Rating  - Not as great as I hoped for.
I saved up for a long time before springing for this phone, and chose it based on its appearance and photo ability.
The camera is nice, but still lacking in a lot of ways. The lag time between pushing the button and the photo actually being taken is still horrendous, and often results in a blurry photo or the action being missed. The exposure is not very consistent when using the automatic settings.
The touch sensitive buttons on the outside of the phone caused me a lot of headaches until I found out how to disable them, they were always getting bumped at random times and music would blare out even when the phone was on silent.
Had to purchase the cord for uploading data separately.
And the most upsetting thing is the text messaging.
The problems are in many areas;
The keys are inverted and slippery and many times will miss if you dont push just right on the center, very tempermental and un-user friendly for quickly typing a message.
The word function is missing a lot of common words, and as someone else mentioned, it holds the capitalization and punctuation of everything you enter in ABC mode, so you're forced to cycle through even more words trying to get the correct one. There's no way to add or remove from its word memory that I'm aware of.
Just because I capitalized a word once in a text doesn't mean I need it that way in every single future use of the word.
If texting is important to you, go with a different phone. I cant wait to get rid of this one myself. Serves me right for not checking it out more before purchasing.
Rating  - found out...
well you all know that the front buttons are touch and if the slightest touch starts music there is a way to stop it. if you close the phone and press and hold the button with the three dots a little lock will come up in the corner next to the battery, therefor it locks the buttons outside the phone. and you can still open the phone and use it without the entire phone being locked. =) awesome idea who ever came up with that!!!
Rating - Nifty phone, with terrible texting
I've had this phone for about five months now. I'm not going to reiterate all of the good things about it.
The camera takes good photos, but the lag is terrible. It's also not easy to get a self-shot.
Sound is decent quality. Speakerphone works.
However, the text messaging is abysmal. I mean really, really bad.
First, there isn't a way to edit the dictionary, and words you add (by using them in Abc mode) come first. I once forgot I was in Abc mode and typed in "like", which came out "jgjd". Now, *every* time I try to type in "like", "jgjd" comes up first.
Second, if you capitalize a word, it remembers that as well. So I put in a band name---let's say "The Styx". Now, every time I enter "the" it comes up as capital, no matter what mode I'm in. To get a lower-case "the", I have to hit next. Every time.
Third, it tries to be helpful by learning your punctuation. What this means is that you can *never* rely on the punctuation that's going to come up. If you've typed in "great!" before, and want to type in "great." now, it's probably going to come up with an exclamation point first.
Fourth, and what makes all of this so frustrating, is that it combines all of these. Capitals, punctuation---all of it. Here's an example of trying to type in "good!":
good.
home.
good?
home,
good@
good!
Texting has become a nightmare. I hate it---no, I loathe it.
I want a phone that doesn't capitalize a word unless I tell it to, or it's the beginning of a sentence. I want a phone where I can say, "I misspelled that---please remove it from your dictionary." I want a phone where I know that if I hit 1, and then hit next five times, it's always going to be a comma.
Other than that, and your standard Verizon crippling of the bluetooth and such, it's not bad.
Rating - Phone is crippled - maybe by Verizon
I just got this today for my wife. I have spent about 6 hours trying to transfer the phonebook from her old LG VX8300 to the Flipshot. I have tried 3 different programs over Bluetooth and all cannot connect to this phone. I can connect to the LG and my RAZR just fine but BITPIM, Futuredial and even Samsungs own PC Studio 3 cannot connect to this phone. I know it is the Flipshot because Windows XP can send/receive diagnostics to the phone just fine. It could be that Verizon has crippled the phone so that you have to buy their $30 USB connector - I wouldn't put it past 'em. So right off the bat this phone has been a major irritation. I'll update if I get it to work otherwise it is getting shipped back in the morning....
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