Samsung Behold t919 Phone, Brushed Espresso (T-Mobile) - Harry Potter 6 Books

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #153 in Cell Phone Accessories
• Color: Brown
• Brand: Samsung
• Model: T919
• Released on: 2008-10-08

Features

• Slim touchscreen phone for full web browsing and multimedia playback; compatible with T-Mobile's 3G network (available in select markets)
• T-Mobile's MyFaves service provides unlimited calling to your five most called contacts
• 5-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth stereo music streaming, MicroSD expansion to 16 GB, access to personal email and instant messaging
• Up to 5 hours of talk time, up to 288 hours (12 days) of standby time
• What's in the Box: handset, battery, charger, 1 GB MicroSD memory card, USB cable, wired stereo handsfree headset, quick start guide

Amazon.com Product Description
An advanced touch screen phone with premium multimedia features and full web browsing capabilities, the Samsung Behold phone also supports T-Mobile's HSDPA 3G network (in select markets), which provides fast web downloads and multimedia messaging. It will also keep you connected to your closest friends and family members with T-Mobiles myFaves.

This touchscreen-enabled phone has a large, brightly colorful 3.1 inch screen, and it includes Samsung's intuitive and easily customizable TouchWiz user interface. And you'll enjoy high-resolution photos and videos thanks to the built-in 5-megapixel camera/camcorder with flash and autofocus. Other features include Bluetooth connectivity for both handsfree devices and stereo music streaming, MicroSD memory expansion (up to 16 GB), digital audio player and FM radio, access to personal email and instant messaging, and up to 5 hours of talk time.

The Behold enables fully colorful web browsing and multimedia on its 3.1-inch touchscreen display.

T-Mobile Service
The Behold operates on GSM 850/900/1800/1900 networks and is compatible with T-Mobile's UMTS/HSDPA 3G network, which operates on the 1700/2100 MHz AWS spectrum. This phone is designed to automatically connect to the best available network (3G or GSM/GPRS/EDGE) to provide faster data speeds when accessing the Web or downloading content from the T-Mobile t-zones content portal. T-Mobile is currently rolling out its 3G network, and it expects by year's end that its high-speed data network will be available in those cities where a majority of its subscribers currently use data services.

In areas where the 3G network is not available, you'll continue to receive service on the via T-Mobile's EDGE network (which stands for "Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution"). This high-speed, mobile data and Internet access technology is fast enough to support a wide range of advanced data services (with average data speeds between 75-135Kbps), including full picture and video messaging, high-speed color Internet access, and email on the go.

While this phone is optimized for use with T-Mobile’s high-speed 3G network, many of its functions will also work well on the moderate-speed EDGE network. If you plan to access the Internet extensively on your phone, 3G network coverage may serve you best.

Activities that work well on EDGE or 3G networks:

• Email, instant messaging, and texting
• Downloading ringtones, CallerTunes, wallpaper, light data files
• Sending photographs via e-mail or picture messaging

• Viewing content-heavy websites (lots of images or videos playing)
• Viewing YouTube and other video files (they will play on EDGE, but require loading time)
• Uploading large files (photos, videos, presentations) to sharing websites
• Downloading large files from an e-mail or a website

Call your favorite people with T-Mobile's myFaves service, which allows you to call up to five of your most common contacts--on any network, even landlines--without using any of your minutes. You'll also get free domestic long distance and no digital roaming charges anywhere across the US on all calls. (All myFaves plans require a two-year contract.) Learn more about myFaves from T-Mobile.

Download cool new games, HiFi Ringers (real songs by today's hottest artists), MegaTones (instrumental versions of songs), and wallpapers quickly, as well as stay connected via the Web, instant messaging, and email.

The TouchWiz interface has specially designed widgets to customize and personalize the way you use your phone.

Phone Features
The slim Samsung Behold smartphone delivers impressive images on it large 3-inch LCD color display (240 x 400 pixels, 262K colors) and offers haptic responsive feedback that vibrates when you press a button. For easy operation and navigation, the stylish Behold features three dedicated keys--call, end call and back--on the front of the device under the touch screen. The Behold also provides quick and easy access to a customer’s favorite features through Samsung’s innovative TouchWiz user interface, which has specially designed widgets to customize and personalize your phone. The quick and simple drag-and-drop feature provides instant access to your favorite functions, such as the clock, music player, instant messaging and photos and a custom widget for myFaves.

