Samsung Gravity Txt – GarageHP.com previously wrote an article about Samsung Vitality. Now we are talking about Samsung Gravity Txt, Admirable Call Quality. We didn’t love everything about its design, but as an inexpensive, easy-to-use cell phone for making calls, the Samsung Gravity Txt gets the job done.
At this point, you’d think that there are almost as many Samsung Gravity Txt phones as there are handsets in the company’s Galaxy line. All right, we’re exaggerating just a bit, but the Samsung Gravity Txt is, in fact, the sixth such device for T-Mobile. First we had the original Samsung Gravity Txt back in 2008, which was followed by the Gravity 2, the Gravity 3, the Gravity T, and the Android-powered Gravity Smart. Like most of its predecessors, the Gravity Txt is a functional device that’s built around messaging. The Samsung Gravity Txt keyboard can be a little stiff, and we don’t love the optical joystick, but the simple design and decent call quality caused few complaints.
Samsung Gravity Txt Design
Of all the previous Gravity models, the Samsung Gravity Txt, aka the SGH-T379, looks most like the Gravity 3. Instead of a tiny touch screen as we had on the Gravity T, you’ll find a more manageable arrangement with a full keyboard hidden behind a slider design. Indeed, this is perfect example of a phone where less is definitely more. Even more unassuming is the basic gray skin punctuated by an emerald green stripe around the edge. The handset measures 4.41 inches long by 2.09 inches wide by 0.59 inches deep and weighs 3.59 ounces.
Samsung Gravity Txt Review
The Samsung Gravity Txt (QVGA) 2.4-inch display supports 262,000 colors. Though not especially vivid, it’s perfectly fine on a phone like this Samsung Gravity Txt. You can adjust the brightness, the backlight time and choose a color theme and wallpaper. What’s more, the Samsung Gravity Txt display’s orientation rotates automatically when you open the slider (there’s no accelerometer). Powering the Samsung Gravity Txt phone is Samsung’s basic user interface, which shouldn’t pose a learning curve.
Below the Samsung Gravity Txt display is the navigation array, which was one of the Gravity Txt’s more troubling features. Instead of a standard four-way toggle with a central OK button, the Samsung Gravity Txt handset instead has a square optical joystick. Swiping your finger across the joystick enables you to scroll around the grid-based main menu and through the longer lists in the internal menus. Though we don’t disagree with the Samsung Gravity Txt concept of an optical joystick in principle, in practice is doesn’t quite work here. The Samsung Gravity Txt joystick is too small, especially for users with larger hands, and the motion just feels a little clunky. We got used to it, but it did take time.
Surrounding the Samsung Gravity Txt joystick are two soft keys, a messaging shortcut, a back button, and the Talk and End/power controls. They’re flush with the surface of the phone, but spacious. Further down is an alphanumeric keypad. The keys feel rather squashed together, but it’s not a big deal. On the right side, you’ll find the Micro-USB charger port and the camera shutter. The Samsung Gravity Txt volume rocker and microSD card slot are on the left side and the 3.5mm headset jack rests on the top end. The Samsung Gravity Txt camera lens sits on the rear side next to the sole speaker.
Fortunately, the Samsung Gravity Txt QWERTY keyboard beneath the sturdy slider mechanism feels bigger. It takes up the full width of the phone leaving plenty of space between the individual buttons, and you get a fair assortment of dedicated shortcuts for emoticons, messaging, the Web browser, and social media apps. Samsung Gravity Txt Letters share space with numbers and punctuation (there’s even a “.com” button), some of which are highlighted in green. The Alt key is conveniently marked in green, as well.
The Samsung Gravity Txt keyboard, however, wasn’t without its faults. The keys are flat and relatively stiff, which made for a slow and somewhat plodding typing experience. It was something else that we grew accustomed to, but it also took a while. We also weren’t pleased with the placement of the keyboard navigation keys. The arrow buttons on the extreme right are fine, but we’d prefer that the OK button also wasn’t on that far side. The soft keys also feel a bit strange since they’re not directly under the corresponding commands on the display.
Samsung Gravity Txt Features
The phone book holds 1,000 contacts with room in each entry for multiple phone numbers, an e-mail address, a URL, an anniversary, a street address, a birthday, and notes. You can save callers to groups and pair them with a photo and a ringtone. Other essentials include messaging and e-mail, an alarm clock, a task list, a memo pad, a calculator, a world clock, a tip calculator, a time, and a stopwatch.
Samsung Gravity Txt Phone
As we said before, the Gravity Txt is far from a smartphone, but it offers a few extra features beyond the basics. Inside are Bluetooth, USB syncing, voice commands and dialing, a Telenav GPS app, an RSS reader, and a Social Buzz app that offers access to Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. There’s also a rudimentary music player, but it will have limited appeal to audiophiles.
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