Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #2 in Cell Phone Accessories
Color: Black
Brand: Samsung
Model: a867 Eternity
Released on: 2008-10-29
Features
Black-and-chrome multimedia phone with large, vivid 3.2-inch touchscreen, haptic feedback, and intuitive TouchWiz interface
3G-enabled phone compatible with AT&T Navigator GPS turn-by-turn directions, AT&T Mobile Music, Video Share service, and Mobile TV
3.2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth stereo music, MicroSD expansion to 8 GB, access to personal email and instant messaging
Up to 5 hours of talk time, up to 240 hours (10 days) of standby time
What's in the Box: handset, battery, charger, user manual
weirdness with the picture function. If you hold the phone at angle the pictures cycle like they are on an angled table. Cute if you understand it. Annoying if you don't know why your pictures won't stay still.
I wish you could customize the menu and get rid of the at&t programs that you hate or won't use like CV tv and at&t gps (crap crap crap - get google maps for the phone, any phone).
It also doesn't support gmail directly, had to download the application. It works. It doesn't auto refresh with annoys me and runs kind of slow but its there. Would much prefer if it just came supported.
Sound quality and call quality is great. Battery life is awesome. Calendar function is stellar. The internet is good to ok, sometimes annoying with the magnifying glass. I don't like the fact that the video share function comes up when I pulling up a contact but it's hardly an issue it's just a gripe.
Good phone.
Great as messaging device, but lacking as a phone
This is a really neat little device; the QWERTY keyboard is really good and it makes an excellent messaging device, but the lack of voice dial and speed dial *greatly* diminish the usefulness of this device as a phone. The old "phonebook index + #" trick is pretty useless since it only works with numbers stored on your SIM, and there's no way to know which number is at what index. On top of that, if you were to store your numbers on your SIM so you can use the really crude "speed dialing" others have alluded too, it doesn't store your entries as it does in the phone's memory, so the messaging features don't integrate well. What was Samsung thinking???? (My guess is that Samsung was asked by AT&T to specifically disable voice and speed dial functions to force customers to use AT&T fee-based voicedial feature.)
As it stands, this phone is downright DANGEROUS to use in the car. Sure you can use a bluetooth handsfree kit to receive calls, but to initiate a call you have to fumble through multiple menu selections to find the number you want, then initiate the call manually. While the device may have some neat new functions previously not available in non-smartphones, as a phone, it's just very cumbersome.
Other dislikes include:
- The nifty little widget bar can't be customized beyond disabling the standard widgets.
- No way to quick dial. This kinda falls in the "no speed or voice dial" complaint. There's simply too many steps to initiate a call. It's a real PAIN! My 2-year old Razor is light years ahead of this thing in terms of PHONE useability.
- I don't like the way it automatically locks the touch screen once a call is established. Makes more enabling the speakerphone more cumbersome.
On the plus side, the touchscreen implementation is very good. The QWERTY keyboard is really nice, and is the only reason I'm even keeping this phone. I just hate messaging using the standard phone keypad that much. Battery life is good, call quality is good, the Music Player works good. All that's needed to make this a top-notch phone is for Samsung to implement the basic functions that have been available for years on just about every phone out there.
Has been a good phone for me
I have had this phone 2 weeks now. Really happy that I bought the eternity instead of the iPhone. I don't need a smart phone so it works great for me (no data plan needed)! Plus, It was only $50 vs. $300!
Touch screen is GREAT! No delay, smooth, and easy to work. Camera is very nice. I purchased a 8G microSD card on Amazon for $16 and it holds lots of music, pictures, and video (I highly recommend it). Light weight and durable. However, I really wish that I could custom the menu screen. A lot of the icons present on the screen are never used and are a hassel to properly exit out of (to avoid excess charges) if you accidentally push it. I made the mistake of pushing some media button last week and just saw a extra charge of $154! Guess I didn't "exit properly." I had to call to correct the matter. (beware)
Wallpaper can be changed but the screen saver cannot :( Thats the part that people see the most.
All around pretty good phone.
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