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This!:
If you don't already know, it is called the Samsung Fascinate and it is my (and Jenni's, we both got one we aren't sharing) new phone! OMG it is amazing! Fascinating even... *Dr. Evil pinky gesture* The screen it shows in the picture makes it cooler than a lot of other smart phones out there! This screen lets you seamlessly integrate all your feeds into one place. I just have facebook and twitter on mine, but I'm pretty sure there are other feeds one could include as well. So instead of opening up the browser, the facebook application or even downloading the twitter app, I can simply click in the text field and instantly update my facebook, twitter or both. Wait, on closer examination that is actually the buddies screen. That is a nice touch itself though too! For those people you are always communicating with you can put them on this page so you are able to quickly see what's going on with them, send them texts or call them without opening up any other windows or searching through your contacts list. It took me a minute to get use to the new interface (as I was use to the Blackberry), but it is so much more streamline and just overall nifty than what the Blackberry offers. I think I have found a phone I won't want to trade in two years! Let's see, what else? Not for lack of awesome traits, but I am just trying to recall all the cool things I've figured out so far. It automatically integrates various calendars onto the phone's calendar without duplicating entries (one of the annoyances of the Blackberry), it can actually access full web pages, and quick, which the Blackberry had trouble with (the Blackberry couldn't even load most non mobile based web pages actually), and with the active applications pull down tab it is easy to toggle between various tasks you are performing. Two features that really sold me are talk-to-text and swype. I can talk into the phone and what I say shows up in the text field; nice! Swype is AMAZING! You may have seen the commercial where the guy breaks the fastest text messaging record where he drags the pointer across the letters and it knows what he is trying to spell... OMG! I'm telling you, go into a Verizon store and play with this!
The only areas where I would like to see improvement:
-Even at top volume it is not very loud. If I am not looking at or holding the phone when I get a notification I won't know I got one.
-There is no cut and paste! One area where the Blackberry betters the Fascinate. Often I want to cut and paste text, but as far as I've been able to tell this is not possible on the fascinate. A little dissappointing.