Samsung is not a new manufacturer for the messaging mobile phones. The AT&T had announced to launch some messaging phones at CTIA 2010 and the Samsung Sunburst was one of them. The Sunburst features 3-inches touch-screen display, virtual QWERTY keyboard, 2-megapixel camera, excellent messaging features, and Web browser; but does not support 3G. Despite its sunny name, it does not transude a feeling of joy and warmth. It looks like other Samsung touch-screen phones such as the Caliber. The Sunburst costs $59.99 with two-year AT&T contract. On the dark side, its touch-screen is slow to respond occasionally. Still, the Samsung Sunburst is the first cell phone to feature AT&T online cloud services including AT&T Address Book. 3-inch touch-screen of the Samsung Sunburst has 240×400 pixels QVGA resolution that supports 262,000 (18bit) colors. The touch-screen is resistive instead of being capacitive. So, it is slow than the touch-screen  [...]

The phone is made for basic functions and will do nothing else. It disappoints even in basic functions like camera and display. The display of the camera is a small two inch and the resolution is awfully low at just 160x120. But this phone is a basic device and you cannot use this phone for web browsing so there is not much to complain. However, a little bigger resolution would have been better. In the display, you can change brightness, backlighting time, dialing font size, screensavers, greetings and design schemes. Below the display are two soft buttons, talk, end buttons, back and dedicated speaker phone button. We liked the buttons of talk and end had words on them rather than the receiver symbol which commonly used. The buttons are also colored green and red. Along with these buttons there is a four way navigational button with an OK button in the center. The phone slides upwards to reveal a 12 key numeric keypad. Buttons both  [...]