The Good: The Samsung SGH-T629 has a slim profile and a large screen. Features of the quadband phone include a Micro SD card slot, a 1.3-megapixel camera, a music player, and Bluetooth support.
The Bad: The Samsung SGH-T629 has very slippery keys, and the keypad is difficult to dial by feel. We also experienced spotty call quality.
The Bottom Line: The Samsung SGH-T629 is a great-looking, slim phone with a solid feature set, despite a few design flaws.
The Good: The Samsung SGH-T519 Trace has a trendy design and offers Bluetooth, a speakerphone, a memory card slot, and world phone support. The screen is also impressively clear and crisp.
The Bad: The call volume on the Samsung SGH-T519 Trace is low, and photo quality is about average. The navigation toggle is hard to use and lacks voice dialing.
The Bottom Line: Though its performance could be improved a tad, the Samsung SGH-T519 Trace is an attractive thin phone with a nice assortment of features.
The Good: The Samsung Stripe is a tri-band phone. It has T9 predictive text input for faster texting. You can login to any of the popular instant messaging services by utilizing the built in messenger application. You can also use this phone as your personal organizer. It also has Bluetooth connectivity.
The Bad: As with many Samsung phones it has cheap feeling external housing which could easily be scratched. The software is a bit sluggish when opening some applications.
The Bottom Line: It’s a cute clamshell; however, the lack of 3G capability is a big turn off.
The Good: The Samsung SGH-T509 was one of the first truly skinny Samsung phones from T-Mobile, and it first debuted with a silver casing. Now T-Mobile is offering the same phone in plum, which is so dark, it looks like black. The Samsung SGH-T509 and T509S have an attractive design with user-friendly controls and a great display. It also has a solid feature set, including Bluetooth, a speakerphone, and support for EDGE. You can also expand the phones memory with by utilizing an SD card.
The Bad: The Samsung SGH-T509 feels fragile and suffers from mixed call quality. The phone also scratches easily.
The Bottom Line: Though some performance issues make it far from perfect, the Samsung SGH-T509 is a step above the Motorola Slvr L6.
