Samsung SGH-M600 User Reviews

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1

Son of Samsung

Phone owned for

This phone is my third Samsung. The first died due to waterlogging, so fair enough. The second began to fade due to a plethora of technical issues, including display fading, whiteouts, powerouts, freezing, call dropping and sound cut outs, as well as the occasional blackout. As you can probably tell, I bought a new one, the M600, and my third Samsung. It looks sleek, stylish and very smooth, a very charming slide up and just looks the part.
My first real issue came with texting and the set up. I still have no idea where to change the settings from T9 to standard, numbers or punctuation (though that's sheer idiocy on my part), and there are irritating delays when switching from screens or typing. This, however, I pinned down just to the OS, and figure it's still a good phone. However I then started to use the camera; it not only produces low quality photos (unless you stand there like a Victorian photographer and hold it very still indeed), but it doesn't actually save them unless you press a whole series of buttons. Again, mostly my idiocy.
Then of course there are the phone calls; I can be happily chatting one minute and the phone will cut out for no apparent reason. Or I can dial a number, press call and wait, to return either to a blank screen having heard no ring tone, or to be granted with a beep and no answer/voicemail/ringtone etc. Then of course I get a text message I'm expecting only it isn't a text message I'm expecting, it's one, sometimes two or three, from anywhere from an hour to a month ago, and I'll never receive the one I wanted. Of course if I don't know who actually tried to send me a message I don't know who to ask to send me one back to replace the six day old one from someone totally different. Then of course I started to lose the sound, irratating after only a couple of months. Lastly, and most irritatingly, my screen now opens in a variety of new ways; I get "upside down" screen, where my screen is upside down, "negative" screen, where the colours are inverted, "white" screen, a dazzling sea of soothing white, "black" screen, a dazzling sea of soothing black and my favourite "Salvador Dali" screen, a surreal mishmash of colours and features from the phone.
I remember my Nokia, can't remember the model but I remember it was the most reliable electronic gadget I ever had; I drop kicked that baby twenty feet in the air, watched it land on concrete, put it back together. Performance: unhindered. How I long for that phone once more. Frankly, following two awful experiences with Samsung, and suffering pretty much the same issues, I have drawn the conclusions that these phones may be snazzy, but are cheap, commercial whores of a product; designed to break as soon as they pass their warranty. Samsung is falling victim to corporate ineptitude, placing quantity over quality, and I refuse flatly to buy another of their products. Anything will do next time, even a shoddy nineties gadget with snake.

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3

Phone owned for

extremely crappy phone with no data cable or PC uplink and crappy sound quality. the display brightness automatically went up and now you can barely read it. call drop very easily as well.

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7.4

good phone but 1 big negative

Phone owned for

it realy sucks u cant set in settings to disable T9, u always have to disable T9 when u want to write a message.

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9.2

Excellent Phone

Phone owned for

Stylish, and very small.

Connectivity is limited it even dont have a IR.
and memory too very limited.

Only in looks it is excellent.

It supports mp3 ring tones but It would have been perfect if it was having at least an IR.

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