"After spending some quality time with Samsung's ACE for Sprint the past few days, yep, we can now say with confidence what we've suspected all along: it's essentially a BlackJack in Sprint clothing. Actually, it's more accurate to say that it's 95 percent BlackJack and 5 percent improvement, with a more inward-slanted, square d-pad that makes it considerably harder to accidentally hit the surrounding controls, and angled keys that offer an embedded numeric pad in the proper configuration... The Windows Mobile 6 Standard software load is fairly typical, albeit mildly Sprint-ified with a yellow theme and shortcuts to access On Demand, Sprint TV, and the like. The phone seemed reasonably snappy, and the EV-DO modem hauled butt when we downloaded the Sprint TV client..."
This phone looks incredibly awesome. The only downside that I can see is that it is on the Sprint-Nextel network. Now I don't mean to bash the Sprint network for those of you that are on it and are happy with their service, though as someone that use to work for Sprint behind the scenes, I can tell you first hand that it is one of the most dysfunctional networks on the planet... but at least they now have pretty phones. I do have to admit, the though of a dual CDMA/GSM Smartphone does give me goosebumps. If any of our readers happened to pick up this ultra sleek handset, we would love to hear your thoughts and input on how well it performs!
Hands-on with the Samsung ACE
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