Samsung S8300 UltraTOUCH review: Touch, slide, shoot - comments

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Eske
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29 Apr 2009

I totally agree with "Ptah"
It's VERY difficult to navigate around a text for editing. And there is NO way to mark text and do simple Cut&Paste operations.
Even though I think it MIGHT have been intended. ONCE I got it to have a marking behavior (inversed text marking to the place I clicked). But I couldn't neither find a clean way of using the marked text nor reproduce the state/mode later... So might just be bug...

The interface expects a 'click' of a certain area, so you can't use a capacitive stylus (works about 40% of the times and in the edges of the screen only). So even if you try with your pinky, it can be VERY difficult to place the cursor at a specific letter for editing, so the navigation control is heavily missing. The rhomb-shaped key should have been a four-way key...

But coming from a wm6.1 phone (HTC Diamond) the S8300 is WONDERFUL!! It works 99.99% of the time (only got the s8300 in a 'hung' state once) and the two (for me) mayor functions SMS and Calling WORKS every time!

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Ptah
Sku
29 Apr 2009

how about the lack of navigation key, which is a major blow in the device user-friendliness.

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M3g
29 Apr 2009

I would take the camera from this phone and put it on the iPhone. That would be the perfect product!

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uCk
29 Apr 2009

Nice phone from Samsung, great done Samsung!

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nixanbal
nsL
29 Apr 2009

Oh, come on gsmarena... No virtual QWERTY?? So, would you like to have one? On such a small screen? It's hard to use full keyboard even on a 3" display, so what's the deal to use it on this one...
It's a stylish class phone, not a full-featured smartphone.

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jU$
28 Apr 2009

I really like the concept of the this phone. I currently have the Samsung A867 and the TouchWiz interface is excellent. The screen on the S8300 is a little on the small side, but other than that, it seems solid. Too bad about the lack of wifi though.