Samsung Ativ S Neo

If you painted over the Windows logo on the home button on the Samsung Ativ S Neo, shut the thing down, and handed it to a random smartphone users, you can get a response such as "I think Galaxy S III is thinner than this. "But once you open the Windows Phone 8 offering- Sprint is $ 49.99 with a two-year contract, $ 449.99 without you a Samsung differences: a phone featuring a majority of the company's engineering smarts but not the usual tinkering interface .

Size, Screen, and Storage
4.77-inch screen feels the Ativ's a little smaller than the number suggests, largely thanks to the avoidance of traditional menus and Windows Phone buttons, you do not need to tap something in a corner almost as often as you would with Android. 1280-by-720-pixel resolution time, only a little below a pixel density of the iPhone, looks sharp indoors and out.

The Mimics phone plastic-and-chrome look of the recent Samsung Android models, which makes it seem a bit dated. There is a physical camera button on the side, which makes getting a shot of confusing-handed measures. Back peels off the plastic displays and microSD card slot accessible on the battery in place, and a SIM card slot not.

Samsung includes 16 gigabytes of storage, which 12.06GB is available after reset the phone to factory configuration. Can you expand on that by removing some of the apps bundle, an underrated advantage of Windows Phone over Android.

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