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List price as of Aug 17, 2007:
S$698
for a 2-year price plan
S$698
for a 2-year price plan
CNET Asia Review
Very good
The good: Slim and trendy design; solid build quality; HSDPA; Bluetooth stereo; hot-swappable microSD expansion card slot. View score
The bad: Not everyone will like the touch-sensitive keys; LCD washes out in sunlight; onboard speaker volume a tad soft; 176 x 144-pixel video recording.
The bottom line: The Ultra Edition 12.1 is not only stylish and fashionable, it comes with a decent feature set, too. But the handset is not without its flaws.
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Average User Rating
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User Reviews
Never judge a book by its cover
Jan 9, 2009Rating: 1 out of 10 (Abysmal)
Pros: Thin, visually pleasing, nice camera
Cons: EVERYTHING ELSE
Opinion:
This is one of the worst phone I have ever used. The phone looks great an all until you turn it on and try to use it. The UI is pathetic, one wonders why they even try. It has touch buttons but no touch screen, make you want to slit your throat everytime you use the phone because some part of your face would touch the buttons and activate something. Not forgetting poor battery life. I would have given a 2-3 rating for the hardware especially the camera and its looks (personally Im also a sucker for sd card readers in phone) but the results looked pretty corrupted as I cant see how its hardware or looks could justify a rating greater than 5.
a looker but nothing else.
Dec 23, 2008Rating: 5 out of 10 (Average)
Pros: looks slick, rotating wheel, pretty good camera, slim
Cons: horrible touch-sensitive keys, phone constantly hanging, long memory card load time, screen washes out in sunlight, screen is a grime magnet, bad UI, average battery life, fiddly web browser
Opinion:
this phone was incredibly stunning when i saw it. i've read several bad reviews about this phone but dismissed them (ie: phone's screen washes out in direct sunlight? well not like i'm outdoors that much) but i had no idea just how bad some of these flaws could get.
at first, despite the touch-sensitive keys being a complete PAIN (multiple presses to get things going etc), the phone felt incredibly sexy to use. it's really slim (as thick as my ipod touch) and feels heaven-sent in your hand. It's keypad was alright to message with, except the text input lagged quite a bit.
after awhile, the touch-sensitive keys become a severe irritation. the keypad lock function on this phone was horrible (i think samsung should put a little extra key on the side like some SE phones to lock the keypad). when the phone was shut, i needed to slide it open and shut it again to ... Read more
Just a stylish normal function phone
Aug 21, 2008Rating: 5 out of 10 (Average)
Pros: 3.2MP camera
Cons: Short Battery life
Opinion:
had this phone for about 3 months, now when i slide up my phone, the phone does not response to any button i pressed on, i have to wait for at least a minute then only i can get into the menu or sms. Though memory space indicates that it could store for 500 sms, but when my phone reach 200 or more, my phone will hang once i try to send a sms, so i have to delete all my sms. Furthermore, samsung phone local retailer, although 1GB M2 memory card is included, but it does not seems to be a quality that has a long duration, for it because the memory card included given to me just give way after months, now i have to incurred another expense to get a Sony M2 memory card.
In terms of colours, resolutions, camera, they were all execellent, creative wallpaper (living world) which will be put on accroding yo ... Read more
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ForgottenCity:
I had about 5 months It was good now three days pass by It's doesn't work while slide up ...
viusbuster:
nope, I don't think there's any way to change it's theme.
caterpillar:
juz bought U700 3 days ago. still cant figure out to how change its theme...is there anyway i can ...
