Design
The Samsung Freeform I had a curvy body with candy bar design. It had touches of teal and red colors along with black which made the phone to look playful. It has black matte sides with black glossy face. It is mainly aimed at business people. It tapers at the bottom which looks like a pointed chin and other designs add polish to the set. It is thicker, wider and shorter than its predecessor as it has a dimension of 4.1×2.1×0.6. It weighs around 3.8 ounces.
The Freeform II sports a 2.2 inch display with QVGA screen and has a resolution of 144×176 pixels. It also supports 262,000 colors. Due to the bright colors the edges look crisp and sharp. There is a navigation array which allows us to navigate through the menu options below the small display. The center select button is surrounded by soft keys, speakerphone button and back button. There is talk and end buttons on both the sides of navigation toggle. The buttons are natural and soft to touch. They are very responsive and easy to press. When you are in main menu mode, if you press the select button it takes you through many applications such as Loopt, PocketExpress, MetroNavigator, Metro PCS and Mobile Banking.
The Samsung Freeform I had a keyboard design that was not attractive. But in its new Freeform II it has introduced better looking keypad design. The keys are backlit which hence helps typing even in darker environments. The tall and wider keys make typing more comfortable. But the keys are stiff and it has a cramped keyboard which is the only drawback. On the right spine are the USB charging port, camera trigger and 3.5mm headphone jack. On the back is a 1.3 mega pixel camera and it shows the micro SD card slot when the back cover pops out.
Features
* Display: 2.2 inch QVGA screen
* Technology: AWS/CDMA
* Camera: 1.3 MP
* Memory: 42MB internal, expandable up to 16 GB
* Price: $49.99
It has a 1000 contacts capacity phonebook where each entry can hold a group, up to five phone numbers, email address, one of the 21 ringtones and a photo. The other features it includes are a stop watch, a tip calculator, a calculator, a memo pad, a converter, alarm clock, calendar and world clock. Other branded applications like metro Backup, games and alternative wallpapers can be accessed with Metro PCS. It supports multimedia and text messaging as a messaging phone.
With AOL, Yahoo Messenger and Windows live messenger you can download instant messaging applications. The separate email clients will accept wide variety of accounts like Hotmail, BellSouth, AOL, Yahoo, Comcast etc. The branded MetroWeb allows access to the Internet. It has a 1.3 MP camera which includes many settings like mosaic shots, 5 white balance presets, single, three granularity settings, color effects, series, 4 self timer and three shutter sounds settings. It has 42MB of internal memory.
It has an onscreen controller with basic music player. The name of the music player interface can be changed in the sub menu. You can also create a play list. There are many options in player like lyrics view, equalizer and album art. It has a micro D card slot which can be expanded up to 16 GB.
Performance
The call quality on Samsung Freeform was excellent where the voice sounded good on both the sides. The users on the other side also dint have problem with the volume of the sound. The speakerphone quality was an average. The other phones of this range provided a better and crisp audio quality. The web surfing and email loading speed was up to 2.5G. Its battery offered a standby time of 22.9 days and talk time of 5 hours. With this we can conclude that it has a good battery performance. It has SAR rating of 1.07 watt/kg.
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