The Samsung Hue II is the follow up to the Hue SCH-R500. This newer version has lots of great features, and is a good choice for people who like to keep things simple and easy to use. The Hue II has a fairly standard flip phone design. It's not quite as boxy as the original Hue, but it's a bit bigger and heavier at 3.8 inches tall by 1.9 inches wide by 0.7 inch deep and weighing 3.4 ounces. Even with the added girth, it slips comfortably into a pocket and has a solid feeling in the hand. The external display is rather small--just 1 inch diagonally--but it manages to cram in all the information you'll need, including the date, time, battery life, signal strength, and numeric caller ID. The 65,000-color (96x96 pixels) display also supports photo caller ID. There is a memory card slot for memory expansion, a 2-megapixel digital camera, and an MP3 music player. The phone book holds 500 contacts, with room in each entry for five phone numbers and two e-mail addresses. You can save callers to groups and you can pair them with a photo and one of 14 polyphonic ringtones. Other essentials on the Hue II include a vibrate mode, text and multimedia messaging, a calendar, a memo pad, an alarm clock, a world clock, a calculator, a stopwatch, a currency and unit converter, and a tip calculator. The MP3 player is fairly basic; features are limited to playlists and repeat and shuffle modes. Yet, it supports album art, an equalizer-style graphic, and it can even display lyrics for certain songs. Alltel offers the phone, so there are several services available exclusively through them such as Cell Top, Music Connect, and Navigation.
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