SAMSUNG t619 T-MOBILE GSM BLUETOOTH CELL PHONE

by Samsung

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• ASIN: B000ITMSLW
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #197,478 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)

Product Description

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A full-featured, quad-band phone with a 1.3 megapixel VGA camera, advanced voice dialing and speech recognition, and much more, the Samsung t619 makes a powerful, yet affordable, mobile companion. Additionally, with MMS messaging capabilities, Bluetooth, EDGE data, a speakerphone, and wireless Web capabilities, the t619 is the perfect complement to T-Mobile service.

A flip with lots of flair. See an interactive demo (requires Flash).

Design
Inside the t619's sleek clamshell you'll find a large, yet crisp and clear 176 x 220 color LCD display with support for over 262,000 colors. The outside cover of the handset sports a supplementary monochrome (white on black) LCD display that can display time, call information, battery and signal strength, and more. Up and down buttons for volume control are placed on the left side, and camera controls are included on the right side of the phone, while most of the phone's features and on-screen menus are controlled by a five-way center button on the handset's control pad. The phone includes 21 MB of internal memory, and because the t619 has an internal antenna, there's nothing to snag or break off.

Calling Features
The t619's phone book can handle up to 1,000 of your contacts, and you can store up to five numbers per entry, plus an e-mail address, and a note. In addition to having a discreet vibrating alert, the t619 supports both 40-chord polyphonic ringtones, which means you can really jazz up your incoming calls with cool tunes. Custom ringtones in MP3 format are also supported. A number of ringtones come preloaded on the phone, and more ringtones can be downloaded from T-Mobile's t-zones service. You can also assign ringer IDs and picture IDs to your favorite callers, while the voice dialing feature allows for quick, voice activated calling of pre-programmed contacts. Like all T-Mobile phones, the t619 supports voice mail, caller ID, conference calling, call forwarding, call waiting, call hold, built-in paging, and access to T-Mobile's 411 service.

Thin and stylish, with the features you need.

Messaging, Internet and Tools
When it comes to messaging and Internet connectivity, the t619 has you covered. The phone features support for Yahoo! and AOL instant messaging applications (T-Mobile messaging charges apply). There's also a built-in WAP 2.0 Web browser for t-zones downloads and mobile Web browsing. T-Mobile's t-zones service lets you receive and send e-mails, read news headlines, get weather updates, download games and ringtones, and more. Traditional text messaging, as well as picture and sound messaging, are also supported by the phone. T9 text entry, which is a predictive text entry technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built into the unit--a plus for mobile email and text messaging users.

A number of handy software tools are bundled with the t619, including a voice memo recorder that allows up to a minute of recording time per memo, a calculator with unit converter, a to-do list, a calendar, and an alarm clock.

Imaging and Entertainment
The t619 is easily customized to suit your style. Screen savers, themes, and wallpapers can be set to your tastes, and you can even browse and download more wallpapers from the t-zones service. The t619 is Java-enabled, meaning it supports games and application downloads written on the Java platform. Games are available via the T-Mobile t-zones service.

The t619 also sports a flight mode feature, which allows the user to safely use the non-wireless functions of a phone (such as music, games or organizer functions) on an airplane during flight.

As mentioned, the phone sports a powerful 1.3 megapixel camera. The camera also features support for video capture. You can capture and play back short video clips, and store as many videos as you like, as long as there is available memory.

Vital Statistics
The Samsung t619 weighs 2.80 ounces and measures 3.70 x 1.80 x 0.66 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4 hours of digital talk time, and up to 8 days of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS frequencies. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.

Product Description

The Samsung t619 is one sexy clamshell. From its smooth, sculptured form to its contoured profile, this Samsung’s good looks are matched only by its beautiful performance. You get Bluetooth® Wireless Technology, a 1.3 megapixel camera, instant messaging and T-Mobile’s new myFaves service. If you want good looks plus substance, you want the t619.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Small yet very Powerful, September 28, 2006

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Steev "steevil" (san jose, ca United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SAMSUNG t619 T-MOBILE GSM BLUETOOTH CELL PHONE (Wireless Phone)

I bought this phone after dealing with the new SideKick 3 from Tmobile. As much as I enjoyed using the SK3, it was a huge brick to talk with and the camera was horrible and they did not improve the screen. Hence I got this new phone and can still take ten times better pictures with it. Same megapixels but the sensor in it is higher quality and the screen is very crisp and bright. Emailing pictures is as easy on the SK3 and the overall quality is amazing. Signal range is great too, no dropped calls. Charges very fast!

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very small, light, affordable & just right, November 1, 2006

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CyberSimba (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SAMSUNG t619 T-MOBILE GSM BLUETOOTH CELL PHONE (Wireless Phone)

This phone has the features that any good phone should have. It weighs 2.8 ounces and even with the battery installed it feels extremely light. Though it is very small in size, the keys are not tiny. The keys are arranged and spaced fine. When closed, this phone has volume up and down key and a camera key accessible on the outside. It has a nice dark grey body with a shiny black background for its screen and camera on the outside. When closed, you can turn on the camera using the button outside and take a portrait picture of yourself. Following are the Good and Bad points about this phone.

