Samsung F300 user reviews

Vivienne Phillips 3 July 2007

Good: The handset looks the business! By far the sexiest on the market!

Bad: Phonebook, both screens, sensitivity of the mp3 player side, the ring/vibrate option

Comment: Got this phone as a present and thought how sleek and sexy it looks - but being an ex-Nokia and Ericsson user found the menu really hard to navigate. My main beef comes with the phonebook. You cannot toggle from Sim card info and Phone info so you have to make a choice - keep your contacts on your Sim card (then you're unable to allocate ringtones for people) or move everything to the phone memory and run the risk of losing it all if the phone fails (has happened to me before - not funny). If you keep contacts on the handset and the Sim, the phonebook doubles them up, puts them in alphabetical and numerical order and does that annoying lastname first thing (that could be my ignorance on how to change it mind you) so if you have contacts under Sue Home/Sue Mobile - it will list eg Home;Sue etc - and you end up with 20 Home;(name) which is tiresome when trawling for a number - I had to re-do my contacts list manually (but that looks like its because the Sim had come out of an Ericsson handset).

Second beef comes with screen size. Why would you want a half-inch screen to do all your texting, phone book stuff on and a huge (lovely) screen just to listen to music? Oh, and I agree with the CNET review about pictures too - unless you "switch" you've got a hope in hell of seeing them on the little screen (and I've got good eyes!) Think Samsung got this the wrong way round maybe in an effort to get it into the shops quickly?

Third beef is the sensitivity of the mp3 side - trying to access music content etc and it just annoyingly "switches" back to the other screen ARG. And no, I'm not overly heavy handed - even took me a good while to get through the tutorial because its so sensitive it kept on switching back.

Oh and the ring/vibrate mode is sad too - it will ring (not exceptionally loudly if you're in a busy street), it will vibrate - it will even vibrate THEN ring (but if its on the sofa you wont notice it until its done one ring and then gone to voicemail) - BUT IT WONT RING AND VIBRATE AT THE SAME TIME. Growl. Oh and dont get me going on the battery life.

Yep, you've guessed - its going back - and I'm going back to Ericsson! Sorry Samsung, you just didnt cut it for me in the end.