Samsung Focus Hardware Review

[YuriySamorodov]

Hello all,

What about sound quality? Is it worth to have Samsung Focus as a music player

[CBKFL]

Mango + 40gb Win

[ebonypocahontas]

Wow seriously up to 40GB expandable memory that is freakin awesome.

[xray174]

Nice phones

[chappy5th]

There is no front facing camera because "it is the phone to separate us from our phones". They didn't put it there so you understand that driving to that person's house and talking with them face to face is not all that bad.

[ClanFMJ]

guys hes not wrong, the at&t version has 256 ram....i feel bad for them

[JoShFrOmAkRoN]

@ClanFMJ wrong i have an att version and it has 512mb

[ClanFMJ]

@JoShFrOmAkRoN oh...

[114deem]

@ClanFMJ No, it has 512.

[wigywow]

best phone reviewer ive ever listened to

[aqualadb03]

@gomez494 actually thats what the proximity sensor is for,so when its in your pocket and within a certain PROXIMITY of your hip it will void the keypress of the camera button. ftw wp7

[Gomez494]

how is being able to use the camera while the phone is locked a good thing??? The camera is probly going to be going off like crazy in peoples pockets what a stupid idea that was...

[MrTwkproductions]

damn wp7 doesnt have apps in canada or zune !

[bjarnet3]

When is this coming to Norway???

[LifeSgreeaat]

It goes

1: iOS 4

2: Android

3: WP7

I prefer Android than WP7 (Personal Opinion)

[OrangeSodaLover]

how is the battery life ?

[cbremer83]

@OrangeSodaLover I've been reading 4-6 hours talk and around 10 days standby. Normal use see's a couple days in the real world. If you are on the thing all day, only 5 hours or so.

[kwy1219]

can it connect to mac?

can it read korean?

[Jurassicparkz08]

@kwy1219 It can connect to macs without any problem, I don't know about Korean though.

[quicksilver4648]

This guy is wrong, it does NOT have 256mb RAM, it has 512mb RAM, like every other WP7 device.

[tremaynenorris]

@quicksilver4648 whoa ho-ho, big whoop.

[theodorepedro]

does it have flash???

[quicksilver4648]

@theodorepedro WP7 doesn't have Flash... yet. But there are strong hints that Flash and Silverlight will be added in a later update.

[cbremer83]

@theodorepedro Not yet.

[praisewiththestrings]

@speeddemon157mph it actually boots itself up all the way to the menu, as if I turned it on myself.

[yourmom1993]

i have the iphone 4 and it loses service to much could this phone have better service or is the service the at&t network? and should i sell my phone and get one of these?

[cris178Zune]

@yourmom1993 sure why not its very diffrent and fun

[praisewiththestrings]

Just got the focus.....but having one issue: is the phone supposed to turn on by itself when plugged into a charger?

[speeddemon157mph]

@praisewiththestrings does it? or does a light come on to tell you that its charging?

[HammeredAndHorny]

@praisewiththestrings Some phones do, some don't. If it does turn on, then there ya go. My Droid does, but several other Android deviced don't. I'm glad to hear this one does, since I'll have one tomorrow

[sourzzon]

shit.. i like the design!!! but I don't know the windows is good or not...

[cris178Zune]

@sourzzon its not really windows because its very diffrent has a whole bunch added to it

[castleman0christophe]

love the focus! tho i may have to go with the captivate due to the fact that the focus JUST came out lol

[superbrock31]

Which do you prefer the captivate or focus?

[Jensoncorpuz]

So you take pictures of trees? Cause so do I lol

[asianoutcast87]

Also, does it have the same prevalent issues as the captivate? such as shutting down by itself, etc.

[jesse1779]

yah that snooze thing is gunna crush samsung they'll probably file bankrupcy

[bluealbedo]

Any word on what class micro SD card needs to be?

[TheWater911]

@bluealbedo I don't know, but it seems you can ask AT&T to give you one with the SD card put in it already. Otherwise, I would get the fastest one you can afford...

[DjSafX]

The hardware looks like Nokia E71 ripoff, but with touchscreen.

