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| Samsung Blast Phone (T-Mobile) | 
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| Brand: Samsung
Category: Wireless
List Price: $179.99
Buy New: $0.01
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 2710
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: Blast
UPC: 610214614476
ASIN: B000UOFVDW
Release Date: August 5, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great Phone for calls and texting September 6, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have had this phone for about a month. The call quality is great and the texting is super easy. Best phone I have had in years and I have had alot of phones! First phone I have given 5 stars.
 Happy with the Blast so far... September 3, 2007
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
Got the Blast from T-mobile about 5 days ago -- so far I'm quite happy with it.
In the store I thought the volume for incoming calls was a bit low, but in real use I have not had a problem -- even turned down the volume a few times. Sound quality is quite good -- better at least than some other cellphones. I've also had pretty good coverage with T-Mobile so far -- better than I expected, actually, since they don't have as much coverage as Verizon or AT&T. As a plain cellphone, it does a good job.
One peculiarity is that it doesn't have the normal letters-to-numbers assignment of standard phones -- I guess they're trying to make it faster for text-messagers, but they've got a sort of QWERTY layout that assigns two letters to most keys and one letter to some keys, which can be confusing if you're trying to dial some mnemonic number like 1-800-SPELL ME.
I bought a Plantronics Bluetooth earpiece/headset to go with it -- sound quality both of the person you hear and how you sound to them deteriorates with distance -- try to keep the phone within 6 feet of the earpiece for maximum quality.
The "My Faves" feature works pretty easily and is a nice feature of T-Mobile. I've used the phone pretty heavily each of the days I've had it -- getting it set up as well as actually making calls, so I've recharged it every evening. Can't speak to total battery life therefore. My guess is that if you keep Bluetooth enabled all the time that drains the battery a bit faster than if you just use the built-in earphone and microphone, or if you used a wired (as opposed to wireless) earpiece/microphone.
The camera works reasonably well, though I haven't inspected the few photos I've taken on the web-based "album" that T-Mobile provides. The lens is pretty wide-angle, however, so if you want a close-up you need to get *really* close-up! The camera does have a dedicated "shutter" button on the edge that makes taking quick pictures easy, although you have to get into picture-taking mode through the menus first. (Unless you set up the shortcut key to take you to photo mode, in which case it would be just one key and then press the shutter.)
The display is fairly bright and has good contrast, though it's hard to see in bright sunlight. My only complaint is that the date and time are displayed in in a strange outline font that is visually "busy" and hard to read at a glance -- but at a glance is what you *want* for the time.
In response to SaraBellum's comments, you can do a fair number of things without opening the phone. To prevent accidental key-presses, you have to press two different function buttons in sequence to "unlock" the phone when it's closed, but after that the menu and phone-book buttons work, as do the "My Faves", call, and hang-up buttons. From the menu you can see how many of each type of messages you've got -- text, IM, e-mail, voicemail, etc. -- and can then access whichever type you select.
Although I haven't tried it yet, I believe the phone has Samsung's usual voice-recognition capabilities that allows you to record names as shortcuts for phone numbers and then "dial" just by activating your headset or the phone and then saying the name.
 Nice phone....needs some kinks worked out. August 27, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
In answer to the woman who can't get off Predictive Text....the right soft key changes it. Hit it repeatedly to change to All Caps, Capitalize first word, 123, and the punctuation pages. The left soft key (under Options on text screen) allows you to change the font style and size.
My complaints with the phone (I've sent back the first one already):
I had a problem with Text Messages....some arrive at their destination, others do not. Very random. They all SAY they are sent, but about 1/3 of them never reached the intended party. Service on the phone seems to be very weak...I'm thinking the internal antenna isn't very powerful. I always had 4 - 5 bars of service with my Nokia phone at home, with the Blast I'm lucky if I have 1 or 2. Can't find an apostrophe anywhere in the punctuation (although there are about 5 pages of punctuation) and I use apostrophes a lot! You cannot dial a phone number that is given to you in words....for example 1-866-IDOLS 01 (or whatever!). With the QWERTY keypad (which is nice) those letters and numbers don't correspond correctly.
It's a nice phone, good pictures and video, I just hope they work out some of the kinks. You probably shouldn't buy a phone the day it comes out!
 grown up packaging for a toy phone August 24, 2007
16 out of 36 found this review helpful
I returned it after only five days.
I searched everywhere but you cannot turn off predictive text. Predictive text is like that annoying boyfriend who thinks he knows you so well he can predict what you are going to say; gets it wrong and annoys you even more by derailing your train of thought. The salesperson at the T-Mobile store couldn't figure out where or even if you could disable it. The text messaging font is very small and has awful letter spacing. You also have to slide it open to do ANYTHING--even check the time or discover if you have a text message. I was really disappointed.
I used it for five days and had to charge it three times.
Also, it comes with almost no memory. So if you are planning to use the music player function you had better get a bigger card.
the promised land August 15, 2007
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
My last phone was a RAZRv3 so, I am not that phone hip and maybe things have gotten a lot better since then. However, this phone is appreciably better and it delivers on the holy grail, free(ish) email. While I definitely have some gripes about user interface (UI), in general it delivers as promised. I am checking Gmail on it now so what the other reviewer says isn't quite true. You do have to tell it the domain, it isn't built in like AOL and Yahoo, but it was trivial to do. I managed to burn through the battery in about a day but I was playing with it quite a lot, seems like it could have lasted longer. All in all, this is the best bang for buck phone I've seen in a long time.
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