Samsung Juke Cell Phone Review - Messaging
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Robin Liss Published on November 05, 2007 Comment on this |
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Supported E-mail Services (0.0)
The Juke doesn't have an e-mail client.
Push E-mail (0.0)
N/A: doesn't have an e-mail client.
Multiple E-mail Accounts (0.0)
N/A: doesn't have an e-mail client.
HTML and Attachments (0.0)
N/A: doesn't have an e-mail client.
E-mail Customizations (0.0)
N/A: doesn't have an e-mail client.
Time to a New Message (0.0)
N/A: doesn't have an e-mail client.
E-mail Usability (0.0)
N/A: doesn't have an e-mail client.
Supported IM Services (0.0)
The Juke contains versions of AIM, Windows Live Messenger, and Yahoo! Messenger. Unfortunately, each message is charged to your account as an SMS text message. We don't see why this has to be this way, so we only award points if the IM services are billed as data transfers.
MMS Support (5.0)
MMS receives adequate support on the Juke. First of all, when creating text messages, you need to indicate whether you're making an SMS or MMS before you even start. They do share an inbox, however. You can create an MMS from the Messaging menu, the camera application, or the photo album. A fair integration, but we'd really like to see Verizon update its BREW interface to allow total integration of SMS and MMS messages.
SMS Smiley Face Interpretation (0.0)
The Juke does not support smiley faces.
SMS/MMS Ease of Use (7.0)
The Juke has quite a few options for editing text. Text is available in small, medium, and large. You can choose alignment (left, center, or right), and also style (bold, italic, underlined, or strikethrough). You can even choose the text and background color. Messages can be assigned a priority level, either high or normal, and you can include a call back number. Surprisingly deep functionality here.
Time to a New SMS Message (13.3)
This is an area where the Juke's spin-open design allows for some ridiculously fast scores. Though, on average, it takes about the same or longer for the Juke to fully swing open, once it's open about 30 degrees the home screen appears, allowing you to start navigating sooner than you'd normally be able to. Given this, we were able to get a new SMS dialogue open in an average of 0.752 seconds. As seen by the huge score, this is a very fast time. We were able to achieve it via the default shortcut of pressing up on the d-pad while in the home screen. Unless there are some drastic hardware advancements, we don't see this time being improved by a relatively significant margin.
| Cell Phone | Time (sec) | Score |
| Samsung Juke | 0.752 | 13.3 |
| LG Chocolate Vx8550 | 2.61 | 3.83 |
| Sony Ericsson W580i | 1.54 | 6.49 |
| Razr2 V9m | 2.66 | 3.76 |
| Samsung Blast | 1.35 | 7.41 |
| Apple iPhone | 2.62 | 3.82 |
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