Welcome to the Phone Arena video review of the Samsung Reclaim. At service level the Reclaim looks like an average mid-tear pudgy little slider
It’s a portrait slide which slides up to reveal a QWERTY keyboard. The keyboard is actually pretty good to use. However, the keys are flat and offer no relief and the space bar is a bit too small for our liking. Our main mistakes were either hitting zero or period instead of space when we wanted to.
Feature wise, it has a 2-megapixel camera. It features 3.5 mm headset jack. It has MicroSD expansion up to 32 gigabytes. It is a video phone so it supports Sprint full services of multimedia like TV and radio. It also has navigation and Sprint one-click user interface.
If that were the full story, the Reclaim would just be your average everyday, midlevel phone. However, the Reclaim is so much more. It’s an environmentally friendly phone, the first to be mass marketed in the US as the badge on the back housed. If that were the whole story, it would end here and the Reclaim would be a nice midlevel full QWERTY keyboard that has some decent features. However, there’s a little bit more to the story. The Reclaim is an environmentally friendly phone from everything to its recyclable material packaging and so it will be extinct to the bio-plastics use to create the phones which come from corn.
It is energy star charger is highly efficient and uses 12 times less energy than the typical energy star requirement. For every purchase the Sprint Samsung will be donating $2.00 to the nature conservatory. The green focus is well and good however, it means nothing if the product isn’t solid.
The Reclaim actually delivers on this. As we mentioned the keyboard is not the greatest out there but it still plenty usable. The form factor is nice. It’s a bit pudgy, kind of like the LG Lotus however, it’s a bit skinnier and taller and it is easier to hold on the hand.
The two-point section’s display is QVGA resolution and as we come to expect from Samsung panels, very easy to read. All in all, the phone performs extremely well. It is one of the best performing call quality phones we’ve seen in a long time and users on the other hand felt the same way. Battery life is rated at six hours which is outstanding for a CDMA device.
The truth to be told, the green element of the phone is fantastic but what is even better is the performance and Samsung and Sprint really have a winner on their hands with the Reclaim.
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