T-Mobile will sell the Galaxy S Blaze 4G for $150, starting at select stores on March 21 and nationwide on March 28. This price includes a $50 mail-in rebate and a two-year service agreement, despite T-Mobile's recent .
The Galaxy S Blaze 4G packs a 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S3 processor, a 5-megapixel rear camera, a 1.3-megapixel front camera, 1GB of RAM and support for T-Mobile's 4G HSPA+ network, which has theoretical speeds of up to 42 Mbps. These are solid specs at the moment, but they'll soon be outdone by and Qualcomm's dual-core S4 processors.
The Galaxy S Blaze's most notable feature might be its 3.97-inch Super AMOLED display. Android phones seem to keep getting bigger--Samsung's Galaxy S III is rumored to have a --but bigger isn't necessarily better. Not everyone wants a humongous phone, and 4-inch displays work nicely in one hand without sacrificing too much room.
Given the Galaxy S Blaze's high-end specs, it's all the more disappointing that Samsung is using Android 2.3.6, instead of the latest version of the software, . Samsung uses its own custom interface for Android, called TouchWiz, and it's possible that the interface simply isn't ready for Android 4.0 yet., but the fact that T-Mobile isn't promising an upgrade for the Galaxy S Blaze 4G is not encouraging.
If you can deal with the older software, and want a dual-core phone that's smaller than most, you can when the Galaxy S Blaze 4G arrives in late March.
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