Samsung E105 Phone (T-Mobile)

by Samsung

Product Details

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• Product Dimensions: 3.3 x 1.8 x 0.8 inches ; 2.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000DZG40
• Item model number: E105
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (148 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #131,542 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

167 of 175 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Little Phone Is Almost Perfect, November 15, 2003

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Matt Hoffman (Salem, OR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung E105 Phone (T-Mobile) (Wireless Phone)

I switched to this phone from the Motorola T720i, and boy what an improvement. The T720i was large, flimsy, and slooooooow - naviging the menus was an excersize in frustration. The E105 fit the bill perfectly with its small size, good construction, and fast menus.

The E105's full color screen looks fantastic and adding a picture is as easy as sending an email to your phone with an attached 128x128 pixel jpg image. Callers sound good on the phone and not at all tingy, and I've had good reports from people I call about how I sound. Polyphonic ringtones sound great and plenty loud, but unfortunately Samsung didn't include an option to assign specific ring tones to individual contacts or to assign downloaded tones to some events such as an incoming message. Battery life is good enough for even heavy use, meaning you'll never run it out in less than a day. A Lithium-ion battery is included, so you can charge the phone whenever you're near a charger without worrying about battery memory.

The case is very well designed and all the parts fit together nicely. It is not at all wobbly at the hinge like some clamshell flip phones can be. The buttons have a good tactile feedback and logical placement.

The built in organizer is very useful and the monthly calender is a great feature (you can view a standard calender layout for the month). You also have the ability to set three independent types of alarms with the option to have the phone power on for an alarm event. It also has a voice memo feature to leave yourself a reminder, though there is no voice dialing feature on the phone.

The WAP browser (Tzones) works quickly, though somewhat oddly. Depending on what kind of link you're viewing, you may have to choose Options > Select to select the link rather than just selecting it...there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. There is also no way to access bookmarks stored on the phone once you're in Tzones - you have to exit out of tzones to get to them. Fortunately, T-Mobile has the option to store bookmarks online in your Tzones menu. When viewing pictures or listening to ring tones online you don't get an option to save, as they are automatically saved any time you view/listen to one. If you didn't want it, you have to go into your phone and delete it. If you did, you'll want to go into your phone and rename it.

All in all, despite some minor issues the phone is strong in all the areas required to make it a great phone and I'm glad I purchased it!

Pros:
Compact & Lightweight
Good Construction (not wobbly like some clamshell flip phones)
Fast Menus
Great Color Screen
Loud Polyphonic Ringer
Good Buttons w/Tactile Feedback

Cons:
No Voice Dialing
Some WAP Browser Oddities
Can't Assign Ring Tones To Individual Contacts

*Edit 08/18/04:
The phone is still going strong, and I'm still very satisfied it! A couple of items to correct though:

First; although there is indeed no way to assign ring tones to individual contacts, you can assign ring tones to contact groups (of which you can have 10), and then you can assign individual contacts to one of your 10 groups.

Second; the Tzones browser has some features that I missed. For selecting links, you can use the Tzones button in the center of the navigation 4-way, which eliminates the oddities that I found using the top-left soft key. By pressing and holding the # key, you CAN access your saved favorites while in Tzones. And finally, pressing and holding the * key will bring up a Tzones-specific menu while you're in the Tzones browser.

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good little phone., November 10, 2003

By 

S. Hauser (Bayville, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung E105 Phone (T-Mobile) (Wireless Phone)

This is my 3rd Samsung GSM phone purchase. I originally bought the R225, then the S105, now the E105. I think Samsung makes a quality phone overall. However, they do some things that aggravate me. The holster that comes with the phone does NOT allow you to make or receive calls or txtmsgs while its in the holster! You simply can't open the cover at all while its in the holster. Therefore, you also can't turn it on or off. Also, the headphone jack is not a standard 2.5mm jack - the jack is standard - in fact, it looks identicle to a regular jack - but if you plug a "universal" headset in there, it will redial the last number you called - this is because Samsung requires a "special" 2.5mm plug for this phone - that means you either have to go back to Samsung for one of these headsets or you have to buy a particular one made for this phone. Other than that, its a great phone. Battery life is good... I can even read the display in the sunshine (which is a nice improvement from the S105).

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars some new trick with E105, January 13, 2004

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Khue Q. Ngo (Tallahassee,FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung E105 Phone (T-Mobile) (Wireless Phone)

Hello, thank you guys for sharing very useful information about this phone. Here are some new tricks that i found recently:

1. In address book, a contact person is not restricted to 4 fields(home, office, cell and email address) only. You can put as much as you want about contact information of one person, say, some person might have more than 1 email address or more than 1 office phone number. Here is how to do: go to the contact person, select Option/Add Entry then you can add any information you want such as new email or work phone. Off course, it will eat up one spot in the memory.

2. Customize your email address: your cell-email that your friend send sms to, have the form [e-mail], for instance [e-mail], you can change to easy-to-remember-email such as [e-mail]. Here is how to do it: Go to t-mobile.com, log in then select "Communication" tab, select "Text Messaging", on the left window, at "Power Messaging feature", select "Change my phone's email address".
On this, you can creat spam/keyword filter or forwarding email or set up alert to your cellphone.

3. To know how many anytime minutes you used so far: just send sms to #646# number (#MIN#), the system will instantly reply you. The nice thing is you do not pay for this message (both sending and receiving) and you can check as often as you wish. It updates pretty fast.

4. Send one sms to more than one person:
One sms can be sent to a group of people buy putting "," between people email addresses or tel numbers.

Although this phone has some minor drawbacks but with t-mobile carrier, it provides great quality and services more than I expected (compare with some poor services provided by my old carrier CINGULAR)