Customer Reviews

Samsung C207 Phone (AT&T)

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4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I bought this cell phone a couple of days ago to compare network coverage between T-Mobile and Cingular

Pros:

- Minimalist style is very appealing

- Very light-weight

- Good battery life

- FREE; you can also get money back for buying it from Amazon

- Picks up a good reception; much better than a Sony Ericsson T610(although for different networks, I get great reception for both networks at my work)

Cons:

- Earpiece quality is not that great, especially when you have your ringers set to the highest audio level. The louder the ringer, the more distorted the audio is, which is very disappointing, considering the ringers can't get so loud. It seems like Samsung has yet to figure out how to do audio. Callers are loud, but not necessarily clear. Whether that can be attributed to Cingular's network or Samsung's manufacturing is completely unknown to me.

- Some menu functions are ridiculously time-consuming to get to. Sub-menu after sub-menu constitutes bad design. Samsung products have gone through a lot of different software designs, you'd think they'd have gotten better at it. On a side note, menu is very similar to Sony Ericsson T series, just not as intuitive.

- Navigation keys are too small. Yes, the phone is small, but the navigation could have been done better.

- Screen is not readable in direct sunlight. Most screens aren't, but they could've done better. Also, when you lock the keys, screen does not light back up when a key is pressed. When you're tired and need to unlock the keys and it's dark, it gets a little frustrating.

Overall, a very basic cell phone. Quality issues don't concern me too much, as the phone hasn't crashed or done anything bad on me. Bottom line, if you need a cell phone for occasional calling this is pretty decent.

I first bought this phone for my 12-year-old daughter because of its size. I then realized that it was also what I wanted in a phone too. I have had more expensive phones with lots more options (reading word documents. PDF files, making movies, playing mmc games, etc.), but I never seemed to use those options often enough. I just wanted a phone to call on with great reception. This phone has it. It is small enough to fit in my pocket without even noticing it is there! It handles my Mac address book and calendar (with the help of datapilot) with ease.

Buy this phone and realize that it does what it is meant to do, make calls. If you need more maybe you're just fooling yourself.

I've given this phone top marks because, for what it represents itself to be, it is exactly that. Yes, it is a little hard to read in direct sunlight (put "contrast" on 1, and it's better); yes, the menu is not 100% intuitive -- more like 85%; but the sound quality is excellent, as is the reception. It feels comfortable and solid; and it is compact. I'm very pleased that I bought it and would recommend it to anyone who wants a simple, straightfoward cell phone that works well.

I really wanted to like this phone. I did for the most part, but in the end I returned it and got the Nokia 3120.

The fatal flaw with the c207 is that I could never ever hear the phone when it rang. There are a couple flaws in the design in this regard. First of all, samsung cut costs and uses the earspeaker as the ring speaker also. I don't think you can get as sharp of a tone as with a dedicated ringer. The other flaw with the ringer is that when you do set the ring volume to the loudest volume possible, the ringer doesn't ring at that volume. Rather, it'll start ringing at the lowest volume setting possible, and then after about 1-2 rings, it'll step it up to the true volume setting. So basically you can only hear maybe 2 rings before vmail picks up!

Like I said, I really wanted to like this phone. I not a personal fan of the Nokia's but really the samsung (and everyone) tries to copy nokia's UI, which is a shame, since i don't think nokia's UI is the end all be all.

Pros

- Amazingly thin and small.

- extremely comfortable to hold in your hand. I ended up carrying it around in my hand a lot.

- Used the SIM card well. Groups by name. The nokia wouldn't do this.

Cons

- can't here the ringer

- copy of nokia UI

- no charging base like older samsung, tho the travel charger is probably more useful.

- small keys

Learning to use this phone was a snap.

It didn't come with a SIM card, but if you have an existing phone, made in the last couple years, you really don't need a new one.

All I had to do was stick my SIM card into the phone, charge it up and I was good to go.

My favorite feature so far is that it has Chess on it.

Pros:

Polyphonic speaker (means you can download and use pretty much any ring tone you want)

Free Chess Game built in

Easy one touch silent mode.

Games (all are Java):

BubbleSmile - rotate groups of 3 bubbles to form diagonals of the same color

Fun2Link - Pipe Game (link one pipe to another to reach the goal

MobileChess

Ultimate Golf Challenge

Cons:

Takes a bit long to come out of key lock mode.

Ring volume is a bit lower than I would like, but you can get ring tones that are louder

When I set the alert to be "Vibration+Melody" it worked for about a week and then stopped playing the melody, it would only vibrate, so I set it back to Melody only, though I could have done something wrong (but I have no clue what that might be).

The Samsung SGH-C207 is an all-around good phone if you can get it for $40 or less. I wouldn't spend over $50 on it though. I got mine through on online offer with Cingular for $30, and it was well worth that.

Though the C207 doesn't have a speakerphone, I can hear the ring perfectly fine. The phone also includes some entertaining games but they could have done better with the ringtones, graphics, and wallpapers included.

The Samsung C207 is very small and comfortable to hold. It's the same size (if not smaller) than my sister's Samsung flip phone when its closed. The only problem with this is the buttons are kind of small and close together if you have large fingers.

The Samsung C207 is my main phone. I don't do any advanced stuff on my phone, so the C207 is perfect for me. It has a great color screen. The phone is very small and light, and is stylish. It does scratch very easily, though it seems to be pretty sturdy. I would recommend this phone.

I love this phone except for the fact that outdoors in the bright sunlight I have trouble viewing the screen. It also has multiple background pictures to choose from which in my opinion all interfere with my view of the date/time display. Those are the only things I find wrong with this phone. It's a small phone, hence the small display window which I do wish was a tiny bit bigger. Otherwise this phone is awesome. It has multiple types of ringer tones, not just different tones with the same type of sound. It has a longer battery life before requiring a recharge than most phones I have seen. The incoming caller's voice volume can be increased or decreased during the call. It's a discontinued item, but it offered everything I was looking for (through Cingular) and a bit more, such as Internet access, emails etc. etc.

If you're looking for a cell phone to play mp3, or radio, or watching videos, this one is definitely not for you.

This is a very basic cellphone, but it's actually very useful. The reception is very good, and it's small, so it's easy to save anywhere. Plus the battery lasts about 5 or 6 days on average.

But there are some bad things too. It's extremely slow. When you turn it on, you have to wait about a minute so you can see the numbers you have saved. Plus, the volume is not very good, sometimes you have to "stick" it into your ear, and that's annoying, obviously...

But some other things it has are that you can save a lot of messages, you can watch photos, and the fact that you can assign a password to the multimedia messages, the sounds, the photos and some other stuff, and (at least for me) it's very helpful, specially if you know some kids that just go and start playing with it.

I've used this same cellphone over a year ago and I have to say that I'm very happy with it, even though it doesn't do any of the spectacular things that the newest cellphones do nowadays.

After reviewing all the phones available, I went with this one and am happy with it. The Motorola's rated high, but were way too big; the LG's seemed felt flimsy and the others seemed to be a crapshoot as to whether they'd work.

This is a very basic phone. No camera (who needs it) or MP3 players or any of that jazz. I haven't been that impressed with the phones that do have those features, so it's no loss to me. Would have liked a couple more display or ringtone options, but can always buy those for relatively cheap.

Plus, this thing is tiny! A lot smaller than I thought it would be. That might be a consideration if you've large hands or trouble with the buttons.

If you're looking for a bare-bones starter phone, I think it's a great choice.