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Summary: Good Basic Phone; Just What I Wanted!
Review: (...). This is a great phone for the price. I am a long time Sprint PCS customer and had to re-up for 2 more years. The jury is still out on the battery life. This phone does not seem to pull in the PCS signal too well (Only 1 bar, when my year-old Sanyo 6400 got 4-5.), but voice quality is OK. The case is a little slick, so you have to be careful not to drop it. One thing I discovered, that has not been reported anywhere else, is that there is no built-in game to play. Oh well, I guess you get what you pay for. I am not about to buy the game pad since I am an old geezer, but it would have been nice to have some type of game to play if I got caught in a blizzard, or while waiting by the mailbox for my rebate. I was disappointed that the phone did not came with an earbud, or a carrying strap. Again, you get what you pay for--no more or no less!!!
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Summary: Well rounded design, nice UI but only with OK reception
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I have been a SprintPCS customer for 5 years. Just like many other Sprint customers, I felt Sprint's coverage is poor but the fact that I enrolled early gave me a very good plan. Therefore, what I did in the past 5 years was to consistently scanning for good phones to tackle the poor signal coverage in the area I live. I've been through Qualcomm QCP-2760, Samsung 8500, Sanyo 4900 and now Samsung VI660. The old Qualcomm had a decent reception in its days but couldn't compare with Samsung 8500. The 8500 was a legendary phone that was solidly designed and built. However, there's more to be desired in terms of its reception. After an extensive research, I bought my wife a Sanyo 4900 when she started her plan. I found its battery life and reception was very good but Sanyo 4900's downside was its bulky design and clumsy menu. Due to the consistent drop of calls when using Samsung 8500 at home, I was in the market again hunting for the next generation of cell phones that are reasonably priced but have the best reception. Sanyo has been regularly regarded as having excellent reception and battery life, which I could surely testify due to my ownership of the 4900. But I have to say I'm kind of fond of Samsung and its design due to my good experience with the 8500. The past couple years marked a down period for Samsung though. After 8500, Samsung released many new phones that were viewed as having miserable reception. However, most recently, it seemed like things have changed. VI660 and VGA1000 received new chips and many good reviews come in from their users. After comparing price and features, I opted for the VI660. I couldn't be happier with its name dial capability. It doesn't need any "training" and can recognize names very accurately. It certainly makes your driving much safer, too. If you use Samsung's earphone, all you need to do to dial a number is all "talk", after you press a button on the earphone cord to intiate the name dial procedures. The maneuver within its menu is very intuitive and the battery life is decent. In addition, VI660 was among the limited number of phones that support SMS. Even though I don't use it that often, it's still a nice feature to have. Maybe I'm not really picky about battery life but recharging once every two days with many phone calls and some web usage doesn't sound too bad to me. However, the reception of Samsung VI660 is still not to my expectation. It is certainly better than the 8500 and offers a more "unbroken" conversation but I still suffer from dropping call which is less likely to happen to the Sanyo 4900. After so many attempts in keeping my plan by buying new phones, I am considering switching to Verizon even with the nice SprintPCS plan that I currently have. But if you are not living in an area that has poor signal coverage and you don't need a camera or external display, VI660 is truly an economic, feature packed and compact phone for you to have.
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Summary: Not my favorite phone, ...
Review: ... but like someone else said, it's easy to get nickel-and-dimed by Sprint, especially for ringtones. I'm downloading my ringtones from http://muwap.com for $10/year instead of $1/ringtone, and have a different sound every week :) They just started giving amazon users 10% off with coupon code "amazon". Oh, and at first my phone could play the ringtones but not download them, but the guy who runs that site got the phone working in like an hour.
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Summary: The phone is great...
Review: ...but I don't like the SprintPCS service all that much. Methinks T-Mobile is much better, and less expensive, too! The stuff that came with the phone (ringers and such) are a bit campy. I found a link to http://muwap.com here on amazon (with the 10% off coupon) and downloaded everything I needed. I'd buy the phone again in a heartbeat, but I'd go with T-Mobile service this time.
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Summary: Great for visual impaired user
Review: Bought this phone for my husband a couple of weeks ago. With a couple of tweaks to the menus to allow the phone to come on and use the flip to activate the voice services, it has worked wonderfully. Sales people may not know all the voice activated services since it's not a common information request. He is visually impaired and can use the voice services to dial by name in the phone directory--it will repeat the name back and then prompt you for which number, home, mobile, work, etc. It also allows the user to dictate the phone number and then reads it back to you to confirm before dialing. Works like a dream even when the number is spoken rapidly. He hasn't had to manually dial a number since getting this phone. Only negatives are that the buttons are hard to distinguish by feel, took some practice on which way to click the center pad to get the voice activation prompt before we found the setting to make it prompt by opening the flip. Also, the voice mail button is hard to distinguish from its surrounding buttons. The voice activated status will also read to you battery and signal strength as well as telling you if you are on the sprint network or roaming. The plug on the charging cord is easy for him to insert, and he likes it better than the desk top charger we had previously for an older flip-style phone. Haven't figured out a way to get the phone call to end without pressing the "end" button while using a hands-free kit, so he'll have to practice that too, but overall, great features for a visually impaired user. I had to program numbers in for him, but we do that with any new cell phone.
