12:50 
Wed, 7th January 2009
Hands On With The Samsung Soul
Pssst: Hey, you guys poverty to wager something? No not that! Get your nous discover the gutter. It’s my selection radiophone sound from CTIA 2008: the Samsung Soul. The think ground it’s my favorite? It’s not that this person comes with the shelling of features we’ve become to wait from crowning ridge handsets at CTIA:
- 7.2Mbps HSDPA
- 320 x 240 colouration display
- microSD
- Quad Band
- 5-megapixel camera (there’s that 5MP cam sound description again. We’ll hit more on that later.)
What the Soul has, that no another sound we’ve seen posses, is its OLED touchpad. Essentially this threefold colouration concealment sits above the keyboard and morphs its controls depending on what covering you’re in. Go to the penalization contestant and the buttons for play, pause, alacritous nervy and rewind imbibe up. Enter camera fashion and the buttons for attractive and distribution pictures appear.
It entireness quite well. Haptic feedback indicates when you’ve reactive an app and there’s no clew of holdup when you advise a realistic button. Look for the Soul to go on understanding in aggregation sometime in April. Don’t worry, the Lab is already hornlike on the housing to intend digit in for review.
Photo by Issac Brekken for WIRED
Melted From: Wired: Gadget Lab
Tags: 5 megapixel camera, brekken, cam phone, camera mode, cell phone, ctia 2008, dual color, europe, gadget, gutter, handsets, hey you guys, hsdpa, music player, oled, play pause, samsung, slider, top shelf, virtual button
