Wednesday, Aug 8th 2007 by Chris Scott Barr


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If you’re a T-Mobile customer, or are thinking about switching carriers, you’ve got a new reason to upgrade to a new phone today. T-Mobile is launching the Samsung Blast, which promises to keep you in touch with the world and looking great.

Samsung Blast

I’m partial to slider phones, probably because of my Ocean, and black phones always look good, so at first glance I really like the Samsung Blast. One thing that I find to be essential on any cell phone I carry is the integration of instant messaging clients, and the Blast makes the cut with AIM, ICQ, MSN (Windows Live) and Yahoo! Messenger. It also has built-in support for Yahoo! and AOL mail, sadly no Gmail.

For those who are quick with their thumbs, the Blast features an interesting keypad that promises to make typing a breeze without a full QWERTY keyboard. You’ll also have a 1.3MP video/still camera, a built-in music player, a microSD slot for storing up to 2GB worth of pictures and music and Stereo Bluetooth. The GSM quad-band phone operates at 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, allowing you to take it almost anywhere and also supports GPRS and EDGE. The Blast will be priced at $99 with a new two-year contract and is available today.

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  1.  James Allan Brady   View all comments by James Allan Brady  Neutral  Add karma Subtract karma 

    FastTap keypads are garbage, i would rather have the numeric keypad or a qwerty keyboard not some half-baked idea of cramming the two together

    other than that and the low maximum storage capacity it looks like a nice phone

  2.  thudsonmww   View all comments by thudsonmww  +1  Add karma Subtract karma 

    This technically isn’t the Fastap style of keyboard, but a double-tap QWERTY style keyboard. Regardless, it is a good mesh between traditional T9 and QWERTY to provide a more familiar keyboard layout while still maintaining a slim and sleek phone.

    Travis Hudson, MWW Group on behalf of Samsung

  3.  Janine   View all comments by Janine  Neutral  Add karma Subtract karma 

    Does the Blast messengers uses SMS or internet data connection?

  4.  joe   View all comments by joe  Neutral  Add karma Subtract karma 

    could you browse websites?
    can you use the pictures you take to be your wallpaper?


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