Samsung Blast SGH-T729

Price: $.99 - $.99

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You can't beat free...05/06/08

Pros:

Free

Cons:

Low Volume, Can NOT delete learned words in T9, Battery life is horrible

I received this phone because I needed an upgrade from the Samsung T319 (famous phone for rebooting for no reasons at all).

Lets get what I hate over with:

Battery Life: at idle, it'll drop to half life in less than 24 hours. This is absolutely abysmal.

Phone Volume: too quiet, I'm not too fond of mashing the phone into my ear so that I can hear the person talk to me.

Phone Software: The phone is notorious for not being able to read the SD card. Whatever I have had stored in play lists, I am constantly forced to remake one. While on the topic of play lists, each can only hold 30 songs... you are forced to have multiple play lists. The movie player does NOT recognize most convenient formats; no wma, avi, mpg and so on.

Games: Still has the same bogus "RPG" from the T319. Delete it for extra space, delete the demos too, they kind of sucker you into buying them rather than let you exit the game.

The Slide: Not always easy to slide up. There really isn't any leverage for the thumb to flick it upwards either, so I'm forced to use my finger nail to flick it open (right next to the T-Mobile logo)

What to like about it:

It has the option to use a micro SD card. I have a 2 GB card that I use to store a tasteful wallpaper, and my music along with several edited songs for ring tones. Say goodbye to buying ringtones!

Screen resolution is fairly nice, its too bad the camera is only 1.3 mega pixels, but its a huge improvement from my T319 that I am used to.

Texting: Was a challenge at first because of the QWERTY setup, but thats why I wanted the phone. Soon as you adapt to the setup, its easy to text. You cant text fast though, for some reason the phone seems to lag... resulting in scrambled characters such as "2364"1". Those of you who have the phone know exactly what I'm talking about.

Overall: Not a bad phone. Tmobile is sending me a new battery, so hopefully I had a faulty one, otherwise this phone isn't worth having with the extremely low battery life.