By Oo Gin Lee

Wow factor: Super bright LED display

WITH an 800 MHz processor, the Samsung Jet is one speedy smartphone. It is pretty fast in loading webpages and there is even a video player that lets you rewind and fast forward YouTube videos with just a single press on the touchscreen.

The jet-black phone runs on Samsung's Operating System and has a new browser that lets you open up to five windows at the same time.

Just thumb through the windows on the 3.1-inch touchscreen, which responded quickly to my touch.

The screen offers a magnificent 16 million colours with its active matrix organic LED display - a new display technology that does not require a backlight, making thinner designs possible. The images are bright and full of life.

You can have three different main displays, each with its own background picture and application widgets.

So you can create one display for, say, accessing all your favourite news sites, another just for Facebook and YouTube and a third filled with your favourite games.

Again, you can simply thumb your fingers to hop to the different displays. Dressing up these displays with widgets is easy: Just launch the widget menu and drag-and-drop them to the screen you want.

Other cool features include a 5-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3.6 Mbps mobile Internet access and an excellent 30 fps (frames per second) video recording.

My gripe, however, is that I found it really tough to get onto the mobile Internet. It was easy connecting via Wi-Fi but when I was out and about and tried to hook up online using 3G, the effort drove me nuts.

Needless to say, I never got round to it until I called the product manager from Samsung.

This story was first published in The Straits Times, Digital Life.

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