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0.5 stars
"You will be taking this phone back if you buy it. LEMON"
Pros: You get a new phone once a week/month because the old one freezes
Cons: Before you buy this phone please google "samsung rant freezes". Tomorrow morning I will be replacing my 5th rant. All of them have done the EXACT SAME THING. They freeze right after the "loading..." screen AND NEVER RESTART! Black screen of death!
Summary: Only a FOOL would buy this phone after reading this review! Only a fool would not take the 2 minutes required to google "samsung rant freezes" and find out that this problem is widespread and still not fixed. If you read that "this problem has been fixed with the latest firmware" thats a LIE typed in by someone who doesnt know any better. When I say it freezes I mean IT FREEZES. Its useless, it will never work again, its bricked, whatever you want to call it. NO you cant take out the battery and put it back in and have it work again, its FROZEN. No you wont be able to "reset it" by some magic, its broken. Your recourse will be to take it back to where you got and get a brand new one. If you like having a new phone weekly/monthly and dont mind going into the store and getting a new one each time this phone freezes on you, then you have found your perfect phone! Honestly I think they need to recall this phone, or someone should file a class action lawsuit. Samsung and sprint are well aware of the problem and both seem helpless to "fix it". ITS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE SOMEONE NEEDS 911 EMERGENCY SERVICES AND SOMEONE DIES BECAUSE THIS PHONE "FREEZES" AND WONT COMPLETE A SIMPLE CALL TO 911.
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I was just wondering if you still have the rant or if you actually got a different phone now? I was on my 5th rant, you can catch all my ranting and raving on google LOL. I have the LG Lotus now.
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i agree that SOMETHING needs to be fixed. but i also think that its unfair to blame sprint, because its probably illegal to tamper with the patented samsung rant softwear(sorry for horrible grammar). but ur right.....this fone sux!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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