Samsung Focus Review
By Ruben Corbo on October 27th, 2011
This is equally true when it comes to the phone’s design. It retains the look of a quality, top of the line smartphone. It doesn’t do much in terms of presenting itself as a unique design, however. It is sleek, but overall its bland square shape gives it a plain and dull aesthetic. The glossy black plastic face is however an attractive quality to the phone, and much needed given its otherwise stagnant appearance.
The phone measures 4.6 inches in height, 2.3 inches in width and is 0.43 inch thick. It is a compact and stream-lined phone, especially with its relatively low weight of 4.1 ounces. With this size comes a respectable 3.7 inch screen. It can’t boast the same massive size as other 4.2 inches on the market, but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
It is a Super AMOLED screen with a 480x800 WVGA resolution. This resolution delivers pretty impressive displays, especially with the size of the screen. It doesn’t really leave anything left wanting; the images are clear, colorful and vibrant. Text also appears very sharp.
The operating system is as you’d expect from Windows Phone, with little difference between phone manufacturers or carriers. The 7.5 version does however come with standard improvements to performance and the interface. Other software additions include Internet Explorer 5 which comes with HTML5 support, though still with no flash support.
The phone houses a 5-megapixel camera and a front-facing VGA camera. The back camera has LED flash and basic function support for things such as face detection and multi-shot. The photos produced are of an average quality. They typically come out blurry with washed out colors in places. The functions on the camera do slightly alleviate the issues with the photos after a bit of playing around. But still the photos end up not to the same quality as other phone cameras.
Supporting the phone’s performance is a 1.5GHz processor. Though it isn’t dual-core, it does enough to keep the system’s performance pretty smooth. Of course the lack of the higher end dual-core is understandable given the phone price, but it is doubtful the differences would be that drastic as 1.5GHz seems enough to keep the phone performing steadily.
The affordable price tag does make one more notable sacrifice, however. The phone contains a relatively low 8GB of internal memory. There is also no room for memory expansion as Window’s phones are infamously without an SD slot.
