Introduction
If you’ve heard good things about the Samsung Behold (or read our Samsung Behold review), well, forget all of that. The Behold II, Samsung’s new 3G Android phone from T-Mobile, is not an update of the original Behold, which was a CDMA phone available from Sprint. The original Behold was an update of Samsung’s Instinct, the company’s first iPhone competitor. The Behold II looks nothing like the original Sprint version, it runs Android, which the original did not, it’s a GSM/HSPA phone, not CDMA, and it’s from a different carrier. It’s like calling The Dark Knight a sequel of Superman Returns. Ignore the name, and behold the phone’s impressive attributes: a bright and colorful AMOLED display, a solid 5-megapixel camera and lengthy talk time. But do the Behold II’s quirks keep it from being a reasonable alternative to T-Mobile’s other Android models, the Motorola Cliq and the HTC MyTouch3G?
