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| Brand: Samsung
Category: Wireless
List Price: $399.99
Buy New: $135.47
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 3201
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: SCHU940DBV
UPC: 635753470048
ASIN: B00192I762
Release Date: May 6, 2008
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 Stylish and Sexy, But Is Not Good Enough July 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got the Glyde when I walked into Verizon for the third time with my old Samsung Gleam. They did an exception and let me switch phones so I decided to go with the Glyde because it seemed so advanced for a phone. Plus it would be my first time using a touch screen. While I've always feared touch screen phones (iPhone for example), I figured, why not give it a try. So I did.
The features of the phone were so ridiculously nice - the ambience of the phone, the way it would stretch out my photos to fit the screen so perfectly...but two things irritated me and from what I have read in other reviews, have also irritated most others.
The touch screen itself: It sucks. You can put it on high or low, it's still sensitive enough where even if it's in my purse, it will unlock itself from the touch. I've had my ear dial phone numbers for me, and everytime I text using the touch screen, I end up writing gibberish because the phone doesn't recognize what letter I am dialing. I have no choice but to use the keyboard to write texts. And having to use the touch screen to do everything rather then the keyboard like in the LG EnV has been getting nothing but frustrating for me when the touch screen interface freezes up.
I don't have much problems with the keyboard, but frankly, I was faster with my Flipshot then with the Glyde, and the Flipshot does not even have a keyboard! About 2 weeks after I got the phone, it froze up so bad it would not even power off!! Plus the battery would die half the day after a full charge. I went to Verizon and they gave me a new one which is better. The phone does not die in one days so the battery life is a lot longer. But the phone will freeze from time to time and I'm frustrated having to press the Home key everytime i need to take the phone out of hibernation, or when I need to make and end a call.
Other then that, the features on it are pretty cool. But unfortunately, I can't return it. I'd have to wait until my New Every Two which won't be until next September.
I am not getting another touch screen phone. I'll stick to my clamshells that have the same features as the Glyde does and can actually be closed without pressing ONE freaking button!!!
 AWFUL July 15, 2008
I have never returned a phone, but this one is going back tomorrow. Where do I begin?
- The phone does lock when in use, but it is easily unlocked by your face while in use...So I constantly am dialing while talking with someone.
-The phone freezes up all the time. I mean it really freezes up. I have often thought what I if this were an emergency and I were trying to dial 911. It would take me 5 minutes before the phone would unfreeze. It often does this the worst when it's been idle on the charger for a while.
-To hang up a phone call you must first get the screen to light up, press unlock, and then end. This can be quite time consuming. Once I had to press the home key, unlock, press view later for a text that had come in during use, and then end. It's completely not user friendly.
-The touch screen is inferior. I have adjusted the sensitivity; however, nothing has helped. The number you actually want is never the one it receives. The number 4 was once a #. Those are not even close together?!?!?! So you really have to have time and concentration to make a phone call.
-The voice recognition is the worst of any phone EVER. When I am driving, I try to use this feature instead of dialing since it is so difficult to dial correctly. Well, I have yet to have the phone pick up the right name. So basically if the phone does decide to not freeze it's still going to take you 5 minutes to make a call.
It's going back tomorrow. I am going to get the LG Dare!
So much for touch screen July 15, 2008
Bought this phone from Verizon Wireless. I thought the touch screen would be really nice, since I have an Itouch that I love. As soon as I walked out of the store, I had some trouble using the touch screen. I figured it was due to the sensitivity level, so I increased the sensitivity. I had this phone for over a week and returned it yesterday. The touch screen simply does not work. The phone vibrates when it recognizes that you touch it. Several, no many, times the phone vibrated to signal that it recognized that I touched it, but it would not go through with the command. Also, every time I ended a call, the phone would go the speakerphone when I didn't want it to. The only positive thing about the phone was the graphics.
Save your time and do not buy the Glyde. Clearly, Verizon has to work on their touch screen mechanics.
***When I was returning the Glyde yesterday, another women was also returning it, complaining about the touch screen...
Purchased and then Returned July 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was drawn in by the looks of this phone. It was pretty sweet and had alot of cool features. But boy was it hard to navigate. I couldn'y simply make and receive calls without going through all these buttons. The touch sensitivity wasn't the best and didn't always connect to what I was trying to make it do. This phone gave me more headaches than necessary. I realized it was more hassel than it was worth. I have the IPOD Touch and I also realized this phone really wasn't necessary considering I wouldn't be using having of the features it offered.
Another deciding factor in returning this phone was that it did not work with my Bluetooth enabled vehicle. That was a major downfall.
I ended up returning this phone and buying the LG enV and am happy with my decision. Its a smaller, compact phone and looks cool and does what a phone should do rather than having a computer in your pocket to make life that much more complicated.
Waste of time July 10, 2008
I got this phone expecting a Minority Report user interface, but what I got was Mission Impossible!
The Glyde's touch screen simply does not work. Sometimes I had to hit a button 3 or more times before the command takes, even though the phone vibrates to indicate that it recognizes the touch. Other times the phone simply didn't know that I was touching it, or the wrong button is activated by my touch. No I don't have long fingernails or fat fingers, yes my hands are clean, and yes I adjusted the touch sensitivity from high to low and made every reasonable attempt to provide the right touch pressure to use the interface.
Other problems: the Glyde goes into locked mode frequently, even though I set auto-lock to "off." Other times the phone locks in a different way in that it simply stops responding to commands until it has been recycled. The speakerphone sound quality was much lower than that on my LG4500, and the only way to activate the speakerphone or to adjust the volume was to unlock the phone and then try to navigate the touch screen.
I could not sample any of the cool features that this phone has because I was spinning my wheels with the Kafkaesque touch screen interface (and unlocking the phone every few seconds!) and couldn't get past the basic set-up issues. After an hour of trying to add contacts I felt like I was on Candid Camera. What a waste of time and energy.
Note that I have been a Verizon Wireless customer for ~5 years and I remain a Verizon Wireless customer, for now at least. The company provided me fast and friendly customer service in reactivating my old phone when I called to tell them that I was boat-anchoring this one (Thanks Mary at the SLC office for being patient with me.) After years of good luck with LG hardware I made a mistake by switching to Samsung. My replacement for this Glyde will be another LG and it probably won't be a touch screen, since that technology doesn't seem to be all there yet.
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