Samsung Transform Ultra – A Worthy QWERTY Smartphone
Samsung Transform Ultra is a slider, Android smartphone that offers a pleasing design, front facing camera, Android Gingerbread 2.3 operating system, Mobile ID, 3.5 inch HVGA touchscreen with full QWERTY keyboard, 1GHz Snapdragon processor and dual cameras. You can also call this handset a midrange smartphone motivated by Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system and provides a stunningly good customizable experience. It is faster as compared to its predecessor and is available for an affordable price. The 3.5 inch capacitive touchscreen with rich color and ample viewing keeps you riveted to videos and movies. On the other hand, the full QWERTY keyboard pops out to provide intuitive typing and hides neatly away once you are done.
With Samsung Transform Ultra’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread platform, you can access more than 200,000 applications. Fuse that with Boost ID customizable user interface and you can tailor your handset for definitive expression of your personality. The original Transform was launched in the month of October in the year 2010 and revealed for Sprint in United States. It is one of the first smartphones to feature Sprint ID user interface and is regarded as a midrange handset and successor to Samsung Intercept with quite a few upgrades including bigger 3.5 inch touchscreen display, front facing VGA camera for conference calling and faster data.
The Sprint ID is more minimal addition as compared to the full on custom user interface experience found in Samsung TouchWiz and HTC Sense. The all new Samsung Transform Ultra is itself a good smartphone with nice, tactile design, 3G speeds and 1GHz processor. It is available for the price of $299.99 without any contract that fits right into smartphone pricing of Boost Mobile. It gets quite a few redesigns such as slightly different keyboard, changed up finish and fit and new buttons. It has glossy black face with matte gray sides and rounded corners. The lightly textured surface in diamond pattern at the back reminds of Argyll sweaters and socks. The Transform Ultra measures 0.55 inch thick, 4.6 inches high, 2.4 inches wide and weighs 4.9 ounces.
The Samsung Transform Ultra features a 3.5 inch HVGA screen, which is small for typing and reading Websites, but boasts of a 480 x 320 pixel resolution with colorful, bright screen. It also boasts of 16 million colors. It is also equipped with a Swype virtual keyboard. You will see five different home screens, all of which can be customized as per your liking with central home screen already prepopulated by Google Search Bar. Underneath the screen, there are four physical buttons, which open Google search query, menu, go back and go home. The extras on four-row keyboard are symbols buttons and separate emoticons, four directional buttons to aid in navigation and speakerphone button.
The micro USB port is located at the bottom of Samsung Transform Ultra, while the camera shutter is on the right. The 3.5mm headphone jack with power button is situated on the top of the smartphone, while the volume rocker on the left. At the back, you will find a three-megapixel camera with flash and front facing camera above the display. Under the back cover, there is a microSD memory card slot with 2GB card already installed, and can hold up to 32GB total memory. The Mobile ID is designed to be the main draw of Transform Ultra, but even without it, you get a reassuringly usual Android smartphone.
In Samsung Transform Ultra, there is room for multiple phone numbers, notes, email addresses, IM handles, websites and more. You will also find sorting options and capability to link inboxes for Google, Microsoft Exchange and Web mail accounts. One of the largest wins of Google with Android is the capability to quickly access Google services such as YouTube, Books, Talk, Gmail, Places, Google Search, Navigation, Latitude and Maps. You will find personal organizer tools and applications, including calculator, calendar, clock with alarm clock, file tree, voice dialer and shortcuts to voice mail and voice search.
Basic features on Samsung Transform Ultra include Android music player and connectivity options like GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The 3-megapixel camera at the back offers settings for 4x zoom, color effect, white balance, picture size, flash mode, exposure, locations and focus mode. The front facing VGA camera is designed for conference calling and self portraits. The video quality is on the par with other high end smartphone cameras.
Standard features on Samsung Transform Ultra include 2G Network: CDMA 800 / 1900 / 850; 3G Network: CDMA2000 1xEV-DO; 3.5 inch TFT capacitive touchscreen that boasts 16 million colors and 320 x 480 pixels; QWERTY keyboard; Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate; Proximity sensor for auto turn-off; Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones; Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall; 952 MB; microSD, up to 32GB, 2 GB included; 3G up to 3.1 Mbps; Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot; Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP; 3.15 megapixel camera with 2048×1536 pixels and LED flash; Geo-tagging; Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread); 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S2 MSM8655; SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS; GPS with A-GPS support; SNS integration; MP4/H.264/H.263 player.
The Samsung Transform Ultra also gets MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player; Digital compass; Image/video editor; Organizer; Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration; Document viewer; Adobe Flash support; Voice memo/dial; Predictive text input; and Bluetooth Profiles: Handsfree (HFP), Headset (HSP), Object Push (OPP), File Transfer (FTP), Serial Port (SPP), Generic Access (GAP), Human Interface Device (HID), Service Discovery Protocol (SDP), Advanced Audio Distribution (A2DP), Generic Audio/Video Distribution (GAVDP), Message Access Profile (MAP), Audio/Visual Remote Control Profile (AVRCP), Audio/Video Distribution Transport Protocol (AVDTP), Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol, Phone Book Access (PBAP) and Audio/Video Control Transport Protocol (AVCTP). The estimated battery life of Transform Ultra is 7 hours in talktime mode. Overall it is a great smartphone with features such as 1GHz processor and HVGA touchscreen.
