Customer Reviews

Samsung U900 FlipShot Black Phone (Verizon Wireless)

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If you are a camera lover like I am and you love gadgets then you will love this phone!!! It is a great cell phone but an even better camera. It takes great pictures and has excellent special effects. I can only find one thing wrong with this phone. The calendar has a little software glitch where when you put in a reminder it will lose it or it will disappear. Other than that this is the niftiest phone I have ever had and I get lots of comments on it when I flip the screen over and turn it into a really neat camera !!!!!!

It's a good phone, a little big, but decent. I had higher hopes or the camera. It would be better if once it's flipped into camera mode, it would act like a digital camera. It doesn't, it acts like a phone with a camera. Which is exactly what it is.

Good
-reception
-sound quality
-battery for talking, camera eats the battery pretty quick
-flat sides make the phone comfortable to hold
-nice to always have a camera with you

Bad
-The big, ring around the lens that sticks out, is just for show. It may look like a real digital camera, but it's just like any other phone with a camera
-picture quality is good outside in daylight, but bad inside, or in any low light
-slow to focus, slow to next shot
-if you rest your finger on the shutter button waiting for your shot, it will switch to camcorder mode
-Verizon has disabled blue-tooth file transfer, so you can't send your pictures to you blue-tooth enabled PC.
-doesn't automatically save the pictures you take, after you take a picture then you must do an additional step to manually save it.

This phone is great. It is light-weight, user friendly and has many features that normal cell phones don't.

The pros of this phone are:

-It has a 3.0 megapixel camera. The screen actually flips around so that you can use the phone as if it was a regular point and shoot camera. You can also record videos on this phone.

-It has many different features, including GPS navigation system, Music Player, Calculators, Alarm Clocks, Internet, E-Mail and more.

-The calculator is my favorite option because it also has a Tip Calculator so when you are at a restaurant, salon or wherever and need to calculate a tip you can punch it right into the calculator. It does the work for you.

-I also love the GPS option. My husband and I have used this option many times on trips. We ran into a traffic jam once and it re-routed us off the highway and around the traffic incident. It saved us tons of time!

-The music player is great and acts just like an I-POD or MP3 player. It is located on the front of the phone so you never even have to open the screen to access your music.

-You can E-mail your phone pictures and display them as your background, set them up as Photo ID's for your contacts or just store them for personal use.

-The battery last a long time in this phone. I have had it almost 2 years and the battery still last between 2-3 days before I need to re-charge it.

Some things to consider when purchasing this phone:

-Although the camera is great it is a little slow. When you try to take a picture it does not always take right away. There is approximately a 2-3 second delay from the time you push the button until it takes.

-Many of the options (GPS, Internet, E-Mail) cost money if you do not already have a Data package. You should consider this before using these features.

Overall I would give this phone 4 stars.

Absolutely love this phone owned it for 4 years. My original review I was quite happy because I found this phone again. I bought the black one from someone on amazon. I did not have it three months and a crack appeared on the top of the phone then completely fell apart where the phone flips open. I never dropped the phone, not once! my previous phone I had a dropped a tun of times and it was solid. This seller said phone new, my feeling was crack was already there and covered it up. I will NEVER buy from a prv seller on amazon again. Very disappointed and feel scammed, not to mention out of 80 some odd dollars.

It has a 3 megapix camera. I hate the fact that it takes the camera so long to take a pic as it adjusts and focuses. If you want to take a picture but hold down the take picture button too fast it will switch to camcorder mode.

Plus with all Samsung phones, the calendar/scheduler doesn't work as it should and has a nasty habit of replacing data on your calendar. If you set a reminder for a date and set it up with any reoccurring feature (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly) then it will screw up all the rest of the dates as you browse through it. Therefore I have to reschedule every birthday every year individually or it won't work.

I won't repeat all of the stuff that's already been said about the phone. It definitely has its strong and weak points. But when i was looking at reviews when deciding to buy this phone or not, i couldn't seem to find any sample photos, so i decided to post one. Behold the glory of the Flipshot: [...]

Features sound good, but too cumbersome to flip between camera and phone. If you do use the camera, know that the battery dies very quickly. Speaker is so quiet that I can't hear downloaded ringtones or music, must use one of the three provided ringtones to have decent volume. Would not recommend this phone.

The FlipShot is a nice phone - good sound and reception; ringtone volume is very soft; the square-ish shape and placement of side buttons & antenna make the phone awkward to use. An ok camera (nice prints up to 5" x 7") but nothing special and a little annoying to operate - see other posts.
-->> The calendar is defective. Verizon does not communicate this and, although Samsung says software to correct it has been made available, Verizon is NOT providing it to customers (as of this writing: July, 2008). I use this feature a lot, and exchanged my FlipShot for another (LG) model for this reason.

ok i had this phone for a month or two. it was nice.. good pictures and all..(albiet the buttons are terrible and the navigation screen takes a while to get used to).. However, this thing really blows as far as durability. I think its probably rather poorly constructed. My phone fell into some water, I fished it out (after about 10 seconds) and the thing was fried. Other people's phones are fine, even after being submerged for minutes, going through the washer etc. What the heck is wrong with Samsung?
Also considering, it has "special headphones," a "special memory card," etc that does not come with the phone this thing is way to expensive.