Samsung’s ultimate phone, a Vibrant, has the body of an iPhone and the brains of an Android.

The Vibrant’s industrial pattern is shockingly identical to a iPhone 3G: The dull curves during the corners, a candybar figure, the glossy, black finish as well as the chrome-colored metallic limit around a arrangement. The Vibrant even has the volume as well as ringer buttons in roughly a same mark as a iPhone 3G.

But if you have been peaceful to get past the derivative design, a Vibrant has a little sweet tech specs. The Vibrant is partial of Samsung’s brand-new portfolio of Android inclination collectively called ‘Galaxy S.’

The Vibrant has the 4-inch AMOLED shade that’s bright as well as clear as well as a 1-GHz Hummingbird processor creates a device flattering zippy. There’s GPS, Wi-Fi as well as the 5-megapixel camera. Overall, the phone (weighing 4.16 ounces) feels remarkably light. By comparison, a iPhone 3G weighs around 4.7 ounces.

There’s one unfortunate thing about the phone. The device comes packaged with apps you probably don’t need: MobiTV, GoGo Inflight internet and Electronic Arts’ The Sims 3 diversion. Sure, you can regularly undo these apps if you don’t make use of them, though because gold them into a phone instead of giving users a choice to download a apps if they wish them? We’d hate to see bloatware start to intimidate brand-new phones with junk a approach it does with many brand-new PCs.

The Vibrant runs chronicle 2.1 of a Android operating system. That equates to entrance to all a customary Google apps such as maps, YouTube and e-mail. Setup, as with most Android phones, is easy — only come in your Google e-mail residence as well as a device unlocks access to your Google account as well as to a Android Market.

Samsung’s skin for a Android is purify as well as easy to use. But the block icons are, again, very identical in their looks to a iPhone 3G’s.

Samsung has combined the Social Hub widget for a device which integrates Facebook, Twitter as well as MySpace feeds into the single window. That has the stipulations, though. For example, it’s easy to reply as well as retweet messages, but you can’t see @replies or approach messages from Twitter by a widget.

Samsung’s Vibrant will cost $200 (with the two-year contract) upon T-Mobile when it comes out July 21. But there’s little to have a phone important, apart from its distinguished likeness to the iPhone. Without which, a Vibrant is then just an additional Android phone, despite one with the flattering great shade and surprisingly light weight.

Check out a print of the Samsung Vibrant subsequent to the iPhone 3G below.