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Isn’t it that you often have the impression that the world we live in is actually a realm of gadgets, where all manufacturers try their best to bring astonishing inventions on market, here and there wacky, if I may say so? But sometimes people need a basic phone, with no camera, no games, no blitz, no nothing. They need a phone that has absolutely no pretensions, a phone that doesn’t fall into the trap of having all sorts of flashy features or sporting a runway-worthy design. That’s why, the new Samsung Knack SCH-U310, available for Verizon Wireless customers, is designed to be easy to use, and it succeeds. Despite its name, the device doesn’t live up to it, not being that advanced when it comes to performance.



The Verizon Knack was released in the United States shortly after the M320 and M220 (coming from Sprint) and AT&T’s A237. Similar to these three North American Samsung devices, the Knack comes in a clamshell form factor and doesn’t bring anything spectacular as far as the design is concerned, except the fact that its microSD slot and its headset jack covers are colored in red and blue respectively.



However, the Knack has a nicely built design and provides the user with the greatest call quality and with the most unbelievable mixture of functional features, including voice dialing. Therefore, if you were looking for a basic phone for communication, then SCH-U310 might catch your eye.

Maybe the Samsung Knack is far from being a rare beauty, but the simplicity of its style is one of its greatest attributes. As far as the features are concerned, they include: a 1 inch external display, which is a little bit small, but it shows the information you need, including the time, the battery life, signal strength and numeric caller ID, with a resolution of 96x96 pixels, a 2.5mm headset jack, placed in the right spine, colored in blue, a 2.25 inch internal display with a resolution of 220x176 pixels and 65,000 colors, a navigation array which consists of two soft keys, a dedicated “911” key, a speakerphone button, Talk and End/Power controls, a Clear key and “ICE”, the “in case of emergency” button, that can be programmed by the user, a vibrate mode, text messaging, a calendar, an alarm clock, a calculator, a word clock, a stop watch, a tip calculator, a unit and currency converter and a speakerphone.



One of the most important disadvantages of the Samsung Knack is the lack of Bluetooth connectivity and of the Web browser. The phone offers a dual-band CDMA 1X connectivity (800/1900 Mhz).

Samsung Knack weighs 3.63 ounces (102 grams) and measures, when closed, 3.78 x 2.01 x 0.74 inches (96 x 51 x 19 mm). The handset’s battery is said to last up to 270 minutes (4.5 hours) in talk time mode or up to 336 hours in stand-by mode.

Whoever is interested in the Samsung Knack, can visit Verizon’s official website, where the device is offered for the price of $39.99, with a contract agreement for two years.

(Source pcmag.com)