The Samsung Rogue SCH-u960, as the first Verizon’s device with an AMOLED touchscreen display, is a stylish and powerful handset supporting Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface. Not only does it boasts a QWERTY keyboard, it is also packed with plenty of multimedia features, like a 3-megapixel camera, a full HTML browser, Bluetooth, GPS and threaded messaging.One of the highlights of the Rogue is its bright and vivid 3.1" AMOLED display, which shows 262K colors and WVGA 480x800 pixels. It is powered by the TouchWiz interface with shortcut widgets, giving users one-touch access to various social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, MySapce and Twitter.
Sliding out the Rogue horizontally it reveals a four-row QWERTY keyboard and switches from portrait to landscape mode. The phone is equipped with an accelerometer for automatic change in orientation, which also works with applications like the browser and the photo gallery. The handset weighs 4.49 ounces and measures in 4.29" high by 2.17" wide by 0.65" thick.
The Rogue provides a full messaging suite, including text, picture, video and voice messaging, for heavy texters as well. You can have access to your POP or IMAP email accounts from Mobile Email, with support for services like Yahoo, Windows Live and AOL. The corporate email allows you to sync your work email and calendar via RemoSync. Instant messaging is compatible with AIM, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. One more messaging feature to note is the new Voice Dictation, which will transcribe what you say into text.
As mentioned before, the Rogue comes with a full HTML web browser with Flash Lite for watching streaming videos from YouTube and other sources. You can open up to five web pages with tabbed browsing. As a Verizon phone, the Rogue also gets full support of Verizon Wireless services, including V CAST Video, V CAST Music with Rhapsody, and VZ Navigator for GPS-guided directions. Using the preloaded File Viewer, you can view Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF documents as well.
On the Rogue, multimedia features are promising too. There is a decent 3.0-megapixel camera with auto-focus, 10x digital zoom and LED flash, which is capable of capturing video and editing. Sporting with a built-in music player, the Rogue can play various files such as MP3, WMA, AAC and AAC+ formats. Other than the 512MB of internal memory, its microSD memory card slot supporting up to 16GB cards also provides a great option for storing multimedia files. Other noteworthy features include stereo Bluetooth, USB mass storage mode, a 3.5mm audio jack and speaker-independent voice commands.
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