The Samsung Intensity II is a
2G mobile phone released for the
Verizon Wireless network on July 29, 2010. Successor to the
Samsung Intensity, the
slider feature phone was marketed to teens.
Specifications
Model number SCH-U460, the Intensity II is a
mobile phone by
Samsung, in the company's
Intensity series, for the
Verizon Wireless network.
A successor to 2009's
Samsung Intensity, the Intensity II looks very similar:
it measures , weighs ,
and has a
slider form factor.
The
2G radio has a
specific absorption rate of at the head, and for the body. Additionally, the phone has a
Bluetooth radio,
Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of the global navigation satellite sy ...
receiver, and
USB 2.0
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard that establishes specifications for cables, connectors and protocols for connection, communication and power supply (interfacing) between computers, peripherals and other computers. A broad v ...
Full Speed port. Further input methods include a full
QWERTY keyboard and
voice recognition.
With 100.95megabytes of available on-device storage, the Intensity II can also accommodate
microSD
Secure Digital, officially abbreviated as SD, is a proprietary non-volatile flash memory card format developed by the SD Association (SDA) for use in portable devices.
The standard was introduced in August 1999 by joint efforts between SanDis ...
cards up to 32gigabytes in size. The 1.3
megapixel camera features
digital zoom up to 10× and an
LED flash. The phone's
QVGA display measures 240 by 320 pixels, measuring diagonally. The battery is rated for "up to 300 hours" on standby, and "up to 300 minutes" of talk time.
Samsung marketed the phone to teens
as "eco-friendly", being manufactured with
recycled plastics and without
beryllium and
polyvinyl chloride.
It was made in two colors: "metallic blue" and "deep gray".
The built-in media player is capable of playing files formatted as
Advanced Audio Coding,
Advanced Systems Format
Advanced Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/ digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media. ASF is part of the Media Foundation framewor ...
,
High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding,
MIDI,
MP3, and
Windows Media Audio. The
web browser uses
WAP 2.0.
Included software for text communication includes
AOL Instant Messenger,
Facebook,
MSN Messenger,
Multimedia Messaging Service
Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from a mobile phone over a cellular network. Users and providers may refer to such a message as a PXT, a picture message, or a multimedia ...
,
MySpace,
SMS
Short Message/Messaging Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems. It uses standardized communication protocols that let mobile devices exchange short text ...
,
Twitter, and
Yahoo! Messenger.
Reception
CNET
''CNET'' (short for "Computer Network") is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally. ''CNET'' originally produced content for radio and televi ...
rated the phone at , saying that its striking similarity to the original Intensity was both a boon and a loss: the
QWERTY keyboard is excellent for using the very-capable telecommunication tools, though the navigation keys and
2.5mm phone connector were too small for ease of use.
References
External links
* (archived March 4, 2016 at the
Wayback Machine)
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mobile phones introduced in 2010
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