Between Heaven and Hell

Between Heaven and Hell

Samsung Star II S5260 Smartphone (7.62 cm (3 inches) touch screen, 3MP camera, MP3 player, WiFi, Bluetooth, T9 Trace) ceramic white (Electronics)

Customer Review

Depending on what expectations you have on this phone, it is either an acute unit, or a total disaster.
On the PRO side namely:
+ Mostly good touchscreen and most rapid graphical interface
+ Intuitive operation, successful menu navigation
+ In contrast to a "normal phone" certainly added value through Wi-Fi, music and video playback.
+ Good to very good battery life
On the contra side:
- The here already repeatedly reported "memory full" bug. Really Samsung, in 2011 we! (* See below)
- Occasionally, the touch screen is easy and it is next to a 6 instead of 9, although it is really just on the 9.
- 2-3 unsightly error
One of these unsightly error is for example that the birthdays of contacts with the Samsung Kies software were played on the phone do not show up in the calendar. When contacts are created directly on the phone already. However, it is sufficient to remove the birthday on the phone, save, enter new birthday on the phone and it will appear in the calendar. Nevertheless annoying. When I just had new cell phone, I did it first put into his pocket and am gone off me to buy a USB cable, when I came back I had on my landline AB 4 calls, the key lock has broken in his pocket and repeatedly redial started. This must not happen actually. Remedy would create here a phone password, but this one must then enter each time you want to skip a song.

All in all, I vacillate between enthusiasm and hatred for this phone. It's nice small, light, looks fairly chic, easy to operate well, feels good in the hand and the voice quality is very good. On the other hand, it does not affect really half-baked, the memory should be 2011 already enough for surfing and a key lock I want to leave me blind. It is beyond me why they moved no internal antenna for radio in a plastic case.

If you can live with the weaknesses, which will be thrilled. Who cares something that should stay away from this unit. Personally, I feel a little abused as a beta tester. 1-2 months more development time, which eliminated 2-3 errors and the device would be beyond reproach.
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Update after about 2 months:
* Recently there is an update to the phone that the "Memory full" bug while delaying a little, but not completely eliminated.
One more word about the battery life: which is really huge. Who, like me, talks on the phone stops briefly and the radio networks only turns when he really needs (and off goes very comfortable in the Start menu), which can count on a few weeks of battery life. Permanent Wifi reduces the battery life but dramatically. I have the phone now about 2 months and have it charged a total of 3 times.
For this annoys me the bad Keylock more so. If you want to plug the cell phone in the jeans pocket can not get to a password, it must have at least 4 points and thus lost a lot of convenience, simply by showing a picture quickly takes so twice as long as actually needed. Really extremely annoying.

Flawless function 3 Rank: 5/5
December 30
Not that desired result Rank: 3/5
April 9
Arrived safely 2 Rank: 4/5
March 31

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