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Monday, August 31, 2009

Free Samsung Jet with 11 months half price

Free on Vodafone with 11 months half price line rental on a 12 month contract. See below for our full review of Samsung’s latest touchscreen phone.

The Samsung Jet is a powerful, touchscreen mobile phone. With a sleek and stylish design, the feature that grabs your attention is the 3.1 AMOLED touchscreen which looks sharp and crystal clear with vivid, vibrant colours. The phone itself is slim at just 11.9mm thick and has a reassuring weight of 110 g. As well as the 3.1 inch display, the front of the Jet has 3 physical buttons positioned at the bottom, which are call answer, end and the menu button.

These fit nicely into the body of the Jet, as they do not stand out. On the back of the handset, the cameras lens and flash is positioned in the top right hand corner, again this doesn’t stand out majorly and blends in nicely with the handset. The black glossy finish and rounded edges give a simplistic stylish look to the Jet, and the streaked red effect on the battery cover give the Jet some flair.

The Jet is fast and responsive both in the touchscreen and when navigating menus and this is down to the 800MHz processor as this allows for faster response time. Not only do programs and apps launch faster on the Jet but the phone is also fully capable of multi-tasking, running multiple applications at once. When you first access the menu page, there are a lot of categories to choose from so it is pretty clear where everything is located.

Navigation of the touchscreen is very easy, as the display is very responsive so you can always select the correct icons first time round. Everything is clearly labelled which also makes navigation of the Jet user friendly. For example, ‘exit’ back to the homepage is visible, along with the ‘back’ button to get to the previous page. The picture on the display is very clear and defined, so everything you look at, either text or images, appear to be very bold which makes it more enjoyable to use.


One of the most impressive features is the 5.0 megapixel camera. When you access the camera icon on the homepage, you get taken straight to the viewfinder in landscape mode. To take the photo, there is a physical button which is positioned on the right side. The border around the viewfinder on the touchscreen has different icons you can choose to change the settings of the photo, such as flash options, timer, scene modes, smile detection, panorama, and many, many more. The quality of captured images is very high, and with 2GB internal memory there is plenty of room to store all your shots and with expandable memory your photos can be joined by all you favorite music and videos. Video capture on the phone is just as impressive with a both a normal shot mode and slow and fast motion capture adding to the impressive features.

When composing a message on the Jet, the keyboard appears on the touchscreen, which is quite easy to use due to the responsiveness of the touchscreen. Vibrating feedback confirms your actions on screen and for those feeling adventurous (or the need to show off) the Jet also has an excellent handwriting recognition feature which can recognise whole sentences at a time.

Overall, the features of the Jet work very well, at a good speed and are all very responsive. A great looking device with features to boot, the Samsung Jet is the perfect antidote for dreary smart phones and under powered feature phones.

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