Samsung Solstice Announced for AT&T
By Simon Sage on Thursday, July 30th, 2009 at 8:45 AM PST In AT&T, Samsung
Starting August 2nd., AT&T (NYSE: T) will be selling the Samsung Solstice, a full-touchscreen handset with that all-too-familiar TouchWiz user interface. The A887 comes with a 3″ screen, 2 megapixel camera, dual-band 3G, quad-band EDGE,and a virtual landscape QWERTY keypad. Preloaded software ranges the gamut of Facebook, MySpace and Yahoo widgets to Napster Mobile and the usual AT&T services. It’s not much, but a pretty good deal for $99.99 on a two-year contract – if this is your bag, it should be popping up on the AT&T online store soon, although I’m not sure why anyone would grab this over a refurb iPhone 3G…
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$10 data plan over the $30 data plan or none at all if you choose
I liked Samsung Solstice’s contacts list, which presented our friends as a fanned-out deck of cards we could swipe through. It didn’t respond to my touch as quickly as other apps on the phone, but it was more graphically intense. The Solstice also gets speaker-independent voice dialing, and Samsung includes a TouchWiz widget to add a voice dialing button to your homescreen. Finally, the phone is one of AT&T’s growing number of video share phones, so you can connect a 1-way video conference with the Samsung Solstice.
Overlook, I like the phone, if you own one, share your experience at http://www.samsung-solstice.com