Samsung U700 Gleam Black Phone (Verizon Wireless, Phone Only, No Service)

Samsung U700 Gleam Black Phone (Verizon Wireless, Phone Only, No Service) Features

Additional Samsung U700 Gleam Black Phone (Verizon Wireless, Phone Only, No Service) Information

The Samsung Gleam features V Cast Video and Music capability, a large 2.1 inch TFT main screen, and a rich, high gloss finish.

The slim clamshell phone offers a unique living wallpaper user interface that changes with the time of day. Verizon Service Options
With support for the EV-DO high-speed data standard, you'll enjoy fast access to the Internet and Verizon's multimedia services (additional charges applicable), with average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps and peak rates up to 2 Mbps. (Learn more about where EV-DO coverage is offered.) The V Cast Music service enables you to download songs instantly to your phone, or purchase music through your PC and transfer the files to your phone. If purchased from your phone, you'll receive two copies of the song: a Windows Media Audio Pro Plus format at 64Kbps stereo is sent to your phone, and a Windows Media Audio 9 format at 160Kbps stereo is sent to your account in the V CAST Music online store for downloading to your PC. V Cast Music offers nearly 2 million songs, with more being added all the time.

With the V Cast Video service, you can stream or download video clips to your phone from a variety of news, entertainment, sports, and weather channels, including CNN, ABC News, E!, CBS Sports, The Weather Channel, and VH1.

Getting on the Internet is easy using Verizon's Mobile Web 2.0 package, which allows you to read and send e-mails, exchange instant messages and view your favorite web content on your phone. Verizon's Get It Now wireless download service is also fully compatible with this phone. This pay-per-download service features application downloads, games and productivity tools. You can also personalize your handset with ringtone downloads using the Get It Now service.

With this GPS-enabled phone, you'll be able to access Verizon's VZ Navigator service (additional charges applicable) for voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions, heads-up alerts, local search of nearly 14 million points of interest in the US (such as landmarks, restaurants and ATMs), and detailed color maps. And Verizon's Chaperone service lets you easily locate your loved ones from your Verizon Wireless phone or PC in real time. After defining a zone, such as an area designating a school or summer camp, you'll be sent an alert via text message when the Chaperone handset enters or leaves the zone.

Phone Features
The Samsung Gleam has a glossy metallic silver and black exterior and a unique living wallpaper capability that enables you to easily see the phone’s status with either a driver's view of an animated country or city street with dashboard-like dials that changes with the time of day. An external LCD (96 x 96 pixels, 65K colors) also displays an analog clock in addition to signal strength, current time, and battery life. The internal 2.1-inch LCD has a 240 x 320-pixel resolution, support for 262K colors, and 8 lines of text.

The 2-megapixel camera snaps pictures in six resolution options from 1600 x 1200 (2 MP) to 176 x 144 (QCIF), and it includes digital zoom, three quality settings, brightness and white balance controls, multi-shot capability, night mode, and spot metering. For video capture, the Z6tv records clips in MPEG4 format in two resolutions--320 x 240 and 176 x 144 pixels. You can shoot video as long as your memory card has available space, and videos shot for MMS messaging are capped at 30 seconds. The digital audio player is compatible with MP3 and WMA files and offers a shuffle mode.

This phone provides Bluetooth version 1.2 wireless connectivity, and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and audio/video remote control. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking--surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server.

A messaging and wireless Internet powerhouse, support is built in for sending and receiving pictures, text, graphics, sound and video via messages. When used in combination with the phone's built-in still and video camera, MMS opens up a whole new world of messaging fun. Instant messaging is also supported, and the phone ships with a built-in email client. The Gleam also comes stock with a built-in web browser for downloads and mobile web browsing. T9 text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for entering text on handsets, is built into the unit--a plus for mobile email and text messaging users.

The Gleam's internal phone book can hold up to 500 contact entries with five phone numbers and two emails per entry, while the phone's picture ID system allows you to assign pictures to your most common callers. The RIZR's voice dialing feature makes calling family, friends, and business associates as easy as saying their names. Other features include: MicroSD expansion up to 4 GB PIM tools: Calendar with scheduler, note pad, alarm clock, world time, calculator, unit converter Speakerphone Vibrating alerts and silent mode Hearing aid compatibility = M4

Vital Statistics
The Samsung U700 Gleam weighs 3.35 ounces and measures 3.88 x 1.91 x 0.55 inches. Its 800 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3.5 hours of talk time, and up to 250 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies.

