by Owen -- April 14th 2010 -- Harpswell, ME
Samsung Intensity overview:
The good: very good keyboard a great simple feature phone.
The bad: feels really small in my hands, only a 1.3 megapixel camera, no video capabilities, lacks flash in the camera, not a good speaker for taking sounds.
As you can see from above there is more bad than good, but remember this is based on my opinion and I am an avid smartphone user so I am not used to having such simple phones and smaller phones like this. So when you are reading this just please keep that in mind.
The Samsung Intensity is a slide out qwerty keyboard phone. The Intensity supports voice commands and also another cool feature I found out on this phone after a few days of using is that while you are on a phone call if you slide the keyboard up you enter speakerphone. Pretty slick if you ask me. Something else that came in handy more than once is the dedicated camera key on the right side of the phone. It is an efficient way of getting to the camera. But that is pretty much only the good thing that I have to say about the camera. Otherwise there is no flash and only…what did I read that right? 1.3 megapixels? We are in 2010 people come on! And another problem there is with it is that the intensity does not support video. But there is a good thing, there is a self timer which can be for three seconds, five seconds or ten seconds.
The screen size on this device is 2.1 inches, good for a sliding phone but just cannot compare to something like the HTC HD2.
And also if you want to get insurance on this phone in-case that it gets stolen or you lose it or maybe you drop it off the empire state building…I really don’t know but for whatever reason you will not have to worry about this device breaking on you and if it does then it is only $40 to replace it. This device ways in at 3.53 ounces with a standard battery. Like I said, a pretty small phone. Also a good capability that I found out about when I unboxed it was that you have in case of emergency contacts so if you are a kid owning this phone if you wanted to put your legal guardian in your contacts to get to quickly in the case of an emergency, you can.
One other thing about the contacts is that you can enter up to one thousand contacts. Who would need that many, I don’t know. There is speed dialing so if you want to set 3 as your speed dial to call your husband you can. It is a fast way to get a hold of somebody. And there is airplane mode so if you are flying in a plane you can use your cell.
There is a lot of useful tools that I use on a day-to-day basis which include:
Stop watch, notepad, calculator, which can be used to a regular one a tip calculator or a converter, usb mass storage, world clock, and an alarm clock which o used quite frequently.
Stand by time is three hundred hours with a standard battery. Pretty decent.
And if you want to listen to some tunes while you are on the go, not to worry you have v cast music with rhapsody if you would like to pay for the service. You can record sounds but the speaker really ain’t the greatest in the world. There is embedded ringtones.
Texting is a best on this thing. You can send your voice messages or regular texts and even do mms. All with threaded messaging feature. When I was typing on this bad boy my thumbs were going faster than my eyes could keep up with!
Conclusion: If you are looking for a simple phone with a great keyboard—purchase this. But please do not buy if you are looking for good photography on your cell phone or a good web experience. I would have to say the bad outweighs the good. Also one other think I found out I didn’t like to much was the big button in the middle. I think they could have done better on the phone, but hey it is getting up there in age.
Samsung Intensity (U450) User Rating
