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Summary: POOR PHONE.... POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!
Review: Okay... I have had this phone for over a year and these are my perrels with this good-features crappy-designed phone.
-Atenna: Within about three months, there was an internal problem with the phone and my atenna broke off. I should have taken it in right there to get a new phone but I figured the hell with it,I get alright reception anyways.
-Scratching: First 3 weeks I got the phone it scratched very easily from just normal usage of phone and after about 2 months the paint was was chipping at the sides.
-Creaking: After about 5 months the rotating camera would creakin and catch on the track - same with the swivel screen.
-Detaching Top Portion: At about 12 months the top swivel screen would get looser and looser just from using the phone and the special swivel feature. Screen went totally black... would not go back to normal. Called to get a new phone or ANYTHING AT ALL and got told there was nothing and I have to buy a new phone.
It is a terrible design that breaks and falls apart within a year... and Sprint has terrible customer service. You pay $250 dollars for the thing for it to just break in a year by a faulty design. I would have purchased insurance on the phone but it was NEVER offered to me. Highly discourage this phone without insurance or extended warranty.
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Summary: da bomb phone by Kevin Nolan (Babe Magnet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Review: Pros: Lots of directory capacity (300 entries) Voice dialing works well with most normally spelled names, but names that are not usual English words, abbreviations, etc. are not understood by the phone, and are unrecognizable when the phone tries to read back these directory entries. The "Back" function works well for getting out of any menu drill-down. Color display looks good indoors and in the dark (but not in sunlight - see below). Allows some user customizable functions. Cons: The phone seems to experience frequent reception difficulty including excessive audio clicking. The signal strength seems to read lower (less than two bars out of five) in areas of the city that were four out of five bars or better on my last phone (Qualcomm Q-phone). The phone has very choppy reception if the signal strength is less than two bars out of five. The display can not be read in the sunlight - the display just goes dark. Shading the display with your hand does not help. The battery drains very fast (in approximately three hours) when the phone is open and the display is set to "Always Illuminated". The phone is VERY SLOW to do things: over 25 seconds to boot up after turning the phone ON; five seconds to boot the camera function before you can take a picture (not good if you want to catch a photo-op that isn't going to wait for you); a very lengthy and complicated button pushing routine and more delays (50 seconds) before you can send a photo; yet more delays between voice input commands. They could have gone much further with user customizable features, display options, etc. For example: you can not add new Directory Group Names - you are forced to accept their four; no vibrate-then-ring option like the LG line of phones allow; limited choice of distinctive ring tones; powering the phone ON or OFF is accompanied by goofy music, which can be shut off to be silent, but I would have preferred the choice of a simple beep tone to provide audio confirmation. Yet they allocate menu space and allow endless options for marginally useful things like display background images and games. All of the directory entries and all of the functions must be programmed through the phone's keyboard - very time consuming and awkward. The option of doing this through my computer would have been nice, not to mention the ability to save my settings there. Not enough memory: only 300kB maximum photo resolution; you can not store many photos, so the phone runs out of picture memory soon and does not tell you this until you have taken one photo too many - which you then must erase; and you can not use camera zoom when set to high resolution. The photo quality is terrible and the photos frequently lack proper focus, especially for up-close detail (like photographing a written page), and in dim lighting (the built-in flash is useless). This camera feature is really just a toy or a conversation piece. Do not expect to be able to use it for taking any real pictures. There is no IR or PC connectivity. If you do take a photo, you can not save it directly to your computer. At least with my service provider (Telus in Canada), you must upload the photo to their website or email it to yourself at a charge of $.25 per photo. The phone seems to archive all of your picture captions which eventually causes a "This message is too big to send" warning to appear and prevents you from sending any more photos until you manually erase all of the archived captions (weird). The keyboard illumination is poor. It uses a very dark blue light for the keycaps, which provides poor contrast in darkness. In addition, not all of each key is illuminated and some of the keycap letters are left dark. There is no external display unless you want to flip the display around to face outward (and keep the display not illuminated if you want more than a few hours of battery life). You must flip the phone open to power the phone ON or OFF - there is no external power button. I find the phone to be a little too small. I would have preferred a slightly wider casing with a larger display (so that any name with more than eight characters does not have to scroll across the display), and a less crammed keyboard. The casing is small and slippery. It could use some roughness or rubber to enhance holding friction. The phone's manual is sketchy, and its index is light on topics.
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Summary: Some serious shortcomings.
