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Samsung Memoir Review
Performance:
We had some terrible issues with call quality on our first unit, but T-Mobile sent us another and it was noticeably better. It is still not a strong point of the Memoir however, with callers rating us at 7/10. They complained that we sounded a bit nasally, and on our end they sounded distant. Volume and clarity was good, the issues lay mostly in the sound quality.
Battery life is rated at a slightly above average 5.5 hours of talk time. We did manage to fully drain the battery through the course of a couple of days with mostly picture taking, combined with light web browsing and one phone call. While not bad, battery life could be better.
Conclusion:
The Memoir is an admirable cameraphone that has a lot of other highs. While the phone performance could have been better, it was acceptable given the otherwise strong feature set. We like to see Samsung bringing a headlining product to the US not too long after its international debut, and hope that the Memoir will sell well and help start a trend. For those looking to replace their point and shoot the Memoir definitely deserves a long look. While it may not be able to match the SD790’s of the world it can sure hang with the Coolpix.
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Samsung Memoir Review
Published on: 16 March, 2009 by PhoneArena Team
We had some terrible issues with call quality on our first unit, but T-Mobile sent us another and it was noticeably better. It is still not a strong point of the Memoir however, with callers rating us at 7/10. They complained that we sounded a bit nasally, and on our end they sounded distant. Volume and clarity was good, the issues lay mostly in the sound quality.
Battery life is rated at a slightly above average 5.5 hours of talk time. We did manage to fully drain the battery through the course of a couple of days with mostly picture taking, combined with light web browsing and one phone call. While not bad, battery life could be better.
Conclusion:
The Memoir is an admirable cameraphone that has a lot of other highs. While the phone performance could have been better, it was acceptable given the otherwise strong feature set. We like to see Samsung bringing a headlining product to the US not too long after its international debut, and hope that the Memoir will sell well and help start a trend. For those looking to replace their point and shoot the Memoir definitely deserves a long look. While it may not be able to match the SD790’s of the world it can sure hang with the Coolpix.
Pros
- Best cameraphone the States has ever seen
- Crisper images and Xenon flash improves on the Pixon
- Good size and design
Cons
- Poor phone performance
- TouchWiz is only so-so when it comes to functionality
- Still not a solid nighttime camera
PA rating 
- Excellent
- out of 10
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