Samsung Galaxy Indulge for MetroPCS

The first 4G LTE smartphone in US, here is Samsung Galaxy Indulge for MetroPCS. Aside its 4G LTE supports, Indulge is also equipped with Android Froyo OS, 1GHz processor, 3.15 megapixels camera and many more. Given below is the review and detail specification of the phone.

Samsung Galaxy Indulge appears as a full touch screen phone with a side-slider landscape QWERTY keyboard. It is made out of glossy black plastic with rounded edges measuring 132 x 61 x 15 mm and weighing 152 grams. The display on the front side features 3.5 inches capacitive touchscreen with 16M colors support. Below the screen there are four physical keys represent Menu, Home, Back, and Search function. Exploring around its side, there are volume rocker keys, power or screen lock key, 3.5mm headset jack, microUSB port and camera shutter. The back side is resided by camera lens and speakerphone. Slide the phone to the right to reveal its landscape full QWERTY keyboard arranged in four rows.

Samsung Galaxy Indulge runs on Android OS, v2.2 (Froyo) with TouchWiz user interface. The interface comes with seven different pages of Home screens that can be customized as well by adding or removing widgets. On the bottom of each Home screen, there are four shortcuts to give direct access to Phone, Contacts, Messaging and Applications. The main menu default view is in grid format, but you may change it onto list view. Under the hood, Indulge is powered by 1 GHz Hummingbird processor. Decent enough to bring up smooth performance of the smartphone.

Galaxy Indulge is a CDMA smartphone and already supports MetroPCS’s 4G LTE network. For data connectivity, Indulge is able to hit CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev. A up to 3.1 Mbps and LTE up to 12 Mbps data network. Other connectivity includes Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth, microUSB connection, and GPS navigation system with A-GPS support.

Samsung Galaxy Indulge

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For the camera, Samsung Galaxy Indulge comes with 3.15 megapixels camera with autofocus. Outdoor images qualities are still average with lacks of fine detail and color accuracy. Meanwhile, indoor images qualities are poorer either. The camera can also record video on 720 x 480 pixels resolution at 30 fps. To store data, Galaxy Indulge provides external memory up to 32 GB via microSD card along with its internal memory.

For multimedia features, there is stock Android media player for playing music and video. The music player interface shows songs, playlists, albums, artists, and genres and manages to play music in MP3/WAV/eAAC+ formats. The video player is able to play up to up to 1280 x 720 pixels resolution video including video in format of MP4, H.264, DivX, and XviD.

Messaging features available are SMS, MMS, IM, Email, Push Email, and RSS. Email services manage to handle POP3 and IMAP accounts as well as Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo!, and Windows Live Hotmail. Stay in touch with your friends, there is SNS integration applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. Other features include pre-loaded Google service applications, Organizer, Document viewer, Voice memo, Voice dial, Accelerometer, and Java MIDP emulator. Lastly, Samsung Galaxy Indulge is powered by Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh that is rated up to 3 hours of talk time or up to 300 hours of standby time.