Samsung Delve SCH-r800 – the Multimedia Touchscreen Phone for Non-business Users

Available through Alltel and U.S. Cellular, the Samsung Delve SCH-r800 is a multimedia touchscreen handset targeting at message-centric folks. Not only does it boast a large responsive display, the Delve also comes with an intuitive interface with widget support, a virtual QWERTY keyboard and a full suite of multimedia and messaging features.

The Delve features Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface on its 3-inch touchscreen, which supports 262k colors and has 240x400-pixel resolution. The unique interface offers widgets for users to customize their phone. By dragging and dropping widgets onto the main display, you can enjoy instant access to your favorite functions like Web browser and music player. Apart from this, the Delve offers a virtual QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode, giving tactile haptic feedback when items are selected.

Multimedia features offered by the touchscreen phone are attractive. Its music player supports files in MP3, AAC, AAC+ and eAAC+ formats. With Alltel’s music application nuTsie, you can stream your own iTunes playlists, your friends’ iTunes playlists and music from nuTsie’s catalog. Additionally, the phone comes equipped with a 3.5mm headset jack and stereo Bluetooth support for quality private music listening. You will also find an integrated 2.0-megapixel camera with auto-focus, multi-shot mode and video recording ability.

The Delve offers plentiful messaging options, which include text messaging, multimedia messaging and instant messaging. POP3 and web-based email access is supported as well. With the full HTML browser, you can download content such as ringtones, wallpapers and games from the Alltel Shop or U.S. Cellular's EasyEdge Web service to personalize your phone. Other advanced features include a 500-contact phone book, GPS navigation, speaker-independent voice dialing and commands, PC syncing and USB mass storage.

Sharing a similar slim form factor with the Samsung Instinct, the Delve weighs 3.63 ounces and measures 4.57" high by 2.17" wide by 0.48" deep. It offers 150MB internal memory and a microSD memory card slot for storage expansion up to 8GB.

The sleek design, customizable interface and multimedia goodies all add up to an attractive device for non-business users. Although the Delve lacks Wi-Fi, it is still a solid addition to the carriers’ lineups.

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