Samsung Juke Phone, Red (Verizon Wireless)

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.8 x 1.2 x 0.8 inches ; 2.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000XEBWSM
• Item model number: SCHU470ZRV
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12,478 in Cell Phones & Service (See Bestsellers in Cell Phones & Service)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
At first glance, the Samsung Juke looks like a typical stick-style MP3 player, which it is. But swing open the swiveling cover and you'll find a shiny keypad underneath that unlocks the advanced cellular features of this amazingly compact phone. It's a great way to combine two devices into one, with the Juke offering 2 GB of internal memory and compatibility with a wide variety of digital audio formats. It also features USB connectivity for transferring music from your PC, stereo Bluetooth for streaming to wireless headphones, integrated GPS, a VGA camera, and downloadable games, ringtones, and wallpapers from Verizon's Get It Now over-air service. In addition to red, the Samsung Juke also comes in teal and blue.

Offering powerful digital audio playback features, the Samsung Juke swivels to open up a wide array of cellular communication tools, including text/IM messaging and GPS navigation.

Verizon Service
This phone is compatible with Verizon's Get It Now wireless pay-per-download service, which features application downloads, games and productivity tools. You can also personalize your handset with ringtone downloads using the Get It Now service.

With this GPS-enabled phone, you'll be able to access Verizon's VZ Navigator service (additional charges applicable) for voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions, heads-up alerts, local search of nearly 14 million points of interest in the US (such as landmarks, restaurants and ATMs), and detailed color maps. And Verizon's Chaperone service lets you easily locate your loved ones from your Verizon Wireless phone or PC in real time. After defining a zone, such as an area designating a school or summer camp, you'll be sent an alert via text message when the Chaperone handset enters or leaves the zone.

Note that this phone is not compatible with either Verizon's V Cast music or Mobile Web services

Phone Features
The Samsung Juke functions flawlessly as a full-featured digital audio player. A navigation thumb wheel on the front allows for easy searching through music play lists, contacts and settings. The 1.45-inch TFT LCD has a 128 x 220-pixel resolution, support for 262K colors, and displays 10 lines of text. The 2 GB flash memory capacity will hold approximately 500 CD-quality songs, and it's compatible with MP3, AAC/AAC+, and WMA/WMA Pro file formats. You can create and manage playlists on the fly, synchronize music from your PC to the phone, and multi-task using other functions on the phone while listening to your tunes. You can listen to music via the on-board speaker or the included color-matched stereo headset. Other features include a choice of music skins (visualizer or album artwork) and preset equalizer and 3D sound settings.

Amazingly thin and light, the Samsung Juke measures just 1.2 inches wide and weighs 2.82 ounces.

This phone also provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity with the A2DP Bluetooth profile, which enables you to stream music to compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones or speakers. It also includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, audio/video remote control, and serial port/object push for vCard.

A little flick of the thumb and the display spins up to reveal all the keys you need to dial, text, take pictures or almost anything else you want to do. Support is built in for text messaging and mobile IM. When used in combination with the phone's built-in still and video camera, MMS opens up a whole new world of messaging fun. T9 text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for entering text on handsets, is built into the unit--a plus for mobile email and text messaging users.

You can also snap photos on the go with the integrated VGA camera, which can capture images in three resolutions (640 x 480, 320 x 240, and 160 x 120 pixels) with variable quality settings. It features a night shot mode for less-than-ideal lighting conditions, a self timer, brightness and white balance controls, multi-shot capability, and choices for shutter sounds (including silent mode). This phone does not offer video capture capabilities.

