The good: The Samsung Impression has a brilliant touch screen, a roomy keyboard, and an intuitive design. It offers a functional midrange feature set and admirable multimedia performance and call quality.
The bad: The Samsung Impression has a proprietary headset jack, the camera lacks a flash, and keyboard shortcuts are few. Also, it lacks voice dialing and the promised battery life is rather short.
The bottom line: The Samsung Impression isn’t perfect, but it ranks high on our list as a messaging and multimedia phone.
**At 4 inches across, the keyboard is one of the most spacious we’ve ever seen on a cell phone.
**If you don’t want to use the physical keyboard, the Impression also offers a virtual onscreen keyboard and a handwriting recognition tool.
The phone book holds a hefty 2,000 contracts, with room in each entry for four phone numbers, an e-mail address, a URL, a company name and job title, a birthday, a nickname, a street address, and notes.
Basic features include a vibrate mode, an alarm clock, a calendar, a task list, a memo pad, a calculator, a world clock, a timer, a currency and unit converter, a speakerphone and a stopwatch. You’ll also find a voice recorder, stereo Bluetooth, PC syncing, USB mass storage, a file manager, and GPS with support for AT&T Navigator. Voice dialing is a disappointing omission.
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