Here is a great review of Samsung Galaxy Stratosphere II a Android Smartphone with Side-Qwerty Keyboard.
Hardware
I would say that, generally, the main
reason for purchasing the Stratosphere II is it’s slide-out keyboard.
However, the keyboard may be disappointing to those of us that are used
to having really good keyboards on different phones. I ended up with the
Stratosphere II after my Droid 3 went dead, and let me tell you, I was
very displeased with the new keyboard. I loved the keyboard on
the Droid 3. I used it to type almost everything because it was so much
faster than using the soft keyboard. With the Stratosphere II’s
keyboard, I found myself often hitting the wrong button, finding periods
and contractions not inserted, and just hitting the backspace button
way too much. I do not use the keyboard with this phone at all anymore.
Most of the other specs are average. I was impressed with the 1.2
GHz dual core processor, with 1 GB of RAM. Also, it has NFC, which
surprised me. However, then you see the 233 PPI screen and 5 MP
rear-facing camera. These aren’t huge downfalls, but I definitely
wouldn’t mind having something a little better.
Software
This phone comes running Android
4.0.4, and that is probably going to stay that way. That is fine,
because it works really well. In fact, the way this phone runs really
saves it from the hardware downfalls. It uses the processor speed well
and I have really never experienced any freezes or app crashes. It may
not look the best while it is performing tasks because of the low pixel
density, but it will perform without error most of the time.
Conclusion
Not a bad phone to get if you don’t want to spend any money, but don’t get it for the keyboard.
Thanks to Shane Ritz for this useful Review of his Smartphone.
