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19 out of 20 people found this review helpful
4.5 stars
"Coolest phone of the season"
Pros: Small, Sleek, Fun, Easy to Navigate
Cons: No over the air downloading of songs
Summary: This phone does it all! I had the Razr, then the Treo 650, and I bought this one 4 days ago...it is spectacular! Great reception, wonderfully loud (I can actually hear people, ahem, Razr...) Downloading videos is super fast on Cingular's 3G network, get the media max bundle or you'll be payin' thru the nose for all the cool downloads on Cingular video. It doesn't come with a headset or a USB cable but that didn't bother me since my laptop has Bluetooth and the phone transfers pics, songs and files just as quickly over bluetooth as a USB. Just make sure you don't purchase Southwing's bluetooth headphones with this phone, b/c they don't work. I will be looking to purchase the wired headphones since I have really enjoyed the MobiRadio 7 day trial on the phone and it will play nearly any format of music except for iTunes downloaded music...grrr. However for just $15 a month to Napster you can have unlimited downloads yadayadayada. The phone dimensions make this phone a hair thicker (literally) than the Razr; the exact same in length but quite a bit narrower (holding them side by side). $49.99 after mail in rebates makes this phone a steal. Did I mention 2.0 megapixel camera??? It's a cool phone that does it all. Enough said.
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I've had this phone for about 2 months and i have enjoyed it. It has a fantastic camera but if you want to take a picture of yourself and see it you have to press the right side button and it gets annoying to have to scroll down one everytime. It isn't the most exciting outside either but all in all it has good quality and good speakerphone. If you're deciding on weather to chose this or the razr then deffidently go for this! It looks the same practically (just as thin) and has much better performance. I dont know if this is something extra but I can go on myspace mobile and thats a plus. The comercials are marketing this as a big music lover phone but its not as easy as it looks. I had to buy a USB cord at a cingular store (25$)just so I could have napster on my phone. Turns out you need a certain napster chip implanted in your phone? I gave up on that but i do use the recording to record music and that works great it sounds perfect. You can record up to an hour! But again I dont really use the music feature that much and i doubt others do its very complicated. I would reccomend this to an older audience instead of a teenager because it is a very professional looking phone and although it has alot of great tools its not the funnest phone. Also a long process for texting so if your an addicted texter this might hold you back.
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I've had this phone for about 2 months and i have enjoyed it. It has a fantastic camera but if you want to take a picture of yourself and see it you have to press the right side button and it gets annoying to have to scroll down one everytime. It isn't the most exciting outside either but all in all it has good quality and goos speakerphone. If you're deciding on weather to chose this or the razr then deffidently go for this! It looks the same practically (just as thin) and has much better performance. I dont know if this is something extra but I can go on myspace mobile and thats a plus. I would reccomend this to an older audience instead of a teenager because it is a very professional looking phone and although it has alot of great tools its not the funnest phone. Also a long process for texting so if your an addicted texter this might hold you back.
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You claim the southwing stereo headpnones don't work with this phone but they do. In fact every function works as it should. I had no problem at all. The Sync detected them and they work perfectly with no setup issues at all. I bought my wife the same phone and headphones and they work on hers as well..
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You can get iTunes songs to work, though you either have to go through the annoying process of burning to CD and then re-importing -- which takes time, and will cause a smidge of quality loss -- or use something like QTFairUse6 (the 2.5 beta 3 version works for iTunes 7.0.2, I believe) to unlock all the songs your library.
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Samsung Sync SGH-A707 - black (AT&T):
$148.00
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