Great Phone! i in the states and taiwan
Written: Jul 29 '03
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Pros: color lcd, picture phone, 40 polyphonic ring tones
Cons: no voice calling, no profiles
The Bottom Line: Great phone, great price. a few complaints, but pretty damn good
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| ericwcha's Full Review: Samsung SGH-V205 |
This is a great phone for a reasonable price. I purchased the phone for $120 with T-mobile service. I paid an extra $20 so it would be unlocked so I could use it with Cingular or At&t if I changed services in the future.
Comes With
Well the phone I bought actually came with 2 batteries, the phone, a belt clip, ear piece (works really well), your standard adapter.
LCD screen
There is an lcd screen on the front telling you whos calling, if you received a message, and shows the time and date. Everything is great, cept taht you need to open the phone to turn on the light. You can activate the light through any buttons on the outside, so it's a serious pain in the butt if you just want to see what time it is.
Ringtones
The ringtones are amazing. 40 polyphonic ringtones is the best on the market today. It's like an acutal song playing on your phone. No compliants there.
Camera
The fact that the camera rotates 180 degrees is very useful too. On the panasonic gu-87, if you want to take self portraits, you need to look in those this crappy plastic mirror on the front of the phone. Lame... It's really cool that the camera rotates, because you dont have to move the phone at all akward angles (so basically you can take pictures of people without them knowing that youre taking pictures of them) The picture quality is OK, not great. Yet for a camera phone, its clear enough for you to see whats going on.
Other nifty things
I'm sure all the other reviews talked pretty much about everything with the phone. I'll try to include things that no one really mentioned. A cool thing about this phone is that you can answer the phone by simplying opening it (the clamshell that is)
This phone being still relatively new, it was hard to find a case. I don't like those stupid cases where you have to take the phone out of, I wanted a case that would fit snug around my phone like a glove. I ended up getting a case for a different samsung phone, which works really well, but i need to remove it if i want to take pictures.
The games are pretty lame. They are super slow and choppy, cept for the virtual pet game. Not much to say, because the games simply suck.
Battery life is pretty weak. It will die in about a day, (if you talk a lot that is) I suppose this is the price you gotta pay for a big lcd screen. So don't forget your chargers if you ever go anywhere.
Reception is alright, its better than my ericson t86i (I don't know if I have the right number, but it's the first ericsson color phone)
I used the phone in Taiwan, and it works just fine. Hahaha so the phone's not lying when it's saying that it's triband
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): 120
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