I confess that I like the trend in cell phones to make them more robust and resistant to damage. They’re called MOBILE for a reason–they need to be able to go places, and if they go places, they might get dropped. They need to be able to survive that, and the Samsung Convoy is a little more likely than most.
The Samsung Convoy is a flip phone with VZ Navigator and VCAST, a two megapixel camera, GPS, a phone book with capacity for a thousand name and number entries (and even room for email addresses, a street address and notes about the person in question), a calculator, a calendar, speakerphone, alarm clock, stopwatch, world clock, notepad, Bluetooth connectivity, ninety megs of onboard memory, compatibility with microSD cards, a variety of games available for download, and a battery capable of yielding at least five hours of talk time on a single charge.
Interestingly, the Samsung Convoy is a rugged phone in much the same fashion that the Motorola Barrage was, offering a certain modicum of protection against humidity, dust, shock, temperature variants and something called “salt fog”. Living in the inland United States, I’m not sure what that is, but I really don’t like the sound of it.
At any rate, the Convoy, despite the fact that it has a silly name, certainly looks like a more sturdy phone than the usual, but this is tempered by a lack of features. There aren’t as many here as their could be–I couldn’t find an FM radio here, for example. In an era where even Tracfones come with FM radios, surely so too should most every other kind. Still, this is a good, if basic, phone.
The Good
Clearly more robust than the ordinary
Rated against “salt fog”, and that sounds like a good thing
The Bad
Goofy name
Lack of features
Score 6 / 10
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