To all the people out here before purchasing a samsung cdma phone and endling up like a wise fool just like me, see a short sharp review of samsung phones.
NOTE: These are my views & are not endorsed by anybody or anything else. I wrote what I felt, i may be wrong and you may be right. But these are my views use them if you like, i hold no responsiblity for anything in any event.
SAMSUNG DU0. Dual Sim phone
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1. Does not have a keypad messaging is tough have to use both hands
2. NO FM Radio, how long will you listen to MP3s
3. Max memory size is 1 gb
4. You cannot use 2 sims simultaneously, it has to recycle its power to use another network
5. Too Pricy, not worth the price its being sold at.
6. Memory card operations take time, and is very slow to copy mp3s from PC to the phone
7. Handwriting recognition is not that great.
SAMSUNG FLO - Only good looks and is a slider phone
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1. No expandable memory just use the built in 44 mb for your music
2. Cannot set mp3 files as ring tones
3. No FM radio
4. Camera quality is bad
5. Getting software for PC-Sync is difficult
6. Too Pricy for a handset with crippled features
SAMSUNG EXPLORE - Sleek looks
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1. will not set MP3 as ringtone, what a hopeless waste of time and money loading mp3s after buying a memory card.
2. After getting a data cable and using it none of the SAMSUNG software PC link or PC-Studio are able to recognise the phone. i tried all the pc-sync software that came on the cd along with the data cable.
3. Bad battery back up
4. Low speaker phone volume
5. Memory card operations take time, and is very slow to copy mp3s from PC to the phone
6. Most irritating is that the phone disconnects you from the network when you are using it as a thumb drive to copy stuff onto the memory card. This is something which my GSM phones never did a all.
7. you can use the phone as a modem, internet connects fine but if you disconnect your phone and put it in another USB port then it will not work, windows will not be able to locate the phone as a SAMSUNG CDMA Modem.
SAMSUNG HERO & HERO NXT are the handsets which are black and white and are worth the price for what you are paying, of course i could not get pc-sync to work with them also.
We buy phones to have fun also, after all whats the use if one cannot set mp3 as ringtones or done some more fun stuff such as loading java applications or games.
These are my views, opinions may differ, thats your problem, take your pick be choosy.
You want value for money, fun, a lot of options and a good range of phones, stick to GSM. CDMA is too business oriented and not for the end user.
to see these phones visit - http://www.samsungcdma.in/
Have fun
http://network45.blogspot.com/
Then decide if you still want a samsung phone.
regards
ac