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Summary: Sprint- Bad Service
Review: Buyer beware... do not buy Sprint. I give them zero stars! I purchased a Treo 600 for metro Atlanta. Basically the service was very bad. I called to cancelled and charged me $112 and change. As a business customer or any customer why am I being changed for poor service. I am not going to speak bad about their customer service because they tried. But they do not understand about business relationships and how to assist the customer. If you intend to buy a phone from them get the least expensive plan first. Then will not loose as much monsy as I did for just 7 days of service.
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Summary: Samsung V1660
Review: Have had this phone since May, 2004. Like the size but do wish it had the caller ID info on the outside so have to open the phone to see who was calling. The number pad sometimes feels awkward and not so easy to use. Easy to hear parties and clear sound. Enjoy downloading ringers, etc to give lots character to the phone!
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Summary: A great little phone for the price
Review: I agree with most of the other reviewers here - the Samsung vi660 is a great little phone. I finally upgraded from my beloved but old Samsung SCH-8500, and so far I'm pretty happy with its replacement. Some features I like that haven't really been mentioned on the site to date: 1) When you're charging up the battery, at 90% charge the outside LED light turns from red to green. This may not seem like a big deal, but overcharging the battery over time will eventually ruin its capacity to hold a charge. It makes it easier to see when to unplug it, and hopefully save on battery wear. 2) You can customize the function of the 4 navigation buttons just above the keypad, so with one keystroke you can display the phone book, calendar, calculator (i love this feature!), or even turn on voice dialing. 3) The voice dialing on the phone is nifty. You don't have to 'train' it to recognize your voice. Once voice dialing is activated, you can just tell it to dial by name, by number, or by digit and speak your commands into the phone. If you can never remember your cell number, say "my phone number" and the phone will read it back to you. 4) The phone has ringer volume settings that include vibrate, but it also includes a great vibrate&high volume combination, so whether you're wearing it in a noisy room or its laying on a table in a quiet one, you'll know its ringing. 5) When entering a phone number, the display turns white and shows extra-large digits until the whole phone number is entered, making it easier to see if you've misdialed. 5)When entering to-do items into calendar, memo pad, or task list, the phone automatically starts off in T9 mode (the word-recognition software that lets you enter words by only hitting each button one time). Just like my old 8500, the Vi660 has a lot of ergonomic little features that make this phone a pleasure to use. It packs a powerhouse of advanced features as well, including the ability to lock the phone and hide the display of certain phone numbers for security. My only big complaint about this phone is that Sprint gives you a user's manual that is 10% user's manual and 90% about touting its PCS Vision services. If you REALLY want to know how to use every little feature, youre going to have to download the PDF file of the manual off their website. All in all, though, I'd say it was a great little phone.
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Summary: Three lemons in a row? QC problems with this one ...
Review: I am currently in the process of boxing up my third A660/VI660 phone from Sprint to return it to the store. The first one lasted four days, the second two and this one a whopping two days as well before the phone refused to function on battery power and would function on A/C power only. The batteries checked out fine in my tester, but the phone would not power up. Even putting a reference voltage at the battery terminals would not make the phone power up on any of the three phones. I also ensured that when I received the new phones I recieved them out of different batches (not just the 20 box packages they get in at the store, but they were manufactured on different days, weeks apart). Three in a row indicate some serious QC problems or possibly an underengineered phone dying of some enviromental hazard, although there is nothing that could be considered that unusual about any place where I go. I recomend that you do not purchase this phone, and if you require a non-camera phone, you do not go with Sprint PCS service, this being their only non-camera phone at the present time.
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Summary: Good phone that works well and skips the junk
Review: I bought the VI-660 because it is one of the few Sprint PCS phones to not come loaded with junk like cameras, PTT (Push to talk) etc. I wanted a new phone that had a long battery life, was as small as possible, and looked good and worked well. The VI-660 has lived up to my expectations, providing very good battery life, nice size and a very nice appearance overall. Sound quality is good (although when the signal is weak I notice some quiet high pitched noises in the background), and it tends to hold a signal quite well (hey, it's CDMA -- none of that GSM garbage!). I also would have liked an external LCD, but this is the best no-frills Sprint phone available right now.
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