Samsung SGH-R225: Great phone for the Price.
Written: Oct 16 '02
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Pros: Cheap, good battery life, very bright back light.
Cons: Games suck.
The Bottom Line: A good phone for the price you're going to get it at. Now someone needs to start making some JPop Ringtones for it.
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| Alkaiser's Full Review: Samsung SGH-R225 |
I was put into a predicament after having to move out of my apartment abruptly at the end of August. Once I moved into the new place, I had no phone and no email! I became impossible to contact.
So, after much prodding, I went ahead and got myself a cell phone. Initially, I wanted a flip phone, so I wouldn't have to worry about my pocket making calls to Timbuktu, but apparently, my not using a credit card for the last 6 years has caused some questionable things to happen to my credit. Namely, that I can't get all the cool phone offers from companies.
Instead of my flip phone, I got slapped with this Samsung, and while I wasn't ticked about it, I really had wanted something else. (BTW, I have a phone design that EVERYONE will be picking up, if only I could get just a company to look at it. Revolutionary, I tell ya.)
Anyway, as soon as I got the phone, I did what any techy guy would do. I took it out of the box, and threw the manual away! With that being done, I set about to tinkering with the phone.
Now, as a gamer, one of the most important features for a phone to have are the games. This particular phone has only 3 games: Hexa, Mole, and Casino. Hexa is a variant of Columns and is easiest played with you rotating the phone 90 degrees.
Mole is a game of Whack-A-Mole with you using the keypad to whack the various moles.
Casino's just a lame slot program.
Not too much excitement in these phone games, and it didn't even have the phone classic Snake. When's someone going to make phone Artillery?
While it didn't have any cool phone games, it did have some neat gimmicky stuff like the ability to change your signal light to any of *5* different colors! So if you want the little blinky light on your phone to be Green, Orange, Red, Blue or Violet, you can take your pick. I chose Violet, just because the back light's blue already, and the other 3 colors are just kinda blasé. (Is it just me or is that "é" the only cool thing about the French?)
Anyway, speaking of the back light, the indigo blue light that emenates from this phone is really, really, bright. If I get a call at night and my phone's in my pocket, it's like one of my legs just turned blue.
Another nifty little gimmick is the phone's Melody Composer. Unfortunately, most people on the internet who make ring tones don't make them for the Samsung, so you'd either have to make them yourself, or use the handy dandy Ring Tone Converter made by the guys at Code Workshop.
The phone seems to do a decent job of getting reception, and I can leave the phone on for 2 days without having to recharge the thing. It's probably stay on longer if I turned off the detect signal light.
Some of the phone menus are kind of slow to activate, and I disagree with the Phonebook option not just taking you straight to the list of your contacts. As it is, the screen it doees take you to does absolutely nothing. It's a wasted step.
All in all the phone is a solid performer, with a lot of little features that put it just a bit above your average non-flip phone. Not sure about it's durability...if it starts falling apart on me within a couple months, I'll write about it. Can't go wrong with this phone at the price you get it for, though.
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): 89
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