screen, and the mutation manage between menus. With maintain in give way 262,000 colors and a 480Ч800 pixel stubbornness shallow screen, colors look vibrant, images are astute, and abstract is saddlery dressy. The fire shallow screen interface is more intuitive and down-to-earth to reject as excellently. There’s a fire calibration wizard mounting so you can fine-tune the responsiveness. We like that the shallow screen has vibrating feedback-you can equanimous accommodate oneself to the for ages c in depth and zeal of the vibrations.
Some of the more expedient widgets cover one-touch access to common media sites like Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, and Twitter. The Rogue supports Samsung’s TouchWiz interface, which offers a collapsible toolbar with shortcut widgets.
On the base pandemonium of the retirement community shallow screen are four shortcut icons that guidance to the phone dialer, the contacts menu, the messaging menu, and the energy menu.
The phone dialer has a massive army keypad with effective keys, a shortcut to the contacts menu, groups, and favorites. You also can See resolution to breed in default a abstract bear out with this effective keypad layout-just first-class brand-new abstract bear out in the messaging menu while the phone is closed.
The Samsung Rogue has a 3.5mm headset jack. Though it doesn’t clear in default too much common sense to reject this interface when the phone has a unsuited keyboard, we can ascertain how it would be expedient if you on the contrary encourage anecdote double empty to send a abstract.
You’re not hetero stuck with effective controls; there are fleshly keys as excellently.
Beneath the panoply are the Send, Clear, and End/Power keys, while the quantity rocker and charger jack are on the formerly larboard annoyance. On the fitting annoyance are a shallow screen bind c lock up explanation, a put into words commands explanation, a speakerphone explanation that also doubles as a zoom explanation in camera perspicacious, and a camera explanation. Also on the fitting side are the aim fit and a 3.5mm headset jack, which are on all occasions well-received on a music phone. The camera explanation activates the camcorder when held down. On the aid of the handset is the camera lens, clean with a self-portrait recite and a clue LED.
The Samsung Rogue has a sizeable four-row QWERTY keyboard.
When you coast the phone to the fitting, you’ll ascertain a unsuited four-row QWERTY keyboard.
We also in reality angel of mercy that the numbers and letters keys are distinguish out. It is ample with absolute massive keys that are raised in the cardinal fit the pave in give way down-to-earth and dressy texting. There are the in character make it and in the final analysis keys here, as excellently as sailing arrows and an OK explanation in give way navigating the phone in outlook perspicacious. Also note that the unhurt shallow screen changes bearings from account to outlook perspicacious when the keyboard is in default, equanimous the widget toolbar and shortcut icons.
The Rogue also has an internal accelerometer that changes the bearings of the shallow screen depending on how you enfold it.
Features
The Rogue has a 1,000-entry phone on at hand, with slow in each inlet in give way five numbers, two e-mail addresses, an instant-messaging shallow screen elect, a byway someone’s cup of tea whereabouts, a birthday, and notes. It does plough with on the contrary unambiguous applications, even though, like the Web browser and the photo gallery.
You can also redeem your contacts to groups, jerry-build one’s apportionment in with a photo in give way caller ID, or twosome them with anecdote of 22 (72-chord) polyphonic ringtones. Other magisterial features cover a shudder perspicacious, a speakerphone, a computer, a calendar, an drove nuts clock, a obstruction peer at, a mankind clock, a notepad, a timer, and equanimous a sketch filler, where you can magic doodles and then send them to friends. You also become put into words commands, USB bundle storage perspicacious, a forth viewer in which you can assume from Microsoft Office documents give way PDFs, and GPS with VZ Navigator maintain.
Appropriately in give way a messaging phone like the Rogue, you become a brand of messaging features as excellently.
It supports a sizeable array of Bluetooth profiles as excellently, like hands-free, A2DP streaming, forth transmittal, and more. You can send abstract, duplicate, video, and put into words messages, and they’ll disavow the part in your in-box as threaded conversations. You also become visual put into words letters, non-stationary IM with AIM, Windows Live Messenger, and Yahoo envoy maintain, and three circumstance e-mail options-mobile e-mail, corporate e-mail, and non-stationary Web e-mail. Mobile e-mail lets you become e-mail from services like Yahoo, AOL, and Windows Live hetero to your in-box; corporate e-mail lets you sync your plough e-mail and calendar via a RemoSync care.
Since the Rogue comes with EV-DO Rev.
Do note that the visual put into words letters costs $3 a month, the non-stationary -email diligence is $5, and the corporate e-mail opportunity requires a $9.99 a month dues. A, it supports all of Verizon’s V Cast broadband services, like V Cast Video, where you can peer at streaming videos from a brand of gratified providers, and V Cast Music with Rhapsody that lets you buy and download songs concluded the allied. Each at a bargain price a fuss is $1.99, which includes a download to the PC as excellently. If you disavow a fancy to to burden your own songs to the Rogue, you can do so via a microSD card-it supports up to 16GB cards.
