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| Samsung Juke Red Phone (Verizon Wireless) | 
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| Brand: Samsung
Category: Wireless
List Price: $399.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 6499
Color: Red
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: CENTRO690P
UPC: 635753468335
ASIN: B000XEBWSM
Release Date: October 18, 2007
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 A decent cell phone - good work, Samsung! August 30, 2008
This is my third Samsung phone, and I trust this brand as my previous ones were fairly reliable...unlike my very first LG phone 12 years ago, which was worse than a walkie-talkie even though I supposedly had the best wireless network in town.
I was more than happy with my simple and built-to-last Motorola RAZR V3 for 2 years (God knows how many times I dropped it to the floor) and wasn't even in need of an upgrade until my 2-year contract with Verizon was about to be expired and Verizon tried to get me renew the contract by giving me a new free phone! My sister's Motorola KRZR stopped working for no reason whatsoever after a couple of month, so I decided to look for another brand - and my only alternatives were LG Chocolate and Samsung Juke. I believe you all read enough bad reviews about LG Chocolate already.
My two previous Samsung phones worked fine until I dropped one of them to the cement floor. It looked ok outside, the camera was intact, and calls were made without a problem...only the volume went down so much and never came back up so I had to act like a person with hearing impairment for a year. Other than that, those phones were great with cool features.
Samsung Juke is more than enough for someone uses cell phone as a phone, not everything-in-one device. Here's the good side:
1. works well as a cell phone itself
2. very small and light - just like a candy bar
3. MP3 player with 2G internal memory which comes with USB cable/earphone so you don't have to buy anything extra or download anything as long as you have the MP3 file in your computer (it even charges your phone when you connect the USB cable to your computer)
4. a short-cut key for vibration mode! (This was my biggest complaint for Motorola RAZR.)
5. Awesome battery life!!! I listened to the MP3 almost half of the day and made calls all day long and the battery lasted 2 days without charging. Just make sure you fully charge the phone before you use it for the first time (don't turn it on while charging) and use it up until the battery dies off for the first time. Afterwards, you can charge whenever you feel like to.
However, there're reasons for giving it a 4-star:
1. Unlike other folder-type cell phones, this one is shaped like a bar and it's a little difficult to keep between my shoulder and head when my hands are full.
2. Although Bluetooth helps with that problem, my Bluetooth worked better with RAZR than Juke somehow. Others told me they heard noise when I used Bluetooth with Juke.
3. It opens only one-way and I get confused.
4. This phone is very small and so the keys and the screen are. I think this is mainly for girls with small fingers. Also, the jack for earphone and the charging slot seem to be fragile and I'm afraid one day my tiny but clumsy fingers will break them.
5. Voice Commands software is somewhat dumb and does not recognize many of the common names if you say it too fast. It understands some foreign names pretty well but what's the point if it understands a Chinese name at once and gives me three different choices when I say "Call Jane"?
6. No video feature (just camera) but I won't complain about it as I never expected such thing from a cell phone. I do not take quality pictures or videos with my cell phone for two reasons: 1. I have a very good digital camera for that function, 2. why should I pay for every single picture I take?????
Overall, I am satisfied with Samsung Juke. I can use this for next 2 years.
Good, but with some downsides August 26, 2008
When I first got this phone, it worked great. However, after a couple months wear and tear started to show. When you flip open the phone, it sometimes goes to far and gets bent back.
The music player on the juke is great. It holds 2gb of music- about 500 songs. The downside to the player is that you can't put normal headphones into the jack. You have to either use the ones that come with the juke that are very uncomfortable, or buy new ones.
Overall, the juke is a pretty decent phone and I would recommend it.
 Bad feature on Juke for music lover. August 23, 2008
In term of music appreciation, sound is bad as a typical problem for any tiny portable music player. If you are looking for quality, it is not the one. Song UI is terrible. Ipod has Ipod library where you can edit song info etc. In Juke, there is no room for edit. Whatever default info, you have to live with it. For example, there is 40 artists and 50 albums. How easy is it to find a song? It is not sleek design. As a matter of fact, It is just so annoying and messy UI. This is still in a prototype stage in my opinion. Only option you can do it so add song in play list. Just image 2Gb of song and you try to add one by one. Ater using it for couple days, I throw away the celll phone and go back to my Razor cell and Ipod. My susgestion is no, no and NO.
 Second Only to the iPhone for Audiophiles July 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you're a music lover, the Juke is for you. Granted, it only has 2 GB storage, so if you want more, the iPhone is the best thing for you. On a similar vein, if you use iTunes it would be a good idea to buy an Apple products - it took me hours and hours to get past Apple's copy protection used in iTunes (I had to burn CDs of my music, then import them as MP3s...). One final issue before I shower my praise upon this miracle of a machine: The headphone jack is not the standard MP3 player size (3.5mm) - it's a smaller size meant for phone headsets (2.5mm). Thankfully, a 2.5mm to 3.5mm converter is cheap. But these are really the only drawbacks I can think of for this phone. I can't complain. Everything else on the phone is straightforward and intuitive. The Juke is a minimalist's dream; so simple, yet so powerful.
The impetus for my purchase of a new phone was the need for bluetooth support. California law required that I have a hands-free headset, and so I set out looking for a phone to work with that. I didn't have restrictions on the phone carrier because my contract had conveniently and coincidentally just ended. This phone is everything the average cell phone user needs and, at the risk of being redundant, even more to the audiophile.
The built in camera is nice - 640x480 pixels is relatively good for a phone's camera. I've used it a bit and definitely appreciate the ability to take pictures at a larger resolution than the small screen itself!
I've never had a problem with reception, sounding too quiet or any such problem with communication itself. Actually, texting is a bit slow compared to a phone with a built-in keyboard, but I only use texts sparingly anyhow.
It's a nice phone - I highly recommend it to the average audiophile. However, if you need to text or store a freakishly large amount of music, maybe this isn't your phone.
Totally awesome!! June 24, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This outlasts anything!!
Call me a bad phone caretaker, but I *washed* my juke. In the washing machine. At first, I panicked because the battery started draining while it was turned off, and also the speaker broke (as in, you couldn't talk into the phone without sounding really fuzzy). I found two solutions--- take the battery out and use the headphones for speaking.
Not like I needed to, because after a couple weeks it was completely fixed! I'm not sure how, but it works as good as new now!
Also, with only 2 GB it can hold 400 songs, which makes it just as good as any other iPod, and anyone who knows iPods knows that they are *extremely* sensitive to water damage... not this phone/MP3 player =]
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