First Look: Samsung Galaxy S2 for Sprint
We've got ourselves a recycled box, made from 100 recyclable material, which is always kind of nice. Let's go ahead and open this sucker up and see what we're going to have living inside of this recycled box. We've got paperwork for getting started, as well as a recycle bag that Sprint will use to recycle your old cell phone and its old battery when you're done with them. That's a nice touch.
But the real star of the show here is the Windows Phone 8 device itself. It looks eerily familiar to a Samsung Galaxy S2, which doesn't surprise us given that it's essentially the same phone. We'll push it off the side for just a second and see what else we're going to have living inside of this recycled box. And there it is - a 4.8 inch screen with a 1280 by 720 pixel resolution, that's a 306 PPI. Windows Phone 8 at launch was powered by a 1.4 gigahertz Qualcomm dual core processor, but this particular device has a single gigabyte of RAM and 16 gigs of storage.
But you can expand that with a Micro SD card, which I'm going to assume lives somewhere under the back here. We'll take a look at that in just a second. This phone also comes equipped with an 8 megapixel camera, which is pretty decent. And on the front, we've got a 1.9 megapixel shooter that's sure to disappoint anyone looking for high-quality selfies. The device also features Bluetooth 4.0 and a 2000 milliamp hour battery.
Coming around, we can see the physical Windows home button, as well as capacitive search and back buttons. We've also got a volume rocker up and down, as well as your power and lock button and your obligatory camera button, which I really like having a dedicated camera button for. On the bottom of the phone, we've got a 3.5 millimeter headset Jack and a noise canceling microphone. And on the side, we've got a phone with no headset jack - it looks like they just didn't see the point.
Let's go ahead and see if we can get this back off and see if that is where uh your expandable storage is going to be. This device is LTE capable, which means you'll have access to Sprint's burgeoning LTE network when it launches. And with that, I'm excited to take a look at how the phone performs in real-world usage.
We've got the phone all booted up here and ready to go, and familiar modern UI looks. So you've got live tiles, obviously you can resize them to any size you want, no matter what that is. I will say I forgot how easy to use Windows Phone 8 was - my father had never used a smartphone before and he took to it really quickly. It was very intuitive for him to learn, and kind of fun to watch.
Let's slide it over and take a look at all the apps. Some Samsung-specific things, but for the most part, it's stock Windows phone and some Sprint things in here as well. This device does have NFC support, so you can do NFC-like beam things - for instance, if we go into photos and scroll on over, you'll see there's a TV and you could send things just as you would with NFC.
And let's take a look at the screen itself. It does 720p, but it looks really really nice. The Windows Phone tiles I think look beautiful on Samsung screens - they did a really nice job here. I'm excited to take a look at how it performs in real-world usage. We are stuck with um the Old Faithful 3G here in Southern California at least in Orange County for the time being, that photo right there by the way every Windows phone I've had for the life of me I thought I took a picture of where I was parked in a parking lot so I realized that was just a default picture that got shipped on a Windows phone.
I kept seeing it on other people's phones like why do you have my picture of where I parked my car because I have a really bad sense of direction - uh but that's just me. Does anything you guys want to see, be sure to let us know um we'll leave in the comments down below this has been a first look at the Samsung Galaxy S2 for Sprint what's up everyone it's Ashley thanks so much for watching that most recent video If you enjoyed it please click on the word subscribe right underneath me to get tons of more Tech videos from us here at techno Buffalo we've got unboxings comparisons reviews Recaps and everything else you can think of here on the channel if you're in the mood for more technology just click right over here to check out some of our most recent videos see you next time.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up everyone John Rich from techno Buffalo here the unboxing of this guy the Samsung achieve S Neo I keep thinking I should be dodging bullets in slow motion uh it is the latest Windows 8 phone from Sprint and Samsung let's go ahead and open it up see how it looks so here is the box for the Samsung achieve as Neo it tells you everything I gotta know but let's go through and I will share all that information with you here's a picture of the phone it's telling you right on the box you've got a hike with Jammy which is coincidentally a pretty awesome name uh nothing else that exciting here on the box and his Sprint's box which is made from 100 recyclable material which is always kind of nice let's go ahead and open this sucker up and there it is looking eerily familiar to a Samsung Galaxy S2 push it off the side for just a quick second see what else we're going to have living inside of this recycled box we've got paperwork for getting started also Sprint always includes a recycle bag which is really nice you have to throw away all your old cell phones and their old batteries uh Sprints will recycle them for you uh we also have a charge and sync cable it's the sort of generic micro USB variety and a Samsung wall warts but that is not why you are here you are here to check out some Windows Phone 8 action let's power this guy on and I'll run through everything this phone has it looks very nice it is a 4.8 inch screen which is pretty nice size as far as Windows phones usually go with a 1280 by 720 pixel resolution that's a 306 PPI now Windows Phone 8 at launch being powered by a 1.4 gigahertz Qualcomm dual core processor it's got a single gigabyte of RAM and 16 gigs of storage but you can expand that with a Micro SD card which I'm going to assume live somewhere under the back here we'll take a look at that in just a second we also have an 8 megapixel camera which is pretty decent we got a 1.9 megapixel shooter right there on the front 802.11 a b g n Bluetooth 4.0 a 2000 milliamp hour battery and that is the gist of the phone uh coming around we've got that physical Windows home button we've got capacitive search and back buttons we've got volume rocker up and down we've got your power and lock button and your obligatory camera button which I really like having a dedicated camera button 3.5 millimeter headset Jack noise canceling microphone phone there's your charge and sync Port let's go ahead and see if we can get this back off see if that is where uh your expandable storage is going to be and this is an LTE capable device on Sprint's um gearing up and uh becoming more ubiquitous LTE Network all right so we've got the phone all booted up here and ready to go and familiar modern UI look uh so you've got live tiles obviously you can resize them to any size you want no matter