Tata docomo, a CDMA and GSM mobile service provider in india, for their GSM customers, from andhra pradesh circle, it is offering mobile bundle offer as tata docomo's REX offer. Under this offer, tata docomo's GSM customers can choose any handset from samsung REX range, and they will get Double data on all recharges starting at Rs. 55.
The Samsung REX series phones are based on the same design language as that of the Samsung Galaxy SIII, Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy S Duos and the recently launched Galaxy Grand.
Display
The REX have capacitive HVGA display. The touch response was good.
Software/Interface
The REX runs Samsung's proprietary operating system which supports Java apps. It's more like an evolution of the software found on the company's popular Corby or Star feature phone range. If you compare it to Samsung's homegrown Bada platform, you'd feel that it takes a few steps backward. Java apps don't support multitasking, so you can't run third party apps in the background.The overall visual language of the OS is based on Samsung's Touchwiz UI skin, which has also been deployed on its Android phones.
The phone features up to 7 home screens that can be populated with app shortcuts and widgets. The phone offers widgets for Twitter, Weather, Search and other utilities.
There's a notification tray as well with toggles for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Flight Mode, Sound settings and active SIM settings.
Samsung has added apps like Twitter, Facebook, Exchange sync, IM clients for Yahoo,Google Talk and Facebook Messenger,and some media apps, in addition to its ChatOn messaging app. Samsung claims that the phone supports push mail for Google and Exchange but we were not able to configure our Exchange account or our Gmail account via the Exchange app, receiving sync failure errors each time we tried. The ChatOn app is also rendered useless as it doesn't run in the background, which means if someone sends you a message, you'll only be able to view it once you open the app, and of course you won't get a notification. The phone features regular productivity apps, a mobile prayer app and games including Brain Challenge and Wonder Zoo. Samsung is also offering some content services including My Movies, music and live TV services, which are web based services.
The messaging app supports threaded messages but it's difficult to see which thread has a new message as there's no marking to indicate that. Email is also integrated with the messaging app.
Samsung has also added an FM tuner and FM recording functionality. Interestingly, it's also possible to take screenshots by pressing the power and home buttons together.
A major annoyance with some third party Java apps is that they haven't been made for touch screen, so you need to use additional on-screen controls for navigating through them.
Overall, Samsung has tried to 'smart-ify' the phone with messaging and social apps, widgets, lock screen shortcuts and even a notification tray, but without multitasking (which is only available for the native music player or FM radio app) we can't call the phone a smartphone.
The Samsung REX series phones are based on the same design language as that of the Samsung Galaxy SIII, Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy S Duos and the recently launched Galaxy Grand.
Display
The REX have capacitive HVGA display. The touch response was good.
Software/Interface
The REX runs Samsung's proprietary operating system which supports Java apps. It's more like an evolution of the software found on the company's popular Corby or Star feature phone range. If you compare it to Samsung's homegrown Bada platform, you'd feel that it takes a few steps backward. Java apps don't support multitasking, so you can't run third party apps in the background.The overall visual language of the OS is based on Samsung's Touchwiz UI skin, which has also been deployed on its Android phones.
The phone features up to 7 home screens that can be populated with app shortcuts and widgets. The phone offers widgets for Twitter, Weather, Search and other utilities.
There's a notification tray as well with toggles for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Flight Mode, Sound settings and active SIM settings.
Samsung has added apps like Twitter, Facebook, Exchange sync, IM clients for Yahoo,Google Talk and Facebook Messenger,and some media apps, in addition to its ChatOn messaging app. Samsung claims that the phone supports push mail for Google and Exchange but we were not able to configure our Exchange account or our Gmail account via the Exchange app, receiving sync failure errors each time we tried. The ChatOn app is also rendered useless as it doesn't run in the background, which means if someone sends you a message, you'll only be able to view it once you open the app, and of course you won't get a notification. The phone features regular productivity apps, a mobile prayer app and games including Brain Challenge and Wonder Zoo. Samsung is also offering some content services including My Movies, music and live TV services, which are web based services.
The messaging app supports threaded messages but it's difficult to see which thread has a new message as there's no marking to indicate that. Email is also integrated with the messaging app.
Samsung has also added an FM tuner and FM recording functionality. Interestingly, it's also possible to take screenshots by pressing the power and home buttons together.
A major annoyance with some third party Java apps is that they haven't been made for touch screen, so you need to use additional on-screen controls for navigating through them.
Overall, Samsung has tried to 'smart-ify' the phone with messaging and social apps, widgets, lock screen shortcuts and even a notification tray, but without multitasking (which is only available for the native music player or FM radio app) we can't call the phone a smartphone.
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