Great Cell Phone For All
Written: Oct 04 '00
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Pros: portability, ease of use, voice dial
Cons: looks, ring- tones
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| elmoebeesn's Full Review: Samsung SCH 8500 CDMA / AMPS Cellular Phone |
I have been living on and off in Florida for some time now and have noticed that many people here have cell phones. At first I thought it was some kind of status thing and that they were really not all that important as far as daily usage is concerned. I have found though that with the start of my new internet business that I am often needing to take or receive calls while I am on the go. Therefore, I sucked in my pride and decided to get one recently. I received a quality price on this phone from Samsung and a good calling plan so therefore I purchased the device and thus far I have not been disappointed.
The phone has many great features. The first of which is the fact that it is very light and has great portability. It will easily fit into the users pocket and there have been no personal problems with bringing it along on almost any occasion. Furthermore, this phone has a great new feature which I have found to be very impressive and usable. This feature is called voice dial. It allows the user to speak a persons name into the phone and immediately call them through this. The phone is set up so that it recognizes the users voice and will call the number of the person spoken. Of course this needs to be set up; however, the time to do thid after reading the instruction manual is only about a minute. The battery life of the phone is around a day which I have found to be comparable to many other similar models. I usually charge it twice to three times a week. Furthermore, customer service with Samsung has always been a breeze as their representatives are always eager to help. Most importantly, I have found that the connection is usually uninterrupted and static-free.
Really the only things that I dislike about the phone are its looks and ring-tones. The aesthetics are not really very appealing as the phone looks like a blob of grey and is really devoid of any meaningful color schemes. This is not really a problem as I was not purchasing this gadget as a means to be more attractive. Furthermore the rings that the phone produces are mostly little jingles and songs. I have found these to be somewhat weird and slightly annoying. It is somewhat unprofessional to be sitting in a business meeting when your phone rings and a rendition of "Row row row your boat" starts to play. The more standard rings to the phone are somewhat high-pitched and are also somewhat annoying.
All in all, though, I love this phone. It works well, fulfills my needs and I did not have to pay an arm and a leg for it. There are also some nice calling plans available to the user from Sprint. Call them to see which plan will be better for you.
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Amount Paid (US$): 150
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