| Samsung Glyde Phone (Verizon Wireless) | 
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| List Price: $399.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 11 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1282
Category: Wireless
Publisher: Verizon Wireless
Studio: Verizon Wireless
Brand: Samsung
Label: Verizon Wireless
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: Glyde
UPC: 635753470048
ASIN: B00192I762
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Sleek multimedia phone with 2.8-inch touchscreen and slide-out, full QWERTY keyboard | | • | Access Verizon's V Cast Music and Video service via fast EV-DO data network; GPS-enabled for turn-by-turn directions | | • | 2-megapixel camera with video capture; Bluetooth for headsets and music streaming; microSD memory card expansion (up to 8 GB) | | • | Up to 3.5 hours of talk time, up to 250 hours (10+ days) of standby time; measures 4.09 x 1.98 x 0.71 inches (HxWxD) | | • | Includes: handset, rechargeable battery, charger, USB cable, quick start guide, user guide |
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Amazon.com Product Description
A powerful and sleek multimedia and messaging phone, the Samsung Glyde for Verizon boasts a robust feature-set, an innovative and colorful touchscreen, and full QWERTY keyboard. The 2.8-inch advanced touchscreen offers a tactile response as you tap onscreen buttons, and the slide-out QWERTY makes it easy to stay in contact via text and instant messaging. It's compatible with Verizon's V Cast Music Service, which enables you to purchase songs through your phone and download them via Verizon's fast EV-DO data network. You'll also stay on course thanks to the VZ Navigator GPS turn-by-turn direction service. Other features include a 2.0-megapixel camera, microSD memory expansion (up to 8 GB), Bluetooth connectivity for both communication headsets and stereo headphones, and up to 3.5 hours of talk time. 
The 2.8-inch display doubles as a state-of-the-art interactive touch pad for more user-friendly navigation. | 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. The V Cast Video service enables you to 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. 
With one quick slide, enjoy a large QWERTY keyboard to text or IM friends with lightening speed. | Phone Features
The combination touchscreen, slider keyboard design of the Samsung Glyde provides a variety of ways of interacting with the phone's features. The large touch-enabled LCD measures 2.8 inches vertically and has a 240 x 440-pixel resolution and support for 262K colors. The front of the chassis has a single button (much like another, often talked about touchscreen phone), and the phone offers most of its controls via the touchscreen--which provides adjustable haptic vibrating feedback, so you know when you've pressed a button. The front of the Glyde's face slides open from the left side of the phone and it's easy to open and close with just one hand. When the keyboard is opened, the display automatically changes to landscape orientation. The keyboard offers no dedicated numbers, so you'll do your dialing via the numeric keypad that appears on the or touchscreen. The Glyde can store up to 500 contacts, with each entry able to store five phone numbers, two email addresses, notes, and a picture ID. It's compatible with saving contacts to groups and pairing contacts with a ringtone (polyphonic or real music ringer). The phone has a 45 MB internal memory, which is expandable via optional microSD memory cards (up to 8 GB in size). It also provides speaker-independent voice activated commands, including dial, menu readout, text message readout, and call announcement. A speakerphone means you can easily talk hands-free, while Bluetooth (version 1.2) allows you to use your favorite wireless headset. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. It also includes profiles for printing images directly to printers, dial-up networking, and sending vCard and vCalendar items to other phones. The 2-megapixel camera has six resolution modes for still photos (from 1600 x 1200 for printing to 176 x 144 pixels for sending via MMS). It features a 9x digital zoom, an integrated flash, self-timer, multi-shot mode, and customizable settings for brightness and white balance. The camera can also capture video with sound and it offers two resolution settings (320 x 240 and 176 x 144 pixels). You can shoot for up to 30 seconds for sending or as long as you have space on your optional memory card. You can easily add new music to your collection while on the go from Verizon's V Cast Music service and listen to them on the integrated digital audio player, which offers compatibility with MP3, WMA, AAC/AAC+ file formats. You can sync your tunes from your PC (Windows Media Player 11 or higher), as well as create and manage playlists right on the phone. The enV2 can also play video clips from Verizon's V Cast Video service, and ti's compatible with WMV, MP4, 3GP, and 3G2 formats. 
