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hey guys it's random in a min from pocketnow.com and this is our full review of the Samsung Focus to let's get to it the first Samsung Focus was among the first Windows Phone devices and it turned out to be one of the best based on the Galaxy S the focus had a beautiful super amoled display a zippy 1 gigahertz snapdragon cpu and a thin and light form factor about two years later AT&T and Samsung bring us the focus too while not based on the galaxy s3 or even the galaxy s2 the focus to is an evolutionary bump that improves upon almost every aspect of the original focus plus it's only 50 bucks on a new two-year contract unchanged is the display it's the same 4-inch WVGA which is 800 down by 480 across Super AMOLED display which is of the pentile variety unfortunately powering the device is a higher clock 1.4 gigahertz single core qualcomm snapdragon cpu with the same 512 megabytes of ram a front-facing vga camera has been added while the camera on the back remains unchanged at five megapixels the battery on the focus to is larger than the original focus by 250 million Bowers to make for seventeen hundred and fifty mili amp hours unfortunately there's only eight gigabytes of storage included on the focus two of which six point six gigabytes are user accessible and you can't add to it finally the focus to is an LTE capable device and while AT&T LTE network is still in its infancy their hspa+ fallback network is still quite fast so with the focus to you're likely to have fast internet no matter where you are in terms of hardware the focus to looks a little bit like a toy thanks to its shiny white coating it also feels a bit cheap or perhaps light in hand thanks to the casing being made from entirely plastic the focus to is rounded around the corners and on all sides giving it a more natural in hand feel than the more angular focus that said despite being comfortable in hand it's also very slippery thanks to the smooth surface that surrounds the entire device here at the top we have the front-facing camera the light sensor and the proximity sensor below the display are the typical windows phone buttons which are backlit but unfortunately they have a pretty muddy look when illuminated as you can see here on the back we can see that the chrome strip that begins on the sides extends all the way to the top of the phone which is a nice touch up at the top is the 5 megapixel camera with the flash and the speakerphone which we found the feed plenty loud now onto the screen we've come to know Samsung Super AMOLED panels pretty well they provide fantastic contrast low power consumption and decent outdoor screen visibility but sometimes poor viewing angles as you can see here tilting the phone to the side gives screen content a greenish tint another gripe we had about the focus to screen is the automatic backlight adjustment which change too easily and didn't fade making for kind of a jarring look finally the focus tues display has a pentile sub-pixel configuration making text and images appear to be grainy especially if you look close up the focus to is running the latest Windows Phone 7.5 mango software and coupled with a quick 1.4 gigahertz CPU makes for a very smooth and fluid experience windows phone is already a very responsive operating system but the focus to is noticeably faster than the original focus as it should be let's take a look at some of the built-in programs most of which are bloatware from AT&T such as AT&T code scanner family navigator and others most of which require you to pay a fee after a trial period fortunately all these apps can be easily removed should you want to clean up your program list let's take a look at web browsing performance will load up PocketNow first page loading times are for the most part above average when compared to other smartphones however when you start browsing a graphically intense page like we're doing here the focus to can sputter when trying to reflow text columns or zoom in on various parts of the screen oftentimes we saw white spaces the browser tried to keep up with our scrolling overall web browsing performance was good but not amazing now we tested the focus to over 80 s hspa+ network though it'll work on LTE if it's available in your market on hspa+ we clock decent download speeds of about 124 megabits per second down and about 1.5 megabits per second up which is about average now some test notes battery life on the focus too thanks to its larger battery and small screen was above average with moderate use expect to get two days of use from the focus to with heavy use you'll get through an entire day of course your results will be slightly worse if you're using the phone over LTE another test note we grew tired of the shiny coating on the focus too after many hours of use it would become extra slippery from natural hand oils and while we didn't drop the focus to during testing we imagined that doing so will leave the device permanently scratched you'll definitely want to seek out a case if you're getting this phone finally we weren't exactly impressed with the camera on the focus to and found it to be actually worse than the original focus photos came out oversaturated macro shots were soft and low-light photos were a bit noisy videos shot in 720p had similar characteristics phone calls were clear on the focus to it has a secondary microphone with noise cancellation which is useful on a windy day cellular reception was also quite good and perhaps a bit above average on 18t you have two other very good choices if you want a windows phone the Lumia 900 pressed at the mid-range level of about a hundred bucks has won acclaim for its fantastic hardware plus it has a bigger screen if screen size is very important to you the Titan two with its 4.7 inch display might be your best option for windows phone but it's much more expensive at two hundred dollars so here's what we like it what we don't like about the focus too we like that it's only 50 bucks making Windows Phone accessible to more people we like that it has a fast and fluid interface helped by a speedy view and finally we like that it has LTE for super fast internet if it's available in your area we don't like is that the case is made from plastic entirely and it's slippery we also didn't like that the display was pentile and it had poor viewing angles and finally 8 gigabytes of storage is just not enough for a smartphone especially if you cannot expand it in conclusion the focus to is a fast and capable LTE Windows Phone but falls short with taking photos and with providing a premium Hardware experience plus enough storage space to really get you through a lot of apps and a lot of music and other multimedia downloads it's priced right at 50 bucks to allow new people to experience Windows Phone so we give it a 3.5 out of 5 stars if you like this video please give us a thumbs up and thanks for watching that's it for now