Uproar: Pricey but slick convergence
Written: Dec 08 '00 (Updated Jan 18 '01)
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Pros: Small, light, good phone, music!
Cons: Buttons small, expensive
The Bottom Line: Overall, a great phone that would stand alone as a good phone/wireless web product, and aside from that has some neat MP3 player functionalities. Recommended!
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| green97's Full Review: Samsung SGH-M100 Cell Phone |
I had been waiting for some time for a combination mobile phone and mp3 player: the Samsung Uproar recently arrived to satisfy that need with 64 Mb of memory and an excellent web-capable handset to boot.
The phone is very good and is packed full of little features that Samsung phone users will be familiar with: voice memos, voice-dialing etc. Also, via Sprint, you have access to Sprint's Wireless Web WAP interface that now incorporates things like AOL's Instant Messenger. The phone's display is actually pretty good, and you can read a fair amount of text compared to, for example the Motorola Timeport I wrote another epinion about.
About the phone: Very light, and small -- easy to handle with a bottom flip that isn't overly flimsy. The battery is very slim -- I feel like the only thing missing perhaps is a holder- I see one of the big apps for a phone like this to be for running or working out in the gym, so it would be nice to have a waistband clip or a holder to keep it in. Someone is sure to make one available in the aftermarket. Battery life so far is good, no complaints there. It comes with a somewhat bulky desktop charger that has room for an extra battery to be charged at the same time.
Phonebook is fairly easy to handle once you get the navigation down (center button scrolls down menus one item at a time, the left scroll buttons on the side of the phone jump down several items), and can hold up to 6 numbers per person, which is a feature I like. Speed dial is also easy and intuitive, although it wasn't as easy for me to reassign speed dial numbers. The Calendar feature is fairly useless to me unless I can integrate it with my Outlook on my laptop, so I haven't really used that on the phone at all -- would have been nice if they could have included some type of software to sync that up, doesn't seem like it would have been hard!
Buttons are a little small and hard to push if you have big fingers, but once you get used to it it's not too bad. The phone does use Tegic's T9 technology, so you can type in a few numbers and it will figure out the word for you - it works fairly well and is a nice touch.
Headphones: The headphones are pretty decent, and have a neat remote control that allows you to switch between the phone and mp3 functions, along with volume, voice memo and a hold button. The one thing that is both a benefit but kind of a hindrance is the length of the headphone cords -- they get tangled easily if you keep them in your pocket. I would like to have seen some type of holder for the wires and earbud microphones. Nonetheless the voice and sound quality for both phone and music are excellent.
MP3 player is good and easy to upload or download songs via the included USB cord - the phone comes bundled with Real Jukebox which does a decent enough job once you figure out the somewhat poorly designed user interface on your PC.
It's not the super-small mp3 player that you can clip to your t-shirt, but is light and small enough for you to get a lot of use out of as a way to have music with you wherever you might be!
Added Jan'18'01: I noticed that GetConnected has a $100 rebate on this phone if you select a wireless plan through them. It's an interesting site anyway: www.getconnected.com
Recommended:
Yes
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