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Review: Samsung Sunburst

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The Samsung Sunburst covers the most basic messaging features with almost no frills. There is a simple SMS app, but it can't display messages in a threaded, conversational style. You can swipe from one message to the next, but you can't see them all in a single column. MMS messaging gave me trouble. My photos would often fail to appear on the Sunburst. Sometimes the message would indicate I had a video attachment, when it was really a picture, and the message would be blank. Sometimes nothing came through at all.

The Sunburst gets a simple IM app for instant messaging fans using AIM, Yahoo or MSN Messenger. It was very basic, but it got the job done and my chats went through without a hitch. AT&T's Mobile Email app is available, but email is a $5 per month subscription service, and that doesn't include data charges if you don't have a data plan. This is a rip-off, especially for the pared down email app that AT&T provides.

For social networking, the Sunburst includes a few widgets in the TouchWIZ drawer, but these are all just shortcuts to mobile Web sites. The only app onboard for messaging is the Social Net app. Social Net is fine if you want to read status updates and post your own messages to Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, but it can't handle any functions more advanced than that. No uploading photos or commenting on posts from Social Net, for instance.

 

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