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hey guys jon rettinger from technobuffalo here with a review for you of the samsung mythic this is going to run you 199 on a two-year contract after rebates for AT&T Wireless so let's talk about the good then we'll get to the bed and then we'll get to a conclusion so this is running Samsung's TouchWiz interface have demonstrated before in countless videos what that means it's got a widget bar across the left hand side you can drag those widgets right off onto your home screen and as I've lamented in previous samsung touchwiz phone reviews there's not enough screen real estate on the phone for all the widgets they take up a lot of space well samsung to fix that with the mythic and now give you access to three home screens to get much more space to put all of your widgets and the functionality that you're getting with those widgets saying would it's quite a bit is what you'd expect there's a Facebook one there's a message one there's a Miss calls one there's one for all your notifications then there's even one for your friends birthdays you're not getting functionality that's sort of new or anything you're not used to you're just getting that functionality in a new widget based interface with three home screens so one of the other good things about the device is the keyboard keyboard is quite easy to use I've been a big fan of the TouchWiz s keyboards other Samsung devices and that holds true to the mythic it's very simple to use that actually works quite well one of the other positive of the device is it takes advantage of ETS new TV service so you can watch mobile TV on the go and it's not that mobile TV that you're used to wear it streams it over to 3g service it's actually uses a new sort of qualcomm services you're getting actual channels and you're getting really nice quality it's not pixelated like you'd expect and this is of course a 3g phone but it uses sort of a separate radio for that so let's talk about bad i'm not the biggest fan of resistive touchscreens that i've mentioned at the past and the samsung mythic uses a resistive touchscreen and now it does a user resistive touchscreen it probably uses the worst resistive touchscreen I have ever used on a mobile phone the screen is extremely unresponsive it's very inaccurate scrolling around through contacts brian has rolled through web pages which I'll get to in a minute was a tedious arduous task and not something I could ever see myself doing on a daily basis Samsung in the past has done a pretty decent job with resistive screens and i'm not sure why that didn't translate over to the mythic perhaps it's a new vendor or some sort of new receptive technology but straight up just doesn't work and for that reason alone I've got a very difficult time in good conscience telling you to go pick up the mythic give it its price point and feature set I just don't think it justifies it it is a phone however and it's got to make phone calls the reception was quite good i'll be able to get strong bars everywhere I went I didn't have any dropped calls so the radio in here is quite good that may be due to also do tooi gmt strong service where I live in Southern California navigation is done through a series of icons across the bottom I'll sure what that looks like you got your dial your contact in your menu and there's some new features yeah the TouchWiz you can control your menu a little bit more you can scroll around see I gotta push really hard in order to scroll so overall it is not an enjoyable experience and not a phone that I can recommend to you unfortunately the HTML browser is barely functional and it's barely functional because you can't move around on it due to the poor resistive touchscreen so I got to rank this on a one-to-five scale it gets a to get only gets to two stars because a call quality was quite good and speakerphone was loud everything else not very good the 3.2 megapixel camera takes garbage pictures even with autofocus and an LED flash I put this one probably towards the bottom of your list there's a lot better phones and 18 keys lineup especially this holiday season so anyway guys hope you enjoyed for exclusive content check me out of Twitter and for all your tech news be sure to check out technobuffalo calm i'm jon rettinger with review of the samsung mythic and i'll see you the next video bye bye