Cheap Cell Phone Plans | Best Cell Phone Plans | Cell Phone Plan Deals - Samsung Epix i907 Phone, Black (AT&T): "One of my primary demands of a phone upgrade this time was that it had to run Windows Mobile 6.0 or above, since I want to develop mobile phone applications that take advantage of Google Gears Geo-location services.
This phone was a surprise to me in terms of its ease of use, speed (both cpu and 3G connectivity). Syncing with my bluetooth earpiece is much easier than it was with my Motorola RAZR V3. The GPS features are terrific (turn-by-turn driving instructions, automatic traffic alerts, etc.) Even the QWERTY keboard was easy to use, allowing for fast entry. This surprised me as well since I have big hands.
Contrary to some reviewers (here and elsewhere), I loved having both the optical mouse and the stylus pointer. Some have questioned the wisdom of having both. But, it's just good design to allow multiple ways to accomplish the same task, since different people have different preferences. Also, apparently, none of the reviewers, who criticize Samsung for including the stylus, have figured out that the styus is also used for text entry via 'Letter Recognizer' and 'Transcriber' mode, which is a good reason to have both pointer mechanisms.
I did opt to have a full-body invisibleSHIELD placed on it. It's quite expensive ($25 for the" -Read more...
"Cellular companies are difficult in the US, this is a fact we all have to come to accept. So AT&T will probably not help you out if you have problems with this phone, or any other. Samsung, on the other hand is generally a pretty nice company to deal with. The Epix is an extremely well *designed* phone. It has an extremely fast processor, proven layout from the Blackjacks, and most importantly, it has the greatest thing ever put into a phone, a mouse. WinMo is an absolute beast to deal with, but with the addition of a mouse, it's a delight. However, you trade a real D-Pad for a mouse, which makes *most* games unplayable. The mouse can be used as a D-Pad, but it's awkward. If you think this will annoy you, it will, but you'll adapt quickly.
Now, let's get to the main competition: the Fuze. My wife has a Fuze. She loves it and I love my Epix. The Fuze is gorgeous, inside and out, in a way the Epix could never match up to. The TouchFlo thing is a delight to use, since it masks the shortcomings of windows mobile quite well. The Epix doesn't really attempt to, and don't expect it to. The Fuze has a massive army of modders who have made everything from turning the capacitive touch part of the phone into a scroller to making any shape or color of TouchFlo (My wife currently has the black TouchFlo from the HTC Diamond). The Epix has a small, loyal following of modders who are mostly focused on bug-fixing.
Get the Epix or the Fuze, forget the iPhone unless you only specifically want to do the things the iPhone advertises it does, because it doesn't really do anything else. The Fuze can do anything the iPhone can do and more, even if you have to hack it a little to do it. If you're not with AT&T yet, the Samsung Saga through Verizon is very much worth a look." -Read more...
This phone was a surprise to me in terms of its ease of use, speed (both cpu and 3G connectivity). Syncing with my bluetooth earpiece is much easier than it was with my Motorola RAZR V3. The GPS features are terrific (turn-by-turn driving instructions, automatic traffic alerts, etc.) Even the QWERTY keboard was easy to use, allowing for fast entry. This surprised me as well since I have big hands.
Contrary to some reviewers (here and elsewhere), I loved having both the optical mouse and the stylus pointer. Some have questioned the wisdom of having both. But, it's just good design to allow multiple ways to accomplish the same task, since different people have different preferences. Also, apparently, none of the reviewers, who criticize Samsung for including the stylus, have figured out that the styus is also used for text entry via 'Letter Recognizer' and 'Transcriber' mode, which is a good reason to have both pointer mechanisms.
I did opt to have a full-body invisibleSHIELD placed on it. It's quite expensive ($25 for the" -Read more...
"Cellular companies are difficult in the US, this is a fact we all have to come to accept. So AT&T will probably not help you out if you have problems with this phone, or any other. Samsung, on the other hand is generally a pretty nice company to deal with. The Epix is an extremely well *designed* phone. It has an extremely fast processor, proven layout from the Blackjacks, and most importantly, it has the greatest thing ever put into a phone, a mouse. WinMo is an absolute beast to deal with, but with the addition of a mouse, it's a delight. However, you trade a real D-Pad for a mouse, which makes *most* games unplayable. The mouse can be used as a D-Pad, but it's awkward. If you think this will annoy you, it will, but you'll adapt quickly.
Now, let's get to the main competition: the Fuze. My wife has a Fuze. She loves it and I love my Epix. The Fuze is gorgeous, inside and out, in a way the Epix could never match up to. The TouchFlo thing is a delight to use, since it masks the shortcomings of windows mobile quite well. The Epix doesn't really attempt to, and don't expect it to. The Fuze has a massive army of modders who have made everything from turning the capacitive touch part of the phone into a scroller to making any shape or color of TouchFlo (My wife currently has the black TouchFlo from the HTC Diamond). The Epix has a small, loyal following of modders who are mostly focused on bug-fixing.
Get the Epix or the Fuze, forget the iPhone unless you only specifically want to do the things the iPhone advertises it does, because it doesn't really do anything else. The Fuze can do anything the iPhone can do and more, even if you have to hack it a little to do it. If you're not with AT&T yet, the Samsung Saga through Verizon is very much worth a look." -Read more...
