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Samsung Beat Phone (T-Mobile)
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Our Price: $0.01
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Average Customer Rating:  
Manufacturer: T-Mobile
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Binding: Wireless Phone
Brand: Samsung
Color: Black
Feature: Lightweight clamshell mobile phone with built-in audio player and 1.3-megapixel digital camera
Label: T-Mobile
Manufacturer: T-Mobile
Model: Beat
Publisher: T-Mobile
Release Date: 2007-10-01
Studio: T-Mobile
Variation Description: Black
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Features
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Lightweight clamshell mobile phone with built-in audio player and 1.3-megapixel digital camera
Ultra-bright TFT display with 176 x 220 pixel resolution and exterior 4-way navigation pad
T-Mobile myFaves support; runs on global quad-band technology for worldwide communication
30 MB integrated memory; expandable via microSD card slot (includes 1 GB card)
Includes: Battery, Charger, Stereo Hands-free Headset, Stereo Headphone Adapter and 1GB SD Card
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good range of features, terrible phone
Comment: As the Samsung employee (M. Sanchez--go look at his reviews, they read like a marketing campaign) who gave the Beat a glowing review states, this phone does pack a surprising breadth of functionality for what is now a free phone with a service contract ($18 "upgrade fee" if you extend your existing contract). However, after use, it skips a Beat (AHAHAHAHA...whatever. You guys suck as an audience anyways).
The Samsung Beat is woefully underpowered. Everything from the music player to scrolling through your MyFaves contacts suffers from a delayed response. Get used to hitting the Play button about 8 times before you finally figure out that you have to press it and wait 15 seconds to be sure the Beat noticed you pressed a button.
The Beat is a horrible, horrible telephone. As the other users have been nearly unanimous in decrying, the sound quality of the microphone will surely elicit complaints from your callers. The headphones do indeed hurt like the dickens after about an hour (and I have big ears). Worst of all, the internal antenna loses signal constantly. While my Nokia 6103 had no trouble around my house (3-4 bars of signal strength), the Beat loses connection repeatedly near any large object. I had to switch to the Nokia yesterday to continue a conversation because the Beat kept dropping the call when I'd get near the washer and dryer. I have the same trouble standing at the counter washing dishes, with a flippin' window right in front of me.
The phone desperately needs a second connector. It uses one proprietary connector for everything: USB, power, and headset. T-Mobile should have also streamlined some of the menu options. For example, setting the ringtone from the main menu does not affect calls from your MyFaves contacts, although nothing indicates that there is a separate setting for those contacts (there is: you have to click around in the Options menu while hovered over a MyFaves contact, and each contact has a different ringtone that must be set).
If it didn't hold and play a sizable chunk of music, I'd huck it out the window and leave a stylish imprint on some unsuspecting passerby's face. Look for something else!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't get this phone
Comment: My husband and I both got this phone a month ago. For the first 3 weeks it was awesome, then I started getting a screeching noise when I would talk on it. I changed the sim card and it stopped, but then it just stopped working. I would turn it on and start to make a call, and it would turn off. My husband's phone wasn't even receiving the calls. I would call and it would ring and ring on my end and he would have nothing. Then his just stopped working. It did the same as mine. It would turn off. The batteries were charged fully and we had even reset the phone, but it wouldn't work. Don't buy this phone.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Bad Battery Life
Comment: My old Samsung (don't know the model) could go for 4 days without charging. Granted I only used that as a phone and not a music player.
Still, listening to music on this phone for less than 2 hours a day (maybe more like 1 hour) and talking for less than 30 minutes, the phone dies after a day and a half.
So basically, when used properly, this phone needs to be charged nightly.
No other complaints so far, but haven't had it a month yet.
Customer Rating:
Summary: where do i begin...
Comment: ive had this phone since it came out in november 2007
i have had a crap load of problems with this phone
from aim to calling to texting
on aim sometimes it doesnt recieve what the ppl send me and doesnt send what i say and thats not because i dont have any bars of service either it can be full and not work
on texting sometimes it freezes and i have to take the battery out especially when music is playing
and the music makes everything freeze when its playing no matter what it is
sometimes when people call my phone it doesnt ring and it goes strate to voicemail and it tells me i have a missed call...and it never rang!
sometimes when texting it wont send my message and picture messages dont always send or come in either
and when i call people and they hang up sometimes it will freeze or if they dont answer and i decide to end the call...and leaves it to me taking the battery out.
oh and when you talk to people the voice quality sucks...sometimes when i call people i cant hear a thing there saying unless i put it on speaker phone
the only good thing bout this phone is the camera and it came with a 1gb sd card
and tmobile sucks to i emailed about all this stuff... and they said they couldnt help me...and they thought i had a sidekick...it was really messed up but yeah
i wouldnt buy this phone
Customer Rating:
Summary: Poor call quality...
