Samsung SCH-i760

The new Samsung SCH-i760 from Verizon is a Pocket PC phone with both a built in keyboard and a number pad. It includes Wi-Fi and the 3G standard EV-DO.

The device is much more appealing visually in person than the photos show, and the feel in terms of build quality is excellent. I thought that the numeric keypad would turn out to be a useless addition, but it's not. The dial or end keys are a bit hard to press, but that can be dealt with.

The box contains a very basic set of accessories the i760 itself, standard and extended batteries, USB cable, and a charger. The standard battery is 1040 mAh, and despite being a full 1500 mAh the extended battery really isn't much thicker. It is could very easily see using just the extended battery without too noticeable of loss in form-factor and weight.

Performance The i760's performance was generally good. It's a little slow to switch from landscape to portrait sometimes, but it's always come around. I found the default 5 second timeout for the keyboard back light far too short, but that can be tweaked.

EV-DO data was very snappy never less than 480 K-bites, and I experienced tests running up to 960 on a reasonably unloaded tower.