We were thrilled to get our hands on a Samsung Impression – the latest iPhone challenger.  With a gorgeous touchscreen, wide range of multimedia features, and solid, basic assets we found the Impression to be a worthy opponent.  In this first part of our review, we’ll go over the basics, the touchscreen, the keyboard, and the interface.

BASIC ASSETS

The Samsung Impression is definitely eye-catching. Its lovely dark blue color is almost black.  At 4.48 inches long by 2.28 inches wide by 0.61 inch deep, the phone is relatively the same size as other similar models.

With basic features including an alarm clock, calendar, task list, calculator, memo pad, world clock, timer, currency & unit converter, speakerphone, stopwatch, and a vibrate mode, the Samsung Impression seems to have the essentials.  The phone also comes with applications such as a voice recorder, stereo Bluetooth, USB mass storage, file manager, PC syncing, and GPS with support for AT&T Navigator.  Unfortunately, voice dialing is not a feature included by Samsung.

The Samsung Impression’s phone book has an enormous capacity; it can hold up to 2000 contacts.  You can save 250 additional names to the SIM card. Each contact can be listed with four phone numbers, an email address, a URL, a company name and job title, a nickname, a street address, a birthday, and notes.  We loved how you can save your contacts into groups, similar to an email contact list.

The battery life part of the Samsung Impression is about average for phones on the market.  With heavy use, including the multimedia features, the phone needed to be charged every 7-8 hours.  The Samsung Impression’s battery seemed to last about 24 hours without a charge if you are only using it for messaging and calls.

THE TOUCHSCREEN

We were incredibly impressed by the gorgeous, 3.2 inch, 400 x 240 pixel resolution AMOLED touchscreen.  The colors really popped, the graphics seemed bright, and animation was sharply defined on the screen.  In addition, practical features were added; the screen saves your battery life by turning the pixels off in the dark areas of images.

THE KEYBOARD/INTERFACE

One of the components we were most eager to test was the keyboard, as we have had bad experiences in the past using touch screens.  We found the Samsung Impression’s keyboard to be roomy enough for large thumbs – a definite plus.  The Impression also has a virtual onscreen keyboard if you decide you don’t want to use the physical buttons. We had the opportunity to play with the phone during a speedy texting session, and we recommend that you use the physical keyboard for texts.

The device offers Samsung’s TouchWiz interface, a nice, basic manager that allows you to use your fingers as tools.  The navigation bar is collapsible, and it has set shortcut widgets.  The widgets are intuitive / easy to locate.  Plenty of subscription-based applications are available, including Mobile Banking, Yellowpages, MobiTV, MobiDJ, and The Weather Channel.  The Samsung Impression comes with five demo games – Ms. Pac-man, Diner Dash 2, JuiceCaster, Midnight Pool 2, and Monopoly.

In the next blog, we will discuss the Samsung Impression’s web browsing, email, and multimedia components.

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