samsung glyde reviews

• Sleek multimedia phone with 2.8-inch touchscreen and slide-out, full QWERTY keyboard
• Access V Cast Music and Video service via fast EV-DO data network; GPS-enabled for turn-by-turn directions
• 2-megapixel camera/; Bluetooth stereo music; MicroSD expansion (up to 8 GB); organizer; access to personal email
• Up to 3.5 hours of talk time, up to 250 hours (10+ days) of standby time; only available on Nationwide Calling Plans
• What's in the Box: handset, rechargeable battery, charger, USB cable, quick start guide, user guide

A powerful and sleek multimedia and messaging phone, the Samsung Glyde for Verizon boasts a robust feature-set, an innovative and colorful touchscreen, and full QWERTY keyboard. The 2.8-inch advanced touchscreen offers a tactile response as you tap onscreen buttons, and the slide-out QWERTY makes it easy to stay in contact via text and instant messaging. The new and improved Glyde has been enhanced with improved touchscreen performance, one-touch messaging access, a favorite contacts categories, and accelerator feature for Contacts and Pictures & Video. It's compatible with Verizon's V Cast Music Service, which enables you to purchase songs through your phone and download them via Verizon's fast EV-DO data network. You'll also stay on course thanks to the VZ Navigator GPS turn-by-turn direction service. Other features include a 2.0-megapixel camera, MicroSD memory expansion (up to 8 GB), Bluetooth connectivity for both communication headsets and stereo headphones, and up to 3.5 hours of talk time. The 2.8-inch display doubles as a stateâ€"ofâ€"theâ€"art interactive touch pad for more userâ€"friendly navigation. Verizon Service Options With support for the EV-DO high-speed data standard, you'll enjoy fast access to the Internet and Verizon Wireless multimedia services (additional charges applicable), with average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps and peak rates up to 2 Mbps. (Learn more about where EV-DO coverage is offered.) The V Cast Music service enables you to download songs instantly to your phone, or purchase music through your PC and transfer the files to your phone. If purchased from your phone, you'll receive two copies of the song: a Windows Media Audio Pro Plus format at 64Kbps stereo is sent to your phone, and a Windows Media Audio 9 format at 160Kbps stereo is sent to your account in the V CAST Music online store for downloading to your PC. V Cast Music offers nearly 2 million songs, with more being added all the time. In addition to the V Cast Music service, this phone is also compatible with the Verizon Wireless V CAST Music with Rhapsody, which enables you to access this exclusive digital music service for RealNetworks and for MTV Networks. V CAST Music with Rhapsody delivers unlimited monthly access to music on up to three Rhapsody-compatible mobile phones and players and online on multiple PCs and Web browsers. In addition, customers who purchase music over-the-air are able to download the master copy of the songs or albums to their PCs free of digital rights management (DRM) software that restricts how and where music can be played. With this GPS-enabled phone, you'll be able to access the Verizon Wireless VZ Navigator service (additional charges applicable) for voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions, heads-up alerts, local search of nearly 14 million points of interest in the US (such as landmarks, restaurants and ATMs), and detailed color maps. And the Chaperone service lets you easily locate your loved ones from your Verizon Wireless phone or PC in real time. After defining a zone, such as an area designating a school or summer camp, you'll be sent an alert via text message when the Chaperone handset enters or leaves the zone. Getting on the Internet is easy using the Verizon Wireless Mobile Web 2.0 package, which allows you to read and send e-mails, exchange instant messages and view your favorite web content on your phone. The Verizon Wireless Media Center wireless download service is also fully compatible with this phone. This pay-per-download service features application downloads, games and productivity tools. You can also personalize your handset with ringtone downloads using the Media Center service. With one quick slide, enjoy a large QWERTY keyboard to text or IM friends with lightening speed. Verizon's Wireless Sync always-on email service (subscription required), you can stay connected and get the job done while away from the office--without a delay and in a secure environment. Email is delivered to your device in real time across the National Enhanced Services Rate & Coverage Area, and you get the ability to forward large attachments via email as well as access both your personal and corporate emails on one device. Wireless Sync offers strong security with AES encryption (Advanced Encryption Standard) technology so that unauthorized parties cannot access or alter application data transmitted over wireless networks. Phone Features The combination touchscreen, slider keyboard design of the Samsung Glyde provides a variety of ways of interacting with the phone's features. The large touch-enabled LCD measures 2.8 inches vertically and has a 240 x 440-pixel resolution and support for 262K colors. The front of the chassis has a single button (much like another, often talked about touchscreen phone), and the phone offers most of its controls via the touchscreen--which provides adjustable haptic vibrating feedback, so you know when you've pressed a button. The front of the Glyde's face slides open from the left side of the phone and it's easy to open and close with just one hand. When the keyboard is opened, the display automatically changes to landscape orientation. The keyboard offers no dedicated numbers, so you'll do your dialing via the numeric keypad that appears on the or touchscreen. The Glyde can store up to 500 contacts, with each entry able to store five phone numbers, two email addresses, notes, and a picture ID. It's compatible with saving contacts to groups and pairing contacts with a ringtone (polyphonic or real music ringer). The phone has a 45 MB internal memory, which is expandable via optional MicroSD memory cards (up to 8 GB in size). It also provides speaker-independent voice activated commands, including dial, menu readout, text message readout, and call announcement. A speakerphone means you can easily talk hands-free, while Bluetooth (version 1.2) allows you to use your favorite wireless headset. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. It also includes profiles for printing images directly to printers, dial-up networking, and sending vCard and vCalendar items to other phones. The 2-megapixel camera has six resolution modes for still photos (from 1600 x 1200 for printing to 176 x 144 pixels for sending via MMS). It features a 9x digital zoom, an integrated flash, self-timer, multi-shot mode, and customizable settings for brightness and white balance. The camera can also capture video with sound and it offers two resolution settings (320 x 240 and 176 x 144 pixels). You can shoot for up to 30 seconds for sending or as long as you have space on your optional memory card. You can easily add new music to your collection while on the go from Verizon's V Cast Music service and listen to them on the integrated digital audio player, which offers compatibility with MP3, WMA, AAC/AAC+ file formats. You can sync your tunes from your PC (Windows Media Player 11 or higher), as well as create and manage playlists right on the phone. The enV2 can also play video clips from Verizon's V Cast Video service, and ti's compatible with WMV, MP4, 3GP, and 3G2 formats. The Glyde weighs 4.2 ounces. The Glyde has all the bases covered when it comes to messaging, too, with support for sending and receiving text, picture, and video messages as well as mobile instant messaging (IM). There's also a complete e-mail client on the device for POP- and IMAP-based accounts. And of course, the QWERTY keyboard makes it a snap to type your messages. The Glyde ships with a number of handy tools, including a calendar and a voice memo application. An alarm clock and calculator are also included. The Glyde supports V Cast 3-D games, as well as other 2-D-based games, which are available from Verizon's Get It Now service. You can also customize the phone's wallpapers and screen savers to give your phone a look that suits your style. Other features include: Bluetooth version 1.2 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BIP (for sending images to another device), BPP (basic printing profile for text, email), DUN (dial-up networking), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures), PBA (transfer contacts) Music Player for WMA, MP3, unprotected aac and aac+ formats Full HTML browser Instant messaging via AIM, MSN, and Yahoo! Personal organizer with calendar, calculator, notepad, currency converter, alarm clock, world time and stop watch TTY compatible Hearing Aid Compatibility = M4 Vital Statistics The Samsung Glyde weighs 4.2 ounces and measures 4.09 x 1.98 x 0.71 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 210 minutes (3.5 hours) of talk time, and up to 250 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/1900 CDMA/EV-DO frequencies.

