Samsung Focus 2

Design
Samsung takes the example of the cultural zeitgeist and the approach has two colors-white, accented by a silver finish. Although the focus of two tough, hard plastic feeling is being built, makes a smooth surface that looks very elegant. The coating may be a little too bright, however. Although it felt silky but also slipped from my hands and my knees more than once. This would be a good candidate for at least one patch of textured surface, preferably a soft rubber surface to have to give some support. On 2 approach may not be for the title of the slimmest mobile phone, but I found the steps easy, fairly compact and easy to fit into a pocket or purse. The phone measures about 4.7 inches high by 2.5 inches wide and 0.5 inches and weighs 4.3 ounces. No lightweight, but it is the right amount of 4-inch Hefta Super AMOLED screen welcomes you in the face of the phone with 800x480 pixels (WVGA) resolution, which is pretty standard for a screen this size . The simplicity of the Windows Mobile OS tiles works well with the text of the resolution is very clear and defined with the naked eye. As usual, Samsung makes the display as black elected blacks and colors pop. In fact, compared with screens with other phone manufacturers to make super AMOLED Samsung seems oversaturated colors. While this works in the advantage of the phone's memory in most cases, you can make your photos some candy coated (but more on that later.) Look on the touch screen is a VGA camera that looks ahead . Below the screen are three lighted touch-sensitive keys to navigate back to find his home. Secondary functions are also there: press and hold the Back button to view and select open applications recently, and do the same with the start button to start voice actions. The search button Bing strip, which you can scan barcodes of music and identify which of the buttons Funktionen.Silbrig others in power control the spine straight and the camera shutter. The volume control in the left side of the spine. A micro USB charging port is on the bottom and up top is 3.5 mm headphone jack. Rotate the phone to see the camera lens and flash 5 megapixel. No Windows Mobile devices equipped with an expandable memory, so that there is a microSD card slot, as much as you can. The Focus 2 uses a micro-card SIM.


Features
Microsoft is between Android and IOS regard to the closed form the manufacturer's operating system is better, but overall there is tremendous consistency between devices. If you know Windows Mobile on a phone, you know everything about them. As a reminder, you can find help for the characteristics of the brand and communication connection: Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, card, e-mail and text messaging and multimedia. There is also support hot-spot, some nice integration with your phone contacts and social networking services, integrated support for podcast subscription and Xbox Live. Microsoft made ​​an attempt to bake some useful extensions to the operating system, including voice above mentioned action, music and the identification bar code scanning to identify and commercial uses. There is a similar functionality in the browser Yelp local, social networking check-in from your personal profile on the home screen, auto-correction and editing features in the camera application. AT & T and Samsung slipped into his usual complement of applications as well. In the case of Samsung, who are very well written in the area of ​​Samsung in the applications market. These include the application of video-chat tango, photography studio and a headline a day, just to name a few. Also in the market, AT & T, Featured, where there is a great competitor Pandora Slacker Radio, mobile yellow pages (YP), and a bushel of AT & T has gestión.


Performance
I tried the quad-band Samsung Focus 2 (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) in San Francisco. Call quality was useful in any case as a whole, but my overall impression was "soft." I turned the volume of medium to high, and covered with a blanket of my speakers to erase the words. Audio is often called the leg, and even hear some words confusing, but the call saying all along. The line sounded clear, but the way the words were not transferred in point. My caller on the other hand, praised the high volume and clarity to say, I listened with great ease with which gedämpft.Als the phone held at waist level, the speaker also sounded better than my mate proofs, because my eye. I had to hear the volume, and voices sounded a little fuzzy is not clear, but at least cure distortion speakerphone. With the relatively high, I felt that the public ringing in my hand, when the voice spoke at the other end of the line. Call summarizes the quality of the speaker in moderation, as "good." A discussion was lead to a problem, but I heard more clearly Freisprechfunktion.Es some confusion about how many processors of a smartphone that really needs to operate at peak times. Microsoft says it is working on supporting multi-core processors, but said the way the Windows Phone operating system written, was to reduce the processing requirements at a time, a dual-core or quad-core is too large . Politics and marketing aside, I never realized how excessive hangtime approach 1.4 GHz 2 when I searched for web sites, open applications, and generally navigate around. That is, make some applications to load faster than others. Share of voice, for example, will not be charged instantly.One the attractive features of the Focus 2, access to AT & T 4G LTE network is one. The speeds are not lightning fast, especially in San Francisco, where the application of WP7 test bandwidth (free speed test on the market) HSPA + and LTE speeds in the range of 2 Mbps and up to 5Mbps registered and upload speeds hovered around 1Mbps. The use in the real world, a phone loaded with heavy graphics Web pages quickly (site CNET.com 's full loaded in just over 30 seconds) and YouTube videos can be streamed without buffering translated. However, I've noticed that the formation of blocks in the resolution, which was significantly lower than high definition. However, if you do not need streaming HD video (which normally comes with a price tag above), then the streaming worked without interruption gut.Der Focus 2 Battery life is rated at a respectable 6 hours conversation with the waiting time of up to 10.4 days in 3G and much shorter than 6.5 days of 4G LTE. Of course, all this depending on how bright the screen and change the frequency and intensity of your phone. FCC tests measure the approach of two digital SAR is 0.76 watts per kilogram.