Samsung T939 Behold 2

Samsung T939 Behold 2 review

Release Date:  Q4 2009
Expert Rating:

• Android phone
• 3G, Wi Fi
• 5MP camera

• high price tag

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After much speculation, Samsung has finally announced the release of its new Samsung T939 Behold II. This new generation of phone will be rolled out in November 2009. The Samsung T939 Behold 2 is the first of its kind running on an Android platform. The much awaited release will unravel the mystery shrouding the new handset. The previous version of this handset was the Samsung T919 Behold.

Android is a mobile operating system first developed by Google and later on developed by Open Handset Alliance, which runs on Linux Kernel. The android operating system gives Samsung T939 Behold II additional media support and it is itself known to support a large number of connectivity technologies.

Rumours doing the rounds claim that the new Samsung T939 Behold II model is designed in the lines similar to the first Samsung android phone, which was known as Galaxy or Houdini. The design and look of this mobile is akin to the Galaxy or the Houdini version; maybe you can call this a customized version.

Samsung T939 Behold II – the world in your hands!

Samsung T939 Behold II has been designed keeping in mind high end users. Though, the exact price is unknown, experts have speculated that this model is sure to burn a deep hole in the pockets of the buyers. In a nutshell, this is an uber luxurious phone meant for the higher echelons.

Samsung T939 Behold II - T mobile in the spotlight

The new android powered handset from Samsung will be released in the UK and USA through T-mobile. In the UK, T-mobile is considered as one of the largest mobile operator. It started its life as Mercury One2One – a prominent GSM mobile network, which is now defunct. Recently, on September 2009 France Telecom’s Orange and T-mobile’s parent Deutsche Telekom merged to become the largest mobile operator in the UK claiming thirty seven per cent of the market share. So, it is certain that T-mobile would be in the spotlight with the release of the new Samsung T939 Behold II mobile and is sure to hog all the attention. Though, the largest mobile operator in the UK is keeping the release date and the price a secret, it has announced that this mobile will be available to all by Christmas 2009.

Samsung T939 Behold II has successfully passed the FCC test

The Samsung T939 Behold II has successfully passed the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) testing. This testing certifies that the product is of high quality and meets the requisite industry standards in both quality and safety.

Samsung T939 Behold II – the look and feel

As mentioned earlier, the Samsung T939 Behold II looks pretty much similar to Samsung Galaxy. It comes with a 3.2 inch AMOLED capacitive touch screen. The screen displays 16.7 million colours in a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. With this specification, this model assures a high picture quality. The sleek look of the phone is enhanced by the smooth round curves. It also comes with an accelerometer sensor for auto rotate. The major portion of the frontal part of the device is its AMOLED screen. Just above the screen, you will find the T Mobile logo and below the screen there are the important control buttons. The round key in the centre is for navigation while the immediate left and right keys are for functioning menu and back features respectively. The customary call key and end key are featured at the left and right bottom-corners of the phone.

Samsung T939 Behold II – The touchwiz interface

Keeping in tune with the design of Samsung Galaxy the Samsung T939 Behold II has a touch wiz interface. Samsung has taken all pains to revamp the touch wiz interface. New enhanced features like splashy 3D effects better navigation and control of photos and contacts and diagnostic feedback make it more user friendly and suave. The new look of the Samsung touchwiz interface is all set to amaze and astonish the users.

Samsung T939 Behold 2 Review - Connectivity

As a successor of Behold, the Samsung T939 Behold II supports 3G network and also comes with an additional Wifi connectivity. Since it works on the android operating system developed by Google, the new model smartphone allows the user to access all kinds of Google mobile services like Google search, Google maps, YouTube, Google talk and access and check g mail. It has a huge memory space and one can fit in up to 16 GB micro SD cards. The huge capacity of the memory will allow the user to store unlimited number of entries in the phonebook or the contacts.

Samsung T939 Behold 2 - the unique Geo-tagging feature

Samsung phones has introduced the new geo-tagging feature with the new generation of Behold II mobiles. With the help of this feature, the users can find out location specific information. With this they will be able to mark a photo, image or a video with the location. This application is useful to churn out news and media feeds by combining it with other applications like Google maps or Flickr photos.

Samsung T939 Behold II - the camera feature

These days it is quite obvious for the mobile handsets to feature camera, but the question lies in the quality of camera that comes with the handset. The camera of this mobile phone is its biggest highlight. The Behold II features 5 mega pixels auto focus camera that includes LED flash, which ensures excellent quality of imaging even in poor light conditions. The camera also includes video and geo tagging features and it click snaps with the resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels.

Samsung T939 Behold II Review - other multimedia features

With such an excellent camera, it is obvious that the still shots are superb, but what about the videos and music? Behold II features excellent video player and music player to support the wants of the young generation. The music player of the mobile phone can play diverse music file formats such as MP3, e-AAC+ and WMA while the video player is capable of playing MP4, WMV, H.263 and H.264 files. To enjoy such excellent features, it is vital to have a good memory support and the mobile phones scores yet another ace in this department as it can support memory up to massive 16 GB.