There's also a Bing Maps app, with turn-by-turn directions for walking and driving. Microsoft offers Xbox Live integration through the Games hub. Although there's not a lot of variation, there is a bit of wiggle room for manufacturers and carriers to add some of their own apps, and we see that here.
Samsung has added a few extras as well, like a Photo Studio app with some basic editing tools. It'd be even better to see these things within the native camera app. Bing's new Mango features with music identification and optical scan-search called Bing Vision also worked well on this real-world device.
The device memory is limited to 8GB, as I've mentioned before, but Microsoft has attempted to soften the blow by giving Windows Phone users 25GB of free online file storage through SkyDrive. It's one method for saving photos, videos, and other documents. I must have looked narcissistic repeatedly taking self-portraits in the office, but it's because the photos constantly came out blurry enough to make me dizzy.
That's unfortunately not much of a shocker for a phone camera, although quality is slowly improving over time across the industry as a whole. At least the photos aren't grainy. However, neither are they focused. The rear-facing camera took photos with distinct edges and good focus autofocus helps. Color fidelity was very good, but in some cases, especially scenes with artificial lighting, colors were off, and often oversaturated.
In most cases, the autofix editing icon in the camera app's photo-review screen correctly adjusted the scenes, lightening and brightening as needed. You can see more of the phone's photographic capabilities in this slideshow. Video recording and playback were fair, but the camera struggled with the low levels of indoor light in my test video I'll spend more time with outdoor video as well.
It was a little dark, and the camcorder had difficulty keeping the lighting steady. It made the room look much grayer than it was. I also had to boost the volume to hear the subject of the video, but it did play back smoothly without jerkiness. It'll serve most people's purposes well enough, but it isn't the peak quality I've seen. Call quality was a little weak in my tests. Volume was nice and loud, but voices sounded muffled and slightly digital, as if the voice were being fed ever so subtly through an autotuner.
I did enjoy the absence of background noise. On their end, callers said my voice was loud, but sounded a little bit raspy and garbled, and not quite natural. On the other hand, the phone delivered one of the better examples of speakerphone I've heard. It was nice and loud on both ends of the line, without background distractions. There is a 3. The back is plastic with a strip of faux sheet metal — for as best as I can tell just an aesthetic look — and above that there's a 5-megapixel camera with adjacent LED flash.
Popping off the back panel reveals a 3. The casing has a cheap look to it and does feel plastic-y, but at the same time it also feels fairly sturdy. For all our relatively few qualms over the chassis itself, Samsung equipped the Focus Flash with a surprisingly nice 3. The black isn't always as dark as it should be, but under most of the interior lighting situations I tried, it bleeds convincingly into the hardware itself.
This was less true outside during the day light, where the glossy front pane of the Focus Flash proves to be very reflective. That said, provided external light sources don't catch and bounce off the screen, both the horizontal and vertical viewing angles are quite impressive.
The Focus Flash has the same x pixel resolution as its Windows Phone counterparts despite its smaller screen size, which actually gives it a better pixel density — approximately the same ppi as Nokia's Lumia line and almost 17 percent denser than the Focus S' ppi. Spend a few minutes with the 5 megapixel camera and you'll know exactly where Samsung cut corners to reach that price point. I spent a couple days and nights shooting pictures under various conditions, and the results were never too pretty.
Colors looked consistently washed out, and far too often the shot would come out blurry — even for still subjects and even after multiple retakes. There is a p option for video, but the Focus Flash I had defaulted to VGA and seemed to return to that lower-res option on its own a couple times. After recording a few videos on both resolutions, I kind of see why — the VGA video turned out a bit cleaner, while the graininess of the p footage was more apparent.
Button placement is another concern. Far too often I found myself accidentally hitting the search and back hardware keys while lining up my shot, which means I'd have to maneuver my way out of the erroneous windows and set up my shot once more.
If you prefer using your phone to take quick day-to-day pictures over a dedicated pocket camera, this probably isn't the device for you.
Thanks in large part to its 1. In fact, if your only concern is finding a cheap device that runs Windows Phone 7. With that all said, I'm going to defer to Chris Ziegler's excellent Mango review from back in late September, as not much has changed since that time appropriately enough, we were given a Samsung Focus, this device's predecessor, to test out the updated platform.
Microsoft is continuing to evolve the OS in all the right ways, but it still hasn't quite matched the functionality of its iOS or Android peers. It's a gorgeous and stylish user experience, but it only takes a few minutes before you come across some oddities — no mass transit option for Bing directions, quirky multitasking that seems all too quick to close some earlier apps, a hardware search button that takes you to Bing instead of searching inside the currently-open application.
With the same price tag as the newcomer, the Infuse 4G simply has more to offer. Samsung Infuse 4G. If you bump up your budget by fifty bucks, you will enter iPhone 4 territory. The same money will get you in the dual-core realm of Android offerings such as Motorola Atrix 2 and Droid X2.
As you can see, there are plenty of Alternatives to the Samsung Focus Flash. The device however, is easily the most credible Windows Phone alternative for its price point.
This fact alone should help it gather a decent following. Having this is mind, it is a job well done. GSMArena team , 13 November Flashing around Samsung Focus Flash review: Flashing around. Samsung Focus Now, the Android ranks.
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