Samsung Fascinate for Verizon - CDMA Version of Samsung Galaxy S

Samsung Fascinate for Verizon Wireless is a CDMA version of Samsung Galaxy S. It supports dual band CDMA 800 / 1900 Mhz 2G networks and CDMA 2000 Mhz 1xEV-DO 3G networks. The phone measures 125 X 64 X 10.5 mm and weighs 116 grams. It offers stylish looks and is one of the most lightweight smartphones in the market.

Like most Samsung smartphones, this one also features a Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display. The Super AMOLED display is one of the best in the world and offers bright and clear pictures. The size of the screen is 4.0 inches and has a resolution of 480 X 800 pixels. It supports up to 16 millions colors and is made of Gorilla Glass material which is scratch resistant. The user interface of the phone is based on Samsung's TouchWiz 3.0 which is refreshing and easy to use. An accelerometer sensor is provided which automatically changes the display mode to portrait or landscape depending on how you hold the phone. A proximity sensor automatically turns off the display when the phone is brought close to the body during calls. Other features include multi-touch input, touch-sensitive controls and much more.

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Samsung Fascinate offers an excellent 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, touch focus, digital zoom and much more. Users can take still images up to a maximum resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels. Video recording at 30 frames per second is also supported. Other features include geo-tagging, face detection, smile detection, etc. An LED flash is also offered which allows you to take high quality photos and video even during night or in low light conditions. However, the phone lacks a secondary camera for video conferencing.

The cell phone runs on a powerful ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor and features Google's open source Android operating system version 2.1 which can be upgraded to version 2.2. Users can download their favorite apps from the Android App store. Also, there are variety of application that are preloaded onto the phone. For entertainment, a MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC music player and MP4/DivX/WMV/H.264/H.263 video player are provided. Stereo FM radio with RDS is also supported. Google services such as Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Gtalk, Picasa are directly integrated. Other applications include voice memo, image/video editor, digital compass, VZ Navigator, document editor, organizer, calculator, etc.

Samsung Fascinate is available exclusively for Verizon Wireless in USA.

Samsung Fascinate for Verizon - CDMA Version of Samsung Galaxy S

Samsung Fascinate - New Phone on Verizon

The Samsung Fascinate was released the 9th of September 2010. It's a rather light phone, weighing just under 120 grams, with a impressive 13 days of standby battery power, a lovely 4 inch touch screen display, although the phone only comes with 2gb of internal memory and this can of course be upgraded with a MicroSD card.

The Samsung fascinate was a lovely 720p video recording camera, which is great for such a light phone, amazingly the default search engine for the Samsung fascinate isn't Google, it's not even Yahoo, it in fact uses Bing by default, which is something new for Samsung.

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The handset uses the Google Andriod OS, so it's quite strange that, the phone uses Google's phone OS, but doesn't have Google as the default search engine. In fact you can't even change your phone to use Google, now we've got no problem with Bing, but this is rather strange.

Annoyingly when I was playing around with the phone, it seemed to freeze up when doing, well some basic tasks, such as swapping between applications, or returning to the home screen. The features of this phone are great, but obviously Samsung just didn't spend the right amount of time making sure the phone and all it's features ran smoothly.

The sound quality was great, the speakerphone is able to go pretty loud without any loss of sound, on most phones if they get as load as this, it starts to distort and you have problems trying to make out what the other person was saying.

Overall, the phone is pretty good, but has a couple of faults and can be quite sluggish at times, it does freeze rather annoyingly, but overall is a OK phone if you can put up with it freezing and being slow!

Samsung Fascinate - New Phone on Verizon