Samsung Glyde Phone (Verizon Wireless) | 
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| Brand: Samsung
Category: Wireless
List Price: $399.99
Buy New: $135.26
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 6409
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: Glyde
UPC: 635753470048
ASIN: B00192I762
Release Date: May 6, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Sleek multimedia phone with 2.8-inch touchscreen and slide-out, full QWERTY keyboard | | • | Access Verizon's V Cast Music and Video service via fast EV-DO data network; GPS-enabled for turn-by-turn directions | | • | 2-megapixel camera with video capture; Bluetooth for headsets and music streaming; microSD memory card expansion (up to 8 GB) | | • | Up to 3.5 hours of talk time, up to 250 hours (10+ days) of standby time; measures 4.09 x 1.98 x 0.71 inches (HxWxD) | | • | Includes: handset, rechargeable battery, charger, USB cable, quick start guide, user guide |
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Amazon.com Product Description
A powerful and sleek multimedia and messaging phone, the Samsung Glyde for Verizon boasts a robust feature-set, an innovative and colorful touchscreen, and full QWERTY keyboard. The 2.8-inch advanced touchscreen offers a tactile response as you tap onscreen buttons, and the slide-out QWERTY makes it easy to stay in contact via text and instant messaging. It's compatible with Verizon's V Cast Music Service, which enables you to purchase songs through your phone and download them via Verizon's fast EV-DO data network. You'll also stay on course thanks to the VZ Navigator GPS turn-by-turn direction service. Other features include a 2.0-megapixel camera, microSD memory expansion (up to 8 GB), Bluetooth connectivity for both communication headsets and stereo headphones, and up to 3.5 hours of talk time. 
The 2.8-inch display doubles as a state-of-the-art interactive touch pad for more user-friendly navigation. | Verizon Service Options
With support for the EV-DO high-speed data standard, you'll enjoy fast access to the Internet and Verizon's multimedia services (additional charges applicable), with average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps and peak rates up to 2 Mbps. (Learn more about where EV-DO coverage is offered.) The V Cast Music service enables you to download songs instantly to your phone, or purchase music through your PC and transfer the files to your phone. If purchased from your phone, you'll receive two copies of the song: a Windows Media Audio Pro Plus format at 64Kbps stereo is sent to your phone, and a Windows Media Audio 9 format at 160Kbps stereo is sent to your account in the V CAST Music online store for downloading to your PC. V Cast Music offers nearly 2 million songs, with more being added all the time. The V Cast Video service enables you to stream or download video clips to your phone from a variety of news, entertainment, sports, and weather channels, including CNN, ABC News, E!, CBS Sports, The Weather Channel, and VH1. Getting on the Internet is easy using Verizon's Mobile Web 2.0 package, which allows you to read and send e-mails, exchange instant messages and view your favorite web content on your phone. Verizon's Get It Now wireless download service is also fully compatible with this phone. This pay-per-download service features application downloads, games and productivity tools. You can also personalize your handset with ringtone downloads using the Get It Now service. With this GPS-enabled phone, you'll be able to access Verizon's VZ Navigator service (additional charges applicable) for voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions, heads-up alerts, local search of nearly 14 million points of interest in the US (such as landmarks, restaurants and ATMs), and detailed color maps. 
With one quick slide, enjoy a large QWERTY keyboard to text or IM friends with lightening speed. | Phone Features
The combination touchscreen, slider keyboard design of the Samsung Glyde provides a variety of ways of interacting with the phone's features. The large touch-enabled LCD measures 2.8 inches vertically and has a 240 x 440-pixel resolution and support for 262K colors. The front of the chassis has a single button (much like another, often talked about touchscreen phone), and the phone offers most of its controls via the touchscreen--which provides adjustable haptic vibrating feedback, so you know when you've pressed a button. The front of the Glyde's face slides open from the left side of the phone and it's easy to open and close with just one hand. When the keyboard is opened, the display automatically changes to landscape orientation. The keyboard offers no dedicated numbers, so you'll do your dialing via the numeric keypad that appears on the or touchscreen. The Glyde can store up to 500 contacts, with each entry able to store five phone numbers, two email addresses, notes, and a picture ID. It's compatible with saving contacts to groups and pairing contacts with a ringtone (polyphonic or real music ringer). The phone has a 45 MB internal memory, which is expandable via optional microSD memory cards (up to 8 GB in size). It also provides speaker-independent voice activated commands, including dial, menu readout, text message readout, and call announcement. A speakerphone means you can easily talk hands-free, while Bluetooth (version 1.2) allows you to use your favorite wireless headset. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. It also includes profiles for printing images directly to printers, dial-up networking, and sending vCard and vCalendar items to other phones. The 2-megapixel camera has six resolution modes for still photos (from 1600 x 1200 for printing to 176 x 144 pixels for sending via MMS). It features a 9x digital zoom, an integrated flash, self-timer, multi-shot mode, and customizable settings for brightness and white balance. The camera can also capture video with sound and it offers two resolution settings (320 x 240 and 176 x 144 pixels). You can shoot for up to 30 seconds for sending or as long as you have space on your optional memory card. You can easily add new music to your collection while on the go from Verizon's V Cast Music service and listen to them on the integrated digital audio player, which offers compatibility with MP3, WMA, AAC/AAC+ file formats. You can sync your tunes from your PC (Windows Media Player 11 or higher), as well as create and manage playlists right on the phone. The enV2 can also play video clips from Verizon's V Cast Video service, and ti's compatible with WMV, MP4, 3GP, and 3G2 formats. 
The Glyde weighs 4.2 ounces. | The Glyde has all the bases covered when it comes to messaging, too, with support for sending and receiving text, picture, and video messages as well as mobile instant messaging (IM). There's also a complete e-mail client on the device for POP- and IMAP-based accounts. And of course, the QWERTY keyboard makes it a snap to type your messages. The Glyde ships with a number of handy tools, including a calendar and a voice memo application. An alarm clock and calculator are also included. The Glyde supports V Cast 3-D games, as well as other 2-D-based games, which are available from Verizon's Get It Now service. You can also customize the phone's wallpapers and screen savers to give your phone a look that suits your style. Other features include: - Bluetooth version 1.2 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BIP (for sending images to another device), BPP (basic printing profile for text, email), DUN (dial-up networking), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures), PBA (transfer contacts)
- Music Player for WMA, MP3, unprotected aac and aac+ formats
- Full HTML browser
- Instant messaging via AIM, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Personal organizer with calendar, calculator, notepad, currency converter, alarm clock, world time and stop watch
- TTY compatible
- Hearing Aid Compatibility = M4
Vital Statistics
The Samsung Glyde weighs 4.2 ounces and measures 4.09 x 1.98 x 0.71 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 210 minutes (3.5 hours) of talk time, and up to 250 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/1900 CDMA/EV-DO frequencies.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 Stylish and Sexy, But Is Not Good Enough July 16, 2008
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
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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