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The glyde is a piece of crap...why you may ask beause: once you get the phone everything is fine until you have the phone for about 3 weeks. This is my second glyde phone and both of them have been giving me hell ever since. 1) If you wanna txt..then you may want to press send 10 times before it actually sends your message 2)The screen frequently turns off and comes back on in the middle of a txt message etc 3)If your trying to put a hot guys # in your phone ..well that may be out of the question seeing that your phone will constantly press a series of buttons before you can press the save key On my newest phone I only had it for about 3 weeks and I never dropped it i'm very carefully with my things. Well while i was texting one day my phone would not turn sided ways so I could read the txt from the keyboard side. I was txting and I couldnt see the words..once I closed the keyboard up I saw the txt. Ugh how frustrating If you think that was it well it did that for the whole day before I charged it. WHile being charged it was fine after the phone finished I received one text message and my phone showed a blank white screen. I'm still not able to turn it on till this day so if you won't a piece of crap be my guest and buy THE SAMSUNG GLYDE

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Verizon Wireless no longer carries this on their website due to systematic issues. It is a great concept in that has a touch screen and slide-out keyboard. However, especially with older firmware the touchscreen is very unresponsive and the phone regularly locks up. It is also disappointing there is no support for flash and doesn't contain a full HTML browser. Even with the latest firmware it is very rigid in not supporting any practical applications and still has reliability issues with locking up. I have had my Samsung Glyde replaced 3 times and would recommend spending same amount of money for a more reliable phone.

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I picked this phone out when it was new on the market and initial reviews were decent, but I must say now that it was a giant mistake. The problems with this phone would take too much room to type in this review, but the gist of it is that the touchscreen would stay on until I turned the phone off, it would hit random buttons or nothing at all, and the latest update changed the phone to turn on at the slightest touch of the screen, which is not good on battery life if you keep the phone in your pocket. I wanted to like this phone. I love the keyboard and the sliding features. It just had too many issues for me to enjoy this phone. I had four replacement phones before I stood my ground with the verizon reps for two hours. Save yourself the headache of trying to deal with this phone and of dealing with verizon customer service.

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this is the biggest waste of money i ever spent. the touch screen is crap and in less than 6 months ive been through several replacements now over a year and I gotta buy a new phone. samsung really stunk on this one.

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Buy this phone if you enjoy: -Pressing a button on a touch screen and watching as a button in a completely different area is pressed (this will happen about 10 times before it magically starts working or you turn it off and try again). -Pressing a button on a touch screen multiple times as nothing happens (same results as before). -Having to turn off your phone occasionally because the touch screen freezes. -Having to press multiple redundant buttons just to perform a simple task. -Dialing numbers with your face while you are on the phone (got to use that lock button). -Having particles of dust seemingly activate buttons on your phone as it sits untouched (need the lock button again). -Being unable to simply send more than one picture at a time (want to send some to your email? One at a time, baby. Apparently this is easier if you use the USB attachment but guess what? That only works with PC's.) The keyboard is decent if you have small fingers, and the sound quality on calls seems fine. If you like hearing your phone ring in a setting with any sort of louder than average noise, you won't. Use vibrate. I'm surprised I haven't thrown this phone out of a window from pure frustration. The screen-protecting sheet of plastic has a few marks on it from angry finger-smashing as a result of the absolute fail of a touchscreen.