There has been a great deal of attention given to the release of the Motorola Droid with Verizon, but there are other companies also embracing the Android OS. Check out Samsung's latest prize, the Moment with Sprint.
The smartphone market has become pretty intense as all the little guys try to compete with the iPhone. The result is capitalism at it's fines
t ... consumers are getting better choices. The Samsung Moment is one of those "better choices."
One feature that gives this device some bragging rights is the 800MHz ARM11 core. What exactly does this mean? It means it's fast ... quite possibly the fastest out there right now. For some of us, just having speed is enough, but there is plenty more to write
home about with this cell phone.
The beautiful AM-OLED display will catch your eye immediately. What exactly is AM-OLED? Try as I might, I can't summarize the technical defnition, so here is what I found from mobileburn.com:
AMOLED, which stands for Active Matrix OLED, is a hybrid display technology that pairs the active matrix backplane from a traditional TFT display with an OLED display. As a result of their active matrix natures, AMOLED displays have faster pixel switching response times than do traditional OLED displays, which are prone to ghosting when displaying fast moving animations.
My non-technical summary of the AM-OLED display .... The AM-OLED display makes you utter an involuntary "wow" when you first behold it.
There are two other features that set the Samsung Moment apart. First is the slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Simply having one on a smartphone is unusual, but also
unusual is the layout. It takes a little getting used to but it mimcs a computer keyboard quite nicely. Second ... and lastly, is the call quality. It is virtually unsurpassed. Not only can you hear from across the room if the volume is turned up, but the quality of the calls will give the impression that you are on a landline.
As to the rest of the story, it's much the same as other mobile devices. Camera, music, video, GPS .. it's all there.
