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Review: Samsung Craft

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The Craft comes with a basic assortment of messaging options. You get a very simple text messaging app. It does not use the threaded, conversational style of message display that I prefer; it presents messages one at a time. You can send picture messages from the phone, but you have to choose MMS messaging in advance if you want to attach a picture, because there is no attachment option once you start writing a text message.

The phone also comes with the mail@metro email app, which looks nice but doesn't function very well. The inbox displays only the sender's name. It doesn't give you the subject message until you open the email, let alone a few words from the email itself. The app cannot display HTML email, either, which is a shame on a phone with such a robust data connection.

The email app also offers some bare-bones support for email contacts. You can see the names and addresses of contacts you've emailed recently, but not your entire online address book.

The phone can be inconsistent with scrolling, and this came out in the messaging features. On the main menu screen, dragging your finger down moves the text down, following your finger. On the email inbox screen, your finger controls a selector that you can drag down to highlight the message you want to read. On the message itself, your finger controls the scroll bar on the side. Move your finger down, the scroll bar moves down and the text moves up. It's all quite counterintuitive, and lazy design.

 
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