What is it: 8-megapixel camera phone with touchscreen
What we think: Its high-end camera takes excellent photos, but the Pixon's touchscreen is less impressive
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Samsung Pixon user reviews
August 21, 2009
Posted by: phph001
"All style, no substance"
What I like:
Excellent camera
What I don't like:
terrible PC software, terrible operating system
Review:
The only decent point of this phone is the camera. I thought I would be upgrading when I changed from a Nokia N95, but what a disappointment. The Nokia has GPS, can be used as a mobile modem, and talks to Macs as well as PCs. The games are free. You can even make a phone call with it. With the Pixon, as soon as you get to one of those exchanges where you press 1 for this and 2 for that you take it from your ear and find the screen is already blank. You then have to press the screen to restore it, the hold button to release the available functions and then the screen again to bring up the keypad. Do these designers ever actually use their kit? The GPS puts you within a mile of your actual position, which may be OK in the Sahara, but is not a lot of use in town. One might as well not bother, which is what the user manual thinks, because the subject of GPS does not appear there at all. Nor does it mention the infuriating habit of the photo browser of sliding all the pictures rapidly past the screen if you tilt the phone slightly. Getting to the picture you want is a real pain. The PC suite software is the worst written bit of programming I have come across in a long time.
I'm going back to the N95. It's not got a touch screen and the camera is medium, but it is an excellent phone and the GPS does work.
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