Samsung t509 Phone (T-Mobile)

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• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• ASIN: B000GE5B4U
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #173,936 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)

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Here's the latest contender in the race to build the thinnest, most stylish phone on the planet. In fact, the Samsung t509 is one of the skinniest phones money can buy, measuring just .39 inches thick, or 10 millimeters. Amazingly, this phone also happens to pack a lot of features into its svelte frame, including Bluetooth, a VGA camera, support for EDGE high speed data, a speakerphone, and more. It's a the perfect way to slim down and take advantage of T-Mobile service.

So thin, it almost disappears when turned sideways. View the t509 in 3D, or check out a feature presentation.

Design
One look at this phone and you'll wonder where the phone went. The design is simple, refined, and--once again--thin. The numeric keypad resides below a circular five-way control toggle that controls most of the phone's menus and functions. The large, 176 x 220 display supports up to 65,000 colors, while 10.5 MB of internal memory gives you plenty of room for pictures, contacts, and other data. The t509's VGA camera unit resides on the rear of the phone, and there's a port for plugging in the included hands-free headset.

Calling Features
The t509's phone book can store up to 1000 contacts, phone numbers and addresses, while a call list remembers your most recent missed, received and dialed calls. In addition to a vibrating alert, the t509 supports polyphonic ringtones. You can also download additional ringtones from T-Mobile's t-zones service. A speakerphone lets you talk hands-free while you're doing other things, and picture caller ID lets you assign a photo to specific callers. Similarly, a ringer ID lets you assign ringtones to callers. Like all T-Mobile phones, the t509 also supports voicemail, caller ID, conference calling, call forwarding, call waiting, call hold, built-in paging, and access to T-Mobile's 411 service. Lastly, the phone's Bluetooth connectivity means that your favorite Bluetooth headset is fully compatible.

Messaging, Internet, and Tools
The t509 has all the bases covered when it comes to messaging. Support is built in for sending and receiving text, video, graphics and sound via messages. When used in combination with the phone's built-in camera, MMS opens up a whole new world of messaging fun. Instant messaging clients for AOL, Yahoo!, MSN, and ICQ are included.

Getting on the Internet is easy with the t509, too. It supports the GPRS protocol, as well as the new, high speed EDGE data protocol. When used with a T-Mobile data plan and the phone's USB or Bluetooth data capability, the phone can be used as a wireless modem for laptops and PDAs. There's also a built-in browser for t-zones downloads and mobile Web browsing. T-Mobile's t-zones service lets you receive and send emails, read news headlines, get weather updates, download games and ringtones, and more. T9 text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built into the unit-- a plus for mobile text messaging users.

A number of handy productivity tools are bundled with the t509 including a voice memo recorder, an alarm clock, a calculator with unit converter, and a calendar.

Imaging and Entertainment
The t509's built-in VGA (640 x 480) camera captures stills and video to the phone's 10 MB of internal memory. The camera captures videos of up to 15 seconds in length at 176 x 144 resolution.

Meanwhile, if you want to dress up your t509, picture effects, custom screensavers, backgrounds, and themes can be set to fit your personality. Plus, Java support is built into the t509, making it a powerful gaming companion. Games are downloadable via the t-zones service.

Vital Statistics
The Samsung SGH-t509 weighs 2.7 ounces and measures 4.6 x 1.83 x 0.39 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3.5 hours of digital talk time, and up to 172 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/1800/1900 frequencies. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.

Product Description

The SGH-t509 deserves to have its own adjective, slicksleek. It embodies a range of technology that’s every bit as up-to-the- minute as its beautiful exterior.

Customer Reviews

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51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Candy Bar Phone, June 27, 2006

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Artemaria (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung t509 Phone (T-Mobile) (Wireless Phone)

This is a good little phone. We got it when we renewed our contract with T-Mobile over a month ago and have been very pleased. Here's my nutshell review:

PROS:

GREAT CALL QUALITY - to me this is the most important feature of the phone. If you can't hear people, and they can't hear you, who cares about the pictures, video, neon lights, etc.? This phone has crystal clear call quality, among the best I've encountered.

GORGEOUS SCREEN - this is the second most useful aspect of the phone. If you can't see what you are doing, then it makes the phone that much more irritating to use. This phone has one of the best screens that you will see, it is minimally smaller than a RAZRs screen, but appears brighter and perhaps has better resolution.

SMALL AND REALLY THIN. Almost too light and too thin, you can easily forget what pocket it is in. This could be a con, but it is invisible in a suit, and you don't have to wear those dorky external phone holders, which can only be a plus.

