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Samsung SGH-F700
by bungeebutt
This phone had a hefty price tag (at least in the Republic of Ireland where I bought it) which has depreciated considerably in less than a year since it was bought.
Nice looking phone, although a little chunkier than I personally like but then it does have a slide out QWERTY keyboard (which I have to admit I never used but did like ... to show off to people).
As other reviews have said, this phone does take getting used to when you first buy it which can be considerably frustrating when you are trying to send a quick text message to someone. Even now, almost a year later i still have the odd problem (i want a h, press the h but get a p).
Internet is easy to use, and very visible. You can view facebook, bebo etc on here very easily and you can also watch sky tv although it has to be said that it is sky mobile tv which is completely different and in my opinion not worth paying to watch - great to show off to people though!!
The major downside i had with this phone is that it is now a pain to charge, you can leave it charging for an hour and it hasn't charged a bit and turns itself off. It charges better when phone is off, but you obviously can't use it then. however, it probably just needs a new battery.
i would recommend this phone if you got it at a decent price.
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Samsung SGH-F700
by JonathanBarker88
A great iphone challenger but nothing near an iphone killer. I've had the privilege of owning both, the F700 first. out of the box its an amazing bit of kit the touch screen combined with the qwerty keyboard offers masses of usability and functionality. this makes navigating the menus and use of the text and internet functions a ... delight. it is a great shame that this phone is let down by the lack of wireless and overall speed. Once the phone gets bedded in and memory and caches begin to fill the phone does slow somewhat significantly. But who cares when you have a handset that looks this good! And that didn't cost the earth from apple. Sadly this joy is short lived. Seems samsung didn't make the phone as durable as we all hoped t would be. Mine was sent in for repairs at least ten times for various faults and the paint and finish not been covered on the warranty remained in a sorry state. I have now retired the F700 in favour of the iphone 3g. To summarise, the samsung is packed to the rafters with clever quirks and is supremely user friendly its just a same it doesn't last. Unless you treat your phone like pot doll it's a money pit best avoided.
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Motorola TLKR T7 Two Way Radio
by dove3066
We purchased these walkie talkies from Argos at £88 for our recent skiing trip. We thought this would be a good alternative to mobile phones for communicating between lessons, so that we could all meet up much more easily.
We purchased this set even though they were a bit more expensive than others because of the well known ... name - we had had mobile phones by motorola which nad been very good - and because they had the longest range of any of the walkie talkies on the market. Having read a few pieces of information on the internet it seemed that it was best to get the longest range as the terrain could have a significant effect on the distance you can communicate over. The packaging on the box also suggested that they were designed especially for skiing - and in the Argos book they are recommended for Skiing, mountaineering, and cross-country.
When we go them home it was all very well packaged, and the batteries were fairly easy to fit. We put them on charge over night as outlined in the instructions ready to try then out the next day.
Size & functions
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They were fairly light even with the battery fitted. The aerial is quite bulky and was about a third of the length. We didn't try all the ring tones out the simple buzz that it was set with seemed fine and was loud enough. We did change the transmitting channel as we assumed that most people would leave it on the channel it was preset with and this would stop us picking up other peoples conversations.
Transmitting Distance: Urban
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We took them around the village to see how far we could get before they failed. This was where this product went downhill rapidly. The distance they transmitted over was only about half a mile - this was very disappointing. The instructions had recommended that ina built up area you could expect only 3km but at only about 0.5 km this seemed a little on the low side - as I said we do live in a village so there aren't any high rise flat or large office buildings to break the signal up.
This wasn't too much of an issue because we didn't really need them around the village we wanted to us them on the slopes!
Transmitting distance - In the mountains
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I'm afraid it didn't reallt get much better here either. We had high hopes to begin with as on initial use they managed almost a km up to one of the top runs. However (please excuse the pun) it was all downhill after that. We then tried them from one end of the main road to the other - this was just about audible but very crackly. However if we tried anything more further up the mountain it just didn't work. A couple of times we would get a ring but then nothing could be heard - just a bit of static hiss.
General Conclusion
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These walkie talkies were certainly no relacement for our mobile phones - infact we gave up half way through the holiday and then went back to using outr phones. The batteries lasted reasonably well, but as we didn't really use them very much I don't think we really tested them much.
Ok I thought 10km was probably a bit hopeful but even if they had achieved half of their potential I would have been happy. I would have expected better from Motorola. I was really disappointed with this product and they were a total waste of money. I wouldn't recommend anyone waste their money on these.
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