Samsung Glyde Review
The Samsung Glyde is a candy bar style phone with a sliding full QWERTY keyboard and a touch screen display. Designed to compete with other high end touchscreen phones like the Apple iPhone and the HTC Touch, the Samsung Glyde packs in a lot of high end features that will appeal to the high tech fanatics. Unfortunately, as has been the case with several of the more recent Samsung phones, the build quality on the Samsung Glyde is shoddy, causing the device to lose much of its allure.
The Samsung Glyde is a dual band CDMA phone. This means that it can be used only in the United States and a few other places in the world. However, because the Samsung Glyde is a CDMA device, it can access the 3G networks for high speed data transfer. This is all thanks to the EVDO rev.0 network, which the Samsung Glyde uses for its data when 3G is activated.
Measuring in at approximately four inches by two inches by a half of an inch, the Samsung Glyde is a rather large device. It is also rather heavy, with a weight of approximately 117 grams.
Battery life on the Samsung Glyde is decent, but by no means great. Expect to get approximately three and a half hours of talk time or 250 hours of standby time on a single charge.
The huge main screen measures approximately 2.8 inches in size. It features a resolution of 240 by 440 pixels and a color depth of 262k colors. This is not up to par with other touch screen phones on the market which include a screen with 16 million colors as their color depth. Unfortunately, the problems do not end there. There have been numerous reports of Samsung Glyde phones with touch response problems, mainly due to the screen not responding as it should.
The Samsung Glyde also features a built in 2.0 megapixel digital camera with video capabilities, a flash, and auto focus.
Multimedia features on the Samsung Glyde are well supported. There is a video and an audio player with support for many of the most popular audio and video formats. Furthermore, the built in 57 MB of storage can be expanded via microSD cards.
Other features include a full QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth 1.2 support, a medium sized phone book, an alarm, a calendar, a notepad, a stopwatch, a calculator, a world clock, a currency converter, a unit converter, a number of voice commands, voice recording, a speakerphone, email support, and GPS support.
Pros
-Lots of features
-Attractive design
-3G / GPS support
Cons
-Poor build quality
Overall
It’s unfortunate that a device with so much potential as the Samsung Glyde can fail so miserably. The Samsung Glyde should be set on the right path to compete with devices like the HTC Touch and the Apple iPhone – but it falls short. Thanks to poor build quality in many handsets, the Samsung Glyde’s touch screen is all but functionless, causing users to have to make multiple attempts to select even the smallest button. Perhaps the faulty touch screen is the real reason that Samsung opted to include a regular keyboard instead of a virtual one like most touchscreen phones use.
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