Samsung Behold t919 Phone, Brushed Rose (T-Mobile)

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2.1 x 4.1 x 0.5 inches ; 3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Note: Gift-wrapping is not available for this item.
• ASIN: B001KN3G1G
• Item model number: T919
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #353 in Cell Phones & Service (See Bestsellers in Cell Phones & Service)

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Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
An advanced touch screen phone with premium multimedia features and full web browsing capabilities, the Samsung Behold phone also supports T-Mobile's HSDPA 3G network (in select markets), which provides fast web downloads and multimedia messaging. It will also keep you connected to your closest friends and family members with T-Mobiles myFaves.

This touchscreen-enabled phone has a large, brightly colorful 3.1 inch screen, and it includes Samsung's intuitive and easily customizable TouchWiz user interface. And you'll enjoy high-resolution photos and videos thanks to the built-in 5-megapixel camera/camcorder with flash and autofocus. Other features include Bluetooth connectivity for both handsfree devices and stereo music streaming, MicroSD memory expansion (up to 16 GB), digital audio player and FM radio, access to personal email and instant messaging, and up to 5 hours of talk time.

The Behold enables fully colorful web browsing and multimedia on its 3.1-inch touchscreen display.

T-Mobile Service
The Behold operates on GSM 850/900/1800/1900 networks and is compatible with T-Mobile's UMTS/HSDPA 3G network, which operates on the 1700/2100 MHz AWS spectrum. This phone is designed to automatically connect to the best available network (3G or GSM/GPRS/EDGE) to provide faster data speeds when accessing the Web or downloading content from the T-Mobile t-zones content portal. T-Mobile is currently rolling out its 3G network, and it expects by year's end that its high-speed data network will be available in those cities where a majority of its subscribers currently use data services.

In areas where the 3G network is not available, you'll continue to receive service on the via T-Mobile's EDGE network (which stands for "Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution"). This high-speed, mobile data and Internet access technology is fast enough to support a wide range of advanced data services (with average data speeds between 75-135Kbps), including full picture and video messaging, high-speed color Internet access, and email on the go.

While this phone is optimized for use with T-Mobile’s high-speed 3G network, many of its functions will also work well on the moderate-speed EDGE network. If you plan to access the Internet extensively on your phone, 3G network coverage may serve you best.

Activities that work well on EDGE or 3G networks:

• Email, instant messaging, and texting
• Downloading ringtones, CallerTunes, wallpaper, light data files
• Sending photographs via e-mail or picture messaging

Activities that work best on a 3G network:

• Viewing content-heavy websites (lots of images or videos playing)
• Viewing YouTube and other video files (they will play on EDGE, but require loading time)
• Uploading large files (photos, videos, presentations) to sharing websites
• Downloading large files from an e-mail or a website

Call your favorite people with T-Mobile's myFaves service, which allows you to call up to five of your most common contacts--on any network, even landlines--without using any of your minutes. You'll also get free domestic long distance and no digital roaming charges anywhere across the US on all calls. (All myFaves plans require a two-year contract.) Learn more about myFaves from T-Mobile.

Download cool new games, HiFi Ringers (real songs by today's hottest artists), MegaTones (instrumental versions of songs), and wallpapers quickly, as well as stay connected via the Web, instant messaging, and email.

The TouchWiz interface has specially designed widgets to customize and personalize the way you use your phone.

Phone Features
The slim Samsung Behold smartphone delivers impressive images on it large 3-inch LCD color display (240 x 400 pixels, 262K colors) and offers haptic responsive feedback that vibrates when you press a button. For easy operation and navigation, the stylish Behold features three dedicated keys--call, end call and back--on the front of the device under the touch screen. The Behold also provides quick and easy access to a customer’s favorite features through Samsung’s innovative TouchWiz user interface, which has specially designed widgets to customize and personalize your phone. The quick and simple drag-and-drop feature provides instant access to your favorite functions, such as the clock, music player, instant messaging and photos and a custom widget for myFaves.

The phone has a 180 MB internal memory, which can be expanded via optional MicroSD memory cards (up to 16 GB in size). The internal phonebook can store up to 2000 contact entries, each with multiple numbers per contact and support for caller groups as well as picture/ringer ID. You can download MP3 real-music and 72-chord polyphonic ringtones, and the phone also includes a vibrate function for when you need to keep things silent.

Handsfree communication is easy thanks to the integrated speakerphone. This phone also provides Bluetooth wireless connectivity (version 2.0), and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and file transfer. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones.

The 5-megapixel autofocus camera produces crisply colorful still photos, and it features an LED flash, smile detection, shake reduction, multi-shot capabilities, brightness and white balance controls, spot metering function, and a self-timer. You can also share them with family and friends by sending them to any e-mail address, T-Mobile camera phone, or MyAlbum. The phone can also capture video clips up to QVGA resolution (320 x 240 pixels). The digital media player is compatible with MP3 and AAC/AAC+/eAAC+ audio formats and H.264/H.263/MPEG4 video formats.

