Samsung Galaxy W Review (Part 1) or GT-1850
Have Pick up my new Wonder, It come in a small box (more eco conscious, or cost cutting) as compared to my previous phones. The friendly phoneshop man say he will activate my warranty through pc. So I headed home, open the box, and proceed (on the advice of the phoneshop man) to charge my device for 8 hours. While Waiting I read the Quick Start Guide.
The Unboxing
Now, Of course we have the phone, a Mini (I really mean mini) Quick Start Guide in English and one in Chinese, (which mean I have to download the user guide from Samsung), some sort of warranty Card, a Usb type Charger, a head set, and a usb to mini usb transfer cable.
The UnLock Screen
Switching on the phone require a long press (fast count to 5 / no indicators) on the power button. This took a short time, say around 20 seconds and took me to the unlock screen. The Unlock Screen display the time and date, the status of the battery % of charge when you are charging your phone, and notification for miss call or unread sms.
Swiping up or down give me 3 options, ADW Launcher, Tw Launcher, Zeam and a option to set as default. these are seems to be various apps for home screen options.
Touching the Tw Launcher, send me to a Home Page which have 7 pages in total (I Understand customizable). Preset on the 1st page (customizable) we have a
Widget displaying Time, Date, Day with Accuweather, Google search bar (with voice mode),
Social Hub, Gmail, Maps, Market
Then the 7 dots (for the home pages)
Then the 4 soft buttons for (see below) which are present in all 7 screens
· Phone, Contacts, Messaging and Applications
The 2nd screen give you on full page for Samsung E Mail,
The 3rd screen you a widget for images, a widget for favorites internet book mark and a widget for Yahoo Finance.
The other 4 screens are blank current
Touching Zeam give me a home screen with 3 pages in total, (all blank) except for 6 soft bottons, which are, Message, Gmail, google talk, Internet Browser, Music Player, and Apps.
Touching the ADW Launcher gives me 5 home pages, with the center as default, The Center has Google search bar, Messaging, Market, Maps with a favorites, menu and internet browser, soft button preset in all screens with a move button anchoring both ends, the 2nd page on the left, have G Mail and G Talk
Initial Impression (comparing with Nokia 5800) Touch Screen is super smooth!, Big, tad Bulky, Gorgeous Screen, Big Learning Curve ahead for me.
