The Samsung Focus (AT&T)

The Samsung Focus (AT&T) has a sleek design that resembles like that of the Galaxy S series and gives solid performance for anyone looking for a better alternative to the iPhone.

Samsung Focus has an onscreen keyboard for text entry, which can either be set to a portrait or landscape mode and composing messages is even made faster with various shortcut keys with minimal errors. At the bottom, you can find the back, start and search that can also be seen in all of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 handsets.

The phone offers services such as world roaming, conference calling, voice dialing and SMS and multimedia messaging. A complete range of wireless options such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 3G is also made available. The phone also features several physical control buttons such as the volume rocker, power button and camera navigation. Aside from that, components such as headphone jack, camera and flash, micro-USB port and, microSD expansion are also included.

The phone package includes a wall charger, wired stereo headset, USB cable and a reference material. Like any other smartphone with Windows Phone 7, the Samsung Focus is able to combine contact information of different email addresses and social networking sites. It is preloaded with a various carrier services that come in all AT&T phone including the AT&T U-verse that enables you to download TV shows using Wi-Fi in your phone.

One of the best things about the Samsung Focus is that you can actually uninstall unwanted carrier apps from your phone not just plainly remove them. The call quality sounds really good, loud and clear without any background noise. The speakerphone provides enough volume when in a noisier environment.

The phone also comes with an internal memory that can store up to 8GB and has a 4GHz processor. It is equipped with an ion battery of 1500mAh lithium and 6.5 hours talk time before recharging is needed and 12 days stand by. One of the most favorite features among users is the People hub where you can link any contact to another and they become one entry or unlink them without changing the original properties.