Samsung Jet (S8000) Review
Profile:
Samsung one of the leading competitors in handset mobiles had conceptualized a prototype which is offered in the form of Samsung Jet and purports to release likewise products that display rotating cube shaped menu Hot on the heels of the release of its product Samsung intends to create a new line up for solutions. Equipped with a 800 MHz CPU and 512 Mb of ram it operates at a breakneck speed and kudos to the improved user functionality. With the changing market scenario Samsung is claiming to use proprietary based applications and intends to ditch the default user interfaces thus gaining a yard over its competitors.
Aesthetics:
Embedded with a cube into the centre it symbolizes luxury. The front view features a glossy shiny look while the rear cover is made of plastic and the gadget is touch screen enabled Samsung’s jet sizes up to 108.8×53.5×11.9 mm and weighs mere 100 grams. Increased compatibility and functionality are the aspects that receive a lot of attention. With features such as videos conferencing and proximity sensor.
TechnO Review:
1: Display is equipped with active-matrix organic light-emitting diode, making the visuals more vibrant and vivid due to color reproduction. It supports a resolution of 480×800 pixel and 16 million colors Employs resistive touch screen technology
2: Equipped with a motion sensor enables the screen to rotate
3: Armed with Lithium-Ion battery, enables 5 hrs talk time.
4: Connectivity supports Bluetooth (file transfer,dial-up,Advance Audio Distribution Profile),USB connection, class 10 Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution,WiFi,
5: Embedded with 2 GB memory card and micro Secure Digital expandable up to 32GB.
6: Equipped with 800 MHz CPU 512 Mb of RAM operating on TouchWiz cross-platform interface and colossal memory,performance doesn’t get any better than this.
7: Features a 5 Mega pixel camera and enabled auto focus camera module.
8; Armed with motion recognition engine that allows easy browsing of various applications.
9: Priced at $645.
Inference:
S8000′s call quality was decent enough with the vibro alert being good. It doesn’t disappoint you unlike other smart mobiles. Be prepared to be amazed with the processing speed and the touch screen capability though couple of features reminds you of Apple products, it’s worth it.
Omg i am mad at this phone it was fast and all at the beginning. Now it´s really slow and the 3,5 jack for headset is broken and like the 3,5 jack the charger jack is broken. am i alone or do any one else has these problems?
It got slow about when the update came.
the phone sounds awesome on paper but the touchwiz software it runs is rubbish. it frequently lags sometimes as long as a second when you touch buttons on the touchscreen, so much so i often find it opening up and closing the icon menu when i touch it twice thinking it didn’t register. the only way to use the inbuilt digital compass is through the subscription-only route 66 gps navigation software. it’s java implementation is buggy and samsung has offered nearly zero after-purchase software to put on it, installing java apps on it is a pain and the keyboard-substitute it gives you is inconsistent. the touchscreen is remarkably good for a resistive display, very little flex and quite accurate and sensitive but it is a bit unresponsive at the edges. the front camera on it only works for video call function, you can’t use it to capture video or simply function as a mirror (although with the right keycode input you can access this, as well as all the other sensor data). oh and i shouldn’t forget, it supposedly has the ability to use motion gestures via the accelerometer but i’ve never been able to get them to work properly, some work kinda ok, but again, looking at the hidden feature test function screen, you can see that quite clearly the accelerometer works fine, the software is just rubbish at interpreting the motion.
if samsung had put android on this phone, i doubt i would have anything negative to say about this phone. there is a project running to port android to the phone but it’s likely it will never be as good as if samsung had, instead of wasting money putting touchwiz on it, put android on it, i mean, all it needs is a full set of drivers, as it is, samsung has written drivers, closed source of course, as well as a very inconsistent interface on all the apps (for example, a secondary slider for skipping through by first letter is provided for the phonebook but not for the media player where such a function would be a lot more important especially with the capability for up to 32gb of microsd storage).
don’t buy this phone unless you want to be dumbfounded by the utter idiotic bureacracy of a software design that you are forced to use, or if you love hacking and reverse engineering ARM assembly language and want to help get android (jetdroid) ported to it.
Super sexy phone
sexy phone
This phone looks great. I plan to take it, but my concern is divx codec. Does it support all divx files? I had bad experience with divx codecs on previous phones, since I had to convert files.
Another decent looking samsung handset with a decent spec list. Id buy this phone just for the user interface which is one of the best on the market at the moment.