Samsung Jet S8000. Flashy in a good way.

Written By: Martin on July 3, 2009 7 Comments

Some phones are flash from the outside. Some phones are flash on the inside.

And some, luckily for you, manage to be both. The first thing that hits you about the Samsung Jet S8000 is just how damn flashy it is on the outside. Verging on, but not quite crossing the line of, being too-look-at-me, the phone is actually a piece of workmanship to behold. With its deep gloss plastic casing that seems to suck in all light, it’s cool deep red patterning on the back, and the thin (just under 12mm) curvy feel of it seemingly made exactly for your hand, you’re going to be impressed even before you flip the switch.

But once you do, everything inside is as flash and functional as you could want. The camera’s great, with more functions than you can shake a stick at, the Dolfin browser browsers and downloads the best the web’s got to offer nice and quickly, the TouchWiz interface is not only intuitive but actually enjoyable to navigate, there’s a new landscape QWERTY-keyboard entry for messaging and… and…

Well, there’s loads more than we have the space to tell you about here. Needless to say the Samsung Jet is already a firm favourite with us here. Samsung have, in fact, done a fantastic job recently with the Samsung Jet being one of own several new phones being announced, none of which let the side down. And if you’re soon to be in the market for a more than competent mid-range phone (there’s no confirmed release date yet, but we think it should be with us in a couple of months) then you could do a hell of a lot worse than this. There’s loads more specs and details in this Samsung Jet Review, and a half decent video below: