Smartphone Review

The Samsung Propel Pro from AT&T is a Windows Mobile 6.1 slider phone with a full QWERTY keyboard and a stylish exterior. It’s a quad band world phone with Wi-Fi and some extras.

BUILD AND DESIGN
The first word that comes to mind when I look at the Samsung Propel Pro is “sexy”. The device has an ultra-sleek exterior that looks like polished hematite. It’s really quite striking, and looks much cooler than a lot of the other cookie-cutter phones on the market.

Even though the exterior of the phone is plastic it looks like metal, and the device feels very solid in the hand. At 2.4 inches wide, especially in my relatively small hand, it is so wide that its sharp corners tend to dig into my palm if I’m trying to use it one-handed. The phone is a little on the heavy side, but not too heavy, and the weight is pretty well balanced between the top slider and the main portion of the phone.

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BY: Ed Hardy, Brighthand.com Editor
The HTC Touch Diamond2 will, obviously, be the replacement for a smartphone that was introduced last year. While it will have generally the same tablet design as its predecessor, this upcoming Windows phone will have a larger, higher-resolution display.

I recently was able to get some time with a pre-release version of this device, and I recorded a short video preview of it: Read More »

BY: Ed Hardy, Brighthand.com Editor

Last year, Sprint released the Samsung Instinct. Later this month, it is going to replace this model with an enhanced version, the Samsung Instinct s30.

I had a few minutes with this upcoming high-end phone, and I recorded a video preview of it:

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