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Unboxing Verizon’s Samsung Alias2

By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 1:41 PM

samsung-alias2-verizon-1The 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 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.

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • k

    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!!