Thread: Samsung T929

The Samsung Memoir, officially calledlike the SGH-T929, is the company's most recent high-end cameramobile for T-Mobile USA. Sporting an 8 megapixel shooter oncharacteristics as a real xenon flash and smile detection way, theMemoir has everything the right specifications for the budding mobilephotographer. A full sized touchscreen and Samsung's Touch Wiz userinterface afford the Memoir user some eye candy to love at the sametime.


Physically, the Memoir is based on apretty simple touch screen slab plan. Its 400x240 pixel resistivetouch screen prevails the front of the phone, which is bare still forthe face sensor that sits over it and the call send, call end, andrear keys that sit below it. The rear of the phone, still, displaysmuch more personality, feeling for everything the world as adedicated point and shoot camera.




The Memoir is made from hardy lookingmaterials and appears to be extremely solidly created. The Memoirweights a solid 126.9g , and determines 110 mm x 53.5 mm x 14.5 mm in size. The entire device has again assuring look to it, and themetal work is particularly nice. The attached metal encompasses forthe power or USB or headset ports are a luxurious touch, and thecamera's shutter button is among the best we've displayed recently.The nicest plan element, still, is as the lens cover that opens andcloses automatically as required. It assists afford the Memoir aextremely actual camera look.


Reception with the Memoir, which backsup T-Mobile's GSM and UMTS networks, is not as good as one might hopefor, coming in a bit below average depended upon our impressions.Audio standard appears good, while, and the speakerphone is more ascompared to adequate. Battery life is rated at 5.5 hours of talk timeor 12.5 days of standby time, but in our known users will berecharging the phone sooner instead of later, probably because of thelarge screen and bright rear light.

The contacts system in the Memoir iscompletely characterized, and the rather access buttons for messagingand calling in the contact list are extremely handy. Profile supportis quite limited, but at least the active profile can be rapidlyaltered by using the volume control. Speed dialing is backed up, andthe Memoir even extends Nuance's speaker independent voice dialingapp. Because of a bug involving Samsung's PC Studio 3, which Iapplied for contact synchronization, and how I have my contacts inMicrosoft Outlook shown, I originally had much problem acquiring thevoice dialing to work. Most users, while, should detect that thevoice dialing function with the Memoir works absolutely.


TheT929 Memoir backs up text, MMS, IM, and email messaging right out ofthe box. Email support is restricted to offerings from the majorplayers, as Hotmail , Gmail, and was a bit slow to apply. Text andMMS messaging, having audio postcards, worked rather well, while. Thephone offers a virtual 12 key T9 prognostic keypad for text inputwhen kept generally, and a full QWERTY layout when kept in landscapeway. The T9 keypad works quite well, but the QWERTY version appeareddifficult to apply rapidly and accurately, in spite of the tactualfeedback felt when keys are pressed.