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On Thursday, Samsung and T-Mobile announced that the Samsung Behold II will be available starting November 18 for $229.99 with a two-year contract.
First announced at CTIA Fall 2009, the Behold II is Samsung's second Android device. It uses Samsung's TouchWiz interface and includes a 3D cube navigation menu for the phone's multimedia features.
The smartphone also has a 3.2-inch AMOLED capacitive touch screen and a 5-megapixel camera. While we're all about the AMOLED display, we think the price is a little high, considering that the Behold II is running Android 1.5 and the Motorola Droid is running Android 2.0 and costs about $30 less.
Samsung actually stopped by our offices and left us with a Behold II of our very own. While we work on getting you a full review, you can check out a preview of what's to come in our First Look video, and get more of our hands-on impressions in the photo gallery below.
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Specs details for the T-mobile Samsung behold 2:
Samsung behold 2 internal memory: 200MB
Samsung behold 2 external memory: up to 16GM ( the phone it is 2G memory card)
Samsung behold 2 battery: standard battery
talking time: up to 6 Hours and stands-by time: up to 400 Hours
Shipping Android 1.5
Via http://www.samsung-phones.org/t-mobile-samsung-behold-2-memory-and-battery-life/
GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900; UMTS Band I, IV
GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSUPA/HSDPA
Dimensions: 4.57? x 2.2? x 0.48? (1500mAh Li-Ion standard battery)
Weight: 4.20 ounces (standard battery)
Display: 320 x 480 Pixels, Up to 16M AMOLED
Active area : 1.77? X 2.66?
Operating System: Android Platform
Talk Time: Up to 6 hours (standard battery)
Standby Time: Up to 400 hours (standard battery)
http://www.samsung-phones.org/samsung-behold-2-features-and-technical-specificaton-details-leaked/
Some Offical Videos of the T-mobile Samsung behold 2, can be found here:
http://www.t-mobile-phones.org/samsung-behold-ii/insight-behold-2-video-touchwiz-2-0-and-3d-cube-navigation.html
Hope this helps you!
By the way, Cnet and phonedog confirm the price tag of the behold 2 is $229, TMOnews.com and samsung-phones.org, or other non offical rumors said the price of the behold 2 would be $199.99, so who has the reliable confirmed information?
And that comes from a electronics enthusiast ;) . We are abusing excessive resources just to produce new phones. Where do you think the old ones go? To poor nations in Africa and Asia, we dump it there because it would otherwise pollute our soil.
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Funny anecdote ( funny as in : "Hmm this milk tastes funny" ) In the 50's, 60's or 70's(I don't remember the exact date) we(rich nations) began dumping our old fridges to poor nations, because the cooling fluid from old fridges were tearing a hole in our ozone layer and were no longer allowed, so we gave it to poor nations, because we like to share our wealth with the less fortune.
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30 bucks MORE and no 2.0?
Oh ya and that cute cube?
What are we 12?
Video says that the cube apps were decided upon by tmo.
Gee thanks for making it consumer friendly by NOT MAKING IT CUSTOMIZABLE!
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by abcyesn
November 23, 2009 5:26 PM PST
- I ordered mine today so hope to get started within the next few days. Can't wait to take a crack at the Samsung Behold II. From what I read on http://www.Behold-Android.com, The Behold II include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, a 5-megapixel camera, and up 16GB expandable memory via the microSD slot. Samsung stated that the smartphone follows on the success of its Samsung Behold and takes it to the next level with the addition of Android, bringing support for Google services and Exchange ActiveSync.
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