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Samsung Alias 2 Cell Phone Review–Strange and Lacking

Samsung, give them credit, loves to push that old industrial design envelope by making strange new control designs for their products.  It’s only too bad that, most of the time, these industrial design features often wind up being little more than lipstick on a pig.  And today’s polished turd will be the Samsung Alias 2.

The Samsung Alias 2 is a convertible flip style cell phone that offers call timer, conference call ability, voice recorder, caller ID, Bluetooth connectivity, TTY compatibility, VZ Navigator, Chaperone parent/child, a sixteen gig microSD card slot, V CAST Music, Rhapsody, GPS, speakerphone, a phone book with capacity for a thousand names and numbers, mobile email, internet browser, a two megapixel digital camera, and a battery capable of generating five hours of talk time on one charge.

The first thing you’ll notice about this phone is its bizarre and thoroughly outlandish controls.  It will take quite a bit of getting used to to get this thing to work properly.  And the worst part is that, though the controls are spectacularly unique, there’s not a whole lot here for the keypad to actually control in the first place.
The Samsung Alias 2 is short on tools and long on weird.  The end result is a phone much less than you actually could get elsewhere.

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