US Cellular, the eight largest network operator in United States has launched their latest smart phone and gets a little attention as this is powered by Samsung, the leader in Android smart phones. US Cellular introduces Samsung Galaxy Metrix 4G taking advantage of the US Cellular 4G LTE network. Lets go through the details of the newly launched Samsung Galaxy phone.
Samsung Galaxy Metrix 4G
Samsung Galaxy Metrix 4G is been added to the Android smart phones products offered by US Cellular in United States. Metrix 4G is altogether a new smart phones which hasn’t got any leak before this announcement and this happens.
Going through the specifications of the Galaxy Metrix 4G, it’s among the few devices select for the 4G LTE support. This means that the device is for those users who access internet very often and they require high speed internet access. Interestingly this device is for the yester year’s tweaked users who looks to find full keypad with touch support as well. It includes slide out physical QWERTY layout keypad and this comes with 1 Ghz of single core processor. Inclusion of QWERTY layout means that users can take advantage of faster typing during chat, composing emails and writing on the phone than compared to physical keypad. Galaxy Metrix 4G is a mid range smart phone which comes with 4 inches Super AMOLED display, one of the best in the business by Samsung itself and it includes 5 mega pixel camera on the rear side with LED flash which allows users to take pictures at splendid quality and go through 720p HD video recording as well. With Android phones, minimum 4 inches display’s have certainly became trend as its good for touch devices.
The smart phone also includes front facing 1.3 mega pixel camera which can be used for the face to face video calls and web conferences as well via the various messengers and the social networks. Sadly, this runs on the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system which is the Google’s OS older version next to Ice Cream Sandwich. Since this is powered with Android OS by Google it includes several pre-installed apps like Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration, Google + integration and importantly Google Play Store. At Play Store you can browse, run, install, purchase through the thousands of Android applications which are nothing but widgets, tools, software’s and games app available.
Various other features like Wi Fi, Wi Fi tether has been added for internet access and sharing internet with other users. It has 3.5 mm headphone jack and includes four capacity touch button at the bottom as Home, Back, Search and Menu. To put the specifications quickly at one place, Metrix 4G has the following features –
- 4 inches Super AMOLED display
- Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS
- 5 mega pixel camera
- Slide out QWERTY layout keypad
- 1 Ghz single core processor
- 1.3 mega pixel front facing camera
Samsung Galaxy Metrix 4G Price & Availability
Anyone who is interested to purchase this handset can order Galaxy Metrix 4G device available for purchase via US Cellular. The device will be available in store from August 24. It’s priced at $ 129 with $ 100 mail in rebate if you are the area where 4G LTE is available from US Cellular. If you are elsewhere then you can carry this phone by paying $ 179 also with $ 100 mail in rebate. Users might need to sign a new two years contract and existing users need to check for the upgrade availability. Users might need to require a data plan which you choose to buy this phone.
For a limited period of time, on purchase of Metrix 4G smart phone you get one free Alcatel One Touch Premiere phone.
