Samsung Jet Reviews

1. excellent phone

8 Nov 2009 by richning@gmail.com

93.3%9.3out of 10

i've had this phone for about a week now. the more i use it the more i love this phone! it has a VERY fast 800mhz processor. one of the fastest touch screens on the market. And a gorgeous AMOLED screen. having used nokia phones for many years the samsung is not quite as intuitive but once you learn it, it is a joy to use. my only complaint is the New PC Studio software, it's virtually useless. Samsung should look at Nokia's OVI software, it is far more useful.

Pros

Very fast processor. large fonts very easy to read. gorgeous screen! Fair price for the features.

Cons

the pc software needs much improvement. and i wish it had a stylus insert in the housing. dunno why they didn't include that.

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2. Samsung Jet... a decent phone.

23 Oct 2009 by Daniel_I_

90%9out of 10

I just bought the samsung jet couple of days ago after thinking about buying it for a while.

My main reason for buying it was because it just felt like good in my hand, had a 5MP camera, had a touchscreen and becasue of how slim it was compared to any other phone of its kind.



First of all i really like it. Its easy to use, no problems with touchscreen and everything feels intuitive.

After reading a few reviews i have to agree that yes its not a competitor for any of the top smartphones but i never bought it because the slogan said 'smarter than smartphone'.

As far as people comparing it to the iphone would say, it doesnt have threaded sms and lacks application etc etc but i wasnt wanting to shell out the money. plus the iphone has poor camera functionality (only 3MP which is pretty poor considering i used to have a sony ericson K900 with a better camera) When the day comes when apple make an iphone with a decent camera i will probably get one but for now i dont rate them. One of my friends has one and yes they are very smart but he pays £55 a month for it which i think it ridiculous! Being a college student i would not pay this much a month for a phone, and for now you cant buy it on PAYG. But moving on i am here to review the jet...



The internet browsing is pretty good although since there are only a few applications for websites you have to enter sites manually which is a bit of a drag but to be perfectly honest i dont use internet on a phone that often. Micro-

browsers to me aren't brilliant... A laptop is your best bet for surfing the web! But for sites like facebook if you are a regular user and watching videos etc the internet is generally good. Wi-fi is very good aswell.



Moving on there many great features on the jet. The camera has alot of features and is brilliant quality! If you have a lot of nights out like myself this is brialliant for caputuring all those memorbale events! Also the music player is good quality. (I dont really like the headphones which come with this phone as they have a short cable and dont stick in your ears very well) But again i didnt buy a phone to use it as a music player, its just good to be able to play songs from it when you are on the go.



Lastly i will just mention some other things about the phone. It has all the things you need if you are moderate-regular user of your phone. Its fun to use. I think once you go to touch you will never go back! The battery life is also very good. It has the tumbling dice app the iphone uses which i thought was funny and it has a bright flashlight. Also there is a dynamic canvas which lets you draw things on screen (would of been handy if stylis pen came with it though!) One thing which baffles me is the fact there is a camera on the front of the phone which cant really be used to take photos with. I think its used for the likes of webcam but i dont know how to use... if there even is a way to use it? Widgets are very cool and there is an app to download new ones. I just hope samsung make an update or something where you can download new applications! But as ive already said im not a big micro internet browser fan.



If you can get past the cons then you will be very happy with this phone!

Pros

Stylish
Fun/easy to use
Camera
Music Player
Fast
Battery life very good
Dynamic Canvas

Cons

No threaded sms
No copy/paste option
lacks applications and also doesnt have as many features like other phones from this company have e.g scientific calculator, compass stylis pen.

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3. samsung jet

22 Oct 2009 by shivatink

90%9out of 10

 well am using the mobile for past 1 month its good but touch screen was not as good as iphone but acc to prize its superb amoled rocks well we have to say it beats i phone but it dont hav os dose the iphone have.....

but u know something i have been using a2dp sony erricson walkman series streaming blutooth for my sony 910i for past 6 month its nice 

but after i start using in this its terrible u know y wen connected to streamer blutooth it dosnt support 5.1 and sound quality is so bad so pls dont buy blutooth streamer for this phone its waste but if u hear through normal headset its good na it has 5.1 which has good sound quality  

Pros

amoled
3d navigator
dolphin browser
widgets
fm rec

Cons

it fails with a2dp streaming good quality
thread sms
sensor confusion
no os

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4. Superb..!!!!!!!!!

17 Sep 2009 by Raji...

86.7%8.7out of 10

This phone is great...the design, speed...all of them...Camera is amazing in the night..its like SonyEricsson K850i and SonyEricsson C905.
Sound quality is also very high.. 

Pros

Camera.
Sounds(Speker and headset)
Multitasking..
Processing speed...