The Goods
-Very light (2.8 ounces), slim and small (3.9 x 2.0 x0.6 inches). Not too small either. Has a sleek finish.
-Quad band (850 MHz;900 MHz;1800 MHz;1900 MHz) International Phone
-Bluetooth wireless
-Sound quality, clarity and reception is really good.
-MP3 player that supports MP3, WMA, and ACC formats.
-1.3 MP Zoom Camera with video recorder
You can use video recorder in two modes. Default mode records clips upto maximum of 10 sec so that you can e-mail them instantly. If you use second mode you can record clips longer than 10 sec but of course limited to the memory available in this phone (max 21MB). You can choose to record video in different formats. You can also choose to save picture in different resolutions. Camera and video quality is really decent.
-Zoom voice feature. I really liked this feature as in noisy environment or in a place where your phone is not so close to the actual speaker, you can turn on this feature and the phone's mic acts a lot more sensitive and you can hear the speaker very clearly even if speaker is situated farther.
-Picture messaging
-Voice Notes
-Voice activated SPEAKER INDEPENDENT dialing.
This phone has a voice recognition software that attempts to recognize the name of the person you want to call and then connects to that person. When the phone is closed you can use multi purpose button on the headset by keeping the button pressed for more than 2 sec the voice recognition software activates then you can give any phone command or calling command to call anyone from your contacts.
-Speakerphone on this phone is loud enough.
-Sends and receives instant messages with Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, or ICQ
-Software interface in this phone responds pretty quick. There is a grouping feature using which you can group your contacts and assign a particular ringtone to a group.
-Phone is High Speed EDGE data transfer capable. I did not use this feature so far.
-SAR (Radiation rating) is nice it is 1.07 when close to ear and 0.9 when you wear it on body
-Phone book on the phone can hold generous 1000 contacts with 5 numbers for each.
-T-Mobile MyFaves capable

The Bads
-After using this phone for a while I thought of adding this point: This phone has a camera button on the right hand side. There is no lock for this button. So it is very easy to accidently press this button. Sometimes you do not realize and the camera could be on for several minutes eating away the battery life.
-Just 21 MB of internal memory. Samsung could have been more generous for this quality of phone.
-No memory slot. Personally I don't need memory slot as I use my iPod for music and other data that I want to store. However considering the fact that most other hi-tech phones of this quality do come with memory slot, Samsung could have provided one for this phone.
-Phone displays date-time, signal and battery strength on the outside but only for few seconds and then the screen goes blank to save energy. If you are used to seeing the time on the front LCD this phone does not provide the time on the outside unless you press volume key for more than 2 sec. That is if you keep outside volume key pressed for 2 sec the outside LCD shows the time etc again for few sec and then goes blank.

Overall in my opinion this phone has really useful features that any good phone should have. I was not big on the points (Bads) this phone lacked in. If you are looking for affordable, small, very light, quad band, bluetooth phone with camera+video+mp3. This is just the right phone!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Thin and Lightweight, October 17, 2006

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mrskitty (Maui, HI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SAMSUNG t619 T-MOBILE GSM BLUETOOTH CELL PHONE (Wireless Phone)

I upgraded from my Motorola V180 to this camera phone because I upgraded my plan to have the myfaves feature. My review is a little comparison to my old phone considering this is my first Samsung phone.

Appearance- Thin and lightweight. Keypad is big and easy to press. You won't be able to change menu screen.

Battery- It charges quickly, but it also drains quickly. Maybe it's because it's due to me playing around with the camera.

Call Quality- Clear calls.

Camera/Video- My first camera phone, and I have to say that it's pretty decent. I still have to figure out all the camera settings. I added photos of my cats if you want to see picture quality. When I transferred them to my computer it came out a little dark. Not too sure if this happens to all camera phones. There is no flash, but you can use the nighttime mode. Video playback is decent too.

Games- There are four games. Forgotten Warrior, Freekick, Arch Angel, and Midnight Pool. I don't use them.

LCD- Very bright screen. Light will dim and turn off after a minute of idle time. Outer screen light will not be on when phone is closed. It's a drawback since I like to see the time displayed on phone at all times.

Music/Video player- I don't use it, but there is one downloaded video that came with it. It doesn't have a memory card slot so I don't think you'd be able to save a lot of files if you're into that kind of stuff.

Phonebook- Customized ringtones for callers must be saved to phone. A number that is saved to phone and SIM will have double entries. Lots of extra spaces to put email address, work #, picture ID, etc. under one name.

Sounds- Vibration and silence mode can be turned on by pressing just one button. My old phones used to ring and vibrate at the same time whereas this phone will only vibrate first and then ring. Speakerphone is soft though, and you have to click twice just to turn it on.

TXT/IM- I hate using T9 form, and unfortunately it's the default setting and you won't be able to change it. It's very tedious to make 3 clicks to put it in normal mode everytime I create a message. 200 messages can be saved to phone while only 30 is saved to SIM. I think it all depends from the settings you saved from your old phone. IM is great.

Voice Dial- I do not use it.

Other- Downloading files is very quick. Sometimes there is too many clicks just to do a task like deleting a file or message. Transferring personal made ringtones from computer to phone can only be saved as an alarm tone. It was also disappointing that I had to buy more ringtones and games for my phone as the SIM did not transfer my files from my old phone. It has a stopwatch, timer, unit conversion, and tip calculater that my other phones lacked. You can set the calendar on the front of the screen if you want to.

If you like a basic camera phone, then this is good for you. To me the pros outweighs the cons so I'll be sticking with it.