The Samsung Genio Touch is a new addition to the world of touch phones. With its small size and smooth curves, the Samsung Genio is reminiscent of the Samsung Tocco Lite. This new mobile comes in many different colors including white, yellow, pink and orange editions and is certainly aimed at younger users. It’s designed for people who love to stay connected and entertained while on the go. It is also intended for those who appreciate color and style. This phone comes in four colors: Jamaican Yellow, Festival Orange, Minimalist White, and Cupid Pink. You can also get different battery covers with patterns and colors and customize your mobile to your liking.
This Samsung model has a 2.8-inch resistive touch screen that supports 16 million colors. The touch screen is quite responsive and the phone vibrates with every gesture you make. A built-in accelerometer allows you to rotate the screen while holding the phone at different angles. The phone’s touch screen uses the TouchWiz interface. There are three home screens that you can customize to your liking. Home screens come with 27 cool widgets already present on them. You can download 75 more widgets of your choice and customize your home screens. Widgets that connect you to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Photobucket, etc. let you keep in touch with your friends on the go. You can enlarge images to twice their size with a single touch. You can also zoom and change fonts using the volume control.
The Genio Touch has an internal memory of 50 MB that can be expanded to 8 GB with a microSD card. This means that you can store a lot of pictures and music on this phone without worrying about running out of memory space.
The camera isn’t exactly impressive at 2 megapixels, but it’s pretty good for a budget device. The camera has 2X zoom, Smile Detection and Panorama Shot, but there is no autofocus. Video recording is also possible (QVGA @ 15fps).
When it comes to messaging, this phone is quite easy to use. The keyboard is alphanumeric so you can’t enjoy the ease of QWERTY. However, the font size is adjustable and both SMS and MMS are possible. This phone even has a built-in dictionary. What can be a better way to improve your vocabulary? The dictionary supports 8 languages: English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Ukrainian.
This phone also has good multimedia features. The music player supports files in popular formats such as MP3, AAC, AAC+, AAC++, and WMA. The Search Music feature allows you to record a part of a song and find out the track, artist, genre, and other similar details.
With WAP, GPRS Class 10 and EDGE technology, this model provides good Internet connectivity. You can use the NetFront browser to view web pages.
Another interesting application is the Picsel viewer that allows you to view documents like MS Word, PDF, Power Point, etc.
Other cool features of the Genio Touch include Bluetooth, FM radio, YouTube app, smart unlock, easy social networking, etc.