Samsung phone (Samsung SGH-J700)

Member Name: Docbrother

Product:	Samsung SGH-J700
Date:	02/10/09 (41 review reads)
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Advantages: Simple, good looking, easy to text and phone

Disadvantages: not very loud, poor memory space,music player rather annoying in features

Ive had this phone for just under a year now and when i first got it i thought that it was great, its a simple phone without too many pointless gagets. At the time i got the phone i only ever used my mobile for emergency calls and some texting. Since having this phone however i began to fall into more texting and using the phone to listen to radio and music. The feature of having a memory card that can be added i have found extreamly usefull. I have a 1 gig card, i think thats what it is anyway, and i have no end of songs and images and videos stored on it. The problem is that without the memory card this phone has next to no memory for songs and images. What really annoys me is that to set a song as my ringtone i have to delete one of the 3 songs it allows me to save to the phone in order to upload the one that i want as my ringtone. Th other annoying thing is that if i want to listen to music from the memory card for some reason you cant put it onto loop play of all the songs, it just plays the song you select then stops and you have to manually choose the next one by going back into the menu. This is insanely annoying if you want to listen to music while doing something. To get over this i put music into playlists and played them through the music player which lets you loop play the songs evern if they are saved on the memory card. However i cant get it to allow me to have more thatn 4 playlists which means i have to limit which songs i place on there. The other thing with the music player is that you cant text while listening to music , instead you have to stop the music , text then start the song from the begining again which i find emensely annoying. What i dont understand is why you cant do both at once seeing as if you listen to radio you can text at the same time. However overall i think that this phone is very good , the picture quality that i have had is very good for a phone in my opinion, i have uploaded many images onto my computer and printed them and they have come out fine. Some features such as games are slightly poor however you can download more i just never have because i dont really use the games features. The few times i have used the internet on my phone it has been fast and clearly presented. This phone is probably best for just phoning and texting as the sound on it isnt that great and it dosetn go very loud. The only other problem i have is with the software, it corrupted some files on my main computer and when i tried it on my laptop it froze my whole computer and then rejected the cd. However once i had managed to get it onto my main computer i have found it easy to use and fast as well.

Summary: Good phone for looks and texting/calling, not so good for games and music

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