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Summary: A major software revision is needed.
Review: I bought this phone as a replacement for my Samsung 8500, (a phone that has served me extremely well over the last three years). I researched many many phones before I decided to get this one.I am rather disappointed with this phone for several reasons. 1. Signal strength meter consistently at 1 or 2 bars only. I very rarely ever see more than two signal bars, but I don't have many problems with making calls, and it does better making a call in known weak areas than the 8500 did. The thing is, I only know where the weak areas are from past experience using my 8500. I sure wouldn't know where the weak areas are by looking at the signal strength on this phone, it's ALWAYS low. 2. When using a headset (which is how I make about 90% of my calls), the person I am talking to tells me that I keep cutting out (digital packet loss). The problem is worse if I am in a weak service area. If I unplug the headset and hold the phone to my ear, they can hear me fine. The problem is NOT the headset. I have several headsets, and they all do the same thing. Also, although the handset has a good volume level, when I use my headset, I can hardly hear. My 8500 was usually too loud, but could be turned down. I never had any problem with hearing or being heard with any of my headsets on my 8500 unless I was in a bad service area. 3. Call timers... What call timers! They totally did away with them. Other than the CURRENT call you are on, there is NO history of how long past phone calls were. Once you hang up, it's gone... FOREVER! It makes it difficult to bill for my phone time when I cannot go back into the call history to see how long a phone call was. As far as I am concerned, with the amount of memory the modern day phones have, there should be a cumulative call timer for every listing in your phone book, and possibly even in the caller ID list. The phone should have the length of the call listed for every individual inbound and outbound call. The lifetime counter (odometer) is completely gone too. Why!?!? 4. Major software bug. Text messages cause a ghost data session. Anytime I receive any kind of text message or e-mail, I cannot make an outbound phone call without having to log onto and then off of the internet or power cycle the phone. It totally defeats the purpose of having someone hit 2 in voicemail for the caller to have their caller ID number sent to your phone as a text message. When you go to read the message and hit the button to call them back, it says you cannot do that until you press end to quit the data session. When you do that, it still does not end the data session. This is a MAJOR problem for me as I receive a majority of my messages via caller ID and text messaging. 5. Ringers do not stay where I want them. I leave the phone on vibrate most of the time, however, if you leave the flip open, it turns escalating ring (louder the longer it rings). If you have it plugged into the charger, it just goes into straight ring on extremely _L_O_U_D_! This is beyond annoying when you are trying to sleep. 6. Wireless web. Although the speed of the 3G wireless web is impressive, many of the features that I used to be able to get into with the 2G (straight text) wireless internet are just plain gone from the available menus of 3G wireless internet. The ones I used the most, the Sprint wireless web people tried to help me get them back, but some of them just plain and simple will not work on the new phone. I thought that I would be able to get to all of the stuff I got with my old phone plus a whole lot more. Instead, they just removed about 75% of what used to be there and replaced it with subscription & pay based services. The ones that I miss most are Yahoo finance message board and Buzztime trivia. GONE! 7. Backlight Part 1. The color screen is very nice, however the controls for the brightness could be a bit more flexible. First of all, there should be some way to get light into the phone other than strictly from the backlight. When I try to look at the phone during a call, the display is completely black. It is NOT possible to read anything on the display without the backlight. (The outside display CAN be read without the backlight) 8. Backlight Part 2. I leave the screen settings in "power save mode" most of the time, because the display is just too bright (especially at night). The bad part about using "power save mode" is that when you do, the keypad lights are turned completely off (a problem at night). 9. The outside display is awesome. I love virtually everything about it. I wish that there was an easy way to make the backlight come on to look at the time. While on the subject of time, I don't know why the spinning compass (when searching for service) is more important than the current time. Leave the time up on the screen and do something else for searching for service. 9. The camera is easy to use, does well in poorly lighted rooms, quality is decent, and the "fun frames" are pretty cool.
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Summary: VGA-1000 leaves me speachless...