Capture great snapshots on the go with the 5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash.

Other features include:

• Virtual, landscape QWERTY touchpad
• Built-in A-GPS navigation allows access to location-based applications
• Access to personal email with document viewer for attachments
• Instant messaging via AOL, ICQ, Windows Live, and Yahoo!
• Organizer tools: Calendar, alarm, calculator
• Sync contact with Outlook
• USB connectivity with USB mass storage capabilities
• Voice dialing: Call someone with simple voice commands to keep your hands free for activities like driving.
• Bluetooth version 2.0 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BPP (basic printing profile for text, email), FTP (file transfer), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures)

Vital Statistics
The Samsung Behold weighs 3.9 ounces and measures 4.1 x 2.1 x 0.5 inches. Its 1000 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5 hours of talk time, and up to 288 hours (12 days) of standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 MHs GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies as well as 1700/2100 MHz UMTS/HSDPA 3G frequencies.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars My first touch phone and I love it, February 13, 2009

By	Anthony Burgos - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I am a huge fan of touch electronics. I wanted a touch phone and I decided to go with this one. I had a sidekick 2009 and I hated it with a passion. The phone would drop calls and lose service like everyday. The Samsung Behold is a cute little phone with great features. The phone as we all know is touch screen, This is a great feature and overall works perfectly. It takes a little getting use to when you use the touch screen to send texts but it doesnt take all but maybe 15 minutes. The screen has a arrow that you press which brings out a bar to the left had side which displays widgets. Now these widgets are very cool cause you can drag as many as you want out of the widget bar onto the main screen. This allows you to personilize your phone as you see fit. This is a very cool feature to me.

There are other great things as well. The camera on here is a 5 megapixel camera and takes some pretty good pics for a phone. Also the phone runs on a 3G network which allows for faster texts and picture mails and internet. The internet on this phone is not all that great. It is ok but I felt could have been better. On the front of the phone are two dots to the top left hand corner. These are there so that when you hold the phone to your face while on a call it can tell so that it turns off the display light so it wont kill the battery, This is pretty neat cause when you take the phone off your face to look at the screen the light comes back on.

The front of the phone is very simple. You have physical keys on the bottom which are the answer, end call and in the middle of those two the back button. Now when you unlock the screen there are four buttons on the screen. Here we have the dial pad, the phone book, the web and the menu button. They are small and dont look weird on the screen.

The call value is great. The volume goes up to 7 but is very loud. I hear my friends clear and they hear me clear as well. I had one drop call but I think thats because of TMobile not because of the phone.

People have complained about the battery life. I have no issues with that. At the end of the day (midnight) I still have 2 bars left. Now if you the type to sit there and mess with the phone and press it all day then yeah the battery will dies fast.

Overall I have to say that I love this phone. This phone is my first touch screen and I love it. I had to get the pink cause TMobile didnt have it in espresso but I find that that pink is nicer looking. This is a great phone for anyone that wants their first touch screen phone.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Software for phone needs work as does Samsung Customer Service, November 26, 2008

By	L. Morgan "ljmorgan" (Santa Monica, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My biggest gripe with this phone is the bug in the pda software. The input fields are nice, but once one presses save, the software mixes all of the fields up. The address display is a total mess.

The camera is soooo slow that it's really difficult to take any non-blurry photos unless the subject can stay absolutely, perfectly still for SEVERAL seconds.

The battery life does not seem to be anywhere close to what the specs state. I'm charging this phone AT LEAST once per day.

Samsung's customer service was HORRIBLE. Apparently the support staff (located in India) doesn't understand about firmware updates. When they were notified about the software bugs, they told me to send the phone in to see if they can fix it. Since I have this phone on a 30 day trial ---- that's not really an option. All I had wanted to do was to report the bug so that it could be addressed with the first software update...... the Samsung support staff couldn't grasp that concept (I guess it wasn't in their "script"). T-Mobile was able to duplicate my issue on 3 separate Beholds.

There are some features that I really like about this phone (the size, the touch keyboard, the color, the speaker phone use), but I'm so frustrated about the negatives, I may end up exchanging if for the Google phone.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Phone, November 23, 2008

By	Tesha Black (Windsor Locks, CT.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought the phone about a week ago....I actually went to purchse the G1 but while waiting for a sales person to come help me I noticed the Behold.....started messing around with it and liked it instantly......especially love the 5.0 megapixel camera on it. I liked the looks of this phone better than the G1 because it isnt as bulky.....BIG PLUS FOR ME.....The only thing that I DO NOT really like is the fact that when you are trying to look for a number in the phonebook...it doesnt scroll down very easily....it goes back the letter you need......but all in all I am very pleased with my purchase.