Samsung F490 - user opinions and reviews

for those of you who own this phone, would you say that it is reliable? i'm not into anything overtly fancy, just a normal phone thats a touch screen... also is texting easy with this phone? lol lastly, does the on screen buttons lag or freeze? Thanks in advance for responses!

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• curious
• 2008-05-16 03:12  kSh0

nothing great about iphone, just and ipod touch with and very basic phone include dont expect it to be cheap friends using it for a week wanted to sell off but no buyer.Think before u buy.

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• ADAM,
• 2008-05-08 16:03  Ui$d

try LG KU990 or the latest model with len cover
comes with pink sliver and black good touch screen HSDP 3.5 G phone.

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• adam
• 2008-05-08 15:55  Ui$d

Hi people. Those of you who have this phone, please let me know what is so good about this phone? As I am getting this phone soon OR Samsung F480? Do you think Samsung F480 is a good phone? And Samsung F480 will be releasing on 30th June. So, I don't know should I get this phone OR SAMSUNG F480?

Please advice me..as I think both of the phone had the same features and no differences for me!!

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• Yeh Sie
• 2008-05-06 18:06  5B7a

Exact copy of the LG PRADA how sad and gay Samsung bring out the crapest phones with crapest camera and sound quality

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• IMZ
• 2008-05-06 17:46  nGun

I have demoed this phone for quite awhile now. Honestly this is not a very good touch screen phone. The screen is terrible in the sunlight, there is no virtual keyboard to text(a virtual num pad), too many OK dialogs throughout the UI. I'm not an apple fan but for the $$ the iphone is MUCH better.

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• papa
• 2008-04-28 23:07  jy@a

i got this phone today and am very disapointed so far, has a gay pen that im gonna lose easy, no wi fi and the vodefone online is limited,

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• dave
• 2008-04-25 13:52  n9T@

I have had this phone for 2 days and I returned it for a SE W960i. The quality of the conversations was very poor, somehow surpressed of softened and I had to talk lowd to be understoud. The musicplayer is limited in possibilities and I didn't find a way just to skip to the next number. It looks nice if you keep it clean...

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• 2008-04-22 13:05  Ms}q

I own the F700 and i might upgrade. Does this have a qwerty keyboard like the old F700, if it doesnt how do you send txts and things like that

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• 93 LJH
• 2008-04-21 15:59  mqcN

Is the samsung F490 available with the new version of croix, which is called "touchwiz".

can anyone who has the phone please tell e if the touchscreen software is the same as that of the samsung F700?

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• 2008-04-17 17:42  myfm

I have just got this phone, its great, so much better than the armani and easy to use! Just have a few questions, does anyone know if you can change the skin from blue or download any, and can you view messages in the vivid mode as thats always somethin i have liked from samsung !Cheers

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• tasha
• 2008-04-17 12:07  pYHq

i just have a question. is the menu blue like shown on the pictures or also in color like the menu on the 480. I find it a bit stupid like that. anyways, I got this phone anyways, but if I don't like i will send it back and get me another one.

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• 2008-04-13 14:39  nsHk

if you're juz gonna compare it with iPhone or LG viewty in a bad way. just STOP commenting innit?! whats da poiint!!

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• 2008-04-12 17:07  m5Pj

Does anyone know what the price of this phone is?????? please tell me and is this phones music player loud and is it delicate

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• hoeses
• 2008-04-11 09:13  SfpW

No GPS!

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• Jax
• 2008-04-09 16:36  pFyT

I like samsung phone cos the wording are big but when comes to calculator,I'm disappointed cos it does not have percentage option.

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• 2008-04-07 06:45  Ui$d

i work for vodafone and i can confirm we have just had them in.

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• voda
• 2008-04-02 15:12  Mx@E

This phone has actually been released and its super sweet !!!

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• Jaded
• 2008-04-02 02:41  Rxyp

Just got back from a hands on demo of the F490 at my local Vodafone store. (Yes really, they got them in today.) As a power user, this phone, while lovely to look at and hold, vindicates two things: a) To date - only Apple have got the touch screen concept right with the iPhone. Each operation on the F490, in particular trying to type a text messages, is a pain. Try it! b) On the other hand, selecting almost any function on my SE K800i is only a few flicks of the joystick away. Why didn't Samsung put the improved touch screen GUI of the F480 (that's 480!) on the F700 so we can take advantage of it's fantastic QWERTY keyboard? Anyway, Vodafone UK provide excellent support (my K800i had broken down - they replaced it on the spot) and I was considering the F490 as part of my upgrade, but it's just too fiddly to achieve basic tasks. But don't get me wrong, if you just want it for social, it is very well made (better quality construction that Viewty), fast and looks 'da bomb'. :-)

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• Wonderkid
• 2008-04-01 21:11  pwbk

dont take any notice of the status section this phone is not released yet this website is wrong! just so you dont go hunting for you it!

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• 2008-03-31 12:12  nxxR