Review: Pros: Lots of directory capacity (300 entries) Voice dialing works well with most normally spelled names, but names that are not usual English words, abbreviations, etc. are not understood by the phone, and are unrecognizable when the phone tries to read back these directory entries. The "Back" function works well for getting out of any menu drill-down. Color display looks good indoors and in the dark (but not in sunlight - see below). Allows some user customizable functions. Cons: The phone seems to experience frequent reception difficulty including excessive audio clicking. The signal strength seems to read lower (less than two bars out of five) in areas of the city that were four out of five bars or better on my last phone (Qualcomm Q-phone). The phone has very choppy reception if the signal strength is less than two bars out of five. The display can not be read in the sunlight - the display just goes dark. Shading the display with your hand does not help. The battery drains very fast (in approximately three hours) when the phone is open and the display is set to "Always Illuminated". The phone is VERY SLOW to do things: over 25 seconds to boot up after turning the phone ON; five seconds to boot the camera function before you can take a picture (not good if you want to catch a photo-op that isn't going to wait for you); a very lengthy and complicated button pushing routine and more delays (50 seconds) before you can send a photo; yet more delays between voice input commands. They could have gone much further with user customizable features, display options, etc. For example: you can not add new Directory Group Names - you are forced to accept their four; no vibrate-then-ring option like the LG line of phones allow; limited choice of distinctive ring tones; powering the phone ON or OFF is accompanied by goofy music, which can be shut off to be silent, but I would have preferred the choice of a simple beep tone to provide audio confirmation. Yet they allocate menu space and allow endless options for marginally useful things like display background images and games. All of the directory entries and all of the functions must be programmed through the phone's keyboard - very time consuming and awkward. The option of doing this through my computer would have been nice, not to mention the ability to save my settings there. Not enough memory: only 300kB maximum photo resolution; you can not store many photos, so the phone runs out of picture memory soon and does not tell you this until you have taken one photo too many - which you then must erase; and you can not use camera zoom when set to high resolution. The photo quality is terrible and the photos frequently lack proper focus, especially for up-close detail (like photographing a written page), and in dim lighting (the built-in flash is useless). This camera feature is really just a toy or a conversation piece. Do not expect to be able to use it for taking any real pictures. There is no IR or PC connectivity. If you do take a photo, you can not save it directly to your computer. At least with my service provider (Telus in Canada), you must upload the photo to their website or email it to yourself at a charge of $.25 per photo. The phone seems to archive all of your picture captions which eventually causes a "This message is too big to send" warning to appear and prevents you from sending any more photos until you manually erase all of the archived captions (weird). The keyboard illumination is poor. It uses a very dark blue light for the keycaps, which provides poor contrast in darkness. In addition, not all of each key is illuminated and some of the keycap letters are left dark. There is no external display unless you want to flip the display around to face outward (and keep the display not illuminated if you want more than a few hours of battery life). You must flip the phone open to power the phone ON or OFF - there is no external power button. I find the phone to be a little too small. I would have preferred a slightly wider casing with a larger display (so that any name with more than eight characters does not have to scroll across the display), and a less crammed keyboard. The casing is small and slippery. It could use some roughness or rubber to enhance holding friction. The phone's manual is sketchy, and its index is light on topics.
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Summary: Samsung A-600
Review: This is one my fav. phones. the camera is A+. i use it as a digital camera, when i upload my pics you would never think it was from a phone. the screen is HUGE compared to aany other phone i have used. the rotating screen is a cool feature to have because it makes the phone stick out, but i really didnt use it much. i didnt like how the phone was flimsy. it was nice when i got it but it got weak very quicly. also, i think it was my phone that was broken, but the games ran very slow. very slow. then sanyo 4900 ran a million times better and u can get that phone for pennies now. also what i didnt like are little things u couldnt do- like re arrange the downloads. they were in the order u downloaded them. it has 1000kb of space, which was enough. i think im going to switch to the sanyo4500, but i am skepticle. i know it has a VIDEO CAMERA, but it is much lower quality... plus the screen is bigger with samsung.. im not gunna get into recpetion becasuse that differes from state to state..
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Summary: Flimsy, cumbersome, and just plain lousy
Review: This phone is crap, I'm sorry. I had the VGA 1000 which I was very satisfied with. I lost the phone and got the A600 as a replacement.
The 1st thing that disappointed me was it has no external screen. If u want to know who's calling, u have to have a specific ringtone assigned or flip it open to see.
The screen thingy swivels at a 180 degree angle but it wound up detaching itself to the point where the screen would not work. Another thing that pissed me off was that the charger wouldn't stick in. I had to prop the phone upright so that it could charge. How ghetto is that?!
I replaced that phone and wanted to get a VGA1000 again but under the equiptment replacement program, i could only get what was in stock. How convenient. Another A600 was sent to me and the same thing happened again! I didn't even swivel it but it detached on its own. I started noticing how the screen would start to die on me. I would press a button and nothing would happen on the screen. Sometimes I would unintentionally call a person. The flip thingy was so loose, u could shake it and it would rattle. Sooo ghetto.
Horrible battery life, takes forever to charge. Quite cumbersome due to the large internal screen but it should at least have an external screen to make up for it. Also, if u let the phone drop, even a small bang, the battery goes flying. The button to release the battery is too easy to push.
Dont' get this phone. It is flimsy and will only give you headaches. Get a VGA100 which shares the same easy menu but has an external screen.
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Summary: Not Quite What It's Cracked Up To Be
Review: Yes, the camera function is nice. But not worth the
price they're getting for this phone, considering the
other drawbacks. One, as another customer said, the reception on
this phone is terrible. The worst I've had on any
cell phone I've ever had, bar none. The revolving face-plate makes the phone somewhat
cumbersome and the faceplate scratches too easily
in my opinion; especially when you actually USE your
phone and carry it with you at all times. Despite my
best efforts, my faceplate was scratched within
about two weeks and no amount of polishing has
helped. It's hard to hear from this phone, something about
the design of the earpiece I feel like I've always
got the phone somehow in the wrong position on
my ear, but however I change it, I still can't
hear from the phone well. Again as another customer stated, the phone takes
forever to do things. Definitely an exercise in patience. An "okay" phone, but in my opinion not at all
worth the amount of money I had to pay for it.
I like Samsung products in general, but this one
could surely use some improvement!
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