PhoneScoop: Samsung Intrepid

[0]Hey everybody phonescoop here. Today we are going to take a quick spin around the Sprint Intrepid, a new Windows Mobile 6.5 phone from Samsung. And as you can see, we havent unboxed it yet. We thought we'd we thought we'd do the unboxing for you on video. So lets take a look at whats in the box here. For the Intrepid. We'll open it up. And we can see that Samsung has put this kind of loosely here. We have got the phone and underneath we have got lots of goodies here. Looks like we have got a pair of stereo headphones, we have got a data cable, we have got a power cable, and we have got the user guide. So thats what comes in the box of the Samsung Intrepid, Windows Mobile 6.5 Smartphone for Sprint. Lets take a look at the phone itself. Now that we have taken a quick look at whats inside the box, lets take a spin [1]around the Samsung Intrepid itself. You can see its a monoblock QWERTY phone. You have got a full keyboard along the bottom, which I have to say feels pretty good. We have got nice travel and feedback to the keys. They have got a little bit of a rough surface to them, so your fingers are not going to slip all over the place while you are typing Lest you think this is not a touch phone, it actually is. The Samsung Intrepid has a touch screen here, which allows it to interact with the user interface. With either the thumb pad here or with the screen itself which is a nice inclusion for this type of form factor. Lets zoom in a little bit closer inclusion for this type of form factor. Lets zoom in a little bit closer so you can get a little bit of a better sense of the keyboard. You can see some of the contours there and textures. Now we have got a full array of buttons here. We have got our two soft keys, our send and end keys, we have got an OK key. A start menu key, we have got a D-Pad here and [2]a selector switch. On the left side of the phone, we have got a volume toggle here which feels good. It has good travel and feedback. We have got a hatch covering the microUSB port, which is something I am very happy to see on a Samsung phone. Nothing along the bottom. On the right we have got a a whole bunch of things going on. We have got a stylus packed away here in the bottom of the phone, we have got a dedicated camera key here. There is the hard reset button. And we have got a power key here. On the back of the phone you can see we have got a vanity mirror and a 3.2MP camera However there is no flash, this is a speaker for the ringer and such here. On the back. No flash on this camera. And on the top you can see tucked away under here, we have a full 3.5mm headset jack. So thats again, something very nice to see on a Samsung phone. We have got a separate jack for [3]audio and separate jack for data and charging which is something they usually combine into their own proprietary port. So. In sum the hardware feels pretty good. I have to say, its a comfortable phone to hold and I like the way the buttons feel. It feels very well designed and put together. One other thing I will show you on the back of the phone. Here is the slot for the microSD memory card and of course here is a SIM card slot. The SIM card of course will allow this phone to roam on to GSM networks over in Europe. So world phone from Samsung, now lets take a little bit of a look at the Windows Mobile 6.5 on this device. So here is the lock screen on Windows Mobile 6.5. We take this and slide it to the left or right to unlock the home screen. What you can see here is that we use the D-pad we can scroll through all of the things that are on the [4]Windows Mobile 6.5 home screen with the D-pad. And of course we could do the same thing with our thumb here and just scroll through this way. Go to the main menu. We touch up there and we have the phone menu that is available You can see it appear similar to the menu on other Windows Mobile 6.5 phones we looked at. This main menu here is somewhat finger friendly. The icons are definitely big enough to push with your finger. Being a Sprint phone, it is loaded with some Sprint software. We have got their NASCAR application there. You can see a software store here. Another Sprint program here, their navigation application. Sprint music store, all sorts of stuff here We have got the TellMe voice search here in the applications. We have got NFL application, shortcut to Google, the camera, and of course all sorts of different services from sprint. We have got a nice [5]weather service from MSN, the file explorer. Lets take a look in there. You can see here that once you dive down into a submenu this deep into the operating system, it becomes less finger friendly. You can see that it is a little bit smaller, a little bit harder to select some of the stuff with your thumb or finger. Of course thats why they included the stylus. Its a stark admission from Microsoft and Samsung that the phone is not quite finger ready yet. But, you know, its not a bad operating system. It is much more usable than Windows Mobile 6.1 was. We will leave it at that. Its a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone I happen to like this hardware better than some of the other hardware we have seen on Windows Mobile 6.5 phones so far. Its relatively compact, has a very good control, and keys, and of course its available on the Sprint network so you know you have got [6]EVDO 3G data and the ability to roam on GSM networks when traveling overseas as an added bonus. So there you go, the Samsung Intrepid Windows Mobile 6.5 phone for Sprint.


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