Samsung U900 - Expert Reviews

Pros: Adaptive touch window, build quality and design, 7.2 HSDPA, 5-megapixel camera, intuitive OS

Cons: No 3.5mm headphone jack, tactile feedback of keypad, mediocre Internet browser

Verdict: The U900's adaptive touch control system makes using this handset a breeze. Although it's not without its faults, the overall package combines a stylish and well built frame with the latest HSDPA technology, ensuring this is an excellent choice for ...

Review summary: Photo gallery:Samsung SoulThe Samsung Soul (aka the SGH-U900) was one of the stars of this year's GSMA World Congress in Barcelona. Samsung showed it off at a big press conference and huge banners with images of the phone covered the city, from the ...

Verdict: You won't mistake it for a smartphone, but the Samsung Soul is nonetheless an attractive and well-designed multimedia phone.

Pros: The Samsung Soul offers an attractive, well-constructed design and a unique, intuitive navigation touchpad. Its respectable feature set includes a high-quality camera.

Cons: The Samsung Soul lacks important features like voice dialing and GPS. Its call quality wasn't completely reliable.

Verdict: You won't mistake it for a smartphone, but the Samsung Soul is nonetheless an attractive and well-designed multimedia phone.

Review summary: Samsung's Soul U900 takes a different approach to touch-sensitive control and it's rather good!

Verdict: Magical Touch might be a daft name for the touch interface, but it is very well implemented. Others toying with touchpanels should learn from what Samsung has got right here especially its utilitarian icons, great feedback, user calibration of touch ...

Review summary: The Soul is very much a winner in the style stakes, even if technology-wise it doesnâ-'t really break any new ground

Pros: Stylish design ; Touchpad control ; Fine 5-megapixel camera ; HSDPA high speed downloads and browsing

Cons: Below average music player earphones ; Average battery life

Verdict: There's not much to complain about, except for the minor gripes already mentioned, although it has to be said that the battery life isn't great, especially if you make much use of the camera, and it's tri rather than quad band, which could make a ...