Comment: I've had this phone for about a week and will be sending it back. It's really too bad because it seems like a neat little phone. However, the call quality is a deal breaker. As another reviewer said, the calls sound muffled. People sound to me like they are talking through a pillow, and my friends have reported that I sound the same to them. I put my sim card back in previous Nokia 5300 (replacing due to a cracked LCD) and the calls are crystal clear on the Nokia. It may be that only some of the Beat's have poor quality, but I'm not sure.
UPDATE: A local T-mobile store let me test another Samsung Beat and it also had poor call quality. I even tried to trick my sister on it by telling her I was calling her on my old Nokia and she didn't buy it. She could tell by the muffled sound that it was the Samsung Beat.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Enjoy listening to your favorite tunes, surfing the web, or messaging with your friends with the Samsung Beat mobile phone. Easy and fun to use, the Beat packs a ton of features--including a music player, stereo Bluetooth service, a 1.3-megapixel digital camera, and a microSD expansion slot--into a compact package that looks like an MP3 player from the outside. 
The music-focused Samsung Beat includes an exterior thumbpad for easy on-the-go navigation.
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Available exclusively from T-Mobile, the Beat communicates through the company's GSM/GPRS and EDGE networks, with quad-band support (GSM 850, 900, 1,800, and 1,900 MHz) helping guarantee global connectivity. As a result, the phone is ideal for international travel, giving you full mobile voice and data coverage all over the world without requiring you to change phones, phone numbers. or e-mail addresses. The Beat is also myFaves compatible, allowing you to call up to five of your most common contacts--on any network, even landlines--without using any of your minutes. Beat users who are myFaves subscribers can also send an audio postcard--a photo accompanied by a voice message--as well as send an e-mail, launch an IM client, or send a text message right from the myFaves home screen. 
The clamshell housing opens to reveal a 176 x 220 pixel TFT display. | Design
The compact clamshell phone offers an ultra-bright TFT display offers a 176 x 220 pixel resolution and support for up to 262,000 colors. Below the screen, meanwhile, sits a four-way navigation pad and dedicated shortcut keys, with a second pad located on the outside of the clamshell for easier music navigation while on the move. And text messaging is fast and easy thanks to the phone's predictive-text technology, which anticipates which words you're about to type and finishes them for you. Multimedia
The real star of the Samsung Beat, however, is its music support. Not only does it include the aforementioned exterior thumbpad--which makes it easy to skip songs or adjust the volume while the phone is in your pocket--but it also supports both MP3 and AAC files, and offers a Bluetooth profile for listening to music wirelessly through a compatible stereo headset. And as with most of the latest mobile phones, the Samsung Beat includes a built-in 1.3-megapixel camera that offers such features as a 4x digital zoom, a self-timer, and multiple picture modes. The camera is also capable or recording small video clips via the 30 MB of integrated memory or longer clips when saved to a microSD card (the phone includes a 1 GB card and supports up to 2 GB of expandable memory). Calling and Messaging
The Samsung Beat offers plenty of handy calling and messaging features, including a voice-dialing function that makes it a breeze to call friends and associates by simply saying their names; a full duplex speakerphone that lets you hear callers loud and clear; a WAP 2.0 browser and e-mail application; support for SMS and MMS messages; instant messaging, and such handy tools as a calendar, notepad, alarm clock, to-do list, and tip calculator. Connectivity is aided by the Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity, which offers profiles for communication headsets and hands-free car kits. Vital Statistics
The Samsung Beat measures 1.5 by 3.7 by 0.66 inches (W x H x D), weighs 0.27 ounces, and includes a rechargeable battery that provides up to four hours of talk time and 250 hours of standby time. The phone comes with a one-year limited warranty. What's in the Box
Samsung Beat phone, rechargeable battery, charger, user's manual.
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