| The Mythic is sleek and weighs around 3.8oz with | | | | vibration mode, multimedia and text messaging, |
| 4.49in long, 0.5in thick and 2.06in wide. The display of | | | | calculator, calendar, task list, memo pad, unit converter, |
| Mythic is 3.3in which supports 262K colors and has a | | | | alarm clock, timer, tip calculator, sketchpad and a world |
| resolution of 360 x 640 pixels. The colors are lively and | | | | clock. Some of the advanced features are available |
| vivid with sharp graphics. Touch Wiz interface from | | | | too like USB mass storage, mobile emails, voice |
| Samsung is also available which helps in customizing | | | | command support, PC syncing, GPS with AT&T |
| up to 33 shortcuts or widgets. There are 3 home | | | | navigator support, stereo Bluetooth and instant |
| screens which can be tossed by filching the fingers on | | | | messaging. |
| the screen horizontally. The home screen can be | | | | Main big feature of Mythic is AT&T Mobile TV |
| customized by dragging and dropping the widgets | | | | where you can watch TV on your phone with the help |
| from the interface tray to access particular functions | | | | of a network called Qualcomm’s MediaFLO. Wait |
| quickly. | | | | time due to buffering is not there because the |
| Shortcuts for main menu, phonebook and phone dialer | | | | broadcast doesn’t happen through cellular |
| are present at the foot of each home screen. All of | | | | airwaves. For $10 you can avail a monthly package. |
| these shortcuts are present even in the main menu | | | | There is a 3.2MP camera which can take images in |
| with a slight change that the main menu option is | | | | six resolutions from 640 x 360 pixels to 2048 x 1536 |
| replaced by the new text message shortcut. Menu | | | | pixels. Some of the other settings are flash, self timer, |
| pages are multiple in Mythic where navigation | | | | auto flash, 5 white balance presets, macro focus, three |
| becomes easy as on the home screen. As I told you, | | | | exposure meters, 5 color effects and 3 quality settings, |
| menu pages can be customized by dragging or | | | | and a silent option with 3 shutter sounds. |
| removing the icons from it. Though some apps icons | | | | 6 modes for shooting and scene presets are also |
| can’t be removed like music player or Web | | | | available. The quality of photo is promising. The pictures |
| browser but some others like camera, alarm clock can | | | | are rich in color and are also sharp. Videos can also be |
| be removed which doesn’t imply that these will be | | | | recorded in two resolutions 176 x 144 and 320 x 240 |
| permanently removed from the phone itself. | | | | pixels; hence this phone even becomes a camcorder. |
| The digits are big on the keypad of phone dialer and | | | | Video can be shot in normal mode which doesn’t |
| you have an ease to send a message or save that | | | | have a time limit or in MMS mode which lasts long for 1 |
| particular number directly from the dialer. For | | | | minute. AT&T Video share service is also |
| messaging you have many options here like virtual | | | | supported by the Mythic which lets you to stream in |
| QWERTY keyboard, T9 alphanumeric keypad entry | | | | one way live video to a video share compatible phone. |
| or handwriting recognition. Whenever you want the | | | | Even AT&T Mobile Music can be streamed with |
| QWERTY keyboard then only a slight rotation of the | | | | Mythic. |
| mobile to landscape mode is enough. The keys are | | | | You can even load your own songs to the phone via |
| large, roomy and easy to use with the basic | | | | a microSD card. Mythic runs with the HTML browser |
| punctuation marks on the virtual keyboard. Texting and | | | | based on Opera Mobile. Welcome screens are three |
| dialing are very easy in this because of the very | | | | in number where two of them are for popular and |
| sensitive touch screen. Vibrating feedback intensity | | | | local Web links. Internet bookmarks is in a visual tile |
| can be adjusted, and for better precision you can go | | | | assortment where customization can be done by |
| to calibration settings and adjust. | | | | logging into AT&T account and sending shortcuts |
| Brightness of the display, font type, wallpapers, | | | | via ‘Send to Mobile’ option. Toggling between |
| changeover effects between page pitching, backlight | | | | desktop and mobile versions of Web pages can be |
| time and greeting messages can be customized for | | | | done and even Web pages can be zoomed in and |
| each and every home screen. Back, talk and end / | | | | zoomed out wherever it is necessary. Some of the |
| power physical buttons are at the bottom of the | | | | apps which are included in here are Yellow pages |
| display. These call keys are easy to press and back | | | | Mobile, My-cast weather, MobiVJ, WikiMobile, MusicID 2, |
| key is slightly inflated for easy access. To the left of | | | | JuiceCaster, Mobile Banking and Where. Some of the |
| the phone is the volume rocker and to the right is the | | | | games are I-play bowling, Bejeweled etc. Even more |
| camera and screen lock buttons. There is a shortcut | | | | games, apps, graphics and ring tones can be |
| key at the right which opens up the shortcuts for the | | | | downloaded via AT&T mobile application store. |
| music player, Web browser, games menu, messaging | | | | Landing to the performance of the phone, quality of |
| menu and phone dialer and also you can end all the | | | | call is good and only a little distortion was there on the |
| running apps with the same button. Charger and | | | | rear end. Even calls over speaker phone were decent |
| 3.5mm headset jacks are present at the top of the | | | | itself but with some echoes. There are mono |
| phone. At the back are the LED flash and camera. | | | | speakers which produces tiny and plane sounds. Via |
| Behind the battery flap is the slot for microSD card. | | | | headset, sound quality seems to be normal. The 3G |
| Coming to the features of Samsung Mythic, around 2K | | | | performance is very pleasing in the Mythic. The |
| entries can be stored in the phonebook where 4 | | | | downloading and the buffering time are very quick. The |
| added phone numbers, a note, birth date and one email | | | | quality of video was not that much impressive but the |
| id can be stored. The photos can be paired with the | | | | response time was snappy. The channels were |
| contacts for caller ids and it can be added to the caller | | | | changing very swiftly with no loading time. Though the |
| groups by assigning them with particular ring tones | | | | colors looked haze sometimes, the picture quality was |
| from 8 polyphonic ring tones and assign a vibration | | | | sharp. The battery life has been rated up to 3hrs and |
| pattern from 5 types. There is a speaker phone, | | | | with 10.5 days back up time. |