Presumably aimed at tweens who want one of those cool all-touch devices without paining their parents with a data plan, the Samsung Highlight features an admittedly cute design and a teeny touchscreen.
The touchscreen is an oddly-sized 1.61- x 2.64-inch capacitive display, though the handset does have a few hardware buttons on the bottom and sides. It’s got a 3MP camera with video recording that apparently does a passable but not thrilling job, a microSD slot (under the battery, grah) and Samsung’s TouchWiz UI that brings a few widgets (Facebook, weather) to the party. It comes in two colours, “Fire” and “Ice,” though “Ice” is black for some reason (dangerous!). It’ll be available sometime in July for $US150 on T-Mobile. [T-Mobile, image from MobileCrunch]
Thomas Hambleton
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 6:28 PMAm I the only person who doesn’t mind the microSD card being under the battery? The very same microSD card is sitting in my n95 since the day I got it two years ago, and has never been removed.
Munfis
Friday, July 17, 2009 at 1:23 AM@ Thomas, Yeah, i agree. I have a n95 too, and iv only ever once taken the microSD out to get data off the phone when i misplaced the cord. Otherwise, not an issue at all. This phone looks to be a good idea for a 14 year old who is constantly bugging everybody in earshot that they want a “cool phone like everybody else”.