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also known as Samsung SCH-U700 , Samsung Muse , Samsung SCH-U706
Samsung Gleam ReviewsSamsung Gleam Reviews
22 Nov 2007
Samsung Gleam Review
The Samsung Gleam U700 is a fashionable flip phone, sporting a shiny black and gold exterior, and is targeted to consumers that are looking for a mid-range phone at a modest price. Even though it lacks the 2GB of internal memory that is featured on the Samsung Juke, we found that overall the Gleam is a much more capable device. Its biggest competition are the Motorola KRZR ...
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1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. “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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6. 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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7.
27 Jun 2008 by hdc
48%4.8out of 10
I have had 4 of these phones in the last 6 months. At least on one of five calls, I can hear the caller but the microphone does not work and the caller cannot hear me. Evidently, this is not an uncommon problem according to the tech support personnel at the phone store. The phone looks great, but this defect is driving me crazy. I am going back to Motorola.
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8.
12 Jun 2008 by Anonymous
36%3.6out of 10
This is the worst phone I've had from Verizon. The battery has over heated on the last three phones in two months. I keep getting a new one and then it does the same thing. It over heats and shuts off. You lose all your memory on the phone.
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9. rip off
5 Jun 2008 by Anonymous
44%4.4out of 10
this phone is prolly the worst phone i ever got from verizon. i went thru 3 in three days. the RAM memory crashed numerous times, it would show screens with the menu screen in the background, then it would freeze, it hung up my calls if they were over a minute and it would not send any of my texts.
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10. Do not fall for the hype
27 Mar 2008 by Anonymous
48%4.8out of 10
So I bought this phone and I loved it. I actually left an opinion of it after about a month of having it because it was working so beautifully. I had the phone for a month and a half and it started turning itself off when I was using the Get It Now programs; so they sent me a new one (not refurbished because the phone was too new). I got the second one on a Friday and the next Monday I had to order yet another new one because it was doing the same thing plus a few added bonuses. My contacts erased themselves and then several hours later came back but any contact that had a picture didn't have a name anymore. It freezes for text messages...Ug I could go on and on. Anyway they ended up sending me a third one that broke less than two hours after I activated it. Doing all the same stuff.
Pros:
Style...
Cons:
Fingerprints, fingerprints, fingerprints
resetting itself when in any get it now program
freezes when you get a text message
erases contacts
take the battery out to get to the sd card
battery gets insane hot when you charge it
games are glitchy
when you take the sd card out it will reset all of your settings
like i said, I could go on and on.
In conclusion, do not fall for the hype. This phone looks awesome and does some really cool stuff but the software is messed up in a big way. Three phones in less than two months. Verizon HEARD from me!
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