By far under-rated by Sprint - phenomenal product!
Written: Nov 28 '01
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Pros: Small - lightweight as the m505. Well-thought through design and functionality. Worth every penny.
Cons: Is $500, but is perfect meld of phone and Palm.
The Bottom Line: It condenses what you carry, meets your needs better and lighter than a laptop, and worth the money in what you won't have to buy.
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| mpepsilon's Full Review: Samsung SPH-I300 |
The Samsung SPH I-300, or PalmPhone as I will call it is probably the greatest meld between a Palm PDA and a CDMA Sprint phone. This phone is about the thickness of the m505, and a little bit taller, but this is by far the finest product that uses a Palm OS and has a color screen. Sure, the m505 has the SmartCard slot - but if 8 MB of memory is just not enough for you, then I question your uses of your PDA.
The sleek curves on the side hint at a "sexier side" to the phone, and I will admit that this metallic plastic does rival the brushed aluminum finish of the m505. I thought that the 256 colors would be a real loss to the 65K colors of the m505, but let me tell you - this baby more than makes up for the little loss of color. From voice dialing to vibrating for appointments to checking my corporate email on the phone, this is by far the finest unit to come out of Sprint in probably two years. If you think that you would not need an "all-in-one" unit, then you have no idea what you are missing.
I have owned almost every Palm at some point - the PalmPilot Professional, the Palm III, the Palm IIIcE, the Palm V, the Palm Vx, the Palm VIIx, and the m505. Let me just say that this little I-300 puts every one of these other PDAs to shame. What is the real beauty? That I can use it as an all in one. This is by far worth the $500 that it runs right now. You must understand that for a comparable phone and separate phone, you would be looking at around $550 - $700 depending on what you got, so that $500 doesn't seem so bad at the end of the day.
It is light, it is small, it comes with an extra battery, and I could not be any happier with it. I encourage you to buy it today - it crosses platforms even...It will work on Mac and Windows - pretty nice.
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Amount Paid (US$): 500
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Member: Jennifer Cooper
Location: Fort Worth, TX
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