Samsung Hightlight SGH T749

The Samsung Highlight is an interesting alternative to the Samsung Behold, and I think it will have more appeal for a younger audience looking for a cool phone without the advanced camera features and chunky design of the former phone. The youngers will like the slim, icy blue shell. The phone isn’t great at any one feature, but it is pretty good at almost all of them, with a friendly, capable music player and a Web browser that was better than most basic feature phones. The key for this phone will be if T-Mobile can offer it for a bargain basement price, which isn’t the case at launch. It needs to be affordable for teens and even tweens when it is $50, who will definitely be the target audience for this cool looking, though underpowered, little tablet phone. Release: July 2009. Price: $150.

Pros: Small, cute and colorful touchscreen phone. Screen and interface were touch friendly and very responsive.

Cons: TouchWiz interface seems cluttered. Phone is a jack of all trades, master of none. Web browser and multimedia features are adequate, but not impressive.

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