Cnet reviews the T-Mobile Katalyst: “The T-Mobile Katalyst by Samsung doesn’t really look too different from other Samsung sliders we’ve seen. Measuring 2 inches tall by 4 inches wide by 0.7 inch thick, it has an understated gray-and-chrome design, with slightly blocky corners and a soft curve along its sides. The T-Mobile Katalyst weighs in at a relatively light 4.1 ounces, though it still has some heft when held in the hand. We can open the phone one-handed by pushing the bottom of the slider upward with our thumbs. There’s a slight bump underneath the screen that you can use as a thumb grip when sliding the T-Mobile Katalyst down. The sliding mechanism felt solid when opening and closing the phone, gliding smoothly up and down but still providing just enough resistance.The good: The T-Mobile Katalyst cell phone utilizes the HotSpot @Home service to make calls via Wi-Fi as well as regular GSM airwaves. It also has a 1.3-megapixel camera, a music player, and quad-band support. Call quality was excellent.
The bad: The T-Mobile Katalyst by Samsung has a slippery, flat keypad. It has also a dismal amount of built-in memory, and the microSD card slot is inconveniently located behind the battery.
The bottom line: Despite a few design quibbles, the T-Mobile Katalyst by Samsung is a great HotSpot @Home phone with above-par call quality.”
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I just got one of these phones this afternoon.
And I am returning it tomorrow.
What a useless waste of plastic.
Bluetooth on this phone is crippled. It will only support connections to handsfree and earpieces for talking. No synching with your computer, no moving contacts from an old phone, nothing.
The phone is almost a brick-it can do nothing. The menus are all fixed-you can’t change them at all.
It is a bad design. It uses a stupid proprietary plug for power and data. Why not use Micro-USB? it is used everywhere else???
And the microSD data card slot under the battery! what are they thinking!?. Sorry, this phone looks nice, but it is a better paperweight than a phone. The UMA wireless connectivity is cool, and works well, but there are other phones out there that use this too now, and more coming all the time.
I just got this phone a couple of hours ago, and i hate it, and i am returning it first thing in the morning. Piece of junk.