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GSMArena team, 08 July 2009

Airborne


Samsung S8000 Jet review: Airborne

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  • S8000 Jet

8. Web browser, organizer
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, 360-degree view, design and construction
  3. 3. User interface, Media gate
  4. 4. Motion gate, phonebook, photo contacts, telephony
  5. 5. Messaging, file manager
  6. 6. Gallery, music and video player, FM radio, audio quality
  7. 7. Camera, video recording, connectivity
  8. 8. Web browser, organizer
  9. 9. GPS navigation, games, conclusion
  10.  
  11. Samsung S8000 Jet specification
  12. User opinions and reviews
  13. Review comments (169)

Samsung Touch UI

Almost perfect web browser

Samsung S8000 Jet is among the pioneers of the new WebKit-based Dolfin web browser, which is an in-house developed application. With full Flash support and the new one-finger zooming, it is one of the finest web browsers we have seen so far (especially on a feature phone).

The new web browser allows up to 5 pages to be open at the same time. Multiple downloads in the background are also supported and there is also a built-in AdBlocker. Unluckily, it tends to run out of resources pretty fast, displaying a warning with only three not really heavy sites opened at once. We cannot quite see it managing the promised five pages but we don't really use that many on a cell phone anyway.

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The web browser is just great

The one-finger zooming works like a charm. Of course you can also rely on double tapping a block of text or an image and the handset will automatically zoom in on it. Another double tap and you are back to the previous zoom level.

On top of Flash and Java support, the new web browser also offers kinetic scrolling and fullscreen view mode. In all fairness, the kinetic scrolling is somewhat bumpy and not as smooth as on the iPhone but it still does the job. The lack of auto-complete when typing the address of already browsed websites is a bit of a letdown, though.

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One of the Jet's web browser coolest features is the full Flash support, including Flash video

Organizer in full gear

The Samsung S8000 Jet has a good number of useful time-managing applications.

For starters, the calendar offers three views - daily, weekly and monthly. You can choose which calendar view should be default and you can pick the starting day of the week - the options are Monday or Sunday. However, with the Jet there are only two types of events available in the calendar. You can set the starting date and time of the event and set an alarm to act as a reminder.

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The calendar is pretty standard

The alarm is widely customizable. You can set up to 10 alarms, each with the following configurable options - custom ringtone, volume, repetition days and name.

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You can set up to 10 alarms with the Jet

The calculator of the Samsung S8000 is pretty much as basic as it gets. Among the other organizer offerings are a voice recorder, a world time application and a unit converter. The voice recorder limit is 60 minutes. A countdown timer and a stopwatch come in useful too.

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Some more of the Jet's organizer apps

There are also to-do and memo applications for taking down tasks and notes. You can also use the memo widget to place a memo on the homescreen where you're unlikely to forget it. The widget and the application are separate so don't expect your memos to automatically pop up on screen. There's a to-do widget as well.

The Video editor also deserves a mention. It can handle videos of up to D1 resolution and there's the option to edit them - trimming, splitting or inserting text. You can even use photos instead of videos - you just set the time for them to be on screen (from 1 to 30 seconds).

The world clock allows you to quickly check out the time in any given time zone around the world.

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The world clock app

Finally, one of the most important applications of the Samsung S8000 Jet organizer is the office document viewer that supports Word, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF files. It's an application developed by Access and is one of the nicest additions to the software package.

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The document reader is one of the nicest we have seen

The document viewer is quick enough when opening files; however, panning is rather slow. The document viewer also works in landscape mode (once again, rotating the screen automatically), which makes reading a little easier.

Next Page » 9. GPS navigation, games, conclusion
8. Web browser, organizer
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, 360-degree view, design and construction
  3. 3. User interface, Media gate
  4. 4. Motion gate, phonebook, photo contacts, telephony
  5. 5. Messaging, file manager
  6. 6. Gallery, music and video player, FM radio, audio quality
  7. 7. Camera, video recording, connectivity
  8. 8. Web browser, organizer
  9. 9. GPS navigation, games, conclusion
  10.  
  11. Samsung S8000 Jet specification
  12. User opinions and reviews
  13. Review comments (169)

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