The Samsung Jet is arguably one of the best feature phones around. Yep, this high-profile handset isn’t a smartphone, yet packs a hardware suite that can put most handsets in that category to shame.
Speed was Samsung’s main battle call for the Jet, as it packs a hefty 800Mhz CPU in the guts. Despite the processing power, the phone doesn’t appear to be any faster than most other high-end phones. I blame Symbian for this – and probably a little on Samsung too.
Now that running like a speed monster is out of the way, we can now focus on the rest of the handset’s features, of which it packs plenty. The 3.1-inch display, for one, is gorgeous on an 800 x 480 resolution. Despite being resistive, touch response is well-implemented, making for an extremely usable phone, regardless of what you’re looking to do.
We loved the onboard media player, handling a wide variety of music and video formats, including almost every MPEG-4, H.263 and DivX file we threw at it. There are plenty of options to fiddle with, making the multimedia experience a largely complete one.
The 5.0 megapixel camera is also mighty impressive, with above-average quality in both stills and videos – a combination we rarely find in modern camera phones. There’s a good amount of shutter lag, however, but the quality more than makes up for it.
It supports a wide range of internet connectivity. Those we tested (Wi-Fi and 3.2Mbps HSDPA) offered great performance, loading pages capably. It’s not the fastest we’ve tried, but you won’t hear me complaining. It comes with a new tab-enabled full HTML browser that lets you surf up to five websites at a time, a big deal since we rarely see phones with the capability.
As a phone, phone and video calls were great, although battery performance hinges on the average. Other features of the handset include aGPS, a built-in radio, stereo Bluetooth and microSDHC expansion.
Overall, I like the Samsung Jet a lot. It’s even priced very competitively, making it a good option for those in search of a multimedia phone.
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