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Samsung U900 Soul - Heart of the Soul

By Seow Tein Hee - 8 May 2008

Performance - Part 1

Take My Soul Away

In the performance arena, we have a few praises for the Soul, specifically for its numeric keypad, audio playback quality and camera functionality. While the numeric keypad looks flat, it was a surprise to us that we had absolutely no problems with its input. Each numeric key is well spaced and there is no issue of double tapping on a specific key, and more importantly, you won't require a strong pressure to register the input. This turned out to be perfect during our text messaging spree, where we managed to get a full sentence composing of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" in less than 15 seconds, though the top heavy LCD screen tends to get us slightly off balanced when we input longer messages.

Flat as it may be, the numeric keypad is surprisingly easy on the fingers and gives a very good tactile feel to long text input. More importantly, the larger spacing between each keys prevents accidental double tapping, thus increasing the speed and accuracy of your text messages.

We return to the audio sensory point made earlier, where we highlighted the lack of a 3.5mm audio jack for the explicit purpose of utilizing your very own headphones or earphones. While there is hence a dependency on the Samsung provided USB earphones, the Soul comes with Bluetooth 2.0 and A2DP, which gives the added option of a Bluetooth stereo headset pairing for an alternative audio output. Testing both the bundled USB cable and a Bluetooth stereo headset, we were treated to another Samsung device integrated with B&O's ICEPower module, as previously mentioned in our Serenata review . By no means were we disappointed with the Soul's audio capability as we got a strong bass and mid levels with the integrated music player on a few selected tracks at 192kbps.

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