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Samsung Vibrant: A Standout Multimedia Phone

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Samsung Vibrant: A Standout Multimedia Phone

Ginny Mies
PC World
Wednesday, July 21, 2010; 12:19 AM
The T-Mobile version of Samsung's killer
Galaxy S line of super Android phones, the
Samsung Vibrant ($200 with a two-year
contract, as of July 12, 2010) stands apart
from its siblings due to the high-quality
multimedia apps the carrier has preloaded on
the phone. Stellar media features aside,
however, Samsung's TouchWiz interface isn't
for everybody, and in my tests the phone was
a bit sluggish at times.
The Vibrant looks pretty similar to its AT&T
counterpart, the Captivate, but it has a few
subtle design tweaks. Like the European
Galaxy S, the Vibrant resembles an iPhone
3GS. In contrast to the squared corners on
the Captivate, the Vibrant has softer, rounder
corners. The backing is smooth plastic, with
an attractive (and very Samsung-esque)
design. The phone feels durable and solid in
the hand.

Samsung introduced at Mobile World
Congress on the Samsung Wave. Super
AMOLED technology puts touch sensors on
the display itself, as opposed to creating a
separate layer (which Samsung's old AMOLED
displays had), making it the thinnest display
technology on the market. Super AMOLED is
fantastic--you really have to see it in person.
Colors burst out of the display, and
animations appear lively and smooth.
Samsung and T-Mobile were wise to preload
the movie Avatar on this phone; the
Vibrant's display nicely showcases the
beautiful animation.
The Vibrant's 4-inch display is larger than
that of the iPhone 4 (which is 3.5 inches), but
smaller than the screens of the Droid X and
EVO 4G (which are each 4.3 inches). Despite
that smaller size, the Vibrant outshone both
the Droid X and the EVO 4G in my casual
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Measuring 0.39 inch thick, the Vibrant is
thinner than the HTC EVO 4G and the
Motorola Droid X, but slightly beefier than
the ultraslim, 0.37-inch iPhone 4. It is the
lightest of the bunch, weighing a scant 4.16
ounces.
The Vibrant's featherlight weight is due in
part to its Super AMOLED technology, which

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side-by-side comparisons. The side-by-side
with the iPhone 4 was a closer call: The
iPhone 4's display appeared slightly sharper,
but I thought the Vibrant's colors looked
more natural. It's really hard to declare a
winner in this matchup--both displays are
stunning.
Finally, the sun came out in San Francisco, so
I was able to test how well the Vibrant's
display performed outdoors. I turned off
Automatic Brightness on both handsets and
set the displays to the maximum brightness. I
put the two phones side-by-side in direct
sunlight and viewed various Websites. Again,
it was a hard call to determine which model
handled the sunshine better. The Vibrant's
display was a lot more reflective than the
iPhone's, so it could make reading and
viewing photos more difficult depending on
my angle. The Vibrant's colors looked
brighter, however, and its text was a bit
sharper.

Hummingbird processor, the phone lagged
slightly when I flipped through menus and s
crolled down contact lists or Web pages.
Here's hoping the Vibrant will get a speed
boost when it receives the upgrade to
Android 2.2 ("Froyo").
Like HTC and its Sense offering, Samsung has
its own social media aggregator. Social Hub
combines streams from your Facebook,
MySpace, and Twitter accounts into a single
view. It is a useful feature if you need a
simple way to keep track of your networks.
One random feature is Mini Diary, which lets y
ou create blog entries with photos, weather
info, text messages, and more. When I first
tried Mini Diary on the European Galaxy S, I
couldn't figure out how to get my entries off
the device. Samsung followed up with me
after my original review, thankfully, and
confirmed that you can indeed post entries
(though only those with photos) to various
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The Samsung Vibrant runs Android 2.1
("Eclair") with Samsung's own TouchWiz 3.0
user interface. Overall, this version of
TouchWiz is a lot better than the older
iteration on the Samsung Behold II for TMobile, which was slow and difficult to
navigate.
Though this version is an improvement, I
encountered some familiar issues with
TouchWiz 3.0. Despite the 1GHz

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social networks or send them to friends via
text. After you create an entry, you press the
Menu key in the bottom-left corner, and it
gives you MMS and Publish options. If you
choose Publish, you can send your item to
Facebook or MySpace.
My biggest problem with the TouchWiz
interface is that it is somewhat overdone--so
much so that the result doesn't even look or
feel like an Android phone.
The TouchWiz music player is touch-friendly
and easy to navigate. It showcases album art
nicely, too, with an iTunes Cover Flow-style u
ser interface. Sound was clean over my own
earbuds, and decent via the external
speakers.
Video over the preinstalled MobiTV
application looked and sounded great on the
Vibrant. The playback was smooth with no
pixelation, artifacting, or stutter. YouTube
videos didn't fare so well, and unfortunately
you get no option to watch videos in HQ as
you do on the HTC EVO 4G.

this fall. Customers will be able to download
the service via an over-the-air update.
A handful of multimedia apps are preloaded
on the Vibrant, including The Sims 3, Slacker,
the Layar augmented-reality browser,
Amazon Kindle, and Amazon MP3. You can
also share media files between your phone a
nd your TV using AllShare, a DLNAconnected app.
We put the 5-megapixel camera of the
European Galaxy S (the same camera is on
the Vibrant) through a modified version of
our PCWorld Labs test for point-and-shoot
digital cameras, along with the iPhone 4, the
Motorola Droid X, and the HTC EVO 4G.
Unfortunately our test panel was not very
impressed with the photo quality of the
Galaxy S, as it earned the lowest score out of
the four and an overall word score of Fair. It
finished ahead of the EVO 4G in exposure
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One of the most intriguing features of the
Galaxy S phones is the Samsung Media Hub,
which will accompany all of the Galaxy S
models. Media Hub is Samsung's answer to
iTunes, a store for purchasing music and
video. Unfortunately, Media Hub is not yet
available to users right now; according to my
contact at Samsung, Media Hub will launch

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quality, but landed in last place in our coloraccuracy, sharpness, and distortion tests. It
is worth nothing that the Vibrant has no
flash, so photos taken indoors or in dimly lit
environments don't come out very well.
On the other hand, the Galaxy S took second
place in overall video quality. Its performance
skewed heavily toward good performance in
bright light. According to our panel, its
bright-light footage looked a bit
underexposed and slightly grainy in a fullscreen view, but great at smaller sizes. The
autofocus searches a little before locking on
to a crisp image. In low light, the footage was
a bit too murky and undefined to earn a
better rating. The handset's microphone,
meanwhile, picks up audio a bit too well: On
the Galaxy S our audio clip sounded far too
loud and blown out, whereas some of the
other smartphones in our comparison barely
picked up the audio at all. Read the full test
results in "Smartphone Camera Battle: iPhone
4 vs. the Android Army."

One unfortunate change between the
European Galaxy S and the U.S.-branded
Vibrant is the omission of a front-facing
camera/camcorder. Sprint's Galaxy S model,
the Epic 4G, has a front-facing camera for
video chatting.
Overall, I was pleased with the Vibrant's call
quality over T-Mobile. My contacts' voices
sounded clear, with ample volume and no
background hissing or static. I had pretty
good reception and coverage all over San
Francisco.
Data speeds were also quite fast, but
occasionally the phone dropped to EDGE d
epending on the neighborhood I was in. I
tested the browser only from my office and
my apartment, but Web pages and assorted
apps that use data connectivity launched
and loaded pretty quickly.

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Out of all the powerful smartphone cameras
I've tested lately, those of the Galaxy S
phones have the cleanest, most user-friendly
interface. Unlike with the iPhone 4, here you
can pick from a wide variety of shooting
modes (Vintage, Smile Detection, Panorama,
Continuous, and many more) and easily
tweak the camera's settings according to your
environment and subject.

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The Samsung Vibrant is an exciting addition
to T-Mobile's growing family of Android
devices. The carrier also does a great job of
making the phone stand out from the rest of
the Galaxy S pack by preloading it with fun
apps, throwing in a 2GB MicroSD card, and
treating customers to the full-length version
of Avatar.

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