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Samsung Impression a877 Phone, Blue (AT&T)
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Date: 2007-12-22 |
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Reviews for Samsung Impression a877 Phone, Blue (AT&T) |
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| | Review: BAD CHOICE
| this phone has a bunch of little neat features, which i enjoyed, but its an all around bad phone for an adult that actually NEEDS a working reliable phone
the reception it got was enough to make me stop using it and switch to my old phone that i had for 2 years. dropped calls, no bars. i constantly had to reboot it because texting would freeze, and the alarm stopped working. the keypad is very difficult to text on (which was the whole reason for its appeal...the full qwerty keyboard).
i did enjoy the perks of the different camera functions like panoramic, but, it just wasn't all that worth it.
thank god i got it for free through my contract, because otherwise, i would have been a very unhappy customer. |
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| | Review: Poorly performing phone.
| I enjoy having a slider phone with full capabilities. Before this phone, I had the Rumor by Sprint. Despite being two years older, that phone performed a lot better than this one. This phone takes forever to load things (i.e. there's long delays when menus load, and it's at least a two-minute wait before you can do anything when you turn the phone on). Additionally, the phone imposes a texting speed limit: I type faster than the phone allows, so I have to go back and fix errors from entry that the phone missed.
I don't know if anyone else has this problem, but the phone also randomly decides to stop functioning. I'll send a text and lock my phone, assuming the text went out. I'll look at my phone an hour later, and it will still be sitting on the "sending" screen. I'll try it two more times, and it will just sit on the sending screen. So I'll have to restart the phone just to send one text. Additionally, sometimes when I make a call, the phone will start to dial, then just end the call before any connection is made. This also requires me to restart the phone.
The full keyboard is nice. The buttons are bigger than on my previous phone, so I never mash two buttons trying to type something in. The camera's okay for a phone of this type. And all the side features work great: unlimited amount of alarms, stopwatch, timer, etc.
Overall, Samsung did an okay job with everything on this phone that is not phone-related. But the main features of the phone (texting, calling) perform horribly. |
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| | Review: Replacements Galore: A Tear-Jerking Story of a Boy and His Mobile Device
| The Samsung Impression is, by far, the worst mobile phone I've ever had the displeasure of using. If you're thinking about buying it - don't. I'm on my third replacement now (4 phones total) and the problems have gotten worse and worse.
Let me start with the good things about the Impression, which I'll list below:
Okay, on to the bad things:
(And yes, I've tested my original phone, all three replacements, and two friends' phones, plus three phones in the store in which I work)
1) The most prominent and horrible problem this phone has: after you send a random amount of texts (usually between 10 and 30) the phone will stop sending the next text you attempt to send. The only way to get it to send is to restart the phone. Most of the time a soft reset will work (powering down the phone normally) but often the phone won't reset and you must take out the battery for 30 seconds. This problem is infuriating if you're a heavy texter. If you are, DO NOT GET THIS PHONE. Every Samsung Impression suffers from this problem and Samsung refuses to acknowledge it. Seriously the most horrible problem this phone has. I usually reset my phone 12-20 times per day.
2) Freezing screens when you're receiving picture mail. This happens about half the time. When you get a picture message, the phone will freeze and you must reset the phone and ask the sender to re-send the picture.
3) The keyboard is atrocious. It can't keep up with any texting rate over 5 words per minute. The space key sticks and usually hits two spaces, causing a period to form and a new sentence to start. Many times, the letters won't press at all. Example: I was texting the word "unnecessary" earlier and it came out as "unecessae" and that's a pretty good one, actually. This phone is advertised as a messaging device, but it is easily the worst phone in its class for that. No threaded SMS + missing letters + repeating letters + a super slow input reaction = lots of time correcting your text messages.
4) Input on the touch screen can lag a lot, causing your device to hold up, process the request, and then finally send it 5 seconds later. Usually it sends it six or ten times. I often end up sending people blank messages when I try to compose a new one because reply and send are in the same spot, and the Impression goes ahead and hits it a few times for me.
5) Slow, clunky web browser. I know it isn't a smartphone, but I expected better out of this browser. Facebook runs well, e-mail is horrible, and the screen size isn't as good as you think it is for web-browsing.
6) Random lack of notification. Sometimes your Impression will get several texts/calls/voicemails and never tell you at all. Just now I received two texts and a missed call. The phone didn't light up, ring, or anything. And no it's not on silent.
Overall, I hate this phone. As soon as I get a new carrier/phone, I'll probably destroy it, unless some poor sap wants to buy it. |
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| | Review: Great phone unless you nit-pick every small detail.
| | I got this phone a few weeks ago and i am pretty much in love with it. After reading all of the reviews on here about this phone I have to say I haven't had some of the problems that others have had with it. Yes the phone is slippery but you can buy a case for it that will limit you from dropping it. Have you used an iPhone? Without a case my husband drops his all the time when he talks on it. If the phone opened a program every time you accidently tapped the screen you would see people complaining about that but I like that I have to give it some force so that I am not calling people or connected to the internet all day. It is a good solid phone and while yes not having speed dial bugs me there are plenty of other features on this phone to make up for it. Not everyone is going to download software to the phone or get all technical with it. If you like to talk, text, and use the internet this phone is good for all that. If you want a phone to add hundreds of apps to and have to upgrade all the time then I would suggest an iPhone (while my husband likes his iPhone the constant updating bugs him a lot). |
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| | Review: Not happy at all with this phone
| I primarily use the phone for texting and talking. More texting than talking. I do not really use it for any of the data/online/email stuff. There may be a host of issues with stuff like that which I have not come across because I don't use it. I have had this phone for about 6 weeks, long enough for the new phone charm to have worn off.
The unlock key is in a really awkward position. So much so that I have ended up turning off the screen autolock function.
The widget is not customizable. You can take off the things you don't want on there (items that connect to the internet, for example, so that you don't accidently access them), but you can not add things you would like to add.
If you are a big texter, this phone is a poor choice. Once you get about 20 messages in your in and sent boxes it will stop sending messages. You will have to shut down the phone and restart it. You have to constantly be on top of deleting your messages or you will have this problem often. You can find pages and pages on message boards about this topic alone - getting a new one will do no good - it is a universal Samsung Impression issue. This issue alone is worth avoiding this phone if you text a lot.
My daughter got a Samsung Soltice at the same time I got this Impression and she is having much better luck with hers.
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