The Good: The Samsung SCH-A870 is a lightweight flip phone with a slim profile. It also offers a VGA camera with flash, a speakerphone, Bluetooth, voice dialing, and support for VZ Navigator, Verizon’s GPS location service. Its rounded corners make it comfortable to hold in your hand and cradle comfortably on your ear.
The Bad: The Samsung SCH-A870 takes blurry, washed-out photos. Additionally it’s not possible to turn off the cameras shutter sound, even when you silence the phone’s volume completely.
The Bottom Line: The Samsung SCH-A870 is a decent mid tier mobile phone offering from Verizon. It should satisfy most people but better options are available.
The Good: This extremely light Windows Mobile 5.0 based phone weighs in at less than 4oz. It’s sleek and sexy with a smooth black finish and fits comfortably in your hand. A range of messaging and e-mail features, coupled with the full Microsoft Office Mobile suite make this the ideal businessman’s companion. Haptic technology provides tactile feedback, useful when using this touch-screen phone with either your finger or a stylus. Performance is smooth, the layout organised and the handling error-free.
The Bad: With such a glowing feature set, the lack of WiFi or 3G support is disappointing, as is the lack of PDF support. The same too for the lack of Haptic technology in all applications, particularly messaging. With only 64Mb of RAM, external memory storage is needed to store additional contacts and documents.
The Bottom Line: The SGH-i718 is certainly a great gadget to have in your pocket, but the lack of several key features makes it difficult to justify the high price tag. However, it’s a sturdy, elegant and capable companion for everyday use.
The Good: The Samsung SCH-U540 succeeds in blending a generous range of features including 3G support, Bluetooth, and a speakerphone with strong call quality.
The Bad: The Samsung SCH-U540 has a dull design with a flat keypad. Video and picture quality is unimpressive, and it lacks stereo Bluetooth.
The Bottom Line: If you value call quality over extras, then this is the phone for you.
The Good: Samsung has certainly succeeded in creating a stylish cell phone. The overall design looks good and is compact enough to provide quite a bit of convenience. In addition to that, customers have raved about the improved call quality of the phone. For those that love Bluetooth, there is integrated Bluetooth technology included within this phone.
The Bad: Samsung tried to go big with a VGA camera on its M300, but the camera produces poor quality with its pictures. One of the biggest problems associated with this phone is the low speaker phone volume. In addition to that, the relatively small amount of internal memory (8MB) is too low for most folks.
The Bottom Line: The Samsung M300 is a little basic, but it gets the job done. For those just looking to make cell phone calls with a good looking phone, this is a good choice. For those people who demand a little bit more out of their phone, there might be a better option elsewhere. Overall, it is a good choice for people who don’t need a great camera phone.
