PCS Phone Samsung VI660 (Sprint)

by Samsung

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• Product Dimensions: 3.3 x 1.8 x 0.9 inches ; 3.5 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000YRJTQ
• Item model number: VI660
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #303,465 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)

Customer Reviews

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well rounded design, nice UI but only with OK reception, March 3, 2004

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C. Lo (Saratoga, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: PCS Phone Samsung VI660 (Sprint) (Wireless Phone)

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I have been a SprintPCS customer for 5 years. Just like many other Sprint customers, I felt Sprint's coverage is poor but the fact that I enrolled early gave me a very good plan. Therefore, what I did in the past 5 years was to consistently scanning for good phones to tackle the poor signal coverage in the area I live.

I've been through Qualcomm QCP-2760, Samsung 8500, Sanyo 4900 and now Samsung VI660. The old Qualcomm had a decent reception in its days but couldn't compare with Samsung 8500. The 8500 was a legendary phone that was solidly designed and built. However, there's more to be desired in terms of its reception. After an extensive research, I bought my wife a Sanyo 4900 when she started her plan. I found its battery life and reception was very good but Sanyo 4900's downside was its bulky design and clumsy menu.

Due to the consistent drop of calls when using Samsung 8500 at home, I was in the market again hunting for the next generation of cell phones that are reasonably priced but have the best reception. Sanyo has been regularly regarded as having excellent reception and battery life, which I could surely testify due to my ownership of the 4900. But I have to say I'm kind of fond of Samsung and its design due to my good experience with the 8500.

The past couple years marked a down period for Samsung though. After 8500, Samsung released many new phones that were viewed as having miserable reception. However, most recently, it seemed like things have changed. VI660 and VGA1000 received new chips and many good reviews come in from their users.

After comparing price and features, I opted for the VI660. I couldn't be happier with its name dial capability. It doesn't need any "training" and can recognize names very accurately. It certainly makes your driving much safer, too. If you use Samsung's earphone, all you need to do to dial a number is all "talk", after you press a button on the earphone cord to intiate the name dial procedures. The maneuver within its menu is very intuitive and the battery life is decent. In addition, VI660 was among the limited number of phones that support SMS. Even though I don't use it that often, it's still a nice feature to have. Maybe I'm not really picky about battery life but recharging once every two days with many phone calls and some web usage doesn't sound too bad to me.

However, the reception of Samsung VI660 is still not to my expectation. It is certainly better than the 8500 and offers a more "unbroken" conversation but I still suffer from dropping call which is less likely to happen to the Sanyo 4900. After so many attempts in keeping my plan by buying new phones, I am considering switching to Verizon even with the nice SprintPCS plan that I currently have. But if you are not living in an area that has poor signal coverage and you don't need a camera or external display, VI660 is truly an economic, feature packed and compact phone for you to have.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great little phone for the price, April 24, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: PCS Phone Samsung VI660 (Sprint) (Wireless Phone)

I agree with most of the other reviewers here - the Samsung vi660 is a great little phone. I finally upgraded from my beloved but old Samsung SCH-8500, and so far I'm pretty happy with its replacement. Some features I like that haven't really been mentioned on the site to date:

1) When you're charging up the battery, at 90% charge the outside LED light turns from red to green. This may not seem like a big deal, but overcharging the battery over time will eventually ruin its capacity to hold a charge. It makes it easier to see when to unplug it, and hopefully save on battery wear.

2) You can customize the function of the 4 navigation buttons just above the keypad, so with one keystroke you can display the phone book, calendar, calculator (i love this feature!), or even turn on voice dialing.

3) The voice dialing on the phone is nifty. You don't have to 'train' it to recognize your voice. Once voice dialing is activated, you can just tell it to dial by name, by number, or by digit and speak your commands into the phone. If you can never remember your cell number, say "my phone number" and the phone will read it back to you.

4) The phone has ringer volume settings that include vibrate, but it also includes a great vibrate&high volume combination, so whether you're wearing it in a noisy room or its laying on a table in a quiet one, you'll know its ringing.

5) When entering a phone number, the display turns white and shows extra-large digits until the whole phone number is entered, making it easier to see if you've misdialed.

5)When entering to-do items into calendar, memo pad, or task list, the phone automatically starts off in T9 mode (the word-recognition software that lets you enter words by only hitting each button one time).

Just like my old 8500, the Vi660 has a lot of ergonomic little features that make this phone a pleasure to use. It packs a powerhouse of advanced features as well, including the ability to lock the phone and hide the display of certain phone numbers for security. My only big complaint about this phone is that Sprint gives you a user's manual that is 10% user's manual and 90% about touting its PCS Vision services. If you REALLY want to know how to use every little feature, youre going to have to download the PDF file of the manual off their website. All in all, though, I'd say it was a great little phone.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One Great Phone !, February 7, 2004

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LilBlooAlien (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: PCS Phone Samsung VI660 (Sprint) (Wireless Phone)

Well, I've had this phone for a little over a week now and so far, it's a great phone. It's a good size, not too big, not too small, fits great in a purse. The menus are really easy to navigate and use. The sound quality is very crisp and clear. I've never had a dropped call and I can get great reception anywhere I take this phone. I even took the phone into both the basement at home and elevators at work and had 2 out of 4 reception bars with clear reception. The phone comes with about 40 different ringers but you can personalize your phone further by downloading ringers at 3gupload.com. The screen is crisp and the colors are vibrant. The keypad lights up to a bright blue whenever you open the phone. Also, a great feature which is not often mentioned is that this phone has a security lock. When set up properly, no one can operate your phone once it's turned on unless they know your secret lock code. Before this phone I had the Kyocera 2255 and that was an awesome phone but I felt that after having it for 2 and 1/2 years it was time for an update. The only drawback to this phone (although this is very minor) is that it doesn't have an external caller ID screen. So you have to flip the phone open to see who is calling. But that shouldn't be a big deal, it doesn't take that much energy to flip open a screen. Besides, remember the days when external screens didn't exist? We all survived that back then ... I don't see why we can't survive that still. Overall, this is a great phone and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a small camera-less flip phone.