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16 out of 23 people found this review helpful
2.0 stars
"Poor sound quality, small keys"
Pros: TXT Keyboard, versatality
Cons: Sound quality, Phone Keys, Email Sync Extra
Summary: While it has some very neat features and versatality, it fails miserably at its primary function: phone.
Sound quality was absolutely terrible. My voice sounded garbled constantly to people I talked to. When listening to calls, I found the audio would hiccup constantly. My previous phone (motorola vx3) had its issues, but as a phone the audio quality was excellent. This was barely passable.
The speakerphone, available in horizontal mode, was also terrible. Again, I could barely hear people and likewise, they could barely hear me.
Furthermore, the keypad for making phone calls was absolutely tiny and impossible to read. It was really difficult to make calls. Unless you were staring at the keyboard right in front of your face, you couldn't tell what you were pressing.
The one area the phone excels at is texting and the QWERTY keyboard is awesome for that. However, I was hoping to have it sync to email, but found that to be ridiculously expensive. Additionally, I felt the phone's software was hackneyed and didn't seemed to be designed to handle the wider view, nor be able to handle the more advanced features.
This phone tries to do everything and does nothing well. If you want a phone to do all the fancy things, you are better off spending the money on a smart phone.
- 3 replies to this review
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The speaker phone quality is crap, I will say that. But when talking on it normally the sound is fine, its actaully very very clean and clear. Keep in mind that when reviewers say the sounds is garbled and hiccuped its more than likely not the phone, but the quality of signal in the area. If you are in an area with strong to medium low signal it sounds fine. The sound quality does shrink when you have one bar of signal, as does with every single phone out there. These new high tech phones need to be used in areas with good signal strength. You cannot expect the phone to be at its peak performance when you don't have the best, most advanced signal. And keep in mind there are different kind of signal too, outlaying areas don't always provide the most up-to-date network capabilities. If you live outside the city check to make sure you can recieve the signal that can send and recieve texts, alerts, internet etc. If not, its the network, NOT the phone.
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You should replace your phone! Something may be wrong with it. My phone sounds perfect during a call. My old phone was a samsung sch-a970 and spent over $500 on it because I hadnt finished my timed contract. And this phone absolutely beats that phone without a doubt. The camera was very nice and that was about it.
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As a previous owner of the Treo 650, Treo700W, and several flip phones I will be the first to tell you this has all the bang for the buck. I know the comment on the e-mail, but lets all face it you can spend $400+ (retail) more on the Treos, or you can pocket that money and use the web. The data plans are expensive treos too, just a thought!!
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Samsung SCH-u740 - champagne (Verizon Wireless):
$5.60
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