Samsung E105 Phone (T-Mobile)

Rating:
Summary: Average phone
Review: It's really an average phone, and there's nothing to be excited about. It has its own pros and cons, but I doubt that I could put it in the top ten. Somebody mentioned that it can play chess, but, come on, it can only move the pieces!

Pros:
1. Small
2. Light
3. Has one international band

Cons:
1. Buggy: ring+vibration does not work
2. No voice dialing
3. Annoying pre-set ring tones
4. Infrared is not compatible with anything
5. Phonebook needs a lot of improvement

Rating:
Summary: a great phone for a great price!!!!!
Review: this phone is just wonderful...it has pretty pics and is super light...i love it!

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Summary: Insight on Upgrading to Family Plan and Number Porting
Review: Amazon does not offer family plans, and the number porting process is relatively new, so I want to share my experience with these processes (based on the instructions from this website), in addition to the phone itself.
Got my phone a week ago from Amazon, with the intent to upgrade to a T-Mobile family plan and port my old number (both these have to be done directly with T-Mobile, not Amazon). The new phone arrived earlier than Amazon predicted, activated with a new number.
I went to a local TMo store to do my intened changes, as outlined by Amazon. I already have another T-Mo phone, and the family plan upgrade was a breeze: the rep called it in and when I checked online my plan was indeed changed.
The porting part was more tricky; they told me up to 7 days to change my number from AT&T. Two days later my account with ATT was terminated, but still not active on TMo. After being on hold 30 minutes with TMo, I was told "if you're porting a number to replace an existing number (which I was), it's not done automatically -- you have to call it in a we manually do it." Good thing I persevered on hold; within minutes I got a text msg saying it's done.
The fun part now is waiting for the rebates to be processed. With the changes I made, my plan and phone number now don't match up with my purchase, even though it's all legit. You know how they're sticklers for detail for these rebates.
With the phone itself, I'm happy with it and its features. Call clarity on my AT&T TDMA Nokia 8265 was better, however. I do hear the voice hum and amplified ambient noise as others have indicated. Reception is too sensitive: I move the phone a few inches and the bars go from full down to 1. But I guess I'm not as picky as other reviewers; I'll live with the minor phone drawbacks to save money on the monthly plan fees.
After a year on this contract, I'll be on the prowl for better service as the competition heats up.

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Summary: Battery life needs improvement
Review: This cell phone has wonderful features, but the battery does not last. I charged it fully, let it stay on standby without using it, and the phone was dead in 36 hours. I am very disappointed.

Rating:
Summary: Samsung E105 - T-Mobile (5/5)
Review: This phone is great. I got it a few weeks ago and I absolutely love it. It has everything I need and I couldn't ask for more. I highly reccomend this phone and rate it 5 stars!

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Summary: Great All Around Phone
Review: This phone has all the needed features for a stylish and yet very useful flip cell phone. It does not have some wanted features such as assigning ring tones to individual callers, but all in all this phone does more than i thought it would and i love it. One word of advice, make sure u get a good plan. Trust me!!

Rating:
Summary: Not the Greatest Phone in the World
Review: I first fell in love with this phone because it was compact and lightweight. That's about all I love about the phone right now. It has really bad reception, not to mention weird background noises on both incoming/outgoing calls. T-Mobile sent a replacement after I told them of the problem, but it's still the same. I would buy another phone right now if I had the money. The wallpapers provided are not the best, and neither are the ringtones. Sometimes there is a delay for the screen to show up when you flip open the phone.

The phone is a nice organizer though. Alarms are loud as well as the ringtones. Screen is pretty bright. Buttons are nice and crisp. That's about all the good features of the phone. Personally, I would not recommend anyone to buy this phone.

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Summary: some new trick with E105
Review: Hello, thank you guys for sharing very useful information about this phone. Here are some new tricks that i found recently:

1. In address book, a contact person is not restricted to 4 fields(home, office, cell and email address) only. You can put as much as you want about contact information of one person, say, some person might have more than 1 email address or more than 1 office phone number. Here is how to do: go to the contact person, select Option/Add Entry then you can add any information you want such as new email or work phone. Off course, it will eat up one spot in the memory.

2. Customize your email address: your cell-email that your friend send sms to, have the form [e-mail], for instance [e-mail], you can change to easy-to-remember-email such as [e-mail]. Here is how to do it: Go to t-mobile.com, log in then select "Communication" tab, select "Text Messaging", on the left window, at "Power Messaging feature", select "Change my phone's email address".
On this, you can creat spam/keyword filter or forwarding email or set up alert to your cellphone.

3. To know how many anytime minutes you used so far: just send sms to #646# number (#MIN#), the system will instantly reply you. The nice thing is you do not pay for this message (both sending and receiving) and you can check as often as you wish. It updates pretty fast.

4. Send one sms to more than one person:
One sms can be sent to a group of people buy putting "," between people email addresses or tel numbers.

Although this phone has some minor drawbacks but with t-mobile carrier, it provides great quality and services more than I expected (compare with some poor services provided by my old carrier CINGULAR)

Rating:
Summary: good midline phone
Review: I got this phone in the end of December. My previous phone was the similarly-sized Motorola v66. All in all, this phone is about the same as that one. Reception seems to be good and the ring and voice volumes are superb. the color screen is a very welcome change. The only gripe that I have is that it doesn't have all the nice features of some of the other phones (voice dialing, camera, bluetooth). I was seriously considering the SE T610, but decided against it becuase it was not a flip phone. Also, I can't seem to get the infrared port working. I got my computer to detect it, but I was not able to send any images or files to it. I agree with earlier reviews that the ring tones are a bit annoying.

Rating:
Summary: An OKAY phone
Review: Ok, first of all i'm 18, so if you're not around my age this review may not apply to you. i bought this phone the day after christmas. i wanted to upgrade my phone, i had the worst phone ever, the motorola c332. after a couple of months with that free phone i couldn't take it anymore. i could never hear the ringer, the battery died, it was a waste. so anyway i went to the tmobile store. i got there and i saw the motorola v300 (my dream phone). the sales rep told me that they were out of stock and they wouldn't have anymore until january. i didnt wanna wait that long (even though now it's january). so instead i opted for the samsung e105. its a GREAT phone compared to my old c332. i like the flashing corner light. when someone calls or you receive an IM or a text message it's pink instead of green. i think that'd neat. anyway, the ringtones are decent. some are a little annoying, i only like 2 or 3 of them that are preset. i downloaded some wallpapers and some ringtones and everything is fine. the ringer is GREAT! i love it! i can hear it in the car or wherever. however there are a few cons to this phone. i've had this phone for a couple of weeks and the flipping part is a lil flimsy. maybe it's just me, but it's a lil off.. you can't really tell until you look. also, the text messaging SUCKS. the iTap (predictive text) doesn't compare to my old phone. in my old motorola you could type in the word and on the bottom it would list possible words, not like in the samsung. it's either the word or you have to delete the word and enter it in by letter. also theres no side button to ignore calls. theres only a volume adjuster. when someone calls you either have to pick it up and hang up on them or press the down volume button to silent the ringer. OH and theres no easy access to silence the ringer, like in a movie. they have a quick access button for it, but it puts it on vibrate. i can still hear it in the movie theater and in class.
All in all it's a good phone, i'd recommend it. However i would rather have the v300, it has a camera and a speaker phone for around the same price. well i hope this helped you out.