Pressing the latter will open onscreen shortcuts for the phone dialer, the messaging menu, the Web browser, the music player, and the games menu. Other exterior controls consist of a display-locking key and a camera shutter on the right spine, and a volume rocker and a shortcut control on the right spine. Though they're flat with the surface of the phone, they remain spacious and tactile. Sure, you can move the widgets around at will, but you can't create new widgets beyond the ones that come on the phone.īelow the display are three physical controls: the Talk, End/power, and Clear keys. Though we like the collapsible navigation bar and its shortcut widgets, we wish it offered more customization. As we've said before, Touch Wiz has its good points and its bad points. The Impression offers Samsung's TouchWiz interface, which we've seen on several of the company's phones over the past few months. Other display options you can adjust include the brightness, font type, and the backlight time. And thanks to the "power search" feature, you can thumb through a long list of contacts using the first letter of each entry. The icon-based menu interface is intuitive and easy to use we had no issues finding what we wanted in the submenus. You can also use the standard 10-button keypad to tap out text messages, but we're not sure why you'd want to. The interface for the phone dialer features large numbers and a shortcut for the contacts menu. On the bottom of the display are three touch controls for the phone dialer, the contacts menu, and the main menu. You can change the calibration and the intensity of the feedback.
The display is responsive and we welcome the tactile feedback. At 3.25 inches, it's just over the minimum size that we require from a touch-screen phone, but it offers plenty of room for most functions. As an active-matrix organic light-emitting diode display, it is a sight to behold with its brilliant colors, bright graphics, and sharp animations. The Impression's touch screen is undoubtedly the highlight. The dark blue color scheme almost looks black, and we like the curved edges together they give the phone an eye-catching appeal. It's also a bit bigger (4.48 inches long by 2.28 inches wide by 0.61 inch deep) and heavier (5.3 ounces), but the Impression has a sturdy, ergonomic feel in the hand. The display is larger and more vibrant and the controls are more comfortable. But when compared with the Xenon, the Impression makes a better go at it. We were glad it wasn't another recycled design of the Samsung Rant. It has a similar shape and the keyboard feels about the same. From the outside, the Samsung Impression resembles the LG Xenon.
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