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| Samsung i760 Black Phone (Verizon Wireless) | 
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| Brand: Samsung
Category: Wireless
List Price: $749.99
Buy New: $206.86
You Save: $543.13 (72%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 6473
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: SCHi760ZKV
UPC: 635753465006
EAN: 0635753465006
ASIN: B000YA6EMY
Release Date: November 1, 2007
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 I've never hated a phone before September 24, 2008
I've owned this phone now for about 8 months. I hate it so much. Here's why:
1. It's incredibly slow, especially after it's been on awhile
2. Don't expect to get anything done with your fingers, you have to use the stylus for everything!
3. Windows Mobile is a POS. It constantly crashes, freezes, displays random crap. I can't believe someone made a cellphone/PDA OS this terrible.
4. Did I mention it's slow? Sometimes flipping between keyboard mode and upright mode takes 4 or 5 seconds to update the display.
5. It's weak. Cracked the LCD screen in it (thankfully Asurion insurance is awesome and overnighted me a new one). I had a screen protector and I still don't know how it happened. I just picked it up one day and the screen was somehow destroyed.
6. ITS TOO BIG! At first you think "oh yea, this thing aint that big!" but just wait till the first few times you struggle to pull the hulking thing out of your pocket and accidentally hang up on the person calling and accidentally flip out the keyboard. This phone is huge.
Good Stuff:
1. Battery life is excellent with the extended battery, but its so HUGE with it on.
2. There's some UI improvements on the internet you can download to make it more touch friendly.
3. reception and sound quality are good.
 Drops DEAD mysteriously- totally Kaput September 3, 2008
I liked the keyboard on this phone. Otherwise It is clunky and the buttons are small. Touch screen is nice but patheic compared to Iphone. web browsing is poor.
But still I needed a windows enabled phone for work so I went with this because Blackberrys were not supported at work, and treo reviews were not good.
All that changed when the phone just went dead one afternoon- no response to changing batteries, No Nothing. Later I found others are having the same experience. VErizon was nice, but they will only replace with the exact same phone. Go Figure.
Horrible Phone/ Not for someone who needs a workhorse July 10, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I wonder if I am reviewing the same phone as those that gave this phone a 4* or 5*. Or perhaps the people who rated it so high do not use it as a workhorse or for business and personal use OR perhaps I got a bad phone and so did my other friends and collegues who have this same phone and absolutely HATE it.
I have had this phone since December and lived with the irritations at first, now they are just unberable and I am looking to make a change. If anyone has any suggestions, please post!
Anyhow, my phone locks up at least 5 times a day. I go to use it and guess what, no phone, it's just locked up. So, in order to make a call, I must reset the phone. which by resetting the phone it clears out of my information that has been stored by my IT department at work in order for me to properly receive emails from work. so I have to go in at least 5 times a day reset the phone and then set up all my email notification syncing stuff again. I have gotten to the point where it's just too much of a hassle, I go in through the internet and get my email now.
when I text it sends my messages before I am done typing. Nice feature for those who want to send out half completed messages.
The phone gets horrible reception, for example, I am at my pool, I get zero bars, no reception. I turn to my other friends with Verizon and they have 4 bars on their regular phones.
I could go on and on and give you many reasons why I absoutely would never recommend this phone, it's a nightmare. I use my phones like a workhorse and expect them to perform up to par. this phone is just badddd.
Great when it works... June 14, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have now had 4 of these phones in just a few months as they all suddenly stop working in the following way. They work fine for a while and then get no coverage in moderate zones and poor coverage in very strong coverage zones. The rest of the phone/PDA functionality works but for whatever reason, the radio seems to loose strength. I have now switched to a VX6800 as I need a reliable phone so we will see how that goes. Given my experience with this phone model, I would strongly recommend against it. Too bad as it is a cool and well made device with lots of great features other than reliability. In context, I have had lots of different smartphones (TREO 600, TREO 650, Blackjack, various BlackBerrys...). If this phone would keep working, I would really like it. So far I can say that the keyboard on the VX6800 is better but the physical device quality and screen are not as good. The other downside to these slider phones is that they are really hard to use with one hand so if you walk through airports trying to do your e-mail, I would stick with a candy bar style device like a Blackjack, Moto Q, or Blackberry.
 Excellent Phone June 4, 2008
I have been running this phone since it was first released by Verizon. The only problem I have ever had was with the digital clock that is on the desktop. It has a memory leak that will lead to your phone crashing. If you search the internet you can disable this feature entirely on your phone so that you no longer have to worry about it.
I have also been very impressed with its battery life compared to its predecessor the i730. The i730 was lucky to get 2 days of battery life even with the extended mega battery. This phone can go a week with its normal battery and easily more than that with its extended battery that is a few millimeters thicker.
If you buy this phone be prepared to buy a new sync cable from amazon that will allow you to sync and charge through USB as the cable that it ships with cannot support this. I believe Verizon was trying to prevent people from tethering with this phone.
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