These days, messaging phones are pretty much everywhere, and “texting” has become a viable way of talking to someone (why you’d do that in many situations when you have a phone in your hand is beyond me, but anyway..). Mobile phone makers have even partnered with operators to engineer their own version of a messaging handset. And that’s exactly what Samsung has done with the Samsung Gravity, officially announced today.
To be released as an exclusive under T-Mobile, the Samsung Gravity is a phone that features a full slide-out QWERTY-keyboard aside from its 12-key alphanumeric keypad. Its specs won’t blow you away: a small LCD screen, puny 1.3 megapixel camera and 60MB of memory, which is fairly middling these days, but that’s not where its strength is. Instead, it’s supposed to be great in accessing multiple IM clients including AOL, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger and MSN. It’s built to text, e-mail and chat basically.
It does have Bluetooth support, easy access to POP3 e-mail clients such as GMail, speakerphone, music player, speech recognition and support for MicroSD memory cards, so it isn’t a total lightweight in the features department. It’s listed as being available very soon, and the price will be $99 ($49 with a mail-in rebate and two-year agreement/data plan signup), so the price is reasonable enough.
If you live “texting” as a lifestyle, this may be a phone to check out.
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Alissa 05.03.10 at 8:25 pm
this phone is sexy lmao