Review: Ok, so I was impressed with the specs and all so I go and buy two of these Sprint phones because of the great deal I got at Radio Shack (appropriatly named). Took one back immediately because of flakyness and errors in some of the phones features. And as I've been analog phone guy for quite awhile, I always had thought that digital phones were "suppose" to have better sound quality. With the Samsung's I was getting terrible reception (cross talk, drop outs, tin can effects) on both phones....and we don't live in the mountains either! Camera is fun but kinda useless for adults (low rez). Even the Sprint guy who checked them out was suprized at how crappy they sounded (maybe he was a good actor). To be fair, I honestly do like most of the abundant features of this phone, but as a phone it get's a D+ from me (the + is because I do in fact get connected most of the time). Maybe you'll have better luck, but I'm going to swap these two for something that works more like a telephone (can you hear me now!)
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Summary: pretty good
Review: this cell phone is pretty much awsome, if not for a few things that hold it back from being the best it could be. The camera is the best i have ever used on a cell phone; i take a lot of pictures with it, and have even printed a few out. The voice recognition sofware is the best i've ever used also, and comes in handy when you're using an ear piece. My only real gripe about the phone is that once in a while, there will be a wierd beeping noise for no apparent reason...that's kind of annoying. My earpiece is from bodyglove, and its pretty good. The clip i bought was from sprint; it's kind of annoying to use cause its hard to get the phone out of it sometimes, but it's alright.
Overall i'd recomend the phone, it's a good one.
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Summary: Toys and more, this phone has extras
Review: The VGA 1000 is a nice phone. The earphone placement is a little high, forcing you to have to move the phone low on your ear, and it takes a little getting used to. It doesnt nearly feel like a regular phone and that can become uncomfortable for the ears. It does get VERY hot. This thing could be a handwarmer in the winter. Seriously. I dont have a real big problem with that. The pictures come out fine if there is no motion in the shot and the light is right. Don't be fooled, this flash isnt doing a whole lot of illuminating. I bought it for the flash alone because the 8100 didnt have one. It's still a pretty rudimentary camera. The LCD is HUGE! By far the biggest until you get into the PDA type phones. The sound quality is fabulous. You can do tons of things with the scheduler and alarms, etc... The games are kinda silly and you have to pay a subscription fee to get them from sprint. Otherwise, you're stuck with three little crappy demo games. The battery is pretty good, but the camera will kill it fast. If you can get this phone for free, get it. However, I would never advise anyone to pay much for this phone. A lot of the gadgets are all subscription based garbage.
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Summary: Ok phone with annoying features
Review: I had the Samsung VGA1000 phone for a month before I returned it. Sure, the camera with flash was a nice feature, but honestly, it is FAR from the real thing to be paying the full price for. The battery life with color display seemed to be one of the strong points of the phone. Keep in mind, you will have to pay extra for the PCS Vision contract to access any pictures taken with the camera. Despite trying for a few weeks, I could not find a reliable data cable and software driver to transfer pictures from the camera to my PC. By far the most annoying (unadvertised) feature of the phone was a background ringing during conversations, much like the semi-silent ringing during hearing tests. That nuisance distracts enough to barely notice the rising tempature of the phone while in use. It's the only cell phone I've had that warms your hands. Also, I've been a Sprint customer for over 5 years, and after agreeing to matching the price on Amazon (at $49.99 when I placed the order) for renewing my expired contract, Sprint backed out of the promise and charged me $179.99 for the phone. Now, I'm stuck with the contract, or risk paying extra each month for not having one. (BTW: AT&T stores match Amazon prices without hassle). Conclusion: Sprint's network is great. I haven't had a problem with their reception or availability yet. But, this phone is not worth paying much of anything for the annoying background ringing and heat emission. Also, try limiting the amount you have to deal with Sprint customer service in their stores or over the phone. They qualify as one of the rudest, manipulative and deceiving set of customer service representatives ever (unless you're a new customer and they are trying to coax into signing a SprintPCS contract).
