 Very small, light, affordable & just right 47 of 50 people found this review helpful.
This phone has the features that any good phone should have. It weighs 2.8 ounces and even with the battery installed it feels extremely light. Though it is very small in size, the keys are not tiny. The keys are arranged and spaced fine. When closed, this phone has volume up and down key and a camera key accessible on the outside. It has a nice dark grey body with a shiny black background for its screen and camera on the outside. When closed, you can turn on the camera using the button outside and take a portrait picture of yourself. Following are the Good and Bad points about this phone.
The Goods
-Very light (2.8 ounces), slim and small (3.9 x 2.0 x0.6 inches). Not too small either. Has a sleek finish.
-Quad band (850 MHz;900 MHz;1800 MHz;1900 MHz) International Phone
-Bluetooth wireless
-Sound quality, clarity and reception is really good.
-MP3 player that supports MP3, WMA, and ACC formats.
-1.3 MP Zoom Camera with video recorder
You can use video recorder in two modes. Default mode records clips upto maximum of 10 sec so that you can e-mail them instantly. If you use second mode you can record clips longer than 10 sec but of course limited to the memory available in this phone (max 21MB). You can choose to record video in different formats. You can also choose to save picture in different resolutions. Camera and video quality is really decent.
-Zoom voice feature. I really liked this feature as in noisy environment or in a place where your phone is not so close to the actual speaker, you can turn on this feature and the phone's mic acts a lot more sensitive and you can hear the speaker very clearly even if speaker is situated farther.
-Picture messaging
-Voice Notes
-Voice activated SPEAKER INDEPENDENT dialing.
This phone has a voice recognition software that attempts to recognize the name of the person you want to call and then connects to that person. When the phone is closed you can use multi purpose button on the headset by keeping the button pressed for more than 2 sec the voice recognition software activates then you can give any phone command or calling command to call anyone from your contacts.
-Speakerphone on this phone is loud enough.
-Sends and receives instant messages with Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, or ICQ
-Software interface in this phone responds pretty quick. There is a grouping feature using which you can group your contacts and assign a particular ringtone to a group.
-Phone is High Speed EDGE data transfer capable. I did not use this feature so far.
-SAR (Radiation rating) is nice it is 1.07 when close to ear and 0.9 when you wear it on body
-Phone book on the phone can hold generous 1000 contacts with 5 numbers for each.
-T-Mobile MyFaves capable
The Bads
-Just 21 MB of internal memory. Samsung could have been more generous for this quality of phone.
-No memory slot. Personally I don't need memory slot as I use my iPod for music and other data that I want to store. However considering the fact that most other hi-tech phones of this quality do come with memory slot, Samsung could have provided one for this phone.
-Phone displays date-time, signal and battery strength on the outside but only for few seconds and then the screen goes blank to save energy. If you are used to seeing the time on the front LCD this phone does not provide the time on the outside unless you press volume key for more than 2 sec. That is if you keep outside volume key pressed for 2 sec the outsid
Review ID: 10000000002253237  Thank you for voting. If your vote meets our guidelines, it will be posted within 24 hours. You cannot vote on the helpfulness of a review you wrote. Your request cannot be processed at this time. Please try again later.   Great phone, lousy at everything else. 6 of 6 people found this review helpful.
I seek the utility of a basic cell phone, like my old Samsung E105. That old phone was a small clamshell, had an ever-visible daytime clock that could be instantly lit for night viewing, and an alarm so I could rapidly key-in an appointment. The vibrate/audio alarm worked well, and it had a neat psychedelic multicolor LED lamp that warned when messages arrived and worked well to locate the phone when it rang in the dark. The free ringtones sucked. I soon stopped wearing a watch and I never missed an appointment. I became spoiled with the simple utility and it lasted a long time. Then I managed to break it. I replaced it with a Samsung T619 and have been miserable since. The T619 is a fine cell phone, but is an awful clock and worse alarm. Talk quality, listen quality, and reception quality are all very good. The demo phone at the T-Mobile store showed a fake image of the clock - in reality it is tough to make it show the time, even using two hands. I've found myself looking at watches again as I visit stores. The appointment alarm is an insult. It absolutely requires a full QWERTY keyboard to use (not available), and requires all kinds of pointless data just to set a simple alarm. I counted 50 keystrokes without any text notes. I applaud the mechanical and electrical engineering team, as they are leading edge. The bozos designing the software must have all been in management, because this phone has all kinds of inappropriately selected firmware stuffed into it. The solution to my disappointments would be: Hit any external button and the external clock instantly illuminates for a few seconds, then half dims for a few more. This can be desensitized in software to assure false triggers don't waste the battery, but requires that Samsung take mamagement out of the programmers chairs. Don't put the camera button exactly opposite the lamp button, as both get squeezed when trying to apply one, and the phone responds by doing nothing. Put a useable appointment alarm on this thing. The alarm Samsung installed on the T619 belongs in some sort of desktop suite. Today I downgraded to a blue Samsung T209, as it appeared to have the simple features that have become part of my daily routine. It will arrive in a week.
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