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Review: Samsung Droid Charge

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Music

Samsung massaged the stock Android player a bit with some added features. The basics of navigating through and finding your tunes is more or less the same, but Samsung added something neat called CD view. When CD view is selection, the Charge takes the album art for your music and lays it atop a CD. The CDs are then stacked together sort of Cover Flow-style for a more visually-appealing way to sort through your library. It's not the most thrilling feature ever, but I appreciate the artistic approach to it.

Samsung also decided to offer a number of preset and user-adjustable equalizers for shaping the sound of music playback. Any phone that offers customizable EQs earns brownie points with me.

Music can be played back through attached headphones, or sent via Bluetooth to properly equipped Bluetooth devices. Sound quality of music playback was quite good.

The Charge also comes with Rhapsody, Slacker, TuneWiki, and RockBand if you really want to get your RAWK on.

Video

Samsung has made similar improvements to the stock Android video player. Videos can be found in several different locations, but are generally available when you need them directly from whatever app you may be using, such as the camera, or gallery, or media folder. The video player itself is a bit more basic, but handled the movie files I loaded on the Charge with no trouble.

The Charge also has Blockbuster for renting/buying movies, V CAST Media, and the YouTube application.

Media Hub

The Charge also comes with Samsung's Media Hub installed. Think of Media Hub as iTunes or Amazon MP3 Store, and you more or less get the idea. Users can access the Media Hub to download movies, music, and television shows. The selection isn't as good as Apple's or Amazon's, but it should be enough to keep most people's wallets spitting money into Samsung's bank account.

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Samsung's baby is so new, it hasn't even been named yet, so we'll just call it the LTE 4G smartphone. We got hands-on time with the new phone at Verizon Wireless' CES press conference.

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Skype Expands Video Chat Feature to More Androids

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Samsung Droid Charge Update Repairs Mobile Hotspot

Jun 13, 2011
Verizon Wireless is offering a new system update to the Samsung Droid Charge that fixes a number of issues, including restoration of the mobile hotspot feature (which was knocked out in May). Other improvements include better battery life, better management of 4G/3G data connections, improved GPS and browser performance, and improvements to the email program's Exchange and folder support.

Samsung Droid Charge

4.3" display 480 x 800 pixels
Samsung Hummingbird processor
1,500 mAh battery
Memory Card Slot, Headphone Jack (3.5mm)

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