With a pleasing blend of style and functionality, the Samsung U900 Soul manages to live up to it’s name. Not many phones in the market blend aesthetics and good specifications so well. It has a touchpad as well as a regular tactile number pad for dialing and text input.

Samsung u900

The U900 has a firm slider and a 2.2 inch screen with 16 million color support. This does justice to the amazing pictures captured by the 5 Mega pixel camera. The captured videos are surprisingly clear and the camera tackles the problems of shakes and jerks pretty well. It is blessed with a powerful flash as well as auto focus and can capture at resolutions of up to 2592 x 1944 pixels.

The audio recorded during the video is a bit of a let down but this is covered up by all the plus points that the phone’s camera has got going for it. The keypad gets locked every time the slider is closed, so make sure you don’t slide it down while in middle of some important task. It has a cool touch pad in place if a regular D-Pad that allows for interactive touch control. The color of this interface can be changed to suit your taste. It has an FM-Radio with RDS, EDGE, 3G, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, but no W-LAN, sadly.

The Slider is firm and doesn’t make the silly clicking sound that most phones have. The touchpad is great and so is the number pad. Shooting videos in landscape mode may prove to be little inconvenient.

The U900 can satisfy the needs of cell phone enthusiasts who want more than a few goodies in a multimedia phone, coupled with sleek looks. A great buy at $400.