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| Samsung U900 FlipShot Red Phone (Verizon Wireless) | 
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| Brand: Samsung
Category: Wireless
List Price: $399.99
Buy New: $76.15
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 4992
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
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Model: U900
UPC: 635753467901
ASIN: B00132JWSK
Release Date: January 25, 2008
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 Nifty phone, with terrible texting June 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've had this phone for about five months now. I'm not going to reiterate all of the good things about it.
The camera takes good photos, but the lag is terrible. It's also not easy to get a self-shot.
Sound is decent quality. Speakerphone works.
However, the text messaging is abysmal. I mean really, really bad.
First, there isn't a way to edit the dictionary, and words you add (by using them in Abc mode) come first. I once forgot I was in Abc mode and typed in "like", which came out "jgjd". Now, *every* time I try to type in "like", "jgjd" comes up first.
Second, if you capitalize a word, it remembers that as well. So I put in a band name---let's say "The Styx". Now, every time I enter "the" it comes up as capital, no matter what mode I'm in. To get a lower-case "the", I have to hit next. Every time.
Third, it tries to be helpful by learning your punctuation. What this means is that you can *never* rely on the punctuation that's going to come up. If you've typed in "great!" before, and want to type in "great." now, it's probably going to come up with an exclamation point first.
Fourth, and what makes all of this so frustrating, is that it combines all of these. Capitals, punctuation---all of it. Here's an example of trying to type in "good!":
good.
home.
good?
home,
good@
good!
Texting has become a nightmare. I hate it---no, I loathe it.
I want a phone that doesn't capitalize a word unless I tell it to, or it's the beginning of a sentence. I want a phone where I can say, "I misspelled that---please remove it from your dictionary." I want a phone where I know that if I hit 1, and then hit next five times, it's always going to be a comma.
Other than that, and your standard Verizon crippling of the bluetooth and such, it's not bad.
Phone is crippled - maybe by Verizon June 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just got this today for my wife. I have spent about 6 hours trying to transfer the phonebook from her old LG VX8300 to the Flipshot. I have tried 3 different programs over Bluetooth and all cannot connect to this phone. I can connect to the LG and my RAZR just fine but BITPIM, Futuredial and even Samsungs own PC Studio 3 cannot connect to this phone. I know it is the Flipshot because Windows XP can send/receive diagnostics to the phone just fine. It could be that Verizon has crippled the phone so that you have to buy their $30 USB connector - I wouldn't put it past 'em. So right off the bat this phone has been a major irritation. I'll update if I get it to work otherwise it is getting shipped back in the morning....
Almost good. March 24, 2008
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
I purchased this phone because I wanted to have a camera capable of taking decent, but not amazing photos on me at all times.
As a phone it works fine. The signal strength is good, battery lasts a long time, the sound quality is quite good. You can't easily record your own ring tones, the speaker phone is basically useless. It has an attractive look, but in a month there are some places where the finish has already rubbed off. For some reason there are buttons on the outside that control music playback; these get hit accidentally all the time. This might be annoying if you used it for music, but I never do so it does not bother me.
Flipping the display around makes into a small camera with the same look and feel as 3 Mega Pixel point and shoot. For a camera embedded into a phone it has a surprising array of options that you might not even find in a normal point and shoot camera. Including, but not limited to: White balance, ISO (100-400), Metering mode (avg, center spot), Picture Mode (Portrait mode, night, macro, and more), Flash (Auto, On Off, once), Auto Focus (on/off), Timer. It supports up to a 4G micro SD card which will let you store 100s of photos at the maximum resolution and lowest compression level. The macro mode works well. When I've produced a good photo I've been able to print it out as a 4x6 sized photo on my Epson R1800 and it does look pretty good. Or use it as a desktop wallpaper.
The shutter lag is quite long; about 2 seconds or more. While you impatiently wait for the camera to do something you might hold down the trigger button. This inconveniently switches the camera from still mode to video mode. Even at the least compressed setting the photos produced seem to have slight compression artifacts, or perhaps this is sensor noise. Indoors, using the flash, produces photos which are far superior to other camera phones, but which are still too blurry compared with a regular point and shoot camera.
In conclusion, I would rather have this camera phone than nothing at all, but there are some problems that are very annoying.
 Amazing Phone with SO MUCH to Offer! February 22, 2008
45 out of 47 found this review helpful
This phone is by far one of the best models Samsung has come out with for Verizon Wireless! I really love this phone and would highly recommend it to anyone who is looking to buy a good phone with Verizon Wireless. I am writing this review after having the phone for over a month and a half with no problems!
It has a beautiful rich red color that makes the phone look trendy and also sexy.
It's not sleek but it's not as big as the LG the V and not very thick either. It's not heavy at all...that's what I liked about this phone.
The camera is 3.0 MP! That's huge for Verizon as most of the phones they have are either 1.0 or 2.0 MP and the qualities of those cameras aren't even that nice (but my old LG the V was really good with taking pictures from it's 1.0 MP camera). The pictures I've taken with my Flipshot come out really nice and very big! You need to have a micro SD card if you want to save your pictures so that it doesn't take over all of the phone's built in memory - but you can save a good amount of pictures even without the card.
