Customer Reviews

Samsung i600 PDA Phone (Verizon Wireless)

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I initially bought the treo 600. But, I returned it to Verizon after a week because I couldnt get used to the form factor (In my opinion, the treo's ridiculous tiny buttons are a pain, and I am not a fan of devices that require use of a stylus).

The Samsung seems to be a phone that has added features of a pda and NOT a pda that has added features of a phone. I think this is the primary reason I like it so much more than the treo.

I had zero problems syncing with MS Outlook on my laptop when I used the cable. I had to monkey around a little to get the wireless IR sync to work, but eventually figured it out and it works BEAUTIFULLY! I have been waiting a long time for a PHONE (not a PDA) that can by easily sync'd with Outlook for calendar and contacts. This phone does that. I dont plan to sync e-mail with this phone at the time, but I understand that can be done also. This phone solves my most critical need - to have my updated calendar and contacts while I am out of the office. I also like the fact that the MS Windows Mobile O/S is intuitive and very easy to use. Overall, I am happy with the phone.

Cons - Expensive, does not include a camera (doesnt bother me too much, but it seems that it should at this price), a bit slow to "boot-up", internet performance is not as good as my 18 month-old LG from Verizon, small and poorly lit secondary lcd display, the phone needs a simple, hard-plastic belt holster (I'm not a huge fan of the bulky leather carrying case).

Being in sales, I'm one of the few damned to spend eternity on a cell phone. I'm a certified road warrior. In the past 5 months I've owned a total of 5 cell phones. the v600 from motorola, a few nokias, heck I even tried the N-Gage to entertain myself in the airports. So I am very demanding when it comes to phones. Most importantly, I want a phone that's a good phone.

The i600 blew me away. It continues to blow me away. the microsoft OS is perfect, it sychs with Outlook, and lotus notes via intellisynch software. It keeps scads of contacts, and has an option slot for the SD Memory cards.

If you;ve used an ipaq, or a CE based PDA and liked it, you'll love this phone. Best of all the phone comes with the important things. A spare extended battery, and a charging docking station that lets you charge not only the phone but the spare battery also.

Very well thought out phone, with function, and performance in mind. You cannot go wrong with this one.

If you're looking to unshackle yourself from carrying a mobile phone and PDA and don't want to replace them with a brick, then this is your phone. I've been using the phone for about a year and love using the calendaring, email, contacts and tasks that make this phone so functional.

Synchronizing with my PC is as easy as putting the phone into the included USB cradle -- Immediately all my contact, calendar and task information is synch'd. Using Verizon Wireless' Mobile Synch service, my e-mail is delivered directly to my phone in addition to my desktop PC. I can easily reply to e-mail by recording a .wav file that gets attached to the e-mail message and sent to the recipient without ever having to type a letter.

Microsoft's ActiveSync software makes storing documents, spreadsheets, even .pdf files easy and convenient. There are many third party software programs that are also available for the SmartPhone 2003 platform adding to the phones productivity.

Reception and clarity is better than any other phone I've used. One handed operation is simple and part of my everyday use. Turning on silent mode is done with just three key strokes. My advice is that you not waste anytime with the standard battery, but upgrade to the extended battery at the outset. I get two full days worth of usage -- on average -- using the extended battery.

The iPaq and Treo type phones have great features as well, but I don't want to have to carry around something that big and clunky. I love my i600.

I'm very happy with this PDA phone. I have ditched my PDA, and use this entirely. The mini-keyboard was a problem, so I bought a keyboard which gives me a full QWERTY keyboard for email. I use some basic web, yellowpages, mapquest, etc. No problem there. I added 1 GB of SDRAM and now synch up important docs before travelling. I wanted a small form-factor PDA phone, and I have it. I am always on call, and wanted the phone which rang during emergencies to be useful for email, outlook integration, and access to important documents, and I have that. Setting it up to work with exchange over the web was a breeze. The batteries do burn out quick, 1 year later I need a new extended life battery.

I have two charger/USB cradles for my phone (1 at home and 1 at work) but I have so many problems with both cradles trying to get this phone to sync! I have to repeatedly put it in the cradle, hoping that it will be recognized by the computer. Frequently, I get the message "USB device not recognized." Then, only about half of the time that it's recognized by the computer is it able to sync. I get errors or it disconnects before fulling syncing. I wish I hadn't spent so much money on this phone.

I like the small size of this pda phone. I use Microsoft software all the time so it only made sense to get a pda phone that works off of the same platform. I used to have a cell phone and a sony clie pda. It was annoying carrying both around. I sold my clie and upgraded my cellphone with Verizon. It is definitely worth the money.

The web service is terrible; it's unusable it's so slow. It isn't worth getting a phone this big and heavy for. The bigger battery fails after a year, no ifs, ands, or buts. The smaller battery doesn't even last a year. I paid extra for the Yahoo POP mail service ($20 year, not bad at all) but it's hard to read your mail on the screen. There is very little search support for games and ring tones. Once you manage to find a tone you want (good luck with that), the easiest way is to download them from the web on your PC, and then hook up your phone to your PC and transfer them, unless you want it to take forever. As a phone, it works well, and gets a good signal, but it's not worth the $500 I paid for it only a year and a half ago. I was an idiot when I bought this phone.

Good concept, but so many problems. For example - if you are on a call, it is nearly impossible to pick up another or to put the person you are talking to on hold; when you open the shell to answer a call, if you so much as touch the buttons on the side of the phone (and it is nearly impossible not to), you won't be able to pick up the call. I am unable to pick up approximately 30% of all of my incoming calls and that is simply unacceptable - and I know it is not a problem handset because they have replaced it once and other people I know with it have the same complaints. A total waste of money.