Sick-slick slider


Samsung makes excellent sliders. Definitely true, if the U900 is any indication. Besides being very well built, slim, and featuring a brushed metal body, the U900 has a lovely, (if somewhat small), screen. It’s compact too, and very much for the college goer looking for something powerful and chic. The call accept/ reject button are large, you could find them with your eyes closed.


The keypad seems reminiscent of Motorola phones, some sort of a membrane based keypad that nonetheless works fine. The most innovative feature is incorporated into the menu button— there is none! What you have instead is an OLED lit pad that is touch and swipe sensitive and works beautifully. The backlight activates according to the feature you select. For example using the down backlit arrow on the joypad will cause the down arrow to get highlighted. Although this is little more than a gimmick, it’s original, and works well, which is more important. Samsungs five megapixel camera is easy to use with good menus and options, although its camera isn’t as good as the N95 8GB or the N82. The only trick which Samsung may have missed is the presence of GPS and WLAN as features, and for the price point we’d have expected something like this included. It hasn’t got the powerful convergence of features like the N95 8GB and N82, but it looks radically different and is flashy too, like the Viewty. Choose it over the two Nokia’s above only if you don’t need the extra features they have.

Sick-slick slider


Samsung makes excellent sliders. Definitely true, if the U900 is any indication. Besides being very well built, slim, and featuring a brushed metal body,...