The Red Monkey

Samsung Moment for Sprint first hands-on!

by Chris Ziegler

posted Oct 7th 2009 at 2:46PM

We’re not sure that the keyboard meets the lofty standard set by the CLIQ / DEXT, but arguably the Moment’s single most important feature — the slide-out QWERTY keyboard — has decent feel. It’s very clicky and requires a surprising amount of pressure to actuate individual keys, but not enough to be frustrating — it just feels solid. Overall, the phone’s a little bulky and has a plastic overtone to it, but fortunately, the screen’s at least as good as the G1 and Magic for feel and there’s no “give” to speak of; OLED’s gorgeous (as always) indoors, but the true test of trying to view this thing in the sunlight might not come until we’ve had a chance to take delivery of a review unit. The software’s essentially stock Android with a few Sprint apps (including Sprint TV) peppered in for good measure. Check out our hands-on gallery, won’t you?

Gallery: Samsung Moment for Sprint first hands-on!

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