Cons

NO COPY PAST OPTION..

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5. The jet is not a smartphone

11 Sep 2009 by No apps for the Jet

50%5out of 10

The main disadvantage of this phone is the lack of applications including 3rd party applications and samsung developed applications. The only applications you have are those the phones comes with but you cannot download even 1 of the billion applications available out there. 

This cretainly makes it NOT a smartphone, let alone "smarther than a smartphone" as advertised by Samsung which is misleading. There are smartphones out there that have exactly the same features, and more, than the jet. I agree that this is a great phone for its price, but with no applications (whether you need them frequently or just once), it is probably the biggest miss by Samsung ever and a damn shame.

if I was buying a 50 euro phone, yea, I could live without applications. But I am not paying 350 euro for a phone with no applications.

Would you buy a PC or laptop in Year 2009 that does not allow you to download any applications or install software or new things? It would be absurd for a PC company even to consider making such PC (no matter the price).

It is equally absurd what Samsung did here. They are moving backwards. Its like building a car that has everything except a gas tank. Whats the point?

Samsung can only say that themselves WILL at some point in the next 100 years be developing applications for this phone. That tells me nothing. What, they will develop 5-10 applications and charge 100 bucks for each one when the Iphone has a billion applications for under a dollar?

The iphone, which is probably the most incomplete phone ever created (missing a lot of the most basic of features-especially the first edition) rocked the industry because of its applications capabilities.

I have never owned anything from Apple and I am not an iphone fan. BUT should the iphone be issued at a different smaller and more stylish design, included the couple of missing features (i.e. bluetooth, better video) and be priced reasonably, I dont think Nokia, Samsung or LG will sell another phone ever.

Which makes you wonder, why apple does not take these extra and easy few steps and destroy everyone for ever.

The only reason Samsung and LG are doing well in the touchscreen market is because NOKIA has been sitting on their butts. Once Nokia comes out with multiple touchscreen smartphones full of features in 2010, it is game over.

Thus if you are thinking of buying this phone, just wait a few months and then make your decision

Pros

Size, features, multemedia, performance

Cons

Cannot download applications
No copy/paste
No smart dialing from contacts using names
No GPS in landscape
No scientific calculator
No standard mini usb
No multi touch
No push mail
No threaded sms
No preset on/off
No compass

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6. There is a ZOOM..

7 Sep 2009 by Rob Ze

96.7%9.7out of 10

Unless im mistaking, but when you take photos, you can zoom in and out using the volume buttons. this counts as digital zoom, right?



About scrolling for music, its pretty easy when picked up. + you can use a widget to skip tracks etc.



Battary is good so far, ive been using my Jet for 48 hours now and the battary is at half way (using the web, google maps, youtube, games, music).



good phone, but im no phone expert. for £200 in england pay as you go and any network (which i used my old number) i cant really complain.



i just hope the battary has a long life :D



hope this review helps,

regards,

rob

Pros

Ultra Fast
Good Camera (5MP ? thats good enough shots for holidays and a good sun set. if you want to go National Geo pro, then buy a 15MP pro Nikon or somethingl)
Great texting keyboards.
Wicked display in colours and video.

Cons

Widgets (need abit of work on. milestone to catch up with apple's app's)
3D cube thing. dont like it, waste of space and battary use. it kind of destroys "smarter than a smart phone"

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7. Correction to the review i wrote in three parts!!!

5 Sep 2009 by Drgriderz16

100%10out of 10

I found out that we DO have digital zoom on the camera, just use the  volume toggle to zoom in and out.

and for using the camera light for flashlight, just click   *#0*#   then click on 7) Mega Cam.

-and the 8) VGA Cam is really cool it's like a web cam, too bad you cant really use it.

Pros

-We do have Digital ZOOM
-And we have a flashlight

Cons

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8. not one of the best phones ever

4 Sep 2009 by sm0k3ydaband1t

73.3%7.3out of 10

to the guy who wrote the 3 part review. your blinded by the glamour and glitz. think about what was said in your review...

no threaded sms... that sucks more than brittany spears! and makes the jet inferior to a smartphone

no digital zoom and it sports a 5mp camera!!! whats the point of having a high res picture if i cant zoom! <<also inferior to a smartphone

as far as the touchscreen sensitivity goes, i would hate if i barely touched the screen and it starts pressing buttons for me. thats why i cant use an iphone, a g1, or any other crap that sports a capacitance touchscreen, so i feel like maybe this capacitance resistance dealy may be a step in the right direction for samsung <<finally something superior to a smartphone.

im glad you only have 1 gig of music on there but ive got 13 gigs on my fuze and if i couldnt scroll through alphabetically (and skip to sections by typing or pressing a letter) i probably would buy an ipod.<<<inferior

having to switch internet profiles manually... so crappy...so crappy, im really wondering where samsung gets off saying the jet is smarter than a smarthphone. in my opinion, its nowheres near as smart as a smartphone. and it never will be, if samsung gets thier act in gear, updates some of the software issues, this will be as good as say... an lg xenon oh but wait, it doesnt even have an actual keyboard!

seriously though, not a bad phone it just pisses me off to see samsung call it smarter than a smartphone when it is obviously quite stupid.

the ONE awesome thing i will say about this is the processor but thats kind of obvious.

