For the Home. Kitchen. Home. Scratch-Off Map. External Drive. Samsung Transform Review (Sprint) - Smartphones. For a phone claiming to be transformative, we were certainly hoping for a roster of more unusual features in Sprint's new Samsung Transform. What we get instead is a very decent midrange Android smartphone with a medium-size touch screen, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and serviceable front- and rear-facing cameras. However, the Transform does have one unusual feature that stands out, at least for now. It's one of the first three Android smartphones to launch with Sprint's new Sprint ID Packs, which are preset profiles that configure everything from the theme and widgets to the app shortcuts that appear on your home screens, and even e-mail settings.
Call quality was a winner on the appealing Transform, but a short battery life and extended moments of sluggishness after loading a Sprint ID were disappointments. The Transform ships with version 2.1 of the Android operating system, but Sprint told CNET it expects to upgrade the Transform to Android 2.2.