The Samsung Moment SPH-m900, an Android-based touchscreen slider, is the first handset equipped with an AMOLED display offered by Sprint. Other than its brilliant display, the Moment integrates a physical keyboard, plenty of Android’s offerings and Sprint’s media services, which all add up to a fairly solid and capable handset.What makes the Moment special is its 3.2-inch 320x480-pixel display, which uses the AMOLED technology to offer bright and vivid imagery. Below the screen is an OK button that doubles as an optical mouse for you to move the cursor simply by swiping your finger. The phone features a proximity sensor and an accelerometer, which means you can turn it sideways to view in landscape mode. You can type with the slide-out QWERTY keyboard or the virtual keyboard with the phone closed. It measures 4.6 by 2.34 by 0.63 inches and weighs 5.67 ounces.
The Moment offers a wide range of email options. Aside from Gmail and POP/IMAP email support, it also gives you easy access to personal and corporate email accounts through Microsoft ActiveSync. For instant messaging, there is a preloaded client for Google Gtalk, AIM, MSN and Yahoo. It also offers text and picture messaging and you can view them in threaded conversations.
Running on Android 1.5, the Moment integrates Google Maps with Google Latitude, bringing you directions, standard map view, satellite imagery and street view. Additionally, Sprint Navigation provides voice-guided turn-by-turn directions, 3D moving maps and recommended routes. Google voice search is onboard and, of course, you can find many more applications on the Android Market.
Music lovers will like its built-in music player that works with the 3.5mm headphone jack. More songs can be purchased from the Amazon MP3 Store. For video contents, besides the pre-installed YouTube app, the Moment offers Sprint TV with live and on-demand programming, Sprint Movies, NFL Mobile Live and NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile. Sprint Radio is preloaded as well.
The Moment sports with a full HTML web browser, giving you easy access to news headlines, weather reports and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. You can add bookmarks and browse in landscape mode. In addition, the device comes equipped with a 3.2-megapixel auto-focus camera with flash, digital zoom, which also works as a camcorder.
Beyond the above-mentioned, the Moment features stereo Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi, USB mass storage, visual voice mail, speaker-independent voice dialing and 250MB of on-board storage. You can expand the memory with a microSD card up to 32GB.
Despite its relatively bulky form factor, the Samsung Moment takes the advantage of its vivid screen and makes a good combination with Sprint and Google services. Overall, it is quite a decent device that belongs to the top bunch of Sprint’s lineup.
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