Samsung U900 FlipShot Red Phone (Verizon Wireless) | 
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| Brand: Samsung
Category: Wireless
List Price: $399.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 5679
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
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Model: U900
UPC: 635753467901
ASIN: B00132JWSK
Release Date: January 25, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Uniquely designed camera phone with rotating display and 3-megapixel auto-focus camera | | • | Access Verizon's V Cast Music and Video services via fast EV-DO data network; GPS-enabled for turn-by-turn directions | | • | MicroSD expansion; Bluetooth connectivity with music streaming; mobile email and instant messaging | | • | Up to 3.5 hours of talk time, up to 250 hours (10+ days) of standby time; measures 3.76 x 1.83 x 0.73 inches (HxWxD) | | • | Includes: Standard Li-Ion Battery, Travel Charger, Camera Strap, and User's Guide |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Combining a cellular communications powerhouse with a powerful digital camera/camcorder, the uniquely designed Samsung Flipshot for Verizon includes a rotating display for optimal viewing while capturing still images and video clips on the go. Looking like a typical digital camera on the back with its round silver lens housing and flash, the Flipshot offers a 3-megapixel imager as well as a 10-step digital zoom, PictBridge printing right from the phone, and a wide variety of settings for capturing the perfect picture. Additionally, 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, as well as V Cast Video for streamed video clips from a variety of channels. Other features include Bluetooth stereo music streaming, mobile email and instant messaging, MicroSD memory card expansion, and a built-in GPS receiver for use with the optional VZ Navigator turn-by-turn direction service. 
The Flipshot's display rotates 180 degrees for optimal viewing in camera mode. | Verizon Service
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. With the V Cast Video service, you can 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. And Verizon's Chaperone service lets you easily locate your loved ones from your Verizon Wireless phone or PC in real time. After defining a zone, such as an area designating a school or summer camp, you'll be sent an alert via text message when the Chaperone handset enters or leaves the zone. 
This compact clamshell phone measures 0.73 inches thin and weighs 3.88 ounces. | Phone Features
The Flipshot features a traditional clamshell design with a swiveling display that can rotate 180 degrees, enabling you to close the phone so that the large 2.2-inch internal display faces outward and activates the camera mode. This internal display has a 240 x 320-pixel resolution and support for up to 262K colors, while the external 65K-color screen offers a 128 x 96-pixel resolution (1.2 inches) and provides call information, signal strength, and a digital version of an analog clock. You can also change the display wallpaper and the clock style. The phone also includes dedicated play/pause music controls. The 3-megapixel camera snaps pictures in eight resolution options from 2048 x 1536 (2 MP) to 160 x 120, and it includes a 10x digital zoom, three quality settings, brightness and white balance controls, multi-shot capability, night mode, spot metering, and ISO selection. For video capture, the Flipshot records clips in MPEG4 format in two resolutions--320 x 240 and 176 x 144 pixels. You can shoot video as long as your memory card has available space, and videos shot for MMS messaging are capped at 30 seconds. View your pictures and videos on your home theater system with the TVā€"out option. This phone provides Bluetooth version 1.2 wireless connectivity, and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and audio/video remote control. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking--surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server. A messaging and wireless Internet powerhouse, support is built in for sending and receiving pictures, text, graphics, sound and video via messages. When used in combination with the phone's built-in still and video camera, MMS opens up a whole new world of messaging fun. Instant messaging is also supported, and the phone ships with a built-in email client. The Flipshot also comes stock with a built-in web browser for downloads and mobile web browsing. T9 text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for entering text on handsets, is built into the unit--a plus for mobile email and text messaging users. The Flipshot's internal phone book can hold up to 500 contact entries with five phone numbers and two emails per entry, while the phone's picture ID system allows you to assign pictures to your most common callers. And the Flipshot's voice dialing feature makes calling family, friends, and business associates as easy as saying their names. Other features include: - MicroSD expansion up to 4 GB
- USB 2.0 connectivity with mass storage capability
- Compatible with 72-chord polyphonic ringtones
- PIM tools: Calendar with scheduler, note pad, alarm clock, world time, calculator, unit converter
- Stereo speakerphone
- Vibrating alerts and silent mode
- Supported digital audio formats: MPE, WMA, WMA Pro, WMA Pro+
- 2.5mm headphone jack
- Bluetooth 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); note that this phone does not support all Bluetooth OBEX profiles
- Hearing aid compatibility = M3/T3
- TTY compatibility
Vital Statistics
The Flipshot weighs 3.88 ounces and measures 3.76 x 1.83 x 0.73 inches. Its 880 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3.5 hours of talk time, and up to 250 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the CDMA 850/CDMA 1900 frequencies for voice and Verizon's EV-DO data network.
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 Nifty phone, with terrible texting June 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've had this phone for about five months now. I'm not going to reiterate all of the good things about it.
