If you desire a touchscreen phone with the advantage of a QWERTY keyboard and you don't desire to use too much cash, the Genio Touch is quite well as fine as it gets. With a native FaceBook application, WiFi, a GPS, 3.5mm headphone jack and memory flexible to a monster 16GB, there isn't much not to similar to about this phone. If we could get better one thing, it would be the camera.

The big benefit that the Genio Slide has more than most mid-range phones is its slide-out keyboard. Now we like touchscreen phones just in so far as everybody but nothing can beat a full QWERTY keyboard for fast typing, particularly if it has big well-spaced receptive keys similar to the Genio Slide. The mixture of real keyboard plus a large 2.8 inch touchscreen creates the Genio a joy to employ.

The phone has a music player sure and has the benefit of a 3.5mm audio jack, so you can plug in any standard-fit headphones. We're pleased to see that the internal memory is a generous 150MB, and you can add a MicroSD card to expand this all the way up to 16GB, to store your whole music collection. There's also an FM radio with RDS.


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Features of the Samsung Genio Slide include:

• AGPS

• Voice memo & voice mail

• Personal organiser functions

• Display: TFT, 262,000 colours, 320 x 240 pixels (2.8 inches) with auto rotation

• Music player

• FM radio RDS

• Quadband GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) plus 3G (900/2100 MHz)

• Size: 105 x 57 x 16 mm

• Weight: 135g

• Talktime: 230 - 490 minutes

• Speakerphone

• Java games (4)

• Document viewer

• 3.2 megapixel camera with 2x digital zoom

• Video camera / 3G video calling

• Ringtones: MP3 ringtones

• Messaging: SMS, MMS, email, IM

• Mobile Tracker

• Offline mode

• WAP 2.0, GPRS, EDGE, 3.5G, Dolphine 1.5 web browser

• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, USB 2.0, WiFi, 3.5mm jack

• Memory: 150 Mbytes plus MicroSD memory card slot (up to 16GB supported)

• Battery standby: 390 - 560 hours