The phone has a 180 MB internal memory, which can be expanded via optional MicroSD memory cards (up to 16 GB in size). The internal phonebook can store up to 2000 contact entries, each with multiple numbers per contact and support for caller groups as well as picture/ringer ID. You can download MP3 real-music and 72-chord polyphonic ringtones, and the phone also includes a vibrate function for when you need to keep things silent.

Handsfree communication is easy thanks to the integrated speakerphone. This phone also provides Bluetooth wireless connectivity (version 2.0), and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and file transfer. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones.

The 5-megapixel autofocus camera produces crisply colorful still photos, and it features an LED flash, smile detection, shake reduction, multi-shot capabilities, brightness and white balance controls, spot metering function, and a self-timer. You can also share them with family and friends by sending them to any e-mail address, T-Mobile camera phone, or MyAlbum. The phone can also capture video clips up to QVGA resolution (320 x 240 pixels). The digital media player is compatible with MP3 and AAC/AAC+/eAAC+ audio formats and H.264/H.263/MPEG4 video formats.

Capture great snapshots on the go with the 5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash.

Other features include:

• Virtual, landscape QWERTY touchpad
• Built-in A-GPS navigation allows access to location-based applications
• Access to personal email with document viewer for attachments
• Instant messaging via AOL, ICQ, Windows Live, and Yahoo!
• Organizer tools: Calendar, alarm, calculator
• Sync contact with Outlook
• USB connectivity with USB mass storage capabilities
• Voice dialing: Call someone with simple voice commands to keep your hands free for activities like driving.
• Bluetooth version 2.0 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BPP (basic printing profile for text, email), FTP (file transfer), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures)

Vital Statistics
The Samsung Behold weighs 3.9 ounces and measures 4.1 x 2.1 x 0.5 inches. Its 1000 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5 hours of talk time, and up to 288 hours (12 days) of standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 MHs GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies as well as 1700/2100 MHz UMTS/HSDPA 3G frequencies.

Customer Reviews

Like it so far
I'll skip the obvious and go to my (possibly mistaken) observations-

Had the phone 2 days:

Give them credit for providing stereo headset, charger, and USB cable in the box - still don't like the non standard connector on the phone.

Camera is pretty good for a phone.

Call quality is very good.

Video player is very good. As a note to previous reviewer - You can download software from Samsung to connect your PC to your phone. This includes phone book editor, media manager and a simple but efective video converter. Many MP4s will play just by doing a "drag and drop" to the phone. The ones that don't are in an unsuported resolution (it likes 320x240). Only takes a few minutes to convert them. The software is free.

Memory card note for other reviewer - The memory card is not in a convenient location. That is intentional. Install it and leave it. This is my 4th phone that took a memory card (2nd Samsung others were Moto). Most phones - doesn't matter who makes them - don't like it when you swap the cards while they are on. It is a "semi" removable card, not a hot swap USB port. This phone will allow you to directly access the card for file transfers through your computer. If you want to share files with your friends, get a dongle or use the (provided) USB cable.

Few notes on Samsungs software. It is generic, as in it applies to several of their phones. Some of the fields do not line up between the PC and phone. This is a minor complaint. I have a very favorable opinion of the software because it 1) Allows you to access the phones internal memory as well as the external memory 2) Very usefull for editing contacts, once you get used to the minor issues that are phone specific 3) Includes the above mentioned media software and 4) It's free.

If you take a picture, the phone wants you to send it to someone. I assume this is T-Mobile's doing. There is no option to just save it to the memory card. However, you can set it as wall paper. It will then save it to the phone by default.

Drag and drop MP3 files to make them available as ringtones.

Having trouble adjusting to the "feal" of the phone durring a call. Could just be me, could just be that it is a rectangle with no distinct curves, could be I'm well over 6' and I think I'm just talking into my hand when I use it. The few built in buttons dont line up with my hand when I'm using it as a phone, on the plus side the touch screen is actually very easy to use because I'm not limited to where the MFG thinks the buttons should be.

Web browser. Lets keep in mind the screen size is going to limit this capability. Until they come up with a 20" lcd that makes calls and fits in my pocket, phone based web browsers will always be limited. This one looks possibly functional. Can't tell as my download speed isn't as fast as I thought it should be. I will reserve judgement for now. May add a comment later.

Qwerty keyboard works for me. My fingers are bigger then the "keys". When I type on the "keypad" there is no way I can only hit one key at a time. I don't know how the phone figures out which button I'm going for, but it gets it right most of the time.