The camera takes good photos, but the lag is terrible. It's also not easy to get a self-shot.
Sound is decent quality. Speakerphone works.
However, the text messaging is abysmal. I mean really, really bad.
First, there isn't a way to edit the dictionary, and words you add (by using them in Abc mode) come first. I once forgot I was in Abc mode and typed in "like", which came out "jgjd". Now, *every* time I try to type in "like", "jgjd" comes up first.
Second, if you capitalize a word, it remembers that as well. So I put in a band name---let's say "The Styx". Now, every time I enter "the" it comes up as capital, no matter what mode I'm in. To get a lower-case "the", I have to hit next. Every time.
Third, it tries to be helpful by learning your punctuation. What this means is that you can *never* rely on the punctuation that's going to come up. If you've typed in "great!" before, and want to type in "great." now, it's probably going to come up with an exclamation point first.
Fourth, and what makes all of this so frustrating, is that it combines all of these. Capitals, punctuation---all of it. Here's an example of trying to type in "good!":
good.
home.
good?
home,
good@
good!
Texting has become a nightmare. I hate it---no, I loathe it.
I want a phone that doesn't capitalize a word unless I tell it to, or it's the beginning of a sentence. I want a phone where I can say, "I misspelled that---please remove it from your dictionary." I want a phone where I know that if I hit 1, and then hit next five times, it's always going to be a comma.
Other than that, and your standard Verizon crippling of the bluetooth and such, it's not bad.
Phone is crippled - maybe by Verizon June 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just got this today for my wife. I have spent about 6 hours trying to transfer the phonebook from her old LG VX8300 to the Flipshot. I have tried 3 different programs over Bluetooth and all cannot connect to this phone. I can connect to the LG and my RAZR just fine but BITPIM, Futuredial and even Samsungs own PC Studio 3 cannot connect to this phone. I know it is the Flipshot because Windows XP can send/receive diagnostics to the phone just fine. It could be that Verizon has crippled the phone so that you have to buy their $30 USB connector - I wouldn't put it past 'em. So right off the bat this phone has been a major irritation. I'll update if I get it to work otherwise it is getting shipped back in the morning....
Almost good. March 24, 2008
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
I purchased this phone because I wanted to have a camera capable of taking decent, but not amazing photos on me at all times.
As a phone it works fine. The signal strength is good, battery lasts a long time, the sound quality is quite good. You can't easily record your own ring tones, the speaker phone is basically useless. It has an attractive look, but in a month there are some places where the finish has already rubbed off. For some reason there are buttons on the outside that control music playback; these get hit accidentally all the time. This might be annoying if you used it for music, but I never do so it does not bother me.
Flipping the display around makes into a small camera with the same look and feel as 3 Mega Pixel point and shoot. For a camera embedded into a phone it has a surprising array of options that you might not even find in a normal point and shoot camera. Including, but not limited to: White balance, ISO (100-400), Metering mode (avg, center spot), Picture Mode (Portrait mode, night, macro, and more), Flash (Auto, On Off, once), Auto Focus (on/off), Timer. It supports up to a 4G micro SD card which will let you store 100s of photos at the maximum resolution and lowest compression level. The macro mode works well. When I've produced a good photo I've been able to print it out as a 4x6 sized photo on my Epson R1800 and it does look pretty good. Or use it as a desktop wallpaper.
The shutter lag is quite long; about 2 seconds or more. While you impatiently wait for the camera to do something you might hold down the trigger button. This inconveniently switches the camera from still mode to video mode. Even at the least compressed setting the photos produced seem to have slight compression artifacts, or perhaps this is sensor noise. Indoors, using the flash, produces photos which are far superior to other camera phones, but which are still too blurry compared with a regular point and shoot camera.
In conclusion, I would rather have this camera phone than nothing at all, but there are some problems that are very annoying.
 Amazing Phone with SO MUCH to Offer! February 22, 2008
46 out of 48 found this review helpful
This phone is by far one of the best models Samsung has come out with for Verizon Wireless! I really love this phone and would highly recommend it to anyone who is looking to buy a good phone with Verizon Wireless. I am writing this review after having the phone for over a month and a half with no problems!
It has a beautiful rich red color that makes the phone look trendy and also sexy.
It's not sleek but it's not as big as the LG the V and not very thick either. It's not heavy at all...that's what I liked about this phone.
The camera is 3.0 MP! That's huge for Verizon as most of the phones they have are either 1.0 or 2.0 MP and the qualities of those cameras aren't even that nice (but my old LG the V was really good with taking pictures from it's 1.0 MP camera). The pictures I've taken with my Flipshot come out really nice and very big! You need to have a micro SD card if you want to save your pictures so that it doesn't take over all of the phone's built in memory - but you can save a good amount of pictures even without the card.