DURABLE - dropped it from chest height (nearly 4 ft.) onto the following surfaces, concrete, ceramic tile, and carpeting (okay, so that last one isn't all that impressive). Although the battery cover comes off and the battery pops out, after you put it back together, the phone still works. Also, I've yet to find a scratch from dropping it, which means the phone's casing is pretty well put together.

CAMERA - This is my first camera phone, and I must say they did a nice job with the execution. There is a devoted camera button, and the pictures are not bad for use on the phone (I haven't and probably wouldn't do anything other than e-mail them to anyone).

MENUS - Samsung menus are easy to follow. There is almost no learning curve. That means the menu designer is doing his or her job.

T-MOBILE - I've had good luck with them and their customer service is the best. While their service coverage may not be quite as good as Verizon, in NYC, they've put up more towers, and its gotten significantly better.

CONS:

CANDY BAR STYLING - I'm preferential to clam shell phones. Although they are thicker and somewhat clunkier in their styling, I'm not as afraid of getting the beautiful screen scratched.

SPEAKERPHONE VOLUME - The speakerphone works fine, but I find that the volume is too low for use anywhere but indoors in a fairly quiet room.

PHONE HEIGHT - This is getting really nitpicky, but I'm used to shorter phones (because I generally get clamshells). If this phone were about half an inch or an inch shorter (it can't really be much thinner), then it would be an ideal size.

That's it. Good luck in choosing a good cell phone. You can't go wrong with this one.

35 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A worthy phone in the Samsung lineup..Motorola style with Samsung quality, July 11, 2006

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A. G. Corwin - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung t509 Phone (T-Mobile) (Wireless Phone)

Samsung has a fairly reliable history as far as the quality and features of their GSM mobile phones go. I used to sell GSM phones B2B for a national GSM carrier, and I sold more Samsungs than anything else, including Motorola. Motorola people generally bought because of the design or some gadget feature. Samsung was bought because it offers a more reliable phone with better features, and a better price. Samsung has made great strides in its design process in recent years, and has once again delivered a solid, midlevel phone that offers a solid bang for the buck.

A phone similar in look and style to the Motorola SLVR, the Samsung T509 combines a wealth of features including bluetooth and 4x zoom digital camera with video capture in a stylish, light(2.7oz!), and compact(4.6 x 1.8 x .4 inches) shell. The keypad is elegant looking, and is easy to use and text message with. The video screen is nice but nothing spectacular.A major drawback is the lack of MP3 capability. With MP3 technology becoming more and more common in phones, its a shame that this very good phone doesn't have it. Phone reception is average due to an internal wraparound antenna, but more than sufficient for every day use. If you live in a rural area reception may be somewhat spotty, so test the phone for a few days if you can. The phone is tri-band GSM on 850/1800/1900 mhz.

Before final purchase though, I would recommend going to a store and testing one of their live demo phones with your SIM, menu functionality is easy for Samsung fans but can be difficult at first for Moto users. Plus you'll get a good sense for how well the phone fits your hand, your dialing fingers, and how it places against your ear, and what kind of reception you might get before you plunk down your hard earned money. Nice job again by Samsung with this one, and cost wise it is a great alternative to the SLVR. Motorola looks with Samsung quality makes for a very good combination.

A.G. Corwin
St Louis, MO

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great phone, July 31, 2006

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E. E. (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung t509 Phone (T-Mobile) (Wireless Phone)

My previous "machine" was a Nokia 6600 and I just got sick of carrying around a big chunk of phone with tons of smart features which you get sick of using after a few months. Thats why I decided to go with a cheap, simple, but nice handy phone and got the T509.

Pretty much everything with the phone works great, it does deserve 4.5 stars out of 5. Following are for the remaining 0.5:

Its so so light (actually a pro) that vibration may not be felt in ur jeans pocket. but if you are used to checking your phone once in a while, it really doesnt matter. plus you still feel it somehow unless you are running.

The ringer tones are not as inaudible as what people say, but could still be louder. Again, it depends on what you are up to.

Somebody said that the alarm clock doesnt run if the phone is turned off. ITS WRONG!!! There is an option in the Fun&Applications menu where you can set up "auto power" which he/she probably didnt see. Check it out in the store!

Other than these 2 points: Nothing else! The phone is so easy and nice to use that it makes you happy. Connection and sound quality is great, screen is totally awesome, camera works great. Calling and messaging options through the contacts are extremely easy as well.

Ill tell you what, i didnt wanna write about the pro's but I'll just summarize them all in one statement: THIS PHONE SAVES YOU TIME. Forget about all the super hi-tech features that other phones are loaded with, you get sick of using them anyway and they cause the menu's to be slow. Count the time that passes from pressing the On/Off key to completely sending a text message, and compare it in T-509.

You'll get what I mean...