Samsung E800

[Honoop]

Literally just received my new handset yesterday!

Its great, small lightweight and dead snazzy with its 'sliding action'.
Been through a fair few handsets in my years started off with a 'brick' of a Motorola Flare (anyone remember these?) been through my share of Nokias and have just upgraded from a Sharp GX10i and I can honestly say that this Samsung is the prettiest handset Ive had - but feel it is somewhat lacking, even though it can do all the things I want it to.
I liked the Sharp alot, but I dropped it one time too many and it didnt like actually 'ringing' anymore unless I bashed it. Plus it was time to change from Vodafone who I have been with for many years but who like to charge me for my major texting addiction!
So Ive got my 'cosmetic' new handset and am awaiting O2 to update my new SIM with my old number.

The Samsung works great. Is a bit fiddly to get used to, especially as the buttons are quite small. However it is easy to navigate and Ive coped with most things on it so far without referring to the manual too many times. My main gripes with it are that when you view a number in the phonebook it doesnt fit in the screen it runs over 2 lines because they make the font so big and also that text messages arent really discrete, again because of the font size. Maybe I can fix this, but it does feel a little as though it is catering for the 'stupid' among us, which is probably why I now own one!
As this is my first Samsung it is probably just a case of me getting used to the differences.

Anyone else have a view on this handset or any other?

[Tom]

My girlfriend has this phone, and it has one MAJOR problem: the inbuilt arial is pathetic.....50% of the time it drops calls due to this, as do my other 2 mates who have samsungs (e700 a800). Must be a samsung problem :/

[klarrix]

my ariel is fine, but i do have a couple of gripes:

No mp3s
No Vid Camera

appart from that i love it

[Honoop]

Ive not had any problems with the aerial either to be honest. Signal has been better than the Sharp was.

Got used to the phones little 'quirks' now too - so Im a happy bunny!

[the insaan]

the only thing samsung phones lack is bluetooth, i reckon if they had bluetooth phones then more people would buy them, as bluetooth is the biggest thing at the moment, coz it only costs about £20 for a cheap bluetooth dongle, and then its free games, wallpapers, tones, you name it.


and also i think they need to make a phone with symbian OS, that would really kick the market

[MAS]

Samsung have some new bluetooth phones in the pipeline because, as you say, it's something they're seriously lacking at the moment.

[Alf Alpha]

I have a Samsung D410, similar to the one you mentioned. Software is updated and really easy to navigate. Pucca phone, but yeah bluetooth would be good, even if it was just to send business cards to random people