Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G photos and camera test

The T-Mobile Android smartphone we first learned of at CES and first saw at MWC is now ready for a thorough inspection.

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March 19, 2012 5:05 p.m. PT

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The basics

Meet the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G. It's a mouthful, but the features don't lie. The phone starts you off with a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, and 4G speeds on T-Mobile's HSPA+ network. It also has a 5-megapixel camera capable of 720p HD video and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. Check out the full review.

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Bright screen

Here's a second look at that pretty Super AMOLED display. We like.

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Camera

The 5-megapixel camera seems really solid.

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More memory

The phone comes with a 4GB microSD card preinstalled to go with its 4GB of internal storage. You can expand up to 32GB.

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Camera test

I took all images using the automatic settings. While images have been resized, they're otherwise untouched. This indoor photo of a skylit room was taken from the floor above.

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What's with the lighting?

The light sensor seems thrown off in this photo of CNET podcast producer extraordinaire Stephen Beacham.

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Flowers

Colors look great in this outdoor shot, but I could use more detail on the flower petals themselves. This is probably a job for macro mode (photo taken on automatic settings).