Samsung Finesse

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My thoughts on the Finesse

26 Oct 2009 Mike Wedmer

8.3 out of 10

After reading the other reviews on here, I am wondering if some of the negatives are based soley on the METRO PCS versions of the phone

I got mine from N-telos. I pay $60. a month and have unlimited talk time anywhere I want. I have text/photo/video messaging enabled.



Many people have mentioned that they cannot sync it to thier PC but I have not encountered this problem. I do not mind clicking a button to open the file associated with the memory card.

I just plug in the handy USB cable and in a few seconds I have added music photo's and movies to my card that will show up on my phone.



The pictures must be jpeg format and must also be no more than 100dpi. Otherwise they will not show up on the phone.



You cannot instantly upload videos from the phone to the internet. However I plug the phone or the sd card into my PC and can upload videos no problem.



video and sound quality are excellent. I have taken video's with lots of ambient noise in the background but voice came through clearly.

The quality of the Photo's are a little better than most other similar phones.



I work as an Artist/custom painter. I use my phone to show images of my work to potential clients. It has helped me to secure numerous jobs since I got it.



The Internet is a little slow and the rss style feed makes it difficult to scan some pages.



The phone has an extremely limited number of available apps. About half of those available are worth looking into. however some are largely overpriced.



The GPS is good and so is the Live TV. I use that one regularly.

I do not use the social networking apps and the phone actually has a very large number of installed apps that are useful depending on personal needs.



It has a Converter in it that will give accurate rates for Money, Volume, Area and various measurement needs.



I payed $125. with a one year contract for the phone which retailed at $419.00



Overall I would give this phone a 7.5/10

Its not an iphone, but until iphone becomes available through other providers, I will stick with this.

Pros

Large responsive touchscreen
Good Music player
many good installed features
Quality picture and video with many features.
lightweight
very good call quality
attractive design

Cons

apps are limited
apps are way overpriced
phone locks midway through a call requiring you to unlock it to hang up.

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Don't expect a real smart phone

21 Sep 2009 Sky J.

6.7 out of 10

I got the Finesse as a birthday gift. It was a replacement for my old Metro PCS phone. I was thinking of going with another carrier for a smartphone but since my family had paid the hefty price for this, i decided to keep it. I was impressed by it at first. it seemed to be a functional piece of hardware. Then I noticed a few things.

The first thing was the fact that the security really sucks. i have my email going to the one of the slim line of apps (which we will go over in a moment) you have on the phone. I hate having to log in/out everytime. That's when I realized, the only locking feature is for the entire phone. You cannot lock media, internet, or anything else seperately. If i lose my phone or someone borrows it, they can easily go into my private business. Every phone I have had since at least 2000 has been able to do this. very simplistic phones. so why does this "smart phone" lack such an obvious feature?

Then there is the fact that everyone points out. The lack of downloadable apps. Some of the standard features are pretty cool.like the handwriting on the screen. But the email feature had to have a patch to fix. The IM feature has never worked properly for me. The lack of an ability to sync to the PC is really odd to me as well. And let's not mention the biggest faux pas. The inability to play any video other than the preloaded MI movei on the memory card (if you got that) or videos taken with the phone or sent by IM. It was originally played up to have video but don't exepct to see anything on Youtube. 

My last complaint is that after only 3 months, the touch screen response is getting slow. there are times you have to way 10-15 seconds for it to pull up what you typed. You can try to type on but be mindful if you made a mistake. 

It is a good phone for those who want the a fancy phone but don't have the need for the more sophisticated apps and will use it primarily as a phone and not much else. But if you are looking for something media or business friendly, this is not for you.  

Pros

Internet browser
Handwriting interface
MP3 music player

Cons

Lack of apps
No video
Problems with the loaded apps
Lack of security

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17 Jul 2009 masen

6.3 out of 10

I totally fell in love with this phone when i first seen it. I bought it and ive had this phone for about three months and i am not totally satisfied. I am getting another phone because my finesse does not work properly I removed the battery from it and shortly after puting back on and turing the phone back on my touch screen did not work only the actually buttons work but not the touch screen. I am very upset about this.

Pros

mp3

Cons

touch screen doesnt function corectlly.

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