{"id":43658,"date":"2009-11-17T17:03:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T22:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boygeniusreport.com\/?p=38835"},"modified":"2009-11-17T17:03:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T22:03:44","slug":"t-mobile-samsung-behold-ii-hands-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/43658","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile Samsung Behold II hands on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38917 aligncenter\" title=\"samsung-behold-ii-2\" src=\"http:\/\/media.boygeniusreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/samsung-behold-ii-2.jpg\" alt=\"samsung-behold-ii-2\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Haven&#8217;t had your fill of Android handsets yet? Neither have we. T-Mobile just hit us up with a Samsung Behold II and here are some first impressions:<\/p>\n<p>Physically the unit feels pretty good to hold, albeit a little cheap. The weight is good, but the choice of a glossy plastic makes it feel a little chintzy to us. The back cover has a certain depth to it and it&#8217;s pretty darn cool, but we can see it scratching really easily if you&#8217;re not careful. As far as the front of the device, the buttons are surprisingly pretty easy to press despite their intimidating layout, and the 5-way navigational circle is also pretty friendly. Now for what we don&#8217;t like&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Samsung needs to learn that it isn&#8217;t 1999 anymore, and re-skinning most of Android&#8217;s decent but not great UI elements isn&#8217;t a good idea. We literally feel like we&#8217;re in downtown Seoul when the display is on &#8212; neon blues, neon orange, neon yellow &#8212; all on a black background which really doesn&#8217;t make for the most appetizing phone interface. Additionally, you can no longer press the Menu key to unlock the display once you turn it on, you&#8217;re forced to press a dedicated unlock \/ lock key on the side of the phone. Awk. Ward. While the paper specs on the phone (capacitive screen, 5 megapixel camera, AWS 3G, etc.) are definitely competitive, at first glance, the user experience seems to be way too involved for the average user. It&#8217;s not friendly by any means and the price point of $199 seems borderline laughable with other devices available at this time. On and off T-Mobile.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-38835\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38916 aligncenter\" title=\"samsung-behold-ii-1\" src=\"http:\/\/media.boygeniusreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/samsung-behold-ii-1.jpg\" alt=\"samsung-behold-ii-1\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38918\" title=\"samsung-behold-ii-3\" src=\"http:\/\/media.boygeniusreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/samsung-behold-ii-3.jpg\" alt=\"samsung-behold-ii-3\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38919\" title=\"samsung-behold-ii-4\" src=\"http:\/\/media.boygeniusreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/samsung-behold-ii-4.jpg\" alt=\"samsung-behold-ii-4\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/op6Ns2w1gD8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;t had your fill of Android handsets yet? Neither have we. T-Mobile just hit us up with a Samsung Behold II and here are some first impressions: Physically the unit feels pretty good to hold, albeit a little cheap. The weight is good, but the choice of a glossy plastic makes it feel a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}