Samsung's Magnet is the latest in a new generation of cheap, dumbed-down QWERTY phones.
Introduction
You can literally talk all day on the new Samsung Magnet (SGH-A257), a slab phone with a full QWERTY keyboard available from AT&T. In our informal tests, we got eight and a half hours of talk time, by far the most battery-powered conversation we've ever pulled out of a cell phone. Mind you, extensive talk time is great, but today people do a lot more with a cell phone than just chat. And the Magnet lacks a lot of the basic non-verbal niceties (e.g. 3G connectivity, music playback, etc.) that can be found on Samsung's own Propel, refurb versions of which are available for the same price ($19.95).
by john on November 8, 2009:
“I have had the Samsung Magnet for a month now. Everything is great from the qwerty keyboard to the clearness of the sound. The downsides are: no music player, no stereo bluetooth, no micro-sd card slot and the wap browser is slow. But other then that, it is...” More...