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| Brand: Samsung
Category: Wireless
List Price: $749.99
Buy New: $210.91
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 7197
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: SCHi760ZKV
UPC: 635753465006
EAN: 0635753465006
ASIN: B000YA6EMY
Release Date: November 1, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great when it works... June 14, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have now had 4 of these phones in just a few months as they all suddenly stop working in the following way. They work fine for a while and then get no coverage in moderate zones and poor coverage in very strong coverage zones. The rest of the phone/PDA functionality works but for whatever reason, the radio seems to loose strength. I have now switched to a VX6800 as I need a reliable phone so we will see how that goes. Given my experience with this phone model, I would strongly recommend against it. Too bad as it is a cool and well made device with lots of great features other than reliability. In context, I have had lots of different smartphones (TREO 600, TREO 650, Blackjack, various BlackBerrys...). If this phone would keep working, I would really like it. So far I can say that the keyboard on the VX6800 is better but the physical device quality and screen are not as good. The other downside to these slider phones is that they are really hard to use with one hand so if you walk through airports trying to do your e-mail, I would stick with a candy bar style device like a Blackjack, Moto Q, or Blackberry.
 Excellent Phone June 4, 2008
I have been running this phone since it was first released by Verizon. The only problem I have ever had was with the digital clock that is on the desktop. It has a memory leak that will lead to your phone crashing. If you search the internet you can disable this feature entirely on your phone so that you no longer have to worry about it.
I have also been very impressed with its battery life compared to its predecessor the i730. The i730 was lucky to get 2 days of battery life even with the extended mega battery. This phone can go a week with its normal battery and easily more than that with its extended battery that is a few millimeters thicker.
If you buy this phone be prepared to buy a new sync cable from amazon that will allow you to sync and charge through USB as the cable that it ships with cannot support this. I believe Verizon was trying to prevent people from tethering with this phone.
HORRIBLE DESIGN May 15, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is the most horribly designed phone I have ever used. There is literally no solid way to answer the phone without disconnecting a call. As you can see from any photo of this phone, the green connect button is directly across from the red disconnect button, and these buttons are not on the TOP of the phone, they're on the SIDES! So if you hold the phone like any normal person would hold a phone, you disconnect the call as you answer it if one of your fingers is even slightly touching the red disconnect button. You can't apply pressure to the green button to answer the call because this is the place you push the top panel off the bottom panel to reveal the keyboard. If you push too hard, you snap open the keyboard and disconnect your call and risk dropping the phone because it's now too wide to hold in your hand. Also, you cannot touch anything on this phone without it beeping at you! There are multiple buttons on the right side of the panels which is where your fingers go to hold the stupid thing, so you literally can't touch it without launching something and pressing, pressing, pressing to get back to where you want to be. Horrible design and not a good option for a busy professional who needs to call and answer quickly.
worst phone experience in my life May 8, 2008
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
this product represents the worst phone experience in my life !!! I won't belabor too much time on this since I've wasted so much already.
1. bought the phone, took 1.5 hours to get through that process, guess what, the internet feature wasn't turned on so none of the email and tehtering functions worked.
2. day 2 at Verizon, spent 3.0 hours and the result was:
a. still could not get access to my emails to work (simple outlook email through AT&T DSL). tried wirless synch, EZ synch, and nothing. rebooted the phone, reloaded my contacts and still no email functionality.
b. promised the tethering was just a slip the CD in and viola it work work. WRONG !!! it didn't work.
you ask yourself, maybe the wrong persons were trying to help me. Nope, I had both of the senior managers trying to make this work, the SAMSUNG guy happened to also be there and he didn't know what to do, tech support calls to Verizon and Samsung did not address the solution.
the only reason my 3.0 hour session stopped at 3 hours, was I had to leave to go out of town. they wanted me to go anyway, because there isn't any technical service or expertise at these stores anyways.
worst phone exprience in my life, bar none !!!!
bob, San Jose CA, May 4th and 5th, 2008
 Not what I was looking for April 27, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Note that my 3 stars are not reflective of the phone doing what it's meant to do, it's reflective of the phone not doing what I wanted it to do.
Envious of my friends iPhones, I just wanted a phone with built in wifi so that I could be connected on the go. I didn't want to pay for data services, so I disabled them completely. I wanted to easily be able to work with my gmail email and calendar. I wanted the interface to be smooth.
Granted that this was my first Windows Mobile phone (I had a Smartphone 2004 phone for a while, it was awful). However, the phone seriously lacked what I was looking for. Most of this was probably due to Windows Mobile 6, but everything just felt slow and sluggish. The touch screen was good, but not great (compared to my usage of the iPhone). Wifi reception was great, but internet browsing (with IE and with Opera) both were lackluster. The built in stylus was a great idea but was awful to work with with big hands.
Maybe I just didn't spend enough time getting familiar with the phone, but I'll be returning it for a more basic phone soon.
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