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22 May 2008
Samsung Glyde Review
The Glyde U940 is Samsung’s first touchscreen phone for Verizon and is in direct competition with the LG Voyager that was released almost 6 month earlier. It is based on the GSM Samsung F700, with similarities in style ...
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31.
6 Feb 2009 by Anonymous
63.3%6.3out of 10
I hate this phone! I wish that I had not gotten it. It looks cool and has tons of great features but it doesn't work! Similar to the other person it just starts acting weird and going all other the menus when I am not even touching it. I have to been able to use it correctly for two days now because it hasn't been working. I turn it off, remove the battery...pretty much whatever I can think of and it still acts up. The touch screen is horrible. I've only had the thing for 7 months and it was OK at first. I am going to Verizon tomorrow and getting a new one...probably going back to an LG. Their phones have never caused me problems!
The idea of the phoneThe reality of the actual phone
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32.
19 Jan 2009 by Anonymous
100%10out of 10
I was very lucky yesterday when my friend spilled his drink accidentally onto my pants and the wetness that got onto the Glyde didnt trigger the water sensor or damage the phone. Good thinking, Samsung!
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33. eh..
8 Jan 2009 by jbuddy
66.7%6.7out of 10
this phone looks and feels great but at the same time, it is very aggrivating and a pain in the a**..touch screen has to be better. seriously, sensativity is awful. shld havve been like LG's touch screen. pressurized instead of electricity in your fingertips. by not even putting my fingers an inch close to the screen, the phone starts acting up. your fingers isn't even on the screen but an icon would be pressed. i went from a dare to this phone and the touch screen sucks worser than the dare. the keyboard is a little difficult to use but after awhile, you should be okay with it. everything goes through the touchscreen. using the HTML browser, dude it is a friggn pain in the a**. and also sometimes when i have the phone on my holster or in my pockets after locking it, couple minutes later when i pull it out, it's calling someone or my web broswer is activated. some weird crap going on. like the verizon commercial they had for it. battery life sucks..bar's keep going lower and lower. i was always a LG phone guy and im sticcking with LGs
design layout
sliding mechanismtouch screen
icon layouts
NOT AN LG PHONE.
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34. GET THE UPADTE FOR THE PHONE AND YOU WILL FALL IN LOVE AGAIN
3 Jan 2009 by Janae253
100%10out of 10
Get the update for the phone you must have the 06 update it really work you will fall back in love with your phone after the update trust me from someone who works at verizon.
update rocks!!none
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35. Update on the phone works!
31 Dec 2008 by yea
90%9out of 10
I got this phone the first week it came out in May and i paid full price for it. For the first 2 weeks or so, it worked fine. But after that everything went from chaos to worse. It started calling people at night by itself when it was charging, took me at least 10 minutes to send a text message because the touch screen wasn't responsive, always clicked everything by itself, and later i had enough patience with it and went to Verizon recently. At this point i wanted to burn my phone and break it. After Verizon checked out my phone, they replaced it with one that had the latest update on it but not the newest one that was suppose to come out the following week. IT WORKED! All the touch screen buttons were working perfectly and i had no more trouble with anything. This proved to me that the update on the phone actually fixed everything! Other than the problems i had with it in the beginning it really is a great phone!
size
touch screen
full keypad
camera
musicnothing really
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36.
29 Dec 2008 by Anonymous
100%10out of 10
I just got my Glyde a month ago. I love this phone. It was $99.99 at the Verizon store. I will be getting it for $49.99 when I send in my mail-in rebates. The touchscreen is very easy to use, unlike the screen on my iPod Touch, which takes a couple of presses to get to the menu I want. I have gotten used to the scrolling on the touchscreen over this past month. I still use the directional scroll buttons on the QWERTY though. Dialing is easy, but I don't like that the unlock button on the touchscreen is always visible in the middle of the Home screen. I can get over this annoyance. Phone is very small, fits in my pocket. Just got a PDA pouch (which fits it perfectly) and screen protectors for Christmas, and they really deck out my phone! I had a Chocolate, and was not satisfied with it, but the Glyde overpowers it sufficiently!!!!!! Thanks Samsung and Verizon!!!!!!!
too many to tell about here :)read above :)
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37. A VERY misunderstood phone
12 Dec 2008 by Anonymous
73.3%7.3out of 10
first, i didn't read all 101 reviews so not sure if this stuff has been stated or not, but i will state some little known facts. first, the touch screen is HEAT SENSETIVE !! it's not a pressure touch like the LG models, and most other touch screen phones. So all you pocket phone people are going to have problems as the phone heats up to the activation temp it's going to do some crazy stuff. second, being a heat activated touch, the higher the sensitivity actually makes the problem WORSE !! the higher that is, the less heat it takes to activate the touch screen. second, yes you can not zoom in on the default camera setting , but u CAN on the lower camera setting !! just change the resolution for zoom.
overall, i've owned this phone since the web launch in april, and it's not a bad phone. I've had far less problems than any other customer that come into the store, but i also keep my phone in a pouch, not my pocket where it heats up, and i use a blue tooth for calling and answering calls, so i don't have to go through contacted or even touch the phone for that aspect. imho, if samsung comes up with a way to keep the calibration of the touch screen from going out, or adds a user interface calibration like the voyager, it'd be a great phone. but for now, it's good
great size
lots of great features (html, flash, auto focus, full keyboard, touch screen)
no touch screen calibration
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38. Love My GLYDE!!!!!!
