Review: Samsung Flight II
The easiest way to make a phone call on the Samsung Flight II is to simply press the Dial button at the bottom of the screen. That button is present on the homescreen panels and in the main menu screens. You can also hit the Send key to open up the call log and redial one of your previous callers. Anything more complicated than that, however, causes frustration. The contact list is sluggish and unresponsive to touch gestures. Scrolling was a real chore. Even the search feature didn't seem to work properly. I typed in letters and the phone did not react. When I tried tapping the OK button or the search button on screen, I was kicked out to the homescreen, or offered a blank contact card to create a new contact listing.
On the few occasions when contact searching went smoothly, I was still unimpressed, as the search feature doesn't search so much as jump to the first letter you type. This isn't a problem with first names, but the phone will not jump to a last name. Once you have the right contact in your sights, you can tap the phone icon next to their name to start a call. The Flight II does not give you a choice of which number to dial; you have to pick a default number, and that's the one you get when you hit the icon. To call a different number for that contact, you have to open the card and scroll to it.
There are a few shortcuts for calling, but they are all pretty lousy. There is a large widget that you pin to a homescreen. It looks like a ferris wheel, takes up the entire screen and moves very slowly. Often it dialed the wrong contact, thinking I was tapping when I wanted to scroll. There's also a PicDial app that lets you use your contact pictures as dialing shortcuts. The PicDial app is supposed to download your friends' pictures from Facebook and MySpace, but this feature never worked for me. Also, PicDial is a separate application, so to dial a number you have to open up the PicDial app every time, and apps open very slowly on the Flight II.
It was difficult to interact with telephone menu systems while using the Flight II. When you place a call, the screen locks automatically, and it could be very slow to unlock. Then, opening the dialer took more time. I actually missed some menu instructions on my bank's automated phone system while fumbling for the lock key and trying to open up the dialer in time.
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Samsung Flight II