[launchsa]

Cannot snooze the appointment reminder for different times. e.g. 1 hour or 2 days. How could they make such a big mistake? Will we get an third party app to fix this? Had to hack registery on HD2 to fix snooze after HTC removed the function.

Windows Phone 7 has failed!

[rivengle]

@launchsa obvious troll is obvious.

[simon1993ist]

Thank you pocketnow

I still like the Captivate

[TheShatteredPieces]

Is the G2 better then this?

Is the Captivate better then the G2?

Or is the MyTouchHD better then all of them?

Btw, the MyTouch isn't released yet but it's suppose to have the new 45nm 1Ghz Scorpion processor, and the new gpu... I forget what it is... anyway what is literally the best the phone?

By spec means, not opinions..

[SladeNoctis]

@TheShatteredPieces Technically spec wise the galaxy series is still ahead with processor and gpu. Software wise the galaxy series hasn't recieved 2.2 so we don't know how fast it will be. But theres leaked roms of 2.2 for some of the galaxy s that reaches pass the 2000 benchmark in quadrant.

[MaximilianPs]

can i tumbs up 2 times ? :)

nice, video and amazing hardware, i hope that the same model will come in europe soon ! :))

[TheDaringPastry1313]

Question for Pocketnowvideo user! Main thing im worried about. Does it matter the class of microsd card you use in the device? I ordered a 32gb class 2 sandisk..Im wondering if I should go lower to a 16GB and get a class 10 microSD card? If anyone knows let me know please. No person has been able to answer my question if it affects performance or not if the class isn't high enough.

[TheDaringPastry1313]

oh and btw so no haters kill me im getting this phone day one :) google paul thurrott review windows phone 7 and there are a bunch of others

[TheDaringPastry1313]

walk around the device? more like sit and rotate :( I WAS TRICKED! lol

[ditter360]

front camera!!!!!!!!!!!

[JoelBrache]

@ditter360 Yes!!! The FCC filing indicates the i917 Cetus has a front facing VGA camera. Is it not on there or is EVERYBODY IN THE MEDIA JUST COMPLETELY MISSING IT? Hello? Anybody there? Is there a front facing camera? For the last six months all indications were that it has a front facing camera. Now that it is released, is there really none? Are you going to grill Samsung about why? How about some answers?

[cool8man]

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[cool8man]

The Samsung Focus has 512MB of RAM, this is a WP7 minimum spec. You cannot put out a WP7 device with 256MB of RAM.

[dimka7g]

@cool8man Where did you hear that? In fact I read that Focus has 256MB RAM, which is the minimum required.

[TheWater911]

@dimka7g The phone actually has 512MB. It was somehow misinterpreted and spread, a rumor, that it has 256MB. Essentially, we now know though company charts and updated gadget sites such as Engadget, that the phone has 512MB of RAM.

Additionally, this phone has 1GB of NAND flash to store the OS, instead of 512MB...I don't know why and what it is used for other than just storing the OS so that it can be booted into the RAM, but regardless it has double the norm for the WP7s.

[riceeatnpinoy]

I have the captivate and i am for sure getting this one. Going to end up being a samsung fan boy oh boy.

[owhataduma]

Does this phone have gorilla glass?

[XboxCoffeeLasers]

This phone would be perfect if it Samsung had just taken the captivate, and installed Windows Phone 7. I want to love this phone, but that fake chrome bezel and button throws it off but that Super AMOLED screen is BEAUTIFUL to be seen in real life. I know Brandon said it wasn't slow, but WHY couldn't Samsung have used their Hummingbird platform instead of the Snapdragon?

I will still probably get this phone the week it releases, but Samsung was so close to having a winner with this phone.

[tarunrad]

@XboxCoffeeLasers slow and fast depends on the software,

WP7 is qualcomn only for now but as shown it's very optimized , with the sensitivity of the S-AMOLED screens and the speed of WP7 it'll smoke any android phone pretty easily in terms of speed.

[Blastmaster916]

my question about the changing of the mem card is, can you use your computer to transfer the data from one card to the other to avoid the hard reset if done(while the device is completeley off)

[shinz1]

Great Review

[iuseipods]

is this better than the captivate cuz i got the captivate

[ldimillo19]

first. nice video brandon