Samsung i927 Sliding Full Keyboard Review

The phone almost entirely full-screen touch less and less physical buttons, a physical keyboard is more and more rare. Indeed very like the feeling of sliding full keyboard, this structure, when the spring opened the keyboard "click", the texture, but the keyboard is too wide, playing text often people hate their own hand that is not big enough, and the keyboard space makes the body thickness increases, a lot sellers are pursuing thin, this device will be more and more rare. However, such models like the keyboard, able to ensure that there is a large screen, unlike the HTC ChaCha as allowing users to stare at the piece of 2.4-inch small screen sound so confused. And the keyboard is wide, but after all, is an entity, enter the process than the virtual keyboard will make people uncomfortable.
Samsung i927's configuration and last year's flagship model is similar to these configurations and now is more practical and affordable: clocked at 1GHz Tegra 2 Duo processor coupled with 1GB of RAM enough to make the system run smoothly, 8GB of memory space You can also put a lot of songs, also supports Micro-SD card to expand memory. A resolution of 480x800 of 4 inches Super AMOLED display is enough to look at mobile content. Front 1.3 megapixel camera than the market lot of 30-megapixel camera, well, then set eight million pixel camera is enough for mainstream configurations.

The sliding keyboard layout is convenient, but with a long and tired, Of course, have a sliding full keyboard, this device is not naturally thin in thickness as a selling point, but at 13mm thickness makes it hold together a solid feel, coupled with the narrow body design of the border, without the super- thin mobile phones that supports the feeling of the hand.

When you would have this phone, the first thing to do is not to press the power button to make it turn on the screen, but you have to open the sliding keyboard, feel the spring pop-up that powerful feeling, and "click," about the sound - is this to be texture, though they are engineering plastics made, but does not feel like a cheap toy.

The keyboard keys, the overall are flat, the middle of each key slightly protruding upward, and one each in small pieces on the "F" and "J" two keys for the user to distinguish between key. Sliding full keyboard, plenty of space, so the gap between the key to each other is also more effective to avoid mistakenly press. But as said earlier, the keyboard is too wide, cost too much finger movement, the intensity of feedback chosen keys are rather hard, although only slightly, a little bit of force to press, and playing word than the virtual keyboard to be more texture, but the hand is not particularly user typing more built up, or will be tired, women users should not get used to this keyboard.

Having said that, with the Android phone Samsung i927 keyboard in the most left and right ends of each other, so that the horizontal screen using the keyboard is no need for the four more distant features of using the bottom of the screen keys, with the four-way navigation key, cross-screen operation is easy enough. This is also the keyboard is more thoughtful than the other sliding keyboard. In addition, the physical keyboard to join the Android virtual keyboard on the microphone button, as long as the input method support for voice input can be used.

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