Samsung Moment Review

Engadget took the time to review Samsung’s first Sliding-Qwerty Android smartphone the Moment which is now available on Sprint. Guess I was right, they came out disappointed because of the total lack of customisation (in runs the vanilla UI) and the fact that the phone doesn’t bring anything new to the market. Even-tough the Samsung S3C6410 Chipset is quite a bit faster that the standard Qualcomm MSM72XX found in all other Android device there’s no point in getting excited about it unfortunately. Let’s wait for the Behold II now, but don’t expect too much..

If there’s one thing Android’s in desperate need of right now, it’s choices — choice of carriers, choice of manufacturers, choice of form factors, choice of skins, and so on, because no single Android device is going to capture whole percentage points of market share the same way the iPhone has. On that level, we applaud Sprint for staying on the ball and recognizing that the keyboardless Hero wasn’t enough to satisfy every last subscriber who’d like to get in on Android. Thing is, the Moment still feels like a first-generation device — and for a platform that launched commercially a solid year ago, that’s not really acceptable. We would’ve liked to have seen Samsung come to the table with a phone that was sleeker, prettier, more thought-out, and — if nothing else — ran the latest and greatest version of Android that Google and the OHA have to offer. Devices like the Behold II suggest that Sammy’s going to be an open-source force to be reckoned with in the long term, but for its first outing on Sprint, it’s a swing and a miss.

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Source: Engadget