Samsung F700 user reviews

pcochrane7 12 May 2008

Good: Screen Size/Quality and Slide out keyboard - great for texting

Bad: MP3 Player interface, the button on front could have been used better

Comment: To look at, the Samsung F700 is great - large screen, nice shape and not too bulky. Feature wise it's packed and on paper can do a lot - 3.0 Megapixel camera, 3.6G HSDPA enabled, QWERTY keyboard for fast texting/email composition, good security - Messaging, Files, Contacts etc can all be individually locked if desired;

What I like: as mentioned, the screen, large and sharp, great to view photos/other media on, emails/texts can have their fonts increased or decreased as you read them by a touch of the volume button on the side; The QWERTY keyboard takes a day or two to get used to, you'll find yourself looking at the letter 'o' for example and pressing it 3 times as you would on a standard number keypad to look at the screen and see you've typed "ooo"! But nicely laid out and a good feature.

I don't Like:

When in a call, to end it, you must press the bottom button, then hang up on the touchscreen, sure that's only 1 mre button than you would on a normal phone: fine if your touchscreen hasn't locked up and refused to work leaving you to try and repeatedly press buttons slide the keyboard out, ANYTHING that will get it to hang u a minute later! So I just resorted to turning it off and back on again in these situations - Maybe it was just my phone? No - I have sent two back to Vodafone so far (from Jan) due to same problem and am selling this 3rd one as soon as I get it...

The MP3 interface - it is sooo bland, no equaliser settings, and can be tedious to go through the menu to select shuffle or repeat - fastforwarding or rewinding is a chore as the touchscreen element hinders this process but strangely sliding up and down for volume up or down seems to work fine - a nice idea from Samsung, but why not have album art in the background or some sort of visualisation other than just black?

The shortcut button again - you can't customise the shortcuts on there, and I can't help but criticise it's poor functionality and weekly decision to take a minute off leaving me stuck in a call when the other person has hung up on already!

Internet browser isn't great - maybe I'm asking too much after seeing Safari on iPhone, but if you unlucky enough like me to have enabled full screen during a session, you're stuck with it unless you luckily press the part of the screen to get it out of ful screen, 'cause there's no button or options in menu to do this, therefore no 'X' button to exit the net either - I just touch power button once to do this.

Summary

A great idea from Samsung, but it feels rushed (the similar F490 cam out 1 month after the F700, one month!) and has a few rough edges in my opinion, and perhaps I'm biased against it due to having to send 2 separate F700's back due to same problems...For now I'm using my old K800i - still better than a lot of what's just been released and will do so until Jan '09 when my contract's up and doubt it'll be a Samsung.

forddaisey 18 March 2008

Good: Love the fact that i can use it lol!

Bad: it comes with a pants leather case

johno106 12 March 2008

Good: Internet access, and the email function

Bad: Battery Life

Comment: Please dont buy this phone as it is fairly exclusive. Everybody, (including my friends), has an iphone - commoners. You wouldnt like the Samsung F700 anyway, with it 3G connectivity speeds, picture messaging, 3mp camera and qwerty keyboard. Not forgetting its touch screen facia - terrible. All this for £269 plus £35/month - not. Its not for you. Just me, and its free on a £30/month contract. Pity.

adrianeds 20 January 2008

Good: just about everything

Bad: battery life,just a little low

Comment: You need to use this phone,get used to it,get to know it if you like.Not just for a week or two,a month or two.When you've done that,then you'll appreciate it.Its a good phone,not saying its perfect,but good.Sorry to say but i disagree with your own review,just a little.Had the phone since it first came out,had tried loads of different phones,and a mate of mine had just had the iphone.Now that was super cool.But,ask me and my mate,today,overall which one is the best and we'd have to say the samsung f700,and that is honest.Its just more practical,its got more going for it.Try it,but dont say after a week you dont like it,give it time,and you'll be surprised very surprised.It is the real deal honest,id recommend it to anyone,no worries.