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hey guys it's jeff Rena with pocketnow.com you've been following our series on the sprint samsung transform you've seen this unboxed the device you've seen us go over the hardware of the device and finally you've also seen us look at these software of the device well now it's time to give you our final thoughts as well as what we like and don't like about the samsung transform in this final review let's go ahead and get started alright and we're back and the first thing we're to talk about some of the pros of the samsung transform what we actually liked about the device and the very first of which is going to be the slide-out qwerty keyboards you can see here this actually makes typing on a device if you don't like a touchscreen keyboard for texting typing emails browsing the web whatever it may be much easier especially if you're coming from a future phone now we're used to having a hard keyboard this will help make that transition for you on top of that staying on the subject of transitioning is the Sprint ID interface that many may consider this bloatware however if you're coming from either a dumb phone or a feature phone to a smartphone like the transform Sprint ID will actually act as a skin more or less for you and actually bring in widgets application shortcuts that sort of thing that sprint has actually pre-installed and pre-made for you this will make that transition much easier and much more enjoyable next up are some of the features that are included with the samsung transform despite the fact that it is a lower end if you will android from it still includes a lot of features that today's current higher-end android phones have the first of which being the front facing camera so you can actually do video calls through quick or fring using that front facing camera also take pictures of yourself video of yourself that way which is very cool next up is going to be the actual version of Android that is pre-loaded on this device now it's going to come with Android 2.1 however it's not 2.2 froyo but it's also now going to be 1.6 the older versions now once again that's a plus an e- we're going to factor it into the into the plus or the pro category because you're not too far behind the actual newest version so there is room to possibly upgrade to froyo we'll have to see what happens unfortunately the processor isn't the fastest so that may get left behind in that category but for now 2.1 is considered a pro on the samsung transform one great plus with this device is that it actually has a dedicated camera button as well as the dedicated voice activation button so if you're driving you want make a phone call you can actually press the voice button and say you want to call now that's convenient lastly is going to be the screen it's a 3.5 inch capacitive screen it may not be a super amoled however the colors are surprisingly decent for this type of screen so once again this is a lower to mid range end android smartphone so you're not going to get the Super AMOLED however you're not going to be slacking too bad in terms of the responsiveness as you can see here it is quite responsive with only a few pickups every now and then next up we're going to be some of the cons of the device or what we feel needs improvement or could be improved and the very first one is going to be battery life Samsung rates this device at around six hours talktime however we were getting nowhere near that unfortunate we're actually getting about half that so we feel that it could possibly be improved with a future software update we'll have to see what happens but for now you're going to want to carry a car charger or a secondary home charger with you unfortunately if you can be making many phone calls as far as just texting you're going to be fine but once you factor an email and web browsing you're going to be draining your battery pretty intensively now we're also going to factor the 256 megabytes of RAM as well as the 800 megahertz processor into the cons category because that may lead to future loss of the ability to update simply because of the resources not being there in terms of the specs in the last call i'm going to have about the samsung transform is actually its price point it's priced at one hundred and fifty dollars rounding up from 149 for a two-year contract we feel this device should actually be around 100 it would be a very sweet spot for this device here I think it would sell a lot better than if it was priced at 150 no overall we thoroughly enjoyed our time with the samsung transform we feel that this phone is the actual future of feature phones someday there will be no longer any feature phones they will be dumb phones low-end smartphones and high-end smartphones and this will be one of those lower to mid and smartphones we just wish sprint would price it accordingly however if you are looking to pick up a transform we have two highly recommend it we give it a 4 out of 5 be sure to read the full written review to get all the juicy in-depth details aside from that as always thank you very much for watching everyone and please give this video a thumbs up if you've enjoyed our coverage of the samsung transform thanks everyone