User Review History
ungibbed's review of the Samsung Dart
original version, submitted Jun 24, 2012, 3:29 AM:
Great budget phone or for use as a backup.
Pros:
Decent build quality.
No having to remove the rear cover to get to the MicroSD card.
Decent call quality over the earpiece and speakerphone.
Great music player with some features only found in far more expensive phones.
SMS/MMS themes in the messaging app.
Custom font features from the system menu.
Cons:
Very small screen which makes typing rather difficult.
Limited internal application storage.
Limited to 3G, but holds on quite well.
Annoying hatch for the USB cable/charger.
I discovered this tiny mystery after my BlackBerry took a dive and I needed a replacement phone quick and on a tight budget for the moment, this phone was perfect.
Upon my first impression of this phone, I was rather baffled on it's tiny size but also discovered the price to pay for such a tiny phone. After starting it up and using it a bit, the display really was a major negative. Making text hard to read and images not really worth the time of showing your friends (especially when taken with the fixed focus camera).
Typing in portrait really was a chore with large hands, landscape didn't fare much better. After buying a few key apps such as a third party keyboard and the Galaxy Font utility, those two alone made a major difference. Not only on easier text input, but reading was far improved by switching the system font to Tahoma.
The largest surprises I found in this budget device were features that are missing on the Galaxy S2 for T-Mobile. One was a rather neat theme ability for messaging but the other I really enjoyed and it was something many overlook.
I had a 16GB MicroSD card that I had a ton of music on and after a long session of indexing album artwork and other info, I noticed a subtle feature that never made it onto any other Samsung phone to date. When browsing albums, the cover art is faded and placed in the background while looking at individual songs. A nice touch for a low end device.
So much more, but limited to 2000 characters.
edited May 6, 2013, 5:55 PM to the current version:
Great budget phone or for use as a backup.
Pros:
Decent build quality.
No having to remove the rear cover to get to the MicroSD card.
Decent call quality over the earpiece and speakerphone.
Great music player with some features only found in far more expensive phones.
SMS/MMS themes in the messaging app.
Custom font features from the system menu.
Cons:
Very small screen which makes typing rather difficult.
Limited internal application storage.
Limited to 3G, but holds on quite well.
Annoying hatch for the USB cable/charger.
I discovered this tiny mystery after my BlackBerry took a dive and I needed a replacement phone quick and on a tight budget for the moment, this phone was perfect.
Upon my first impression of this phone, I was rather baffled on it's tiny size but also discovered the price to pay for such a tiny phone. After starting it up and using it a bit, the display really was a major negative. Making text hard to read and images not really worth the time of showing your friends (especially when taken with the fixed focus camera).
Typing in portrait really was a chore with large hands, landscape didn't fare much better. After buying a few key apps such as a third party keyboard and the Galaxy Font utility, those two alone made a major difference. Not only on easier text input, but reading was far improved by switching the system font to Tahoma.
The largest surprises I found in this budget device were features that are missing on the Galaxy S2 for T-Mobile. One was a rather neat theme ability for messaging but the other I really enjoyed and it was something many overlook.
I had a 16GB MicroSD card that I had a ton of music on and after a long session of indexing album artwork and other info, I noticed a subtle feature that never made it onto any other Samsung phone to date. When browsing albums, the cover art is faded and placed in the background while looking at individual songs. A nice touch for a low end device.
So much more, but limited to 2000 characters.
