Recently, I got a Samsung Reality. I had this phone for a couple of days, and I love it! This phone is for someone that doesn’t want to pay for a smartphone plan and someone that needs a simple messaging phone.

Design

The Reality has a lot of ports and buttons on both sides. On the left, it has a Micro USB port, volume up / down buttons, and a screen lock button. On the right, it has a micro SDHC card slot (which is capable of having up to 16GB micro SD cards), voice command button, and a camera button. On the front you have a call/ end call button and a back button shaped like a diamond. On the top you have a 3.5 mm headphone jack and nothing else.  The screen is a 3.1 AMOLED resistive touch screen with haptic feedback. The touch screen is better than a lot of other messaging phones but since it’s resistive, it’s obviously not as good as iPhone’s or Droid’s capacitive screens. The design is very elegant, slim, and sleek. The sleek design continues on the back. On the back of the phone, it has a checker pattern with black lines and a speaker grille. The phone has a slide out QWERTY keyboard and it is backlit. The keyboard is great with it’s good feed back, but the bad thing is that the keys aren’t well spaced out.

The Internals / OS

This phone has 100 MB of internal memory, which is not a lot. It has a user removable battery that’s capable of having 5 hours of talk time and 300 hours of standby time. The Samsung Reality has a 3.2 MP Camera with camcorder mode and a self- portrait mirror. It is running Touch Wiz UI, which is Samsung’s user interface they use for their feature phones. The Touch Whiz UI allows you to have three separate home screens and you can have widgets in those three home screens. The Touch Whiz UI  packs a lot features like visual voice mail, a media player, a built in full HTML web browser, Bing search, App store, Music store, VZ Navigator (Maps), and an email client.

The Verdict

Overall, I give this phone a 10/10 because it has everything I need and it has features of a smartphone. This phone will cost you $80 after a $50 mail-in rebate and you must sign a 2 year agreement. Please note that you must pay a $9.99 data plan for 25 MB of data.

DISCLAIMER: I did not name every single feature this phone has, I only named the things that are different from other phones and some things that is standard.