Gadgetory

hey guys this is Steven scarlata pocketnow.com and this is part one of the video review of the verizon samsung i760 let's take a look at the devices external design the i760 comes with two batteries a standard battery which is rated at the 10 50 milliamps and is good for about three and a half hours of continuous runtime this battery fits into the back of the unit and creates a flush look while the extended battery which is rated at fifteen hundred milliamps and is good for about five point four hours is a creates a bit of a bulge on the back in terms of weight Samsung lists the weight with the standard battery is 5.2 four ounces and from my calculation the extended battery adds about a half an ounce although there's no listing in the specification of what that the total weight of the unit is with the extended battery but I figure it's a little less than than 6 ounces the device has quite a few buttons so for those people who like the tactile feel of a device this is clearly a device for you to look into on the right-hand side of the unit you can see that there's a headphone port then there's a start menu button and if you press and hold that start menu button it is linked to voice command which is included in windows mobile 6 there is a button for okay and there is the camera button on the back of the unit there's a camera which is 1.3 megapixel and also includes a flash and there is an external antenna port as well on the left hand side of the unit you have a cover that protects the microSD card in samsung list the maximum capacity as being two gigabytes there's the volume up and down to control of both the phone volume in the PDA volume and allows you to go into the off turn the audio off as well as going to vibrate mode on the top of the unit is the power on power off for standby and if you hold this button down you can actually shut the entire unit off on the bottom of the unit is the USB and charger connector there are several very interesting design aspects of this phone the first thing that you'll notice on the front is that the call and end button are actually at an angle and allow you to access it from the side or the top of the unit also samsung had to place the numeric keypad buttons at an angle in order to keep the windows mobile standard button layout which includes the d-pad and the left and right soft function buttons I thought that placing these buttons at an angle would create a problem when pressing them but I haven't found that to be the case so far another real interesting aspect of the design is the fact that the stylus is pulls out from the side rather than the top or the bottom and this is an expandable stylus also at the top of the unit is the speaker and the multicolored status led the QWERTY keyboard is a three-row keyboard and the numeric keypad really adds to the functionality of this phone since you don't have to press the function key to get to the numbers while you're typing away also there the keyboard has a left and right soft function key buttons the little red dot allows you to do a soft reset on the unit so this about does it for the tour around the design aspects of the i760 and i'll be back with some more detail in a short while bye for now