Unboxing Verizon’s Samsung Alias2
By Will Park on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 1:41 PM PST In Devices, Hottest Hardware, Photos, Reviews, Samsung, Verizon
The Samsung Alias2 is just about the highest-tech featurephone we’ve seen in the US – mostly because the Alias2 rocks E-Ink keypad buttons that can morph between numeric keypad and QWERTY keyboard. The Alias2’s dual-hinge form-factor is aimed at messaging fanatics that want the best of both worlds – a vertical flip-phone with numeric keypad for calling and a landscape QWERTY keyboard for messaging duties.
By using E-Ink, the Samsung Alias2’s keys have the ability to change the symbol that’s displayed on their face. Open the Alias2’s flip vertically and the buttons display a standard numeric keypad with navigation controls. Open the Alias2 lengthwise, and you’re treated to a full QWERTY keyboard. The best part is that the passive E-Ink technology only draws power when it has to change the display. In fact, the Alias2 came to us completely drained of battery power, but still displayed the numeric symbols on the keys.
The Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Samsung Alias2 is available now for $79.99 after $50 mail-in rebate and new 2-year contract.
Enjoy the unboxing pics, full review to follow.
Crappiest phone I ever owned. Does nothing. The notepad
is limited to to ~40 chars even if one has a multi-gig card
installed. Why have a keyboard, oh yeah, for the fools
who only want to text.
No todo list.
The calendar is crippled and hard to access.
The interface is horrible, cutesy and clumsy to the max.
Want to find a workaround?
All those lovely E-ink keys are… non-programmable.
The extra keyboard chars are klugy and difficult to use.
Try opening the Alias2 in flip phone mode with one hand – nuh-uh.
Get a call when you are in the middle of calendar or s/t else –
you’re screwed. Thx Samsung.
What a piece of junk!!