What Customers Say About Samsung U700 Gleam Black Phone (Verizon Wireless, Phone Only, No Service):

Need to check the power level every day and recharge frequently. This phone has a very clear sound, easy to hear the person you are talking to. Battery life is weak. Not a lot of features, but a nice phone. Small, light weight.

There is no technical reason. I don't understand why.

I don't know what's wrong with its plastic.Its MP3 player is a joke. As another commenter said, too, it doesn't understand directories (even though the music is kept in regular FAT filesystem), and to load it you need to use its horrible VCAST program, which, by the way, doesn't work for Limited User account(programmer folks, it's not Windows ME anymore)., and I refuse to give Administrator privileges to my family members, to save me from grief with crapware installation.

I got this phone last November, and it still (as of June) gives a chemical odor, quite noticeable when you open it to the face. Other phones can do that.Its battery only holds about 5 days on standby time.It also doesn't allow to use a MP3 file as a ringtone.

Or you need to remove the memory card, which is a hassle. Why not make the card accessible through USB as a drive.

Is it conspiracy to get the users buy the tones. Other phones can do that.

The sound for the music is just fine. Just got this phone about a week ago and love it. The keypad buttons are a good size,well lit. Best flip type phone I have owned. The shiney gold trim makes it look sheek and sophisticated.

Note the 2GB card does NOT come with the phone, but be sure not to buy a high capacity card, you must use the MicroSD card, not the HC, despite what some supplier websites say.4. Unfortunately, as a music player it has problems:1. The card is too small, at the same time they put out this phone the chip industry was moving to high capacity mini-cards, and this is a generation behind. At least give credit to the forward and reverse functions, which do work as they should.For all these reasons, I bought a Sansa clip, which sounds much better, allows for the usual directory organization, and whose (supplied) USB cable makes it just another drive on the PC.

For what reason. The volume rocker is broken up into only a few levels, and naturally one level is too low, the next too high. A USB cord (not supplied with the phone) will only work to synch with WMP, and who the heck would use that piece of Evil Empire garbage to work with MP3's. To edit the card requires removing the stubborn battery cover and the battery itself, which is clumsy to say the least, and inexplicable in design. But I bought this phone (from the many on the Verizon list) because it has a 2GB music player that doesn't require one of those stinking pay download services, like the horrific vcast.

Not someone who plays around with MP3's much.5. The sound is rather flat and hollow. Who wrote this software. 3. The music directory doesn't allow subdirectories, which is really, really, stupid.

But any kind of mixed playlist can't work in the usual way, just by putting single songs into a directory, creating a playlist and assigning all the songs in the directory to the playlist. The phone seems alright as a phone, the menus are easy, etc., no particular problems. 6. There's an annoying little flap over the jack port.

To keep grit out or something. Logical to a point, but if I used the port much I probably would just rip it off.7. Therefore, I didn't need the music player in this phone at all, and the choice was pointless.

The cord input is a size down from that used on any decent earphone set, which requires a kludgy stub transition cord (not supplied with the phone).2. My advice is obvious, select the phone if you like it, but forget about the music player except for the odd occasion when you leave your ipod or whatever behind. After some working with a tag editor, jamming all the music together does work, so long as the tags are suitable to your organization.

Just dumb. The volume rocker should be (seemingly) a continuous scale, and progressive.

Finally just gave up when my keypad start losing its sounds. Has many neat things like fonts you can change, as well as different sounds for the keypad. Light weight and easy to use. I stayed with it because all in all it is a nice looking phone.I have small hands and it felt really nice, looked really nice and had some fun stuff, but I think it is time to move on. The speaker in this phone leaves much to be desired, very hard to hear in my purse. After three I think maybe I need to find another.

I was used to a lot more battery with my LG 8600. Battery life is okay if you turn off the living wall paper, that uses battery power too. Has some cool stuff to play with, the camera is okay but I have had better. No flash but if you maybe need to buy a camera if you want a lot more in that area.Now that I have pointed out all the stuff I like - let me tell you in 3 weeks I am on my third one of these. This is a nice slim phone, very classy looking. you only have 3 bells and 3 ringtones plus the usual verizon tone. very disappointing.

so that is why I tried to download ringtones. well that just turned into a nightmare. It constantly rebooted before allowing the download. The car theme is okay if you are into that but will use lots of battery and you will charge about every other day. I really think this phone has sound issues.

the first one was hard to hear when ringing, the second one would not let me down load get it now applications to get my contact list. This one likes to shut off and reboot also when I am on get it now looking for ringtones because. Called Verizon and they told me to pick another phone I guess they are tired of me trying this phone.