Rating  - Just a dreadful phone.
Seems to be well built but the menu is hard to navigate thru. The ringtone is very weak and there is no ringer/vibrate combination. It's either one or the other. Forget carrying this phone in your pocket... when a call comes in the front keypad is activated so instead of sliding the phone to answer it, there are 4 buttons to either accept or decline the call. So pretty much your either gonna decline or answer the call before you can dig it out of your pocket... and that's if you hear the ringer at all. Next time I'll pass on slider phones.
Rating  - Great phone
keep in mind i'm a 20 year old that just needs a simple phone to make simple phone calls and be able to text efficiently and i am not that picky.
this is my first slider phone and i do love it! it's a good upgrade from the motorola razor flip phone.
the only negatives i can think of from this phone is
-i can't personalize all the shortcuts and the soft keys and menu layouts
-default ringtones and wallpapers aren't that great (oh well!)
-it does feel a bit thicker than what i'm used to from my razor, but i can get a better grip on my phone and doesn't feel as flimsy
-the outside gets easily smudged
-looks like it could scratch easily
-sometimes it can lag when going through menus really fast, but i think that's with all phones...?
-doesn't show off a red light or anything like that to show an unread text or a missed call. but you can have a reminder tone of an unread message go off every minute or two
other than that everything is great!
-wifi is an interesting feature, but i'm sure it's not for heavy internet users (like a computer!)
-i haven't tried the music player, but that's what my ipod is for
-texting is easy since the buttons are somewhat big (but i do have small fingers)
-the texting response is really good
-sliding feature is smooth
-i can connect my bluetooth headset easily
-calls are much clearer!
-the camera takes pretty decent photos (for a 1.3 megapixel...keep in mind...it's not a real camera!)and has quite a few fun features for messing around with it
-my razor didn't have this: if you have multiple numbers for one person, you can save it all under one name
overall, even though i've only had this phone for one day and this is my third phone i went through with t-mobile in the past two weeks...i can see that this is the phone for me! it' not a very high-techy phone, but it is enough for a simple user with simple needs!
Rating - Good reception
First of all I dont demand much in a phone, so you may want to take that into consideration with my review. The only things I really care about are signal strength, size, and the capacity to take pictures.
The thing I love about this phone is that I have had three or four other phones that get bad reception. They were all good phones, but I live in a hilly area with strange buildings that block antenna signals. This phone has the capacity to transfer to Wifi, but even before I had that set up I was getting and making calls in buildings that previously had NO reception whatsoever. I can't figure why and I'm not one of those people that really knows about these things.. perhaps it's because its a quad band? Any way, I was SO irritated not getting calls or having them cut out all the time with ALL my other phones and this one is great in that respect. The only thing is it echoes sometimes where I can hear my own voice bounce back... not sure why.
Other than that it's a little on the large side for me but not *huge* by any means. Its not much thicker than any of my other phones so at least thats the same. The easiest way to open it is to push on the screen with your thumb so its smudgy a lot which is very apparent with the chrome finish as well but... eh. that doesnt bother me too much, would make my boyfriend nuts though so I thought I'd mention it for you folks that freak over that stuff.
It seems to have lots of features, most of which I dont care about, but one thing I've noticed thats neat is you can record a voice note (or sound, etc.) and set it as the ring for people... so you can have your phone make a farty sound when your ex is calling if you like. hehehe
I wish it had the capacity to move things around and prioritize them like my last phone, that was really nice since I dont use all the features ever, but it doesn't that I can find. Pictures seem good and clear enough.. it's irritating to not be able to use the headphones and the charger at the same time as they share a port. Bad design.
Only had it a week or two so thats all at the moment but man does the thing get good reception in all my trouble zones. That alone makes it worth it to me.
Rating  - Katalyst - Great if the Software had been complete!
The Katalyst is a mystery to me... T-mobile won't list the Music Player, but you can find many sites claiming it has one and sure enouph its there, but the playlists is limited to 30 songs. Also, even this description shows its supports A2DP, (Bluetooth profile for streaming stereo music to Bluetooth Devices,) DON'T buy stereo bluetooth headphones or speakers!!! Only the phone calls use them, no music or video sound supported by Bluetooth. Samsung must have pulled it after the initial product releases is all I can think with it being listed that way on so many sites. I already purchased bluetooth speakers only to find out I can't play music with them, they have a mini-stereo input, but the Katalyst does not have a mini stereo out, you can find places that say they have an adapter, but both sets I purchased didn't fit, so I am stuck with the mono wired headset or the tinny sounded speakerphone...
Pictures - one of the reasons I waited is for the 1.3 meg camera. It does alright, but you cannot redirect to your microSD. All pics go to the puny 5 meg internal, put one mp3 song for your ring tone and over half of you memory is gone!!! You have to manually move the pics over to microSD and the next batch have the exact same name, so you have to make a new folder each time as well. Lastly the slide show is not available for pics on your microSD card, so forget showing the kids easily to a friend. Each pic must be individually opened, then closed, select the next one then open again, how ANNOYING! (At lease let me click the right arrow to show the next one!)
Save up for the Blackberry Curve, my wife has that and it does everything as expected, have you ever heard anyone complain that a curve doesn't do what you expected? (she even got my bluetooth speakers...) Ouch!
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