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NM08SRT8
12-05-2006, 05:15 PM
Alright everyone... I'm going to ATTEMPT to do a review on the M610.

Whats included in the box
Phone
Charger w/ new plug head
Headphones w/ new plug head
64mb Sandisk Transflash/microSD card w/ adapter
Battery (#) (standard size from some newer samsung (#) phones (#))
NO DATA CABLE (#) IS INCLUDED IN THE BOX. THIS WILL HAFT
TO BE PURCHASED SEPERATLY

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Outside look: Very very thin obviously. The outside isnt a shiny paint feel, or a glossy feel, but yet it has a rubberized feel to it. If you've dealt with the MotoKRZR (#) K1m, the back side of the phone (#) (inc. battery cover) have this same feel. It add's some grip to the phone when taking it out of the pocket, etc. Camera is swivel like A900's. Samsung is printed underneath the OLED Screen and Sprint with the yellow /// things are printed at the very bottom. No MP3 buttons but its not hard to flip the lid and change the song. Volume buttons still serve as what they're called, VOLUME!

OLED Display: As some were kind of discouraged when finding out the "A900" look-a-like replacement did not come equip with a screen, This does just fine. It's nice and bright. A neon blue color makes up the information. Incoming call? Shows name in big letters and the number secondly (two separate screen looks). Also being OLED, it doesn't require alot of power to power up the display. This giving it a "tad" bit more battery life (#). Text messages display NEW MESSAGE

Open her up!:

The screen!: WELL!! Here's where it starts getting really good. 320x320 QVGA 262k 18bit color screen! The A900 replica! Gosh i'll tell you what, after having several phones since the A900, no others being QVGA, this was awesome to see again. The color, crispness, sharpness of this screen is absolutely an amazing marvel within its own... You wont be disappointed when you open up the phone and take a look at the screen. Camera looks good as well, but that will be later

Keypad: Well this is a little different then the normal. As you've might of heard, this keypad is FLAT. The only thing to single one key from another is the texture that is a mild-soft roughness to it. In between the keys are obviously soft. The LED lights behind this board are far more superior than that of the A900. M500, about the same in brightness, Krzr obviously is different because of its color. Krzr looks almost neon which is awesome too but this is about the M610! lol. Most people complain about the totally flat keypad but its only because while texting or using the phone, they aren't familiar with the spacing of the keys yet. Once you get the hang of the spacing of the keys, your fingers usually land right on the key that you're wanting to hit so its not a biggie.

Universal Port: This port is different than the ports that Samsung has given their older phones, and current sprint phones. Even the M500 doesnt have this port, and that phone is new. It's a universal port like the data/charging port on the A900 and probably most other phones, but this one tripples as the data port, charging port and headphone port. It's rectangle in shape and more narrower than the old usual. Same plastic-ish flap is used to cover this port but doesnt seem to be as big of a problem as the A900 was. Once again, headphones are included but no data cable

SD card slot: Well like the A920, A940, Sanyos (some maybe), and M500 those are on the outside for easy access. This phone has some Krzr symptoms but in a more difficult location. Like the Krzr, you haft to pop the thin plastic battery cover off to to get to this slot. Now unlike the Krzr's some what easy card access location, this phone requires you to pop the battery off, and insert the card pushing it upwards (towards the camera) waiting for a spring click noise so you know its locked in. To take it out, you push the card and it will click out (like the A920, A940, M500 (not sure of other models/brands).

UI and Speed (we're almost at the end guys, hang in there)
Well, the UI is as speedy as it gets. Krzr eat your heart out! Theme's that are installed are Sprint, and Samsung. You can change the color to white or black. The menu style options are as fallows: Grid Black, Grid White, List black. BT profiles are as fallows: HSP - Head Set Profile, HFP - Hands Free Profile (used for bt enabled vehicles), DUN - Dial Up Network (get online via bt), OPP (from here on, i kinda forgot what they are, read them in the book but dont remember.) , FTP - File Transfer Profile, BPP - ? lol, A2DP - ?? (use your BT headset/headphones to listen your music), AVRCP - ?? (This one if I remember correctly was something about controlling audio devices from your phone?? Someone may need to clarify for me and I will post the corrections, unless I get home (#) before then to check the manual.)

Last but not least...
The 2.0mp Camera: This thing is awesome. Sure it's a 2mp camera on a cell phone. The pictures are very very nice. Pictures can be adjusted as well accordingly to the current conditions, low light, florescent, sunny, white balance, quality, resolution (#), etc etc. Here's a picture of a coke can with my burrito wrapper right beside it lol (I was eating lunch, so what! :D)

This is my 2nd review of a phone so I hope it covers a majority of questions. We all know this phone is the thinnest clamshell to come to the US (can you believe it, we actually got something first!! In your eye VZW :lol: :bang:

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l202/kaos85/camphonepicture.jpg

NM08SRT8
12-06-2006, 12:05 PM
Also, Here's pictures I posted up in the Samsung forum for those of you who havent yet seen them, or are unfamiliar with the phone.

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l202/kaos85/DigitalCameraPictures136.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l202/kaos85/DigitalCameraPictures137.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l202/kaos85/DigitalCameraPictures138.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l202/kaos85/DigitalCameraPictures139.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l202/kaos85/DigitalCameraPictures140.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l202/kaos85/DigitalCameraPictures141.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l202/kaos85/DigitalCameraPictures142.jpg

NM08SRT8
12-06-2006, 12:06 PM
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l202/kaos85/DigitalCameraPictures144.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l202/kaos85/DigitalCameraPictures145.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l202/kaos85/DigitalCameraPictures146.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l202/kaos85/DigitalCameraPictures148.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l202/kaos85/DigitalCameraPictures149.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l202/kaos85/DigitalCameraPictures150.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l202/kaos85/DigitalCameraPictures151.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l202/kaos85/DigitalCameraPictures152.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l202/kaos85/DigitalCameraPictures153.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l202/kaos85/DigitalCameraPictures154.jpg

Not sure why they dont show on here, i'm doing the [IMG] tags on them but nothing...

NM08SRT8
12-09-2006, 06:21 PM
Hello guys again, Just thought I'd stop by to give you all an update on some normal functions of the phone that are frequently used by me and most heavy phone users.

Bluetooth: Well using this with my Motorola H700 Rev. B, it has been flawless. It's very clear for quite a distance, and the volume is also nice, but this might be more of the Headset than the phone. Other than that, it connects with no problems, never looses a connection when headset is on (boom open) and haven't had to re-pair it once since day 1.

Media Player: Well this also works great, one thing that happened to me, might not be the phones fault but more of me constantly taking out and putting back in the memory card. What happened was the files (songs, movies, pictures, etc) were all saved on the card. The phone wouldn't recognize any of it but my computer could. All I did was saved the files to my desktop, cleared out the card. Plugged it in and went to the media player so it could create the Media folder again, plugged it back into my computer and transfered over my music and just left the pictures off, but after that it worked fine. So i'm not sure what that was about... but all is good.

Battery life: Haven't talked for 3.5hrs but i've been on it for 1hr straight and the battery didnt go down a bar. After some heavy texting, about 1hr of listening to music, taking and sending pictures(mail) and the phone has about 2 bars left. I don't have PV so I cant really comment on that. If I did, you better believe i'd be watching tv, and the Sprint movies at work, etc. But so far, it hasn't been an issue for me. I always charge the phone every night, no matter what phone it is. It's just something I do personally.

Restarting/rebooting automatically: Well there has been some reports of peoples phones doing this. And i'm not going to lie, mine's been doing it as well. BUT! only 2-3 times total. And it's not from normal operations... I remember one was trying to send a picture under Premium Messages, another was when in the media player, switching between songs really fast caused it to do one. And the 3rd one I'm not too sure what I was doing but it did happen. It's nothing to be discouraged about so don't use this as a reason to not get the phone. It's still an awesome phone, way better than the K1m as far as UI and normal day to day use and functionality.

Screen stays on when flips open after set turn off time: You've probably read the thread about it from some on here, but i'm here to report that this hasnt happened to my phone. What it is, is the phone, after you have it set to 15seconds before the screen dim's/turns off, that it stays on fully light no matter what. My phone's set to 15seconds and it stays on for that length then turns off. Might just require a hard reset and/or possibly another phone/reflash of the software. Other than that.. It shouldnt be a BIG problem... But I guess people have their own preferences...


Hope this gives you an update on a little more of the phone. I will still update it as I use it more. Thanks for reading guys!

NM08SRT8
12-25-2006, 11:49 AM
Just thought i'd check in since it's been a few weeks since I got my phone.

The phone has done some mysterious reboots but nothing to get under your skin since it does reboot alot faster than the M500 and A900/m does. Media player works great. Texting on the keypad is really fast for me now that I got the hang of it and the placement of where the buttons are at since there isnt no hard feedback on it.

So far everything works great.

One thing I noticed about the camera is after you snap the picture you haft to hold the phone as still as you can until the picture displays. For some reason, if you snap it and move the phone, when it displays the picture it's blurred from the movement. Kinda weird but maybe the software update will address this? IDK.

But still, I love this phone and am extremely happy with it. It does all I need for what it is. Hope you owners are enjoying yours as much as I am and I hope you future owners will enjoy the phone! Any questions, feel free to PM me.

 
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