Pros

sick processor
hybrid (capacitance resistance) touchscreen
good screen quality

Cons

no threaded sms
only manual internet profile switching
no physical keyboard
no digital zoom on the 5mp camera!!
no quick way to scroll through music

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9. one of the best phone ever! (PART 3)

23 Aug 2009 by drgriderz19

93.3%9.3out of 10

Okay continuing my review (since there's a limit to how much i can write)

Camera:

The Camera, is good, but i would be nice if we had a digital zoom option. The flash is pretty bright, and it would also be nice if we had an option to just keep the lights on as a flashlight (which i was able to do with most phones with flash), but the light only goes on for 1 second before the picture is taken. not long enough to act as a flashlight.

Smarter than a Smartphone?:

well it beats like alot of smartphones, (like the old ones and some of the new ones) the Multi-task funtion is great because the iphone or the G1 doesnt have it, which is kinda sad... and the 800mz processor is impressive too. altho i would like to know how much RAM it has, or does it have any? the overall performance was really good, except for some lags in viewing pictures, and web browsing (i would have to blame my service for that). There isnt any app store, but that isnt really much of a consern for me since there are plently of JAVA apps that can be installed. so i would have to say that it could be a little bit smarter than a smartphone. But im not a business person that needs all those financing or whatever options they use. But Hey, it beats having to pay for the smartphone service, which is what? 2-3 times the price of the normal data plan?

Most of the Cons about this phone are mostly software problems, if they can fix it, this phone will be almost perfect.

Pros

- Battery Life
- AMOLED screen
- 800Mz processor
- Multi tasking
- Radio
- 3.5mm Headphone Jack
- 5.1ch Digital Surround Sound
the list goes on

Cons

- the scrolling/searching option on the music player.
- lack of Threaded-sms
- No Digital Zoom
- having to change data profile to Wi-Fi and back.
- lack of 3G in the US

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10. one of the best phone ever! (PART 2)

23 Aug 2009 by drgriderz18

93.3%9.3out of 10

Okay continuing my review (since there's a limit to how much i can write)

Touch Screen Sensitivity:

The touch screen technology that the Jet uses is called R-Resistive which is supposed to combine the best of capacitive and resistive screens. But i have say that this claim is false. It is more sensitive when compared to  all of the other resistive touchscreen, but when compared to a capasitive screen, but is not as sensitive. The last phone i had was HTC G1, which has a capasitive touch, when compared to jet, on a scale of 1-10, 10 being the most sensitive, the G1 gets a 10(since no pressure need to be applied), while the jet gets an 8.5(only a small amount of pressure needed) and other resistive screens like the samsung Behold, i give that one a 5 (since you need to apply a fairly large amount of pressure)

Battery life:

I'm very impressed with the battery live of this device. even after hours and hours of internet browsing, texting, listening to music, and watching videos, the battery life just barely touches half way. I'm guessing the power consumtion is greatly reduced with the AMOLED screen and not using 3G (since i live in the US)

Internet Browser:

I have to say, i like this browser alot since it has a flash player and the one-touch zoom option. i like the one-touch zoom option alot better than the multi touch zoom thing on the iphone. so you can zoom in and out of sites with just one hand, unlike the iphone. Since it's a resistive touchscreen, the option to use a stylus or your nails, to click on links is really good. when you try to click on small links on a capasitive screen, there are many times that i accidently clicked on wrong links by accident, since it's not much precision. The downside to this browers is that you have to manually chance the internet profile to Wi-Fi, or 3g/Edge, or viice versa. So if i want to use wi-fi, i have to go to settings, change the connection from edge to wifi, when im done, i have to go back to settings, change the connections back. it's such a pain, i just stay on edge eventho its alot slower.

Pros

- Battery Life
- AMOLED screen
- 800Mz processor
- Multi tasking
- Radio
- 3.5mm Headphone Jack
- 5.1ch Digital Surround Sound
the list goes on

Cons

- the scrolling/searching option on the music player.
- lack of Threaded-sms
- No Digital Zoom
- having to change data profile to Wi-Fi and back.
- lack of 3G in the US

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