what that is I will say I forgot how easy to use Windows Phone 8 was I let my father use a Windows Phone 8 device uh he had never used really any smartphone before and he took to it really quickly it was very intuitive for him to learn it was kind of fun to watch um so just very very very easy to navigate I will slide it over and take a look at all the apps some Samsung specific things but for the most part uh it's stock Windows phone and some Sprint things in here as well this does have NFC support so you can do NFC like beam things uh for instance if we go into photos here and if we scroll on over you will see there's a TV and you could send things just as you would with NFC and you tap the back and click the picture here to send so nice they've got that here on board this is a 720p screen but it does look really really nice the Windows Phone tiles I think look beautiful on Samsung screens they did a really nice job here I'm excited to take a look at it see how it performs I'm even more excited to take a look at Sprint's LTE network I'll drive up to Los Angeles and take a look at it we are stuck with um the Old Faithful 3G here in Southern California at least in Orange County for the time being that photo right there by the way every Windows phone I've had for the life of me I thought I took a picture of where I was parked in a parking lot so I realized that was just a default picture that got shipped on a Windows phone I kept seeing it on other people's phones like why do you have my picture of where I parked my car because I have a really bad sense of direction uh but that's just me does anything you guys want to see be sure to let us know um we'll leave in the comments down below this has been a first look at the Samsung a TV s what's up everyone it's Ashley thanks so much for watching that most recent video If you enjoyed it please click on the word subscribe right underneath me to get tons of more Tech videos from us here at techno Buffalo we've got unboxings comparisons reviews Recaps and everything else you can think of here on the channel if you're in the mood for more technology just click right over here to check out some of our most recent videos see you next time humanswhat's up everyone John Rich from techno Buffalo here the unboxing of this guy the Samsung achieve S Neo I keep thinking I should be dodging bullets in slow motion uh it is the latest Windows 8 phone from Sprint and Samsung let's go ahead and open it up see how it looks so here is the box for the Samsung achieve as Neo it tells you everything I gotta know but let's go through and I will share all that information with you here's a picture of the phone it's telling you right on the box you've got a hike with Jammy which is coincidentally a pretty awesome name uh nothing else that exciting here on the box and his Sprint's box which is made from 100 recyclable material which is always kind of nice let's go ahead and open this sucker up and there it is looking eerily familiar to a Samsung Galaxy S2 push it off the side for just a quick second see what else we're going to have living inside of this recycled box we've got paperwork for getting started also Sprint always includes a recycle bag which is really nice you have to throw away all your old cell phones and their old batteries uh Sprints will recycle them for you uh we also have a charge and sync cable it's the sort of generic micro USB variety and a Samsung wall warts but that is not why you are here you are here to check out some Windows Phone 8 action let's power this guy on and I'll run through everything this phone has it looks very nice it is a 4.8 inch screen which is pretty nice size as far as Windows phones usually go with a 1280 by 720 pixel resolution that's a 306 PPI now Windows Phone 8 at launch being powered by a 1.4 gigahertz Qualcomm dual core processor it's got a single gigabyte of RAM and 16 gigs of storage but you can expand that with a Micro SD card which I'm going to assume live somewhere under the back here we'll take a look at that in just a second we also have an 8 megapixel camera which is pretty decent we got a 1.9 megapixel shooter right there on the front 802.11 a b g n Bluetooth 4.0 a 2000 milliamp hour battery and that is the gist of the phone uh coming around we've got that physical Windows home button we've got capacitive search and back buttons we've got volume rocker up and down we've got your power and lock button and your obligatory camera button which I really like having a dedicated camera button 3.5 millimeter headset Jack noise canceling microphone phone there's your charge and sync Port let's go ahead and see if we can get this back off see if that is where uh your expandable storage is going to be and this is an LTE capable device on Sprint's um gearing up and uh becoming more ubiquitous LTE Network all right so we've got the phone all booted up here and ready to go and familiar modern UI look uh so you've got live tiles obviously you can resize them to any size you want no matter what that is I will say I forgot how easy to use Windows Phone 8 was I let my father use a Windows Phone 8 device uh he had never used really any smartphone before and he took to it really quickly it was very intuitive for him to learn it was kind of fun to watch um so just very very very easy to navigate I will slide it over and take a look at all the apps some Samsung specific things but for the most part uh it's stock Windows phone and some Sprint things in here as well this does have NFC support so you can do NFC like beam things uh for instance if we go into photos here and if we scroll on over you will see there's a TV and you could send things just as you would with NFC and you tap the back and click the picture here to send so nice they've got that here on board this is a 720p screen but it does look really really nice the Windows Phone tiles I think look beautiful on Samsung screens they did a really nice job here I'm excited to take a look at it see how it performs I'm even more excited to take a look at Sprint's LTE network I'll drive up to Los Angeles and take a look at it we are stuck with um the Old Faithful 3G here in Southern California at least in Orange County for the time being that photo right there by the way every Windows phone I've had for the life of me I thought I took a picture of where I was parked in a parking lot so I realized that was just a default picture that got shipped on a Windows phone I kept seeing it on other people's phones like why do you have my picture of where I parked my car because I have a really bad sense of direction uh but that's just me does anything you guys want to see be sure to let us know um we'll leave in the comments down below this has been a first look at the Samsung a TV s what's up everyone it's Ashley thanks so much for watching that most recent video If you enjoyed it please click on the word subscribe right underneath me to get tons of more Tech videos from us here at techno Buffalo we've got unboxings comparisons reviews Recaps and everything else you can think of here on the channel if you're in the mood for more technology just click right over here to check out some of our most recent videos see you next time humans\n"