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Summary: Great DEAL
Review: THis is a very good phone. This phone is the best phone that i have looked at. It has many useful features and it is all for free. WIth rebates this phone turns out to be free how can you beat that deal. THis phone uses PCS nationwide service which is very reliable and they have good connection in almost all places. I know how important that is when you are buying a phone. THe most important thing is the service plan and this phone has a great provider. I hate when your in the middle of a conversation and the connection gives out. WIth this phone that rarely happens ever and i have not expirenced that yet. THere are plans for everyone. This phone is for people who use 800 minutes or 100 it doesnt matter. What really makes this phone an excellent deal is the phones unlimited features. THis phone features are what makes it separate from all other color and non color phones. First this phone is very light and small and you can barely feel it when it is in your pocket. I hate big bulky phones where you can feel it with every step. When i am walking around with the phone in my pocket i have to check to make sure its still there thats how light it is. This phone has a stratigically placed carmera so it hard to see it from just glancing at it. This phone has voice activated dial as well as those amusing ringtones and games. These ringtones sound just liek the real song its scary and the games can keep you busy for hours. THe games are all in color and resemble the games you would play on a gameboy. These are good for if you are ina waitng room and have nothing to do.
Overall the price on thios phone cannot be beat where else are u going a phone this good for free
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Summary: The Best of the Rest
Review: When I was shopping for a new phone, I was not really sure if i wanted to spend all that extra money for a color/camera phone. Everyone told me that all I need was something to make calls on and not something to play with. Well I decided to go ahead and get this phone, and boy did I make the RIGHT decision. This is an amazing phone. Everything you could want is on this phone. Out of all the camera phones, I beleive that this one comes with the best picture and best camera options (you can ever out extra graphis around the picture you take!!). The signal on this phone is all incredible. I have not had one dropped call yet, and I get reception in the places I never used to get with my old phone. The color is also the best I have seen. Very bright with alot of great detail. The only real problem that I have with this phone is that is has great lights on the keypad. I just think it would add to phone if they were blue, but this is just an unimportant opinion. If you are debating bying the phone becuase of the price, go with your get AND GET IT! You wont be dissapointed.
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Summary: Simply the best
Review: I've been a sprint subcriber for several years now and I usually buy LG phones. I was going to buy the sanyo 8100 until I saw this model and then read the review and all the tech info on it. All I have to say is that this is the best phone I ever owned. I didn't realize all the features it had until I brought it home and started to play with it. What a big improvement over my last phone which I thought was a great phone also but it doesn't compare. Lots of features, clear displays, fast net, long battery life excellent reception, I haven't had one drop call yet. Best of all it doesn't look like a camera phone because of the location of the camera. I highly recommend this phone.
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Summary: One of the Best Cell Phones!
Review: My Sprint PCS plan was about to expire and I I decided that it was time to update my phone to something hip and trendier since I always have to be the first to try out the newest in technology so I thought why not give the VGA1000 phone a try and I just love it! It's basically an update of my previous samsung phone the SCH-8500 which I also loved, but after dropping it one to many times over the past 2 1/2 years it was very weather beaten. The VGA has a large color screen with amazing resolution and the menu is so easy to navigate. I love the camera feature as well and have everyone in my phonebook linked to their picture and it shows up on the external caller ID. Since I travel a lot mostly to big cities I always need a phone that will get great reception everywhere and it does! I always have crisp clear calls in Boston, NYC, north Jersey, Milwaulkee, and Ft. Myers Beach. This phone is so compact and I never forget to throw it in my purse or pocket. I love it and could not recommended anything better!
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Summary: Anyone know ringtone websites?
Review: I know there are a few free ones, but they don't have much of a selection. www.muwap.com is the best one I've found so far, and they seem to care about amazon users, because if you use that as a coupon code, they give you 10% off. I got a year of unlimited ringtones for $9 that way. Any other sites out there that have 20,000 tones like they do?
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