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1.0 stars
"crazily inefficient phone! i'll never buy a samsung again!"
Pros: makes and receives calls fairly well
Cons: this phone wastes your time with its poor software design and inefficiencies
Summary: 1) the camera constantly is taking photos in my pocket, using up all of the memory with blank photos... erasing photos takes about 10 seconds a piece! There is no way to disable the camera either!
2) The fact that it advertises that it offers Bluetooth is a total scam, since you can only connect the phone to a wireless headset, and not to your computer or another cell phone. So you won't be sharing photos or ring-tones or backing up your contacts to your computer with this device! You could use the phone's internet functions to send ring-tones or photos, but with my carrier (Rogers/AT&T in Canada) that is an expensive option.
3) The oldest text messages sent or received are not automatically deleted, and so the memory quickly gets full. You can delete the messages one-by-one, but again, as with deleting photos, the processor is so slow in this phone that it take 7 or 8 seconds each, which is a long time when you have 85 text messages to delete!
4) The image quality from the camera is really sub-par.
Samsung SGH-C417 - red (AT&T):
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