Samsung r355c and Samsung Finesse are part of Tracfone’s line of prepaid phones. The similarity of those two phones cannot be found in many features that they offer to their users. Both have a nice and stylish look with wide screens, allowing for quick texting.
And that’s it. The first difference between these two phones is the price. Looking at the price, which is $129 for the r355c and around $300 for the Finesse, you can immediately tell which phone is more advanced. Actually, both of them have features that at first glance remind users of smartphones, which they definitely are not.
For the Samsung r355c, the comparison with Blackberry comes from its appearance, which has a full QUERTY keyboard and a wide screen. This phone has nothing to show that it is a “budget” prepaid phone, but rather a small Tracfone logo centered below the screen. In the case of the Samsung Finesse, it’s even harder to tell that it’s not a smartphone due to its large touch screen, where by touching and dragging widgets, you decide which one you want to use and put on the home screen.
Samsung r355c is an affordable prepaid phone that is suitable for users who, more than anything else, need the phone for talking and texting. When you consider this phone with Tracfone’s available Straight Talk prepaid plans, the r355c is a perfect choice for users who are more cost conscious and don’t break their budget to own an attractive phone. If you remember, this phone is reminiscent of the Blackberry smartphone.
In the case of the Samsung Finesse, this phone is the perfect choice for people who want to have the best looking phone possible, along with using prepaid plans, thus saving money every month. The price of $300 justifies what this phone has to offer to its users. Straight Talk prepaid plan offers unlimited web browsing which can be used to its full potential with this phone. The large touch screen, full HTML browser and EVDO 3g speed of the phone are exactly the features that can be taken advantage of with Samsung Finesse.
Apart from all the features and advantages of Finesse compared to r355c, there is one thing where r355c is better than Finesse. Samsung r355c has stronger reception and signal. If you have r355c while you are somewhere hidden, deep in a building or in some slum areas, you will be able to make calls, which cannot be guaranteed with other phones.
As other features are considered, Finesse has a 2-megapixel camera, which can take great photos and record videos that you can store on micro SD cards up to 16 GB. With the r355c, you get a 1.3-megapixel camera, with no video recording but the same expandable SD card slot with up to 16GB capacity. MP3 player and Bluetooth are features that come logically to Finesse, but must be mentioned as excellent additions with r355c.
These two phones cannot be compared when it comes to the features they offer. However, they should be compared when you, as a future user of prepaid plans, need to decide what exactly to expect from your phone.
