Rating: Summary: Very pleased overall Review: I have tried numerous cell phones out and I must admit this has been my best to date (muchhhhhh better than nokia, motorola, and sony ericson). The reception is excellent, external caller id is nice, display looks sharp, and the sound quality is superb. I have been very pleased with t mobile overall. yes, verizon has better coverage but costs about 25% more. not worth it. plus, their phones are much more expensive. anyway, here are my caveats about this phone:the ring tones leave much to be desired (whatever happened to normal phone rings---not everyone likes to hear a dang song every time someone calls you). the antennae is not flexible..kinda annoying when it is in your pocket. i am always worried it will break. display is impossible to see in sunlight. the wap browser is slower than molasses. t mobile needs to invest in the data transfer department. also, they charge you for incoming text messages. only 5 cents but still, should be free. anyway, overall like i said, this phone is one of the top ranking phones out there. some nokia phones are decent and panasonic makes some good ones too, but the rest are garbage. for the price, you will not be dissapointed.
Rating: Summary: First cell phone and I love it! Review: I too have put off buying a cell phone but let me tell you that I absolutely love the Samsung e105! I get a strong signal (T-Mobile) everywhere I go without it dropping a line. Regarding the slow response when you open the phone does not exist on my phone. It's on before the screen opens all the way, no delay what so ever. It's very small and light which is what I was looking for in a phone since I carry an iPAQ also. The only bad thing that I can say about this phone is that I can't transfer backgrounds or rings tones from my Windows XP box via IR. My computer will recognize the phone but the phone won't accept any files. But I can also download them from my service provider for a fee. One thing I love about my service plan (T-Mobile) is that it's free to talk to my girlfriend when ever and where ever unlimited! I think of the people that use the Nextel one-way walky talky feature and I glad that I can call my other T-Mobile friends and family for free.
Rating: Summary: More then pleased ... Review: I am new to the cell phone era, but I am glad I waited until now. I have been able to see people all around me get them and see what problems they encountered. I am very pleased with the phone and service I get from T-Mobile. I have not had any problems making or reciving calls from where ever I have been. I have even been able to get service when other could not. I generally have at least 4 lines on reception and others around me have all they can do to get 1. The phone was very easy to setup and learn. I like the online feature of adding people to the address book. Makes it so much easy to load that. I was also very pleased with the service I got from Amazon. Phone was shipped very fast. I had an issue with the first one I got (has discoloration on outside) and they resolved the problem immediately. Couldn't ask for more from a company. All in all I would highly recommend this phone to anyone who would ask.
Rating: Summary: Tmobile & this phone make for a painful experience Review: Save your money. Even if these rebates are true. Whoever you have as a cell carrier, even if your using an 80s style brink phone - your getting better service. Yes this phone is filled with fun colored crap. But even that becomes a problem. This phone likes to stop and think. Often it will take up to 4 seconds after you open the flip for it to 'wake up'. On top of this you'll start pressing buttons, and nothing will happen for 4-5 seconds and it'll finally start doing soemthing. Its not just my phone. Other people I know have the same problem with this model. I live on the northside of Chicago, and have to go outside to use my phone to get an acceptable quality to understand anyone. I can't tell if this is t-mobile or the phone, all I know is that t-mobile bought voicestream, which was known as the worst carrier in the nation. It seems they haven't improved muched.
Rating: Summary: Great but... Review: Overall, I'm thrilled with this phone, because it excels at the 2 criteria that are by far the most important to me: pocketability, and reception/voice quality. I've been very happy with T-Mobile, too, Worst drawbacks to me: - Clock isn't automatically synched to cell towers, and loses ~3 minutes/month. - Lack of easy porting of Outlook contact info - Inability to store notes on the phone. Only way to do this is to text message yourself, but can't put a subject on the text message, just an automatically assigned 3-digit number. I like the vibrate before ring mode, but would prefer vibrate, then vibrate & ring. WAP's too slow, small and cumbersome for me to bother with. Voice activated dialling would be nice, but speed dial does the job. A non-fancy (ring-ring) ring tone would have been nice, too. YMMV depending on your needs, but for me, I'd buy it again in a flash.
Rating: Summary: t-mobile has the worst coverage Review: I left Verizon which I now painfully regret. I can not use my cell for any business out of fear of dropping and broken conversations that happen 90% of the time. I had a business trip to New York in which it'd drop every call after a minute. Do not sign up with T-Mobile. I later found out that it's a "mutt service" that only borrows time on other towers.
Rating: Summary: Decent for the price Review: Neg's: Won't ring and vibrate at the same time! Display is usless in sunlight. Positives: If you havent upgrader your phone in a couple years you'll love some of the new fetures as well as a color screen.
Rating: Summary: rrudy Review: My boyfriend has this phone and it is so neat I've never owned a phone like this but as soon as I can I will have one just like it. Everyone that sees it goes crazy over it and wants one but none of them has went to get one yet! My boyfriend's boss asks him to use it all the time because the one he has he can't use it because it just won't get out anywhere. So like I said this is an excellent phone to have you don't need a house phone when you have this one. My boyfriend's boss has Verizon and doesn't like it at all. Thank You Sincerly Robin L. Rudy A very loyal customer to T-Mobile for four years.
Rating: Summary: Still waiting Review: I ordered two phones to use in a family plan. I recieved the first phone within a week, the second phone is not even delivered yet after 4 weeks.. I know it is not the phones fault, it is amazon.. But, the phone is missing some feature that are neccesary, my old samsung phone allowed me to adjust the volume of the phone using the up/down button on the side. This phone i have to go through the sound menu, way to cumbersome and difficult to adjust the volume of the ringer. That is my biggest complaint thus far.
Rating: Summary: Phone Is Perfect Review: Almost every review is right except the individual ringer part. You CAN assign a distinctive ringer to a specified "group." It's no longer individual based, though you can make a group one person. Only disadvantage is there are 10 groups, but just assign multiple people to a group. Everything is perfect, except there is no voice dialing. Otherwise, awesome buy.
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