Welcome to the Phone Arena Video Review of the Samsung Exclaim. The Exclaim is a midrange phone replacing the—in Sprint’s line up. It still features a side-sliding QWERTY keyboard but in unique twist also slides up for a regular keypad.
Other than that, the features remain very similar. It’s a bar style phone about the same size and weight and has a two megapixel camera, microSD expansion up to 16 gigs and features Sprint One Click interface. The Exclaim is a little bit more focused on social networking so we see unique twists like a twitter tile. Also pretty loaded on the phone is the Facebook and MySpace tile. These were available in the past but it actually comes on the Exclaim by default. Of course, the user can customize their—and put just about any tile they want on here.
We have to say again, we really like this One Click interface. Of all the carrier interfaces, it’s by far the best and offers the most personalization and usefulness. Beyond that, it’s a basic phone similar to anything we’ve seen from Sprint in the past. The main menu system features the 12 icons. Being an EV-DO phone, it has support for Sprint’s multimedia services, the Music Store, Sprint TV and Sprint Music or Sprint Radio.
We actually really like the keypad. They move the soft keys to the sides here as supposed to on screen and with the addition of the sliding front keyboard that main screen has improved from 2.1 inches up to 2.6. It’s also now QVGA resolution which makes it much easier to read.
The keyboard itself was easy to use. The keys look a bit small but there is plenty of play on it and it feels very good to type on. We are quickly tapping our text messages with accuracy and speed. The back of the Exclaim comes off in a simple battery underneath. There are two different color versions. Here, we’re looking at Blueberry and there’s also a Cranberry.
The Cranberry replaces the blue with a pink and the back door is also pink with a floral pattern. What we like is that these colors are a bit muted while still probably appeal to younger crowd, it’s not exclusive such as something like the Sanyo 2700 which screams at you.
All in all, we think the Exclaim is a worthy replacement. Performance was pretty good overall, nothing mind boggling but at the same time for what it offers, the Exclaim is a good value.
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