Samsung Jet

Navigating around the phone using the touch screen was a decent enough experience without any major problems encountered.

The button residing in the middle underneath the screen acts as a return key to the last screen and that's about it. It's an odd setup and one that took some getting used to, where frequently we pressed the return key for the menu time and time again. The actual menu buttons for the various applications were at the base of the touch screen's window, which cuts down on the available room that application has to display its wares.

Running the handset is Samsung's own proprietary operating system which has never been named before, unlike the Wave with its new Samsung Bada OS. On top of this unnamed platform is the TouchWiz user interface, with a slightly modified theme to accommodate the smaller screen size. The INQ first saw 2.0 of TouchWiz on the Samsung Jet mobile last year, where ‘2.0 plus' has now been incorporated into this new handset and sits somewhere in between the Jet's UI and the Samsung Wave with its version 3 of the user interface.

The largest noticeable difference between the overlays on the operating systems is that the widget bar isn't down the left hand side of the three customisable home screens anymore. Instead there's just a widget activation button on the home screen that produces the housing area for all the widgets, which pops up from the bottom of the screen. There's a decent array of Java based widgets for a fairly budgeted phone residing here