Customer Reviews

Samsung i700 PDA Phone (Verizon Wireless)

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If you value your outlook data, do not buy this phone!

I purchased this phone from Verizon to make my office more mobile. I'm an attorney and rely on my MS Outlook and cell phone to manage my practice; I'm also a fairly computer savvy person. So it was a shock to me that it took 5 hours of phone time with Verizon data services to attempt to configure this device to work with my MS Outlook - a feature touted by the cell phone manufacturer. I finally decided to return the phone after its Active Sync program erased two weeks of sensitive Outlook data on my computer, a "bug" in the program confirmed by a Microsoft technician.

To cap it all off, the audio quality is much worse than my two year old Motorola!

On the plus side, I did like its handwriting recognition. But without the ability to sync it safely with my computer, or to hear or be heard on the telephone, this device should be relegated to the scrap heap of bad technology design.

I've had mine for over a year now and it has been outstanding.
PDA - I wouldn't know what to do without it. Synchronizing is not a problem and I even have desktop themes that changes from every 30 seconds to daily and it can handle it. Organizing is a breeze due to operational ease of the calendar and contacts.
Internet - we moved cross country and used the internet for weather and hotel lookup. It was incredible and it still is.
Email - it comes handy since we took a lot of pictures during our trip, even in the Sequoia National Park. Just take a picture and send.
Phone - I use it everyday with and without the earphones. Conversations are crystal clear even on a cloudy day. I even used it during the hurricanes that came through Florida. No problem.
Durability - I have dropped this PDA/phone a few times and it's still working. I even have the scratches to prove it.
Summary - It was a Valentine's Day gift from my husband and it has been very helpful. I don't have to go walking around with a phone, PDA, and or laptop. I intend to take good care of it so it will last a while because I am not rich and can't afford to buy one everytime I can't figure out how to work it. Thanks Samsung.

If you want to use this primarily as a phone, do not buy it! The voice quality is poor and it is difficult to use. It has no keypad, only a touch screen, so you cannot dial it while driving, walking, etc. You cannot see the screen in daylight. It is too big to fit into a shirt pocket, so you end up carrying it around in your hand.

Now the worst part - apparently Samsung does not understand the concept of non-volatile memory. On 2 occasions my battery has run down, and both times the phone dumped all of it's memory. Contrast this to my old Nokia phone that I have not used or charged in a year - it still has all of it's memory contents.

The PDA functions are difficult to use and master, and there is no manual to help. I have colleagues that have had their e-mail connections dissapear for no reason. There are intermittemt problems sending e-mail to addresses outside of my company's domain. The MS Office functions are worthless, since you have to constantly manipulate the screen - you cannot rescale the image on the screen. The web access is 10 times worse than dial-up.

In short, stay far, far away from this phone - look at a Treo or a Blackberry if you want a Smart Phone.

i am a gadget freak...and believe me i had my share of the latest phones and pdas including the dell x50v. now i can toss the man bag which i used to carry the dell 700m laptop, axim x50v pda and the lg 3mega pixel camera phone. i never realized the how versetile this thing was until i used the samsung i700 for 4 months. now i can't be without it. 1st of all its top quality stuff...i even dropped it several times and its still functioning. its probably the most user friendly pda or phone u can buy. and the batt life is exceptional..for an all in one unit. its just an amazing machine and the display is clear and bright..even better than my axim with 16mb graphics card. i wish i had known about this unit earlier. now my beloved dell axim and the lg phone will retire. hope ebay can find them a good home. i will hold on to this for years...thank u samsung.

This phone rocks! I have had it for about a year now. I have never had a problem with it. The sync works like a dream so it saves me from carrying a pda, pager, and separate phone. Now I have them all in one good-looking package. Don't wait, get one today!

the i 700 loses data and phone numbers for no apparent reason. i have 3 times put in numbers and then lost them. it is diffiuclt to connect to the internet. it is difficult to hold the phone without pushing one of the the buttons on the side. the biggest positive is that the screen is easy to read.

I've owned this device for 3 months now and love it. As somebody that is frequently out of the office, it's been great to have my PDA and my phone in one device.

The PDA part of the i700 worked fine and synchronization was relatively easy. However, the phone part only worked for about two months. First the speaker quit, then the microphone, and finally the headset part. Since I bought it primarily for the phone, it did not meet my standards for usage. A co-worker experienced similar problems having gone through 3 phones in six months, all due to the phone not working.

I have had this phone now for a couple of years and it is definately a love/hate relationship. LOVE: Phone/PDA/internet browser in one. HATE: User interface, buttons that stick out causing them to be pressed inadvertantly (I will be walking along and hear dialtones or my wife saying "hello? hello?" because the dial button has been bumped in my pocket), and embarassingly large size. I paid $800 a few years ago and I am GLAD it's cheaper now. I look forward to when it dies so I can get a smaller phone.

My LCD screen cracked. I think this was due to taking it from the cold Chicago winter to the warm inside. Or maybe I dropped it. Either way, you can imagine how fragile this giant screen is. Now, it looks pretty sweet. But in reality, combined with the very very poor product called Microsoft Pocket PC, it couldn't be more annoying. The thing is constantly waking up as it's in my pocket, and then random buttons are pushed, causing all manner of idiocy, including calling people without my knowledge and adding appointments with reminders that wake me up. And now that my screen is cracked I can't turn off the reminders. I can only press "snooze" so every 5 minutes the reminder comes back, buzzing and dinging. I think they made mine out of stupid. And this is the best phone Verizon makes? Incredible.

Edit: I meant to rate this as 2 stars.