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I've jotted a couple of thoughts and impressions after using it for a week.
THE BAD
The placement of the pen is on the worst possible spot for left handers. Because the pens location is on the bottom right of the phone. It forces the left handed to move the phone to expose the pen. For right handed the edge would be exposed so no movement is required. In fact even if the placement was on the top right it would still be awkward but not require the user to shift the phone.
The middle button, just not needed it only gets in the way and breaks continuity. The mix of hard buttons and capacitive is awkward. I would have wished they've gone with Google's design recommendations and used the soft keys vs the hard/capacitive.
Don't like touch wiz. I I tried it for a day and just hated it. So I threw on my favorite launcher and we good to go.
THE GOOD.
One of window mobiles greatest weakness was the NEED of a stylus without one using the platform was painful...some argue using one was also painful. However Samsung win here is they have gone from making the pen a necessity to an essential. While the here can forego the use of a pen and still get a great user experience the pen integration does change the dynamics of the phone. Samsung has deep integration with the pen. That have built in gestures to navigate, built in copy, crop, and paste. Samsung has also built a suit of apps that are optimized for the pen. All designed in making the user experience excellent.
Screen size and resolution speak for themselves the screen is crisp.
Device has one handed mode. What it does is makes a few key apps and the keyboard smaller and slanted to any side you wish. It makes accessing the phone with one hand possible.
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