All in all I realy like this phone because it is a rather complete package, with some nice touches. The software is a big plus, the way the pictures scroll when you tilt the phone, the screen lights up when you move the phone to look at the screen durring a call. Many phones will play videos, most will connect to your computer but there is usually a catch. You need to buy this special cable, or deal with some obscure driver package. This phone includes the hardware and Samung provides the software.

I have 3 minor complaints. Lets keep in mind I have had this phone for 2 days and I may need to take some of these back.

1) Speaker could have been better for MP3s. Most people use a headset, I prefer to use it like a portable radio. The speaker is usable but not as good as my 2 year old 740. (I said these were minor)

2) Take a picture, save it to walpaper, now look at it in the photo album. Want to change the orientation? No problem, but when you save it after you have edited it, you have to change the name. It will not simply overwirte the original.

3) Scrolling through my address book, I noticed my mothers cell phone and home phone were reversed. Phone wouldn't let me leave the numbers and just change the catagory. Had to retype them in the apropriate lines.

I can't say everyone will like this phone, but I do. Samung put alot of thought into its layout and functionality.

My first touchscreen phone
This review is for users that lean towards using this phone as a multimedia device, rather than a PDA.
Update 1/1/2009:
I did download the software (Samsung PC Studio) from Samsung's site and after a few minutes of tinkering, was able to convert an avi file to an mp4 and was able to play it on the vidoes on my phone. This was the same software I tried earlier but was not intuitive enough, so I had uninstalled it. Thanks to the next reviewer (the one after me), I went back and took some more time. Now this phone is more useful for me because I can do without a dedicated mp3/video player (like a Sansa or Zen), which was my initial idea in buying this phone in the first place.

Tried the headphones that came with the phone, the microphone is so close to the left earbud that it literally pulls the bud out of your ears while hooked. Since the headphones feed off of the same usb port that is used for charging, data etc, there is no way to connect your own (better) headphones to this (comparing this with my old Sony Ericsson w810i, where you can remove the earbuds and have your own headphones connected to it,even though it uses the same kind of setup as this phone).

Original review:
I signed up with TMobile for a two year term and got this phone. This is a cool touchscreen phone but has a few limitations. One is with TMobile, which doesnt have 3G coverage everywhere and I just have to access the internet by whatever slow connection they offer right now. Pages load slowly, but they ultimately do. The operating system, being a proprietary one on this phone, doesn't have too many application written for it and available on the internet (compare, for example, with Windows Mobile based phones where there are scores of apps available, best one being the windows live search for GPS. You will have to pay 10 dollars a month to TMobile to get the TeleNav running on this phone).
The user manual that comes with this phone is a total trash. It doenst tell you ANYTHING about what to do with this phone. You will have to figure out everything yourself. Great Idea - may be I should call Samsung tech support - right? WRONG. They dont know too many things about this phone either. When I called, they dont even have one phone of this model with internet connection (data plan) so that they can try what I am trying to explain to them, on that phone. My question was simple. How do I enter text in a textbox on a web page (like, when you go to [...] and want to search, how would you input your keyword into the search box)? The support person went around and couldn't figure out and said they will call me. Anyway, I just accidentally figured it out. You will have to double-tap the textbox so the keypad opens up and you type.
The music player is nice, playlists etc are good. Call quality is fine, it is taking time for me to switch from my little Sony Ericsson w810i, the way it handles bluetooth. The video player is another let down, it only plays certain resolution, certain bitrate and of course, certain formats and the user manual and the [...] doesnt have any of this information. I went on internet forums and asked other people to find that it supports 320X240 resolution mp4 files with bit rate of no larger than 256 Kbps for video or 128 Kbps audio. And on top, there is no conversion software for video provided from Samsung so you are on your own. I hope Samsung fixes these things soon!!.

Impressive Phone from T-mobile!
Finally!! I think that T-mobile is heading in the right direction when it comes to new phones, I had the Razr2 V8 and I was dissapointed with the fact that t-mobile stripped out most of the capabilities that that phone could do. It seems that with the Behold they are letting the phone operate like it should. I have only had this phone for a week and I like it so far I didn't really want it for the music functions so I don't use that. I wanted a slim discreet touch phone that has all of the variuos functions even if I chose not to use them I satyed with t-mobile because I like the minute plans that they offer, and I just can't afford the Iphone. In my opinion I think this is a good alternative from T-mobile. Thanks for not stripping this phone. Tha t being said for functionality I think the G1 might be a better choice, I just found it to be too bulky.