Samsung SPH-I300 user reviews (Sprint)

4.5 stars

"own it for 2.5 years & still works tip top" on September 1, 2004

Pros: for light emails easy downloads( I can not belive I own this phone for so long! still working great with so much abuse

Cons: can't seem to find a stylist for it and it's time for a new toy/updated phone looks like treo here I come

3.0 stars

"Great...I love it!" on December 27, 2003

Pros: I have had the I300 for two years now and I have chosen not not to upgrade until the SGH-i500 comes out because this PDA/Phone does its job. Works great as a PDA...works great as a phone. Tough little unit as well. I have dropped it a number of times a

Cons: Very difficult to view screen in direct sunlight. PDA/Phone intergration could be better. Smaller size would be nicer, but compared to my old Visor Phone it is tiny.

3.5 stars

"Great Phone, BUT AVOID SPRINT AT ALL COSTS!!!" on November 16, 2003

Cons: I had to get SPRINT to use it. As you may well know, by the fact that SPRINT paid a 5.1 MILLION DOLLAR OVERBILLING out-of-court SETTLEMENT to the U.S. Goverment; they WILL OVERBILL you EVERY COUPLE MONTHS and they WON'T resolve it. BUYER BEWARE!!

1.0 stars

"I actually bashed it into submission" on December 20, 2011 by andlingers

Pros: A phone that can run software! In 2005!!!

Cons: Crashy, slow, awkward interface, not very hackable, minimally useful internet connectivity.

Summary: I loved my Palm Vx, and as a developer I loved PalmOS in its time. In 2005 I got the SPH-i300, and was quickly disappointed that the dialer app sucked and that it was not really replacable or hackable at all. But it was awesome in that it could run software -- I had a couple of my own programs on it, and that made me all warm inside. Anyways, it was nearly unusable as a phone. In particular it had a "blue screen of death"-like state that it would often enter when you were answering the phone. One day it did this and I said "that is the last time my phone will ever crash when I try to answer a call." Rather than fix all of Samsung's bugs, I grabbed the nearest blunt instrument and whammed it until it stopped working. It took a few blows, but I was victorious in the end. The experience was so unsatisfying that I didn't buy another smart phone until 2010. Unfortunately, that one was also a Samsung and eventually I bashed it against a chair until it also gave up the ghost. Now I have an LG and it is everything I expected it to be. Notably, it is not infuriating to use it to send calls. It is also not infuriating to use it to receive calls. Good riddance to bad Samsung garbage.