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also known as Samsung SCH-U700 , Samsung Muse , Samsung SCH-U706
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1. best phone i have ever owned
28 Jul 2009 by predator_7578
93.3%9.3out of 10
it looks fantastic , is incredibly durable , battery lasts for 16 hours without a charge with normal use after 19 months , has been dropped , hit with 480volts at my work , and dropped on a 450 degree surface for over 10 minutes. the boulder isnt this durable. i have yet to see a phone that keeps a charge after this much use. why in gods name was it discontinued?
long battery life even after 18 months, looks great, more durable then the boulder, great camera, hidden memory card slot so less honest people wont be tempted to just take it, loud enough to hear rings.accessories like the leather cover dont fit well, has average signal- have noticed some areas where people get great reception it gets moderate.
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2. Awesome Phone
16 Jul 2009 by Anonymous
80%8out of 10
Well, I've had this phone for a little over 7 months now. There is no problem like over heating and not sending text messages for me like there are for other people. This phone has a nice style and cool features to back it up. The only negatives are that it only comes with 6 dumb ringtones and that the buttons on the side of the phone don't tell the time on the screen when pressed. Call quality is good. No dropped calls at all. In other words...AWESOME PHONE!
Style
Cool features
Good call quality
Buttons don't tell time when pressed
6 dumb ringtones
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3. Terribly Phone
14 Mar 2009 by Anonymous
53.3%5.3out of 10
I'm on my 3rd gleam within the past year. When I first got it I loved it, it looked good and worked fine. About 3 weeks after having it I noticed that the reception was terrible. I missed almost ALL my phone calls (4/5). I tried updating it and everything. After about 3 months I returned my phone and they gave me a knew one, the same problem continued to happen. Than I started to notice that sometimes when I would try to set a picture as my background it would say that my memory was full (when it wasn't) and my background would turn black, the battery life started to suck and I would have to charge it almost every night (in my case, I text a lot so this probably caused the problem) don't buy if your a huge texter, also my phone would start to over heat when I plugged it in my charger and would randomly start beeping. I usually keep my phone on vibrate and when its in my back pocket, I never notice it. When I would save a picture as one of my contacts ID.. and say my phone died.. I would turn it back on and go through my contacts and it would have deleted the name (not the number) of the contact, so I would have to re-edit the name everytime I saved a picture to a contact ID. The camera on the phone is horrible (with no flash).
I'm now on my 3rd phone, and i'm finally up for my renewal. So lets just say I won't be dealing with this phone anymore.
Looks good
Camera usage on front of phone
Music touch screen buttons on front of phone
Lock on side of phone for music touch screen buttonsRECEPTION!!
Picture quality
Battery Life
Battery over-heating
Camera
Vibration isn't noticeable
Setting picture as background
Contacts photo ID
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4. This Phone Sucks.
19 Jan 2009 by Nichols
56.7%5.7out of 10
Ok the microphone doesn't work when people call me. It turns itself on high while closed, causing some close calls at school. Sometimes the speaker just totally goes bezerk on me. It shuts off when it feels like it, and sometimes it won't send any text messages unless i restart it. People will call me at least five times before it actually rings, and it will have full signal!! Do not buy this phone!!!!
Good designmultiple calling problems
text problems
speaker problems
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5. P..O..S!!!
29 Nov 2008 by LW88
56.7%5.7out of 10
On my 3rd (and final) one of these. Same problem every time.... shuts off whenever it wants, gets hot, drops calls- turns off, have missed several calls- I actually tested this from a landline and received 2 out of 5 calls with full signal!! Since this is a business phone, will not be getting another one. Bought it for the look and features, and that's about all you get from it.
sleek
extrasDropped calls
Missed calls
Freezes up
Gets hot when charging
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6. So-so
21 Nov 2008 by Nico
70%7out of 10
My old phone, for some reason, had the screen turn white all of a sudden, and since it was time for an upgrade, I got this phone. At first I really liked it, the Espresso Display theme is nice, the design is slick, and at first, the pictures were ok. But thats about it.
On the other hand, I am on my third of these. I swithched it for the same problem every time,plus a few others, and when I went to exchange for my third phone, they automatically gave me a new one, seeing as they have so many problems with these. On all three phones I've had different problems, except for one big one they all had, which had to do with the texting.
