Samsung SCH-U820 Reality

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 6 expert reviews

Excellent:

0
Good:

3
Average:

1
Bad:

2

Pros:

Attractive design. Comfortable, slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Quality music and video playback.
Very good GPS performance. Camera takes good photos.
The Samsung Reality has an intuitive display, three home screens, a 3.5mm headset jack, a nice keyboard, and features that include a 3.2-megapixel camera, GPS, and stereo Bluetooth.

Cons:

Below-average call quality. Mandatory data plan. Not-quite-real Web browser.
You won’t like the web browser if you do a lot of web surfing on your phone.

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Last revision on August 16, 2011

Reviewers Liked

Attractive design. Comfortable, slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Quality music and video playback
Very good GPS performance. Camera takes good photos
The Samsung Reality has an intuitive display, three home screens, a 3.5mm headset jack, a nice keyboard, and features that include a 3.2-megapixel camera, GPS, and stereo Bluetooth

Reviewers Didn't Like

Below-average call quality. Mandatory data plan. Not-quite-real Web browser
You won’t like the web browser if you do a lot of web surfing on your phone
The Samsung Reality isn't quite as good as the Samsung Rogue, has almost the same design and features, and is also on Verizon Wireless. We also wished the photo quality was better

Expert reviews and ratings

It seems Verizon have finally realized that their cheap, sliding QWERTY keyboard phones, designed to appeal to the never ending masses of text fanatics out there, are starting to look and feel too much alike. As such, they are introducing the Samsung...

By BrightHub on February 25, 2011

The Samsung Reality combines the functionality of a full QWERTY landscape keyboard with a full, large touch display on Verizon Wireless. This horizontal slider makes sure you get the interactive experience of a touchscreen without losing the usability...

By LetsTalk on May 31, 2010

The Samsung Reality is a powerful phone with plenty of smartphone-like features, but Verizon has better options for most of the things you'd use it...

By PC Mag on May 21, 2010

The Samsung Reality is not a clear replacement for the Samsung Rogue since each phone has slightly different strengths. As a new mid-tier feature phone with 3G and all of Verizon services, the Samsung Reality competes very well against rivals like...

By MobileTechReview on May 04, 2010

On its own, the Samsung Reality is a great midrange multimedia phone, but it doesn't hold a candle to the Rogue, which has a better design and better...

By cnet on April 28, 2010

So the phone with what may well be the highest hopes in a long time (or at least since the Nexus One landed and destroyed our concept of objectivity by forcing an inevitable and wholly one-sided comparison between it and EVERY OTHER PHONE) has just...

By MobileWhack on April 28, 2010

Phone Scoop presents a video tour of the Samsung Reality, a touch-based messaging phone for the Verizon Wireless network. It is a solid, if uninspiring, little device that is probably the best TouchWiz phone fielded by Samsung yet. The reason we say...

By Phone Scoop on May 13, 2010

The Samsung Reality is a messaging phone and therefore performs best in that capacity. The keyboard works great and social networking integration is always a winner. Though I had problems with the web browser and would have preferred a better...

By PhoneDog on May 03, 2010