Samsung SCH-U740 Review - Introduction / Design

Introduction

Coated in a soft metallic champagne color, the SCH-U740 is Samsung's answer to an all-in-one PDA, mobile phone and email messenger seeks to deliver a slew of multimedia options to its consumers. Users can switch comfortably between the U740's two opening methods: portrait mode, or a standard clamshell, and a landscape mode which reveals its QWERTY keyboard.

Consumers can type quickly using Wireless Sync, Verizon's proprietary email solution. With Wireless Sync, users can synchronize the U740 with a PC for easy access to their new email, calendar, contacts and task information.

The dual-band U740 is fairly compact at 3.84" x 2.04" x 0.58" and offers improved functions on standard applications like voice recognition. However, a confusing menu navigation system makes it difficult for users to access these improvements. Once they do though, Verizon's gateway to VCAST video and music allows for endless
Design

Samsung pitches the U740 as the silver bullet to its consumers' multi-media ticks. Its design is innovative and comfortable with its reversible full landscape, QWERTY keyboard mode and clamshell design. With it's sleek black interior with comfortable bubble buttons and highlighted silver number pad keys, the phone is well on its way to becoming a light-weight multi-media winner (It weighs 3.6 oz.). Though it is a lightweight, the U740 still feels solid and keyboard pads firm.
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