Samsung Flight II Review
By Blake Sanders on October 27th, 2011
Its attempt to perfect the design of its predecessor is especially felt with the re-arrangement of the QWERTY keyboard, which now emerges horizontally rather than vertically. The phone measures 4.4 inches in height, 2.1 inches in width and is 0.5 inch thick. The design shares the same basic premise as other slides seen on the market. However, it deviates only slightly with its refined shape and attractive black finish. In total the phone weighs 3.5 ounces, a standard weight for a feature phone of its size.
Unlike many feature phones that use a slide-out keyboard, the Flight II’s screen is fully touch screen. The screen is 2.8 inches in size and supports a resolution of 240x320. The resolution is more than enough to make the display appear sharp and colorful. Admittedly it isn’t as vibrant as other phones on the market, but the difference will hardly be felt on a phone which overall has limited features. The phone’s home screens also allow for a degree of customization.
Like other Samsung touch-screen feature phones, it has three home screens – one for favourite applications and the other two for playing around with using the shortcuts and widgets contained within the TouchWiz tray. Overall the touch screen is acceptable responsive with its capacitive display technology. It does suffer from small lag issues in places but these are very minor compared to the usual slow-down suffered on touch-screen feature phones.
Like the Samsung Evergreen, the Flight II comes with a 2000-entry capacity phone book. Each of these entries can have five numbers programmed within them. Other standard features include caller groups and the ability to use your MP3s as ringtones.
The phone also has a 2.0-megapixel camera. Though the pictures it produces are to the expected standard, we were disappointed to find it had no LED flash. It does have the usual functions for modifying how your pictures are taken (i.e. changing colour effects, white balance etc), but these will not help the camera in poor lighting conditions. For a modern phone LED flash is becoming an increasing necessity.
To store your media content, messages, contacts and files the phone comes with 512MB of internal memory, capable of supporting an SD card of up to 16GB. It does also have a music player with basic shortcut functions on the phone and the ability to create playlists, though the quality of the music is limited.
Lastly, the 3G speeds aren’t the best around. Even with the acceptance that it is a feature phone, some of the value of the 3G attraction is diminished by generally poor speeds. As always however, the extent of this will depend on the network provider.
