::ring:: Pick up THIS phone!
Written: Apr 20 '01
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Pros: durable, light-weight, many features, simple, clear. . .more!
Cons: nope, no cons!
The Bottom Line: buy this phone if you can! no questions asked. If your getting a phone get this one!
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| Gadorade's Full Review: Samsung SCH 8500 CDMA / AMPS Cellular Phone |
This new Samsung mobile phone is great! My mother and i just got our first mobile phones about a month ago and we both got this phone. The reasons we bought this phone were numerous and amazing!
This phone is small, light-weight, very easy to use, great looking and durable. When I was talking to the man who was helping me at the store, he said that many people who had the old version of this phone that also flipped open came back for repairs commonly because the screws where the phone flipped open would break quite often. This phone does not do that and so far they haven't had a single person come back to get that repaired. There are many features on this phone that i love, and although some other phones may have the same features, this phone makes these features easy to use, easy to access and very useful. One feature that i have found great, on this phone, is the memo-button on the left side of the phone. You just hold this button and you can record up to 6, one minute long memos to yourself, instead of writing them down on a little piece of paper that you will probably lose. Its very helpful for me and very easy for my mother, who isn't the most genius person of technology. Speaking of easy, this phone is very easy to use! The phone explains its self while your scrolling down the menu or doing anything! This phone keeps my whole life organized. Another feature that i love is its calendar feature. Again it is easy to access and easy to use. You can look at a monthly calendar on this phone or a daily calendar, whatever you want, it can do it. And although other phones may have this feature, few phones have the feature of t9 which is this spelling dictionary that when your typing in names or any word, it suggests words to you and finishes typing the word your typing before you have even gotten to the second to last letter. Its a great idea and works really well because all my friends who have cell phones, who don't have this phone, have to type every little letter in and it may take a few minutes, but with t9 it only takes a few second to write a few names and dates. The main reason that me and my mother got this phone is because of its antenna. It's antenna is amazing! If your in a place that usually won't get service, this phone will get service loud and clear! So if you have a service that has certain places in the world you can call from, if your on the boarder line of being out of that boundary for calling, it will get service and allow you to call, so you don't really have to worry about getting service at any time! Although this phone is $200, it really can be 150 because there is a 50$ rebate. All you have to do if fill out a few sheets and send it to them and you get $50 back in your pocket! So this $200 worth phone can cost you only $150, and I know I just "only" a $150, but that's money very well spent! You can also access the wireless web from this phone and its easy to go around and use it even though it may cost extra, if you really need to use the web and your no where new a computer, you can use this phone! The battery life for this phone is about 4 days which is more than enough I think, because I charge mine almost every night, but it is able to last for about 4 days. Another one of my favorites on this phone has nothing to do really with the phone or how it works or anything, but they (samsung) put these really cool animation on the phone so, for example, when you turn off the phone, there is this little animation that twirls around and gets smaller and fades into the back round and says "bye bye." This is only one of the many animation but I find them pretty amusing and fun. Back to how the phone works. Again, on the left side of the phone, there are two arrows. One points up, one points down. These arrows allow you to change the volume of your ring and also to change it into no ring or vibrate in about 2 seconds. It's a great and easy feature that makes life, and this phone even simpler, because instead of having to scroll through the menu bar you can just press the arrows on the side a couple of times and your done! I don't want to go on naming every great feature on this phone and telling you why every feature on this phone is so great because you would be reading for hours! There are so many features that make the phone easy to use, very clear, very helpful, and many more. I think this is the ultimate phone that is out and will be for a while. There isn't much on this phone that you can improve on. As I said before though, this phone is durable, and I think that is a one this that is very important when looking into buying a phone because you want to have this phone or any phone for as long as you can without it breaking, and this phone will do that. You can keep this phone for a long long time and it will not break!
My last recommendations are this: if you want a great phone that will last you forever, and will be crystal clear and probably the best phone you will ever have, then buy this phone. I can't stress enough how great this phone is. The features I names and talked about were only a fraction of the great features and uses on and for this phone! Even though it costs $200 you can get that $50 rebate. It's a great deal! This phone will do you well and do it for a long time!
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): 200
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