Customer Reviews

Samsung t219 Brown Phone (T-Mobile, Phone Only, No Service)

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This is a very lightweight phone. It is small. The color user interface is really nice. I like the '5-Faves' thing. It is a circle of big dots on the screen that you can rotate around by clicking it, which are your 5 friends that you call the most. Nice feature, because you don't have to scroll through your phone book. I think T-Mobile markets more to the youth market, and I think they will like this feature a lot. I like the user-friendliness of this phone with T-Mobile. The best thing to me is that this is a GSM tri-band phone, so I can use it when on business trips to Germany. I was impressed by both this phone, and T-Mobile. The phone has some nice features, like calendar, and even a tip-calculator, which I think is a great feature. You type in the check amount and it automatically calculates the 15 % tip. Nice touch. It seems so far to have decent battery life. There is a voice notes thing, but I haven't figured out exactly how to use it. Overall, this is a very nice phone, with just enough "bells and whistles".

I've been using this phone for the past week, and have no structural complaints; my only concern is that it gives me nauseating headaches. No other cellphone I've used has produced this effect, but then they all had external attennae and hence lower SAR. According to the user manual, the SAR on this phone is 1.29 W/kg (head). I'm considering buying a phone with a lower SAR; I see no reason why anyone would not want to have a phone with the lowest possible SAR ...unless one puts fashion over health or at least informedness.

EDIT: On 11/08/2007 I purchased a new phone with an SAR at about .80. The headaches are gone.

I am not one who likes a lot of bells and whistles included with my wireless phone. If you are the type of person that does, this is not the product for you. But if you simply need to make and receive calls, text, receive pix and check your email, then this is a great little bargain. The only draw back is that the phone doesn't have a camera. I guess I should have paid more attention before I bought it, but I assumed that cameras where pretty much standard on all cell phones these days. Other than that, I am pretty satisfied.