On my first one, it was good ( aside forom the fact that these phones come with 6 really bad ringtones =( ) except for that after texting for like 15-20 minutes, this thing starts happening where I will send a message and it will keep saying that it is sending when it already has, which gets annoying, and sometimes, it tells me it sends when it really didn't.
On my second one, the same thing happened with the texting, except for for some calls, the microphone didn't work, and people couldn't hear me. On my third one, the camera is screwed up where everything is redish, so I have to change the white balance every time I have to take a picture, which also get annoying. It also has the txting problems, but i still haven't exchanged it since I'm waiting for a better phone to come out.
All in all, it is a nice looking phone, but that doesn't mean anything when it comes to preformance...
Nice looks
Ok featuresCrappy ringtones
Many problems including:
Texting and 'lying' about wether massages are sent or not
Microphone on phones, other than mine, malfunction
Camera can get reeealy annoying
Verizon tech people have given up on it (I went to see if a minor flaw could be fixed and they exchanged it immediately...)
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7. Another bad phone
28 Oct 2008 by Anonymous
40%4out of 10
I have the Muse through Alltel which is the same phone with a few changes. I am majorly displeased with this phone.
Problems:
+Will not acknowledge that I have an SD card in
+Drops calls when it says I have full bars
+Overheats on the charger, I am afraid to set it on paper or fabric in case of fire!
+When I put it on charger, it will beep for no reason 1 - 5 minutes later
+If I change what color I am video taping in or taking a picture in then change it back to normal, it will not adjust back to color. It will be black and white and if I move it around to video tape, it will change between black and white and color
+It takes forever for it to load your images or videos
+When I email "divided shot" photos from my phone to my email through a text, they appear messed up and diffferent than they were on my phone
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8. Bling good, fingerprints bad!
16 Oct 2008 by Sashazur
76.7%7.7out of 10
Had this phone for a couple of days. So far so good. I love how it looks, and the display is nice and crisp. Calls sound OK.
I knew about the fingerprint issue before I got it so this doesn't really bug me.
But there is one thing that really does bug me - when the phone is on but closed, pressing buttons on the side of the phone does NOT show the time on the front display; it stays off. You have to open the phone to get the time to display. Very aggravating. I contacted Verizon support chat and they confirmed it works this way (or more accurately, they confirmed it does not work). Weird.
(By the way, the front display and side buttons do work as expected when there's an incoming call; you see the caller ID and you can press any key to send the call to voicemail).
Thin. Good looks. Crisp display.Collects fingerprints. Keypad lacks tactile feel. Have to open the phone if you want to see the time.
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9. “I can’t understand a word you’re saying.”
14 Aug 2008 by A. Duncanson
34%3.4out of 10
I bought this phone back in February based on the reviews that I read of it. My Razr was worn out and my contract was up, so I wanted something new and more reliable. When I said new, I didn’t realize I was in for a new phone every month. A week later, I was back at the store getting a new one. The call quality was absolutely abysmal. I could not understand a word anyone was saying, and constantly had the same complaint from people I was trying to talk to. I wrote it off as a lemon and didn’t really think anything more of it. After all, my husband had the same phone and his was fine.
The second phone lasted a little longer, but not much. Long story short: it is now August and I am on my fourth one of these and it is going back this weekend. Even if I yell and over-enunciate all of my words, no one can understand anything I say. It's the same on my end, regardless of whether the caller is on a cell phone or land line. All four phones have had exactly the same problem. Words come through garbled and distorted. I feel like I’m translating everything people say to me (which, although amusing at times, is more annoying than anything). I think every other sentence out of my mouth has become some version of: “I can’t understand a word you’re saying.”
The battery life is pretty terrible, but I’ll admit that I do talk a lot. I have to charge it about every day and a half at best, and I generally use it for 2-5 hrs of talk time a day. With my Razr, I had become accustomed to charging it at least once a day, so that doesn’t bother me nearly as much. It’s sleek, it’s sharp, and it takes tolerable pictures. But call me old fashioned: I’d just like a phone that I can use to talk to people. Imagine that.
PS - It also comes with only about six (awful) ringtones, so be prepared to buy more.
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10. Micro phone
30 Jul 2008 by ah
40%4out of 10
I have exchanged 4 phones. They all have an issue with microphone. Just happen when the caller call, I can hear the caller but the caller can't hear me. Techs at Verizon store never accept this is the phone problem since not too many people complaint about this issue yet.
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