Samsung Reality SCH-U820 Phone, Piano Black
by admin on Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 | 5 Comments
- 3G-enabled touchscreen phone in black with horizontal slide-out keyboard; easy access to social networking sites
- Access V CAST Music with Rhapsody service (subscription and PC downloads); GPS-enabled for turn-by-turn directions; Visual Voicemail capabilities
- 3.2-megapixel camera/camcorder; Bluetooth stereo music; microSD expansion to 16 GB; access to personal/corporate e-mail services; full HTML Web browser
- Up to 5 hours of talk time, up to 300 hours (12.5 days) of standby time
- What’s in the Box: handset, rechargeable battery, charger, quick start guide, user manual
Amazon.com Product Description
Sporting a touchscreen display and horizontal slide-out full QWERTY keyboard, the Samsung Reality makes it easy to stay in touch with all of your favorite social networking sites as well as keep connected via voice and text communications. All your social networking sites are packed into one Communities widget, enabling you to update your status, post pictures and upload videos to YouTube and other Web sites instantly.
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With all the wonderful features of this phone: large screen, nice keyboard, touch screen, internet access, etc., it’s a real shame that they made the music player so limited! You have no choice but to listen to your songs alphabetically. Now, if you want to go in and manually change all the MP3 tags so that the song name within the MP3 file has 01.., 02.., 03.., 04.., etc, added to each file, THEN you can listen to your songs in their original order (the order they come on the CD), but otherwise you have to listen to them in ALPHABETICAL ORDER (one of the most useless orders I can think of — almost as bad as RANDOM).
And it doesn’t matter if the actual ripped file has 01.., 02.., 03.. prefixing the filename; it’ll just ignore that!! It has to be done inside the file’s MP3 data, or within Windows Media Player’s “Advanced Tag Editor” (the pop-up menu you get when you Right-click a file name). Very time-consuming.
Maybe I just missed the easy fix for this, but I have searched and searched and searched, and other than manually changing all the ID tags, you’re just out of luck. Sadly, One Star removed for this bungle on Samsung’s part.
Otherwise, an excellent phone with a great look and feel and functionality.
From day one I didn’t think my screen was acting right. It would be uneven some times but when I touched it would straighten up. Now after only having it a month the phone is unusable. The screen gets all distorted and unreadable. I keep having to turn the phone on and off after making or receiving call or else I can’t read the screen. Verizon is sending me a refurbished phone.
I’m starting to wish I had kept my Env 2 it took a lot of abuse and kept working strong.
I wouldn’t recommend this phone. It feels flimsy and the battery life is terrible.
I bought this phone for my son and he loves it. It has everything he wants in it. It is a great touch screen phone. But you have to pay for the data package for this phone.
I did some research before purchasing this phone, including talking to several Verizon Wireless reps. Two of them told me that the phone has a calendar scheduler which can sync with the google calendar (as well as other calendars such as outlook calendar), which really got my expectations up. After I purchased the phone, I found that its internal calendar wouldn’t sync with google calendar–although google calendar has a way for it to be displayed on the cellphone.
Then, for some reason, I started hearing loud static noise when I made any phone calls. Several times people told me that they couldn’t hear me. They would try again and it still wouldn’t work. This was really annoying so I went to a verizon wireless store and exchanged for another phone (and lost all my saved notes, calendar items, etc), also Samsung Reality. Now the static noise is gone, but the phone often freezes–after some time the phone would turn off by itself and restart again. This happened several times after I used the “search” function (within the phone, not online), and when I touched a calendar item matching my search term in the results. I don’t know what’s causing the problem and am beginning to wonder whether I need to take the phone back for another one, or should I get a different phone.
This phone is great. Before this phone i had a EnV, My env was a good but wouldn’t charge. so i got a Samsung Reality. so i would totally recommend this phone to you.