LG's Optimus 7 & Samsung's Focus Reviewed: A Tale of Two Windows Phones
by Anand Lal Shimpi on December 3, 2010 10:14 PM EST- Posted in
- Smartphones
- Samsung
- Windows Phone 7
- LG Optimus
- LG
- Samsung Focus
- Mobile
Samsung's Software Bundle
The Focus is AT&T’s flagship Windows Phone 7 device, and as such you get a bunch of AT&T apps on the phone: AT&T FamilyMap, myWireless, Navigator, Radio and U-verse Mobile. Some of these require plan support (e.g. AT&T’s Navigator turn-by-turn navigation software).
The Focus also ships with Samsung’s Now app:
It’s a useful app that integrates feeds from AccuWeather.com (showing your current weather conditions) and Reuters (for news). You also get a stock tracker.
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tonyfreak215 - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link
You can pin a contact to the Main page. Just hold your finger on the contact and "Pin to start"EddyKilowatt - Monday, December 6, 2010 - link
During OLED's multi-year gestation, we saw lots of fetching display pics, though always with the text disclaimer "life of the organic emitters, however, remains a stumbling block".But now that products are on the shelves, the most penetrating journalism one can read about OLEDs amounts to, basically, "ohhhh... shiny!".
What is the backstory with OLED lifetime... was there a fundamental breakthrough that made it a non-problem, or was it merely increased "enough" that vendors think consumers will shrug and buy new toys when the old ones fade? Will today's eye-catching saturated colors look like old faded jeans at this time next year?
sviola - Monday, December 6, 2010 - link
Well, considering that people change cellphones in a 2-year schedule (usually when the plan is over), I don't think that the lifetime of the screen on a cellphone would matter much (2-year lifetime is around 17,5k hours if left on 24/7 - and I think Samsung AMOLED has a lifetime of 50k hours, which would translate to 5yr and 8mo of 24/7).xBabyJesus - Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - link
Anand, any chance you could do an update with read/write latency tests for a few flash cards? Apparently the sequential transfer speed (Class 2, 4, 6, etc) is pretty meaningless but the random read latency is make-or-break for Focus.