The Glyde weighs 4.2 ounces. | The Glyde has all the bases covered when it comes to messaging, too, with support for sending and receiving text, picture, and video messages as well as mobile instant messaging (IM). There's also a complete e-mail client on the device for POP- and IMAP-based accounts. And of course, the QWERTY keyboard makes it a snap to type your messages. The Glyde ships with a number of handy tools, including a calendar and a voice memo application. An alarm clock and calculator are also included. The Glyde supports V Cast 3-D games, as well as other 2-D-based games, which are available from Verizon's Get It Now service. You can also customize the phone's wallpapers and screen savers to give your phone a look that suits your style. Other features include: - Bluetooth version 1.2 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BIP (for sending images to another device), BPP (basic printing profile for text, email), DUN (dial-up networking), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures), PBA (transfer contacts)
- Music Player for WMA, MP3, unprotected aac and aac+ formats
- Full HTML browser
- Instant messaging via AIM, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Personal organizer with calendar, calculator, notepad, currency converter, alarm clock, world time and stop watch
- TTY compatible
- Hearing Aid Compatibility = M4
Vital Statistics
The Samsung Glyde weighs 4.2 ounces and measures 4.09 x 1.98 x 0.71 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 210 minutes (3.5 hours) of talk time, and up to 250 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/1900 CDMA/EV-DO frequencies.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Glyde, not got June 23, 2008
Hi,
The phone is cool but:
1. The touch screen is hard to use
2. The keyboard is too small
3. The phone always locks itself... if a call waiting comes in, you have to first unlock the phone before answering.
4. Awkward menus
All in all, my messaging was faster on a regular old phone. The major plus point was that the sound was really clear.
I don't recommend this phone. I'm returning mine.
 Great phone/POSSIBLE FIX FOR THE TOUCH SCREEN June 16, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Less than 24 hours ago, I went into my local Verizon store to purchase the Glyde. The sales girl told me that a lot of people had been returning the Glyde due to the touch screen's unresponsiveness. I decided to give it a try anyway.
After playing with the phone for an hour and a half, I wasn't so sure I would keep it. I found the touch screen to be responsive about 90% of the time. There were times when I had to tap the screen two or three times to get it to work. It didn't bother me that much though. After reading tons of reviews online, I was expecting that to happen. The only real problem I had with the touch screen was that I just couldn't get certain screens to scroll. But at that point, my main problem with the phone was the QWERTY keyboard. I'm not used to them at all, since I've always had a standard keypad, however it was the size that was the problem. I have small hands, but even the buttons on the keyboard were pretty small for me. Being a big texter, the keyboard was the deal breaker. I decided to return the phone.
I went back to my Verizon store but for some reason I changed my mind once I got there. I figured I would give myself 24 hours to get used to the keyboard and the touch screen. I'm glad I did.
I've been texting with the keyboard like crazy, so I have gotten used to it. I also found that trimming my thumbnails helped too since I text with my thumbs. Haha.
I have since gotten used to scrolling on the touch screen. I have also tried a fix that I read on a forum.
Here it is:
1) Turn the phone off and remove the back cover.
2) With the battery in the phone, put electrical tape along the bottom of the battery to the plastic of the phone. Use enough tape to really secure the battery in place.
3) Place a piece of electrical tape on the inner shell of the back cover, across where the battery is. This will provide padding when the cover is on.
4) Replace cover and turn the phone back on.
Since that fix, the touch screen has been 99% responsive. I also use the phone with the sensitivity on low. This works the best. It seems most people use it on high.
I have completely changed my mind about this phone. I love it now. It's definitely not the best phone out there, but it's a pretty good phone. I recommend people try that touch screen fix. It has worked for me and quite a few others. It's worth a shot.
 Not That Bad, Feature Packed June 13, 2008
I just wanted to chime in that this phone isn't as bad as everyone is making it out to be. Yes, the touchscreen is lacking, but I've still been able to use mine just fine. I encourage everyone to write Samsung so we can get a firmware upgrade soon.
That said, the phone is feature packed and looks real cool. I've had no problems with reception and am enjoying the nice big screen. There are no issues going to landscape and back, and the keyboard has good response. The dialpad buttons are plenty big and the camera works well also. OK, it's not a Cannon Rebel or anything, but for a cell phone it ain