The Juke's internal phone book can hold up to 500 contact entries with five phone numbers and two emails per entry (as well as notes). You can also pair contact up with a group, a picture for caller ID, or one of 11 polyphonic ringtones. Other features include:

• Voice Commands: Voice dial, digit dial readout, call announcement
• Personal Organizer: Calendar with scheduler, note pad
• Tools: Calculator with converter, alarm clock, stopwatch, world clock
• Speed dialing
• Speakerphone
• 72-note polyphonic ringtones
• Bilingual user interface: English and Spanish
• Hearing aid compatibility: M3

Vital Statistics
The Samsung Juke weighs 2.82 ounces and measures 3.82 x 1.18 x 0.83 inches. Its 750 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 210 minutes (3.5 hours) of talk time, and up to 250 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the CDMA 800/1900 frequencies as well as the CDMA 2000 1XRTT data frequency.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very good phone that also looks cute, November 2, 2007

By	John Palmer (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've had this phone now about 10 days and have already utilized several features on it. I had a Bluetooth headset from my previous phone, a Motorola w/ music player, but that phone I never got the music player working so have utilized the player in the Juke and have already downloaded some songs to it and it's wonderful. I like that it simply uses Windows Media Player and it automatically recognized the phone without incident. I have also sync'ed up the bluetooth headset to the phone without incident as well.

The two biggest things are the camera and it's image quality, while not fantastic, it's OK although vertical lines do distort though. The other is that there is no direct access to the images on there without uploading to pix place for an additional fee, however once up on the website and you log in and in the gallery, you can simply copy it and paste it into your photo processing software, however, there is not a whole lot you can do to rectify the images in there but through a subtle adjustment or resizing is about it. Really, the phone can come in handy for that impromptu shot where I don't have my digital camera with me and that's all I'd use it for.

Otherwise it's a fantastic phone for it's size and I like that not only does it have bluetooth, but also has voice command so I can do hands free dialing etc while driving, and voice command is also available with the wired headset, which I'm grateful that the Juke comes with a matching stereo pair that can also double for making/recieving calls and the USB cable, which with virtually any other phone through Verizon, you have to buy the seperate music kit w/ CD, however, the Juke can use it or Windows Media Player which most of us have which is nice.

This will be my third phone with Verizon and I think the best of the 3 and oh, it's red.

If any changes, I'd allow for direct picture access via USB, it be a tad wider for better viewing of the screen and to be able to rotate open in either direction for either left or right handed operation. I know, niggling points but still, it's a fantastic phone for what it's capable of and it's reception is superb too.

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Phone I've ever owned, October 29, 2007

By	A. Coffey (Michigan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have had this phone for a couple of weeks and already it is the best phone I have ever owned. It is very small, great to fit into a purse pocket. It looks sleek. I get very good service. If you are planning to text alot, I would recommend that this phone is best for people with tiny fingers/hands, as it is easy to accidentally punch more than one key at a time. I have not utilized the mp3 capabilites yet (I use my ipod for that), but the downloaded ringtones sound great playing through the phone. I am mildly disappointed with the camera (I don't believe it has a flash) but I never really used my old phone's camera so this was not important in my decision to purchase. Overall, I am extremely satisfied with my purchase and would highly recommend this phone!

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Phone, December 31, 2007

By	ECM "joyfulgirl9682" (Grand Island NY) - See all my reviews

This phone is great. It has completely replaced my MP3 player, it holds the same amount of music. I love that you can play the music out of the speaker without headphones. The sound quality when doing that isn't the best, but it's perfect sometimes when I would have otherwise been tangled in headphone wires. And if you are listening to music with the headphones, and you get a call, all you need to do it press the button on the headphones and it answers the call and the headphones become a hands free set. It's perfect. Some people have asked me about texting on it, because it seems so small. I have not had any problems with this, the buttons are actually really nice, and texting is not hard on it despite it's size. Battery life is great, it lasts much longer than my old phone, even when it's used as an MP3 player also. Transferring music is simple, just plug it into the computer and it syncs like any other MP3 player with windows media player. I love how it flips open, although I often forget which way it needs to be facing and try to open it the wrong way. That is actually my ONLY complaint about this phone. The screen is upside down when it's closed, so you have to turn it around to read who is calling you, and then turn it back around to open it. But that is so minor, and I have figured out how to turn it around and open it at the same time, so it doesn't really bother me anymore. My only other wish for this phone would be being able to set one of your mp3s as a ringtone. But again, so minor it does not even register as a complaint for me. Overall this is a great phone and I would recommend it to anyone who hates carrying around both and MP3 player and a phone, as this will become both.