Samsung Epic 4G is a powerful Android phone on the Sprint network. It has received many appreciations from the users and why not this phone deserves it.
So lets go through the detailed review of Samsung Epic 4G mobile phone which has some of the best features.
Table of Content:
- Samsung Epic 4G Hardware & Design
- Samsung Epic 4G Software & Performance
- Samsung Epic 4G Features
- Samsung Epic 4G Camera
- Samsung Epic 4G Battery Life
- Samsung Epic 4G Price
- Samsung Epic 4G Image Gallery
Samsung Epic 4G Design & Hardware
It’s like an odd phone design but once you get a hang on this mobile phone you would be start loving it. The phone feature a slide out QWERTY full keypad layout and you can make the most use of it through touch and type available for you.
On the top of the phone we have 3.5 mm headphone jack and the microUSB port. The power button, volume rocker button and the camera button are located on the right side. The Samsung Epic 4G is best held in landscape orientation mode as because it feels comfortable to hold with the keypad on.
Most of the users would be drawn by the super AMOLED screen that it has got with Gorilla Glass display. With screen size of 4 inches the WVGA display 16 million rich colors. The TouchWiz by Samsung gets a good make over by adding seven home screens. And the features are accelerometer, touch sensitive control and proximity sensors are common in today’s smartphones.
At the bottom of the display screen you find four touch sensitive action buttons and they are Menu, Home, Back and Search. With a weight of 5.47 ounces and a thickness of 14.2 inches, you would feel it when you hold it and this makes Samsung Epic 4G not the lightest or the thinnest among the Galaxy S series. Coming to keypad, it’s large and the keys are well spaced which makes easier to type without any error.
The processor is powered with 1 GHz of ARM Cortex A8 processor with PowerVR GPU running on the Hummingbird chipset. Moreover, 512 MB of ROM and 512 MB of RAM can be handy in handling multiple operating.
Samsung Epic 4G Software & Performance
Samsung Epic 4G comes with Android 2.1 Eclair operating system. But it can be easily upgraded to Android 2.2 and the Gingerbread 2.3 version is also available for manual update. Now that is a big advantage when you have Samsung Epic 4G as your smartphone, you are never out of the latest OS in the market.
With Android you can get to browse over 0.3 million of apps available for free & paid download. 80% of the apps listed in App marketplace are available for free download and usage.
The Epic 4G is loaded with several Sprint applications which include Sprint Football, Sprint Navigation through Telenav, Sprint TV, Sprint Hotspot and SprintZone. With Hotspot working just like Wi-Fi hotspot you can connect up to 5 computers over Wi-Fi to your mobile phone. Another thing you would find is the Samsung Media Hub and we are clearly finding that Samsung is clearly going after Apple App Store.
Samsung Epic 4G includes watching of mobile TV using the Sprint TV and those Sprint apps are wonderful enough to charm us. The Samsung Media Hub too are good enough just like Apple App Store. The memory can be expanded up to 32 GB with availability of microSD memory card slot. The connectivity options includes WiFi 802.11 b/g/n and the Sprint powers WiMAX to this device. With Bluetooth v 2.1 with A2DP you might not find it useful enough now.
Samsung Epic 4G has DLNA sharing feature which can be easily shared to DLNA compliant devices over the WiFi network. That is you can do streaming of music from your homePC or TV.
It includes a Web kit based Android browser which provides a great overall experienced when compared to most competition. The page renders very fast and scrolling is good eough with smooth scroll.
It supports playback of MP4, DivX, WMV, H.264, H.263 video formats and MP3, WAV, eAAC+, AC3, FLAC audio formats. It does have a document editor like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF. Apart from including QWERTY layout it also includes the Swype text input on-screen.
When you have an Android based mobile phone its sure that you would be included with apps like Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration as Android is powered by Google.
It includes an impressive 5 megapixel camera with LED flash can be handy in low light conditions. The camera includes autofocus and provides an utmost resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels. Yes, the camera is enough to record 720 pixel videos at impressive 30 fps. It includes a secondary VGA camera which can be used for video chat.
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Samsung Epic 4G is powered with standard 1500 mAh battery which provides which offers a standby time of 300 hours and a talk time of 6 hours approximately. So that is just the average battery backup when considered with other mobile phones. With a little of messaging, browsing, mail check-up, songs playback and camera recording you get a backup for a day maximum. The main battery draining components of Samsung Epic 4G are Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and LED flash. We have gone through a details explanation on each function in order to increase the battery life of Samsung Epic 4G mobile phone.
The Samsung Epic 4G is priced at $ 249 with two-year contract with Sprint as the wireless carrier.
Conclusion
The overall experience of Samsung Epic 4G on Sprint network is great. The x factor comes with the fantastic slide out full keypad which makes you feel like a computing device. The Samsung Epic 4G is a must buy on Sprint.