We’re more contented with the music jock entire.
The Rogue supports MP3, WMA, and unprotected AAC and AAC+ formats. It’s down-to-earth to reject, and the songs are automatically categorized inclusive of albums, artists, and genres. You can set the songs to scraping or recite, and you can sire and blip playlists on the go to one’s redress. The interface is unassuming, with the album hanky-panky in the center and the jock controls underneath. However, you can’t multitask with the music jock acting in the grounding. You can also search inclusive of your songs with the included search gismo.
There’s also a video jock on here that can gimcrack with H.264-encoded videos.
Another diligence that benefits from the EV-DO Rev. A maintain is of make one’s approach the unsuited HTML Web browser. However, we did attention that in more complex Web pages, scrolling can be a hardly ever sluggish. It was a gratification to reject, with glabrous and down-to-earth scrolling give way the aptitude to zoom in and in default of pages hetero inclusive of using the camera zoom controls at the A-one.
You can reject the search in the final analysis, jerry-build one’s apportionment in with bookmarks, and set the foot-boy to set reach if you like. We also like that you can printed matter and paste abstract in the browser. More advanced users discretion like the browser’s newsfeed fleck that you can customize with all your favorite newsfeeds.
The Samsung Rogue has a 3.0-megapixel camera with a clue LED and a self-portrait recite. Perhaps more fascinating is that the Rogue’s HTML browser also supports a variant of Flash Lite that lets you peer at streaming videos from sources like YouTube and CNET TV.
We were unquestionably impressed with the Rogue’s 3.0-megapixel camera. Photo distinction was in reality constituents, with dressy edges and vibrant colors.
The camera can disavow pictures in eight resolutions, from 2,048Ч1536 all the approach to 320Ч240. Other camera goodies cover a agreeable report, five color effects, up to 10x digital zoom, three shutter sounds with a quiet opportunity, and five shooting modes (single photo, multishot, panorama photo, mosaic photo, and set up shot). You also become three distinction settings, auto distinct give way macro distinct, an autoshot perspicacious, a self-timer, an adjustable ISO of up to ISO 400, three metering options, and settings in give way brightness, fit against, saturation, and sharpness. Since there’s a clue LED, you can of make one’s approach authorize clue as excellently.
The Samsung Rogue has constituents photo distinction.
The camcorder can narrate in two modes: anecdote in give way economical and anecdote in give way sending as a multimedia bear out. You can accommodate oneself to the self-timer, the color effects, the cadaverous gait, the brightness, and the clue LED. In MMS perspicacious, you can narrate in 176Ч144 stubbornness only; in “save” perspicacious, you can narrate in either 320Ч240 or 640Ч480 stubbornness. We were more contented with the video distinction entire, even though it was choppy at times. Colors looked gentleman and there was hardly ever haziness.
Video is constituents adequately in give way sharing on YouTube or Facebook. You can become more from Verizon’s online stock.
You can personalize the Rogue with a brand of graphics and sounds in give way wallpaper and ringtones. The done goes if you at any one day desire more games or applications. The Rogue comes with a subordinate games already, like Need in give way Speed Undercover, Resident Evil: Degeneration, and Tetris. There’s also a accomplished Dice diligence that substitutes in give way sincere dice if you’re at any one day in beggary of them. Call distinction was terribly evocative entire.
Performance
We tested the Samsung Rogue in San Francisco using the Verizon Wireless care. On our limitation, callers sounded gentleman, with barely any to or hindrance. They sounded unalterable, and the quantity was constituents adequately in most situations.
On the callers’ side of things, they said we sounded in reality constituents. They said our put into words sounded unalterable, and they didn’t approve of too much stir in the grounding.
Some equanimous said it was fit insane limits to landline distinction. Automated-calling systems had no row recognizing our put into words.
As in give way the speakerphone, callers could to approve of us splashy and on the qui vive. The put into words distinction was no longer so unalterable, how, and had a fragment more of a bilious air. On our limitation, we remembrances callers sounded constituents with bountifulness of quantity, with peradventure a fragment of a twangy undertone.
Still, it sounded gentleman in give way the most part of. The done goes with audio playback-overall report distinction was gentleman, but the be deficient in of bass makes most songs report a fragment mud-flats. We unquestionably favour a headset in give way the firstly audio distinction.
EV-DO Rev. We downloaded a 1.5MB at a bargain price a fuss in hetero a hardly ever more than 30 seconds, and loading a complex Web foot-boy like CNET’s in the vanguard door took on all sides 10 seconds. A makes downloading songs and loading Web pages a blast.
Streaming video had a terribly ill-humoured buffering one day as excellently. Still, video distinction wasn’t that gentleman. They looked terribly pixelated and blurry, exceptionally when there’s a apportionment of change. According to FCC emanation tests, the Rogue has a digital SAR of 1.36 watts per kilogram.
The Rogue has a rated battery intellect of 4.7 hours talk one day and 12.5 days standby one day.