[Samsung Infuse 4G] The Jack of Clubs:
well, i think this and the atrix really fight for the title of best att branded phone. the phone is fast and extremely responsive. the screen is half an inch smaller than my dell streak but theres alot less bezel and its a really thin and light device making it great for pocketing or holding for extended periods. on the subject of the screen, the super amoled plus display is amazing in low indoor light being that it only backlights the colored pixels on the screen rather than a traditional lcd that backlights the whole screen so blacks appear as a litup dark grey. this gives it really high contrast and colors really pop. you can really see this if you hold up another phone, like an iphone, next to the infuse. to be honest, this may impress you but dont expect it to blow you away on first use.

at first hold it doesnt feel like a crappy cheap device, its only until you actually take off the back that you see that some of the materials used arent as high quality as you expect. though the design is really nice, and i like the texture on the back that isnt a fingerprint magnet and takes away from the fact that its very thin plastic. if id have to say, the materials used are to make the phone as thin as possible, even thinner than the iphone 4 which apple still claims is "the thinnest smartphone" available to buy to date.

the battery is quite large, 1750mah, which is one of the largest ive seen in a phone, second to the atrix with its 1930mah. ive found it will get me by for a week with the screen off, and a few hours with heavy usage on the screen on. it seems the screen takes up a surprising amount of the battery, every time i check battery usage, the display will say something around 85%.

the touchwiz interface seems to be a bit of a downer on the phone. while the icons and colors arent that bad, they seem like an unnecessary change to the stock google android look. im not a fan of the touchwiz launcher and the way it encapsulates the icons to look like an iphone (frankly). but with it being android, all i have to do to change that is install another launcher like launcher pro. stock, the phone does come with some maybe unwanted att bloatware like yellow pages and att navigator. it does come with two apps i think are useful like the myatt app that will help you keep track of your usage, and att hotspots which will log you in if you are in a place att provides free wifi. it does also come with one hidden background app called tethermanager, which is atts way of blocking you from natively tethering this phone if you are not paying for a data plan that allows for tethering. this can be removed if you are rooted. not that i would go around recommending people to break att's terms of usage. this is the first android device from att that does not have the "unknown sources" option removed from settings. this allows you to install apps using their apk rather than just from the market. i believe this was only because the amazon marketplace installs apps this way since only google allows the android market to install apps natively.

the camera is pretty good. it comes with an 8mp 720p rear camera and 1.3mp front camera and takes decent pictures in high and low light. i found an anti-shake feature in the softwares menu which really helps improve taking care of any motion streaking in the pictures. you cant take video from the front facing camera, im not really sure why this is, but its something i kind of wish was there. the phone also includes an hdmi adapter so you can mirror you phones display on the big screen or watch a video or share some pictures together. this is actually a great advantage as the phone also includes native divx playback.

the kindest thing i can say towards att's 4g network is... its unfinished. ive gone to spots where the network is really bad and really good. luckily im in an area where ive found atts network to be the best for me. im getting around 10mbits down, but ive heard of some people getting up to 14mbit. while you should get hspa+ in all areas you used to get 3g, dont always expect to get 4g speeds. the network has not been upgraded in all places and can get really bogged down.

this phone isnt the phone for everyone, there are smaller, more durable, and cheaper phones. if i where to point any positives out about this phone they would be that it has a large, high contrast screen, the camera takes good photos, it includes an hdmi adapter, and it has great performance. some negatives would be the screen is only wvga, not qhd as you may be expecting on newer devices, the phone is a bit plasticy and for the price you may wish every now and then the material quality was better, and the 4g in the name really suggests it will be a better phone on the network when really the network has a while before its up to the standard youll be expecting.

i hope ive been useful and provided enough information to help you make a useful review. let me know how it goes.