The really cool thing about this phone is the swivelhead. You can rotate the flip a full 360 degrees so that the main screen is facing you when you close the flip and it automatically goes into camera/camcorder mode so you can take pictures exactly how you would using the screen on a digital camera. The main screen is very big.
Now if you use the phone to listen to music, this thing is really good with it. You can listen with the speakers on the phone - the speakers are on both sides of the phone just below where the headjack is. And it's super loud! Whenever my phone rings or I want to listen to music, it omits sound that you can hear from almost any room of the house. You can upload your music into the micro SD card and then insert it in the phone. Now the SD card slot is actually right next to the battery. You have to open the back cover and you will see right above the battery a small little slot to put your SD card in. You just slide it through the groves and voila! That's it...now you can save your pictures and listen to your music right from the phone! From what I know, I think you can put up to 4GB SD card into the phone....I don't know if it can fit a bigger card then that.
The other thing is the play/pause, forward and rewind button - they are located in the front but are not visible unless you slide your finger right above the Verizon logo....it's touch screen so it will light up red and you will see the play, forward and rewind button. I don't know if how I'm explaining it is right, but it's there...for those of you who like using the front buttons of your phone to play music, it's there in the front as a touchscreen. I thought that was a pretty neat.
Now the front main screen has a clock you can see - you can set it so either you see it as a digital clock, or as analog, or have it set so that you don't have to see anything on the front screen except for your picture wallpaper. I did that and I can see my picture in the front without the clock blocking my view. When you open the Flipshot to reveal the main screen, you can do the same thing; you go to Settings and Tools, go to Display Settings and Clock Format and change it so that you don't see the digital clock displayed - you can only see your wallpaper picture. I did that and I like it better since I am always somewhere where there's a clock. You can always change the settings back later if you use your cell as a watch.
The Flipshot also has other features such as a stopwatch - good for people who are running and want to have a stop watch to time themselves and also good for those who are studying for tests and need to time themselves.
You can text message using your voice - when you text message someone, you can go to voice mode and holding the voice button on the side, speak out your text message. You just have to be in a very quiet room and speak slowly so it can understand what you're saying. After you're done, you release the button and if there are any mistakes in the message, it will correct itself! It's awesome!
You can send text messages, picture messages, video messages, sketch messages and postcards to your friends - sketch messages are basically messages with a picture except that as soon as you select sketch message, your phone will prompt you to take a picture. As soon as you do, it becomes a sketch...it literally looks like someone took a pencil and drew out what you just took a picture of! And then you can send that on to your family or friends! It's awesome! The postcard basically takes a picture you already have and then you take another photo that is sketched on top of the picture you selected to send. Another cool thing you can do is you can program the phone so that you can see your text message without having to open to the main screen, although you can only reply using the main screen.
For those of you who like putting in your own ringtones - the phone itself doesn't come with any good ringtones...just some basic ones. But here are two ways to get your own ringtones without having to pay over 2 bucks for them:
The first way:
1. Get Bitpim software from Bitpim.org
2. Use the software to make your own ringtones (it will ask for you to connect the phone via bluetooth or USB cable but you can say you don't have one)
3. Create your ringtones
4. Right click on your ringtone and click on save, and save it to your My Sounds folder in your mini SD card (after formatting the card with the phone you will get a bunch of folders including My_Sounds that you can save sounds into)
5. Insert the Mini SD card back into your phone and then text yourself with the sound, then save it as a ringtone!
The second way:
Go to any website that gives away free ringtones like www.myxertones.com. You can use the website to make your own ringtones and wallpapers or get some already made by people on there, and have the website text you. Once you get the text, you can save the ringtone. Unfortunately if you want to send the ringtone to someone else via text, you won't be able to because the ringtones from MyxerTones are under Digital Rights Management (DRM) and prohibits copyright information from being sent. However if you follow the first method above, you should be able to send your own homemade ringtones to other people through text (picture messaging actually).
That's about it for my review. I honestly love this phone...there are so many features, some of which I may not have mentioned on here. It's a great bargain to get this phone and I know you will enjoy it.
Oh here is one thing - when I got my Flipshot for the first time, it did have a problem of not charging my battery...I kept getting a message that said "battery temprature too low, cannot charge phone" and it wouldn't let me charge so I went and exchanged it right away and the new one didn't give me any problems. The first batch of new phones have had some problems but you can get it exchanged and it'll be fine.
The phone has a speakerphone that works very well. I have had no problems with my speakerphone - the other caller can hear me and I can hear them loud and clear!
The basic Verizon menu is no longer there. You have three different schemes to access your menu - it can be either a camera which is the default menu background you see, or can change it to cappuccino background and format, or you can use the menu the way you're used to with the original Verizon format.
Also you can program the phone so that it can play a xylophone sound everytime you press a button - sounds more pleasing to the ear.
You can very easily install your bluetooth headset so you can talk on the cell phone.
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