The Samsung Solstice II touch screen phone is the successor of Samsung’s popular Solstice quick messaging handset. This cell phone also brings flexibility and entertainment to your fingertips with its full touch screen display and virtual onscreen keyboard. This handset works on the 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies as well as AT&T’s dual-band 3G (850/1900 MHz; HSDPA/UMTS) plus international 3G (2100 MHz).
Samsung Solstice II
The AT&T’s Solstice II phone measures 4.29 x 2.13 x 0.47 inches and weighs 3.35 ounces. This phone is also equipped with 1000 mAh lithium-ion battery which delivers up to 5 hours of talk time, or up to 250 hours of standby time.
Samsung Solstice II features 3-inch touchscreen display with 240 x 400 pixels resolutions, a virtual QWERTY keyboard, Samsung TouchWiz 2.0 UI, 2-megapixel camera with 2x digital zoom for photo and video capture, music player (MP3 and AAC), Bluetooth version 2.1 with A2DP, microSD card slot (expansion cards up to 16 GB), SMS, MMS, E-Mail, IM (AOL, Yahoo!, Windows Live Messenger, and Google Talk), Mobile web browser, MobiTV and MobiVJ enabled, and also PicDial.
This touchscreen cell phone is also has a GPS navigation capabilities via AT&T Navigator service includes audible turn-by-turn directions, speakerphone with mute function, and also airplane mode.
This phone is offered for almost free ($0.01) at Amazon when you buy with a new service plan. UPDATE on August 2011, this cell phone is no longer available.
Just got the phone pretty impressed overall. The virtual keyboard isn’t bad but heavy texting isn’t recommended, picture camera is decent but not great. Also the amount of hardware included on this phone is amazing for this price point and I would highly recommend the phone.
Pro’s
Touchscreen, user interface, tether capabilities, signal strength, customizable applications, excellent battery life, locking tab, great exterior design, Pc studio software works, included accelerometerCon’s
Camera has no flash, virtual keyboard doesn’t support multi touch, no headphone jack, web browser isn’t that good