10 Dec 2008 by glydeowner12
100%10out of 10
Well, I got my Glyde a little more than a week ago, and let me tell you, it's been great! The touch screen is easy to navigate and is easy to dial on, but I find it easier to slide the Glyde up (hey, that rhymes) and use the cursor keys to navigate. The QWERTY is easy to use, and my fingers wouldn't fit on any other QWERTY keypad than the Glyde's. The shortcut menu is pretty easy to use. I don't have the Bi29, but like the Bi25 software better, it's got the blue theme, I hate the white theme of the bi29. The phone is thin, and it is not as noticeable in my pocket as my previous phones I've had before my Glyde. The slider works easily, and the buttons on the side are easy to use and nice. The battery life is quite impressive, and I love it the best out of any other phone!!!!!! Thank you, Samsung and VZW, for a GREAT PHONE!!!!!! 10/10 or 5/5 stars!!!!!!
good touchscreen, good qwerty, good call quality, good speakerphone, good slider, good finish, good buttonsnone that i can think of
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39.
9 Dec 2008 by Kikster
20%2out of 10
I got this phone (and paid in full for it too) over the summer...I'd probably guess and say May. Anyways, ever since then I've had a lot of problems and I've actually gone to verizon and they have replaced the phone for me twice...with another glyde. The touch screen randomly will act up, mainly it will turn speaker phone on when I am clearly hitting the Text Message key, and the blue box on the background is very annoying. Also, I hate how the camera can't zoom...that's a little annoying. I also try to use the calculator and at least once a week I go to access my calculator and as soon as I hit the button my phone shuts off, which has happened on all 3 glydes I've had so far. Most recently, on the last glyde I had, I was in the middle of sending a text message and the touch screen completely shut down and stopped responding and never resumed working again...so once again I had to go to verizon and get it replaced. Another complaint I have is also the location of the "water damage" sticker so close to the edge of the back of the phone's cover---every time I go to verizon to get my glyde replaced (because I refuse to file an insurance claim for something I didn't do) I always have to argue with a sales rep who says I have water damage (which the sticker ALWAYS says I do) even though I clearly know I did not--and by the way the manager always agrees with my stories because the water damage sticker isn't all the way wet *for anyone's future reference* But still, this phone is disappointing as it is the first phone I bought WITHOUT an upgrade....Does anyone know if you can argue with verizon enough for them to give you a phone of equal or lesser value in exchange???? Oh and for anyone with insurance, if you are willing to pay $50 and file a claim you can almost always talk the insurance company into giving you another phone around the same value instead (trust me I've done it about 3 times with other phones because I have very bad luck hahaha)
hope this helps :)
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40. Comprehensive review
8 Dec 2008 by flightmedic86
10%1out of 10
First, the touch screen: Even if you lock it before you put it in your pocket or purse it will come unlocked since the unlock button is on the touch screen, DUH!! Then before you know it the phone is calling someone or the browser becomes activated, which you will have to pay for every time you use it (unless you have it on your plan for a flat rate, which i don't).
To make matters worse, the touch screen doesn't work correctly. Touch one icon and a different one activates. I adjusted the sensitivity all the way up and left my phone at verizon for a software upgrade which helped, but every now and then the touch screen still won't work correctly. Also, the screen has gone white several times and I had to shut the phone off and turn it on again to get the screen back.
Flashing Blue square "shortcut" icon on the front screen. Don't really need it since everything is at the bottom of the screen and it only serves to ruin any pictures you choose to save on the screen as wall paper because when you save your favorite picture of your loved one or pet as wall paper they have a flashing blue square on them, usually right on thier nose, eye, mouth or worse. Nothing in the owners manual on how to get rid of the square, called Samsung and after navigating thier computer answering system "press one for..." etc, just when I thought I was finally going to talk to an actual human being "please hold for the next available..." The computer voice came back advising me to get the number of my phone located inside my phone by taking it apart and removing the battery and then call back, I could not believe it. You might think they would of put that message in the beginning before I went through the hassle of navigating thier voice system. So I did as they said, called back and navigated the system again only to be put on hold twice by the person I was talking to who clearly wasn't familiar with the product. She then told me the little blue flashing square could not be removed from the front screen. I'm stuck with a flashing blue square around my girlfriends eye. Pisses me off every time I look at it because I'm stuck with this phone now since I've had it for over the one month trial period. Great.
Ease of use: NONE. This is the most user unfriendly phone. You have to touch the screen and go through several windows just to send a text or look at your pictures, etc. And the fact that the touch screen doesn't work right only makes it worse. I've wanted to throw this phone out the window several times.
Ergonomics: Terrible. This phone is very slick and slippery and if you drop it from as little as a one foot the back comes flying off and the battery pops out. Sometimes the back of it just comes off on its own. A rubber casing might help, but not sure one is available since the keyboard needs to be able to slide out for use.
Camera: Camera is ok, does its job, but can't zoom in on pictures like i used to be able to do with my old basic clam shell phone.
Drops calls: I've had verizon for 9 years now, this is my 5th phone and I've never had a problem with dropped calls until now. Is it verizon, or the phone?
Bottom line: I wanted an I-phone but this phone (and a few others) were all verizon had to offer. The new black berry storm is out and from what i hear it's slow. I didn't want to switch to AT&T
But am seriously considering it, they offer a better phone (I-phone) and they have roll over minutes (verizon doesn't). The service (dropped calls) can't be any worse than what I have now. I would have to take a loss on my verizon contract (probably a couple hundred dollars) but it might be worth it. If I do, I'll never go back to verizon.
Key boardeverything else, see review.
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