Samsung Impression Review May 28th, 2009 | by Nick Mokey

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At the $199 price point it becomes an immediate competitor to the iPhone, which makes the Impression a tough sell.


Highs: Gorgeous OLED display; sensitive capacitive touch screen; well-built, attractive form factor; solid QWERTY keyboard

Lows: Hard-to-jab unlock button; no Wi-Fi; unintuitive Windows-Mobile-based interface

Introduction

While home theater buffs still wring their hands and stock their bank accounts in anticipation of OLED technology big enough to hang in the living room, the age of OLED is already upon the mobile world. Samsung isn’t the first manufacturer to drop a full-color OLED panel into a cell phone, but given the widespread availability and price ($199 on AT&T with contract) of the Impression, it’s the first one you might actually have a shot to own here in the U.S. But do organic light emitting diodes dazzle on phones the same way they do in TVs?




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