T-Mobile USA officially announced the Samsung Behold II as their fourth Android handset. A touch-only device running Android with Samsung’s TouchWiz interface, it went on sale November 18th at $229 through T-Mobile stores and online.
The Behold II marked T-Mobile’s first phone with an AMOLED display. The 3.2-inch screen delivered brighter and sharper images than the LCD panels common on competing devices at the time. Other specs included a 5-megapixel camera, GPS, Bluetooth, T-Mobile visual voicemail, and a 2GB microSD card with support for up to 16GB. Internal memory was listed at 200MB, and the processor was almost certainly the 528MHz chip found in most Android phones of the era.
Samsung included a cube menu giving users quick access to music, photos, videos, internet, YouTube, and Amazon MP3.
“With its first-rate multimedia capabilities front and center, the Samsung Behold II adds an exclamation point to T-Mobile’s already impressive Android lineup for the holidays.” — Wendy Piñero-DePencier, VP of Brand and Calendar Marketing, T-Mobile USA
The $229 price point was hard to justify. With Verizon selling the Motorola Droid for $30 less, the Behold II faced stiff competition even with T-Mobile’s generally more affordable rate plans.
