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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #220 in Cell Phone Accessories
• Color: Brown
• Brand: Samsung
• Model: t819
• Released on: 2008-01-18

Features

• Compatible with T-Mobile's MyFaves service--unlimited calling to your five most called contacts
• Chat with your IM buddies using Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, and ICQ instant messaging services
• Bluetooth connectivity for both communication headsets and music headphones; MicroSD expansion and USB connectivity; 1.3-megapixel camera
• Up to 5 hours of talk time, up to 300 hours (12.5 days) of standby time; measures 3.96 x 2.03 x 0.55 inches (HxWxD)

Amazon.com Product Description
Featuring a slim, slider design and a sumptuous coffee brown color, the sleek Samsung T819 for T-Mobile is a nicely affordable, highly functional phone that will keep you closely connected as you wind through the day and night. In addition to text messaging capabilities, you can chat with buddies using Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, or ICQ instant messaging services. The phone also includes Bluetooth connectivity for both stereo music streaming and communication headsets, a 1.3-megapixel camera, MicroSD memory expansion, MP3 player with built-in stereo speakers, and a speakerphone.

With T-Mobile's MyFaves service, you'll enjoy unlimited nationwide calling to your 5 favorite people.

T-Mobile Service
The T819 operates on GSM 850/900/1800/1900 networks and can handle high-speed data connectivity 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.

This phone is compatible 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. Learn more about myFaves from T-Mobile.

It also includes the T-Mobile Address Book service, which lets you add or edit contact info online, store it on T-Mobile's server, and then synchronize the changes with your phone. You can import from Microsoft Outlook, .vcf files, or use .csv files to import from Yahoo!, Gmail, etc., as well as back up your phone's address book with enhanced safety features.

The slim slider T819 offers stereo Bluetooth streaming capabilities and a 1.3-megapixel camera with video capabilities.

Phone Features
Measuring just 0.55 inches thin, the Samsung T819 sports a large 2-inch LCD screen with support for 65K colors and a 176 x 220-pixel resolution. The top of the phone includes a standard four-way toggle, two soft keys, and answer/end buttons, and the numeric keypad is found underneath the sliding face. The phone's camera lens requires that the face is slid open. The camera can snap pictures in four resolutions--from 128 x 96 to 1280 x 1024 pixels (1.3 megapixels)--and it offers a 4x digital zoom, night mode, brightness and white balance settings, self-timer, and multiple color effects. It can also record video clips with sound, and both images and videos can be saved either to the phone's shared 30 MB of memory or an optional MicroSD memory card.

Because the T819 is Bluetooth enabled, wireless communication headsets can be configured with the phone for total hands-free operation. It also comes with a speakerphone option for when you don't have a Bluetooth headset handy, as well as voice recording capabilities for short notes to yourself. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones.

In addition to SMS text and MMS picture messaging capabilities, the T429 offers built-in instant messaging with Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, and ICQ services. The T9 predictive text entry technology is built into the unit, which makes it easier for you to enter words and text on handsets. Other features include:

• Digital audio player compatible with MP3 and AAC/AAC+ files
• Up to 1000 contact entries with five numbers and one email address per entry
• Displays 30 dialed/received/missed calls and photo ID for callers
• 64-note polyphonic and MP3 ringtones
• Speakerphone
• Voice memo
• Voice-activated dialing
• WAP web browser
• PIM tools: calendar, alarm, to-do list, calculator, world clock, unit converter, currency converter

Vital Statistics
The Samsung T819 weighs 3.5 ounces and measures 3.96 x 2.03 x 0.55 inches. Its 1000 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5 hours of talk time, and up to 300 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies.

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Customer Reviews

TMobile Myfaves issue...
Good phone, looks great, small enough to fit in my pocket, nice features, BUT....

1. This may not apply to most, but while I carry my phone everywhere I don't like to have it on all the time. I don't like how the phone can be turned on in the "locked" or closed position and then cannot be turned off in the same position. This means I can accidently turn the phone on in my pocket and then it will remain on. Again, this may be exactly what some folks are looking for, but not me.

2. More importantly, there is a known bug with this phone (this according to a t-mobile rep who probably regrets mentioning it) that has to do with My Faves! Apparently, some handsets do not refresh your myfaves, which means that one day they will be there and not the next. I've been wrestling with this problem for several weeks now and now have a new handset being sent to me. I only mention this to help some avoid the hoops I had to jump through to get someone admit there was a problem. I will try and update my review when I get the new handset.

If #2 problem can be fixed, I will keep using this phone. If not...?

Doesn't support themes
I actually have the same complaint as the previous reviewer. I got this phone today, and as far as I can figure out, it doesn't support different themes, so you're stuck with the T-Mobile hot pink. You can customize the main screen, so that it isn't pink, but once you go into a menu, there it is. Kind of annoying. I'd like to keep this phone otherwise. It looks good, has a good size and feel to it.

A must have for pink lovers...
I received T819 yesturday. Everything about this phone is perfect, the controls are very convenient the phone looks very nice and it has a lot of features that I will never use.

The one thing that I particularly loved about the phone is the pink color of the menu. Every thime you look up your contacts, change settings or do something else, the pink will always be there. And the best thing of all is that there seems to be no way of changing the pink to some other color. If I had known that in advance I would have purchased a pink lipstick to go with the menu color of the phone.

I searched through the "Settings" in the phone, the manual that came with the phone, I even called "Samsung" to figure out how to change the color. Unfortunately even the samsung representative was unable to assist me since "this is a very new phone", they don't even have one in the customer service department. After a long conversation with a represetative he recommended me to contact t-mobile and ask them to help me out which I haven't done yet but I think I will.

I am still in search of that feature which would let me change the menu color from pink to rainbow. Unless I am able to change the menu color to something normal in a short time I am going to sell this phone on Ebay.