The really cool thing about this phone is the swivelhead. You can rotate the flip a full 360 degrees so that the main screen is facing you when you close the flip and it automatically goes into camera/camcorder mode so you can take pictures exactly how you would using the screen on a digital camera. The main screen is very big.
Now if you use the phone to listen to music, this thing is really good with it. You can listen with the speakers on the phone - the speakers are on both sides of the phone just below where the headjack is. And it's super loud! Whenever my phone rings or I want to listen to music, it omits sound that you can hear from almost any room of the house. You can upload your music into the micro SD card and then insert it in the phone. Now the SD card slot is actually right next to the battery. You have to open the back cover and you will see right above the battery a small little slot to put your SD card in. You just slide it through the groves and voila! That's it...now you can save your pictures and listen to your music right from the phone! From what I know, I think you can put up to 4GB SD card into the phone....I don't know if it can fit a bigger card then that.
The other thing is the play/pause, forward and rewind button - they are located in the front but are not visible unless you slide your finger right above the Verizon logo....it's touch screen so it will light up red and you will see the play, forward and rewind button. I don't know if how I'm explaining it is right, but it's there...for those of you who like using the front buttons of your phone to play music, it's there in the front as a touchscreen. I thought that was a pretty neat.
Now the front main screen has a clock you can see - you can set it so either you see it as a digital clock, or as analog, or have it set so that you don't have to see anything on the front screen except for your picture wallpaper. I did that and I can see my picture in the front without the clock blocking my view. When you open the Flipshot to reveal the main screen, you can do the same thing; you go to Settings and Tools, go to Display Settings and Clock Format and change it so that you don't see the digital clock displayed - you can only see your wallpaper picture. I did that and I like it better since I am always somewhere where there's a clock. You can always change the settings back later if you use your cell as a watch.
The Flipshot also has other features such as a stopwatch - good for people who are running and want to have a stop watch to time themselves and also good for those who are studying for tests and need to time themselves.
You can text message using your voice - when you text message someone, you can go to voice mode and holding the voice button on the side, speak out your text message. You just have to be in a very quiet room and speak slowly so it can understand what you're saying. After you're done, you release the button and if there are any mistakes in the message, it will correct itself! It's awesome!
You can send text messages, picture messages, video messages, sketch messages and postcards to your friends - sketch messages are basically messages with a picture except that as soon as you select sketch message, your phone will prompt you to take a picture. As soon as you do, it becomes a sketch...it literally looks like someone took a pencil and drew out what you just took a picture of! And then you can send that on to your family or friends! It's awesome! The postcard basically takes a picture you already have and then you take another photo that is sketched on top of the picture you selected to send. Another cool thing you can do is you can program the phone so that you can see your text message without having to open to the main screen, although you can only reply using the main screen.
For those of you who like putting in your own ringtones - the phone itself doesn't come with any good ringtones...just some basic ones. But here are two ways to get your own ringtones without having to pay over 2 bucks for them:
The first way:
1. Get Bitpim software from Bitpim.org
2. Use the software to make your own ringtones (it will ask for you to connect the phone via bluetooth or USB cable but you can say you don't have one)
3. Create your ringtones
4. Right click on your ringtone and click on save, and save it to your My Sounds folder in your mini SD card (after formatting the card with the phone you will get a bunch of folders including My_Sounds that you can save sounds into)
5. Insert the Mini SD card back into your phone and then text yourself with the sound, then save it as a ringtone!
The second way:
Go to any website that gives away free ringtones like www.myxertones.com. You can use the website to make your own ringtones and wallpapers or get some already made by people on there, and have the website text you. Once you get the text, you can save the ringtone. Unfortunately if you want to send the ringtone to someone else via text, you won't be able to because the ringtones from MyxerTones are under Digital Rights Management (DRM) and prohibits copyright information from being sent. However if you follow the first method above, you should be able to send your own homemade ringtones to other people through text (picture messaging actually).
That's about it for my review. I honestly love this phone...there are so many features, some of which I may not have mentioned on here. It's a great bargain to get this phone and I know you will enjoy it.
Oh here is one thing - when I got my Flipshot for the first time, it did have a problem of not charging my battery...I kept getting a message that said "battery temprature too low, cannot charge phone" and it wouldn't let me charge so I went and exchanged it right away and the new one didn't give me any problems. The first batch of new phones have had some problems but you can get it exchanged and it'll be fine.
The phone has a speakerphone that works very well. I have had no problems with my speakerphone - the other caller can hear me and I can hear them loud and clear!
The basic Verizon menu is no longer there. You have three different schemes to access your menu - it can be either a camera which is the default menu background you see, or can change it to cappuccino background and format, or you can use the menu the way you're used to with the original Verizon format.
Also you can program the phone so that it can play a xylophone sound everytime you press a button - sounds more pleasing to the ear.
You can very easily install your bluetooth headset so you can talk on the cell phone.
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