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PCS Phone Samsung i500
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Rating: 3.97/5 from 39 reviews Three things that annoy me...So far, a great phoneI've had my phone for about 3 months now. So far, I love it. I was sick of carrying my phone and my Palm Pilot around. So, when Amazon had a great deal on the Samsung, I purchased it right away. I looked at other phones like the Treo, but I was looking for a flip phone that was still small and had the PDA bulit in. I've had no problems with the phone. It works great and is easy to use if you are a previous Plam owner. The screen is bright and colors are good in my opinion. The graffiti area is a little small but I got used to it after a week or two. Actually, I installed JOT and I can graffiti right on the screen, this makes inputing data a little easier. I really love the voice dial feature, calls are a breeze. Open the phone, push the button, say the name and the phone does the rest. Great when I'm driving. The internet works good, I changed the dispaly to grayscale (4 shades of gray) and the speeds seem faster. Works great for checking the weather, stock quotes, sports scores. I can even check my e-mail at Yahoo. If you need a good alarm clock, you'll need to download software for that. I installed BIGCLOCK and that has worked great for me. Wakes me up every morning. I would give it five stars, but I wish it had an external caller ID and an expansion slot for more memory. A speakerphone would be nice, but I can live without it. One other thing, I wish the volume buttons and voice dial button were raised a little more. Maybe a rubber button? They are plastic and flush with the phone, I find it difficult to push when I'm trying to make a call with one hand and sometimes push the button above or below it on accident. Other than that, I love it. Word of caution. If you order the phone and want to activate your SPRINT service, you might want to take it to a SPRINT store. I've had some problems with customer service, especially long hold times (30 minutes or more?). It took 2 months to get my number ported after repeated calls to find out what was going on. Sprint did refund my first month of service to try and compensate for the delay? everything I ever wanted in a phone pdaJust got it a week ago. Ever since we are inseperable. I bought more expensive gizmos in the past but never did I get attached to something this quick. It does everything I want very well. I need all my addresses in oneplace synced to My Yahoo, all my calender with alarms, my expenses and my to do list. It has call forward by sprint when Iam in areas where there is no reception or I should not answer the phone like the hosp. It is my pager also. Of course I would have liked to see who is calling on the cover but so be it. but it doesnt matter cause I would have answered anyway, so I set it up so when I flip the lid open the phone answers. I dont need a silly camera or blue tooth (what ever it is) to make me happy . This phone can be used by serious people for business with absolute reliability because of the second battery which I change everymorning as well as crystal clear reception. So If you have to be always availbale on the phone for business reasons This is the phone for you. | ||||||||||||||||
First, it really doesn't have text messaging, at least not the sort you might be used to if you came from another cell phone company like Cingular or Verizon. The only text messaging this phone supports is web based, i.e., you need to log on through your WAP browser and compose a message, which is so slow and tedious you may as well grab the pen and paper and send your message through the US Post Office. Not to mention, to send a WAP message you need to have a $15/month vision plan, or pay $.01/kb while you try to find the right web site. Sprint recently came out with "SMS" text messaging, which is what other companies refer to as simply "text messaging", but Sprint doesn't support the i500 with this despite numerous complaints from i500 owners (the phone only needs a software upgrade but Sprint won't support it). There are a couple of PDA apps out there that can provide SMS compatability for the i500, but they're flawed and cost $$.
Second, if you're into downloading ringtones, forget about it. You can't do it with the i500. You're stuck with the cheesy polyphonic tones it comes with. Not even the PDA app hackers have come up with a way around it.
Third, and least importantly, if your ringer is on the phone plays a polyphonic tone when you power on or off, and there's no way to disable it. This is pretty annoying if you want to turn your phone on or off discretely while in a meeting, a movie, or at a concert.