8/5/2023 0 Comments Smsung impression![]() ![]() Photo quality was pretty good, with bright colors and little image noise. We're also disappointed that the Impression can't access IMAP4 accounts. We much prefer a dedicated e-mail that would sit directly on the handset (as on the iPhone or the Samsung Instinct) with true syncing. While AT&T Mobile E-mail does offers access to AOL, AIM, Yahoo, Hotmail, and Bell South accounts, it's a clunky Web-based application. Yet, the handset falls a bit short when it comes to e-mail. Voice dialing is a disappointing omission.Īs expected, the Impression is a messaging machine, supporting text and multimedia messaging and instant messaging. You'll also find a voice recorder, stereo Bluetooth, PC syncing, USB mass storage, a file manager, and GPS with support for AT&T Navigator. You can save an additional 250 names to the SIM card.īasic features include a vibrate mode, an alarm clock, a calendar, a task list, a memo pad, a calculator, a world clock, a timer, a currency and unit converter, a speakerphone and a stopwatch. You can save callers to groups and pair them with a photo, a message, and one of 11 (72-chord) polyphonic ringtones. ![]() The phone book holds a hefty 2,000 contracts, with room in each entry for four phone numbers, an e-mail address, a URL, a company name and job title, a birthday, a nickname, a street address, and notes. The Impression offers a solid set of midrange multimedia features, but we'll start with the basics first. By rotating the phone, you can switch between the virtual keypad and keyboard and you can flip the orientation of the photo gallery and Web browser. The Impression's accelerometer works in certain applications only. Also, we like that you can view the menu in landscape mode. The wallpaper doesn't flip, which is slightly disconcerting, but the widgets on the TouchWiz bar change their orientation. Opening the keyboard will change the display's orientation in standby mode or when you're in the main menu. You can use the T9 predictive texting application in the virtual keyboard, which is helpful since it's almost too small to use two hands. ![]() Both are fine for occasional use, but we prefer the physical keyboard for heavy texting situations. If you don't want to use the physical keyboard, the Impression also offers a virtual onscreen keyboard and a handwriting recognition tool. The keyboard is brightly backlit for texting in the dark and it offers plenty of space on either side. Numbers and symbols are surfaced directly on the keyboard, though they share buttons with letters. Besides a dedicated key for the messaging application, you'll just shift and function keys and arrow navigation controls for scrolling through menus. Our only complaints were that the space bar is a tad small and that shortcut controls are few. We were off and texting pretty quickly and we made few mistakes. What's more, even though the keys are flush, they remain tactile and easy to press and find. At 4 inches across, the keyboard is one of the most spacious we've ever seen on a cell phone. Slide the display to the right to expose the physical keyboard. Sure, you can move the widgets around at will, but you can't create new widgets beyond the ones that come on the phone. Though we like the collapsible navigation bar and its shortcut widgets, we wish it offered more customization. As we've said before, Touch Wiz has its good points and its bad points. The Impression offers Samsung's TouchWiz interface, which we've seen on several of the company's phones over the past few months. Other display options you can adjust include the brightness, font type, and the backlight time. And thanks to the "power search" feature, you can thumb through a long list of contacts using the first letter of each entry. The icon-based menu interface is intuitive and easy to use we had no issues finding what we wanted in the submenus. You can also use the standard 10-button keypad to tap out text messages, but we're not sure why you'd want to. The interface for the phone dialer features large numbers and a shortcut for the contacts menu. On the bottom of the display are three touch controls for the phone dialer, the contacts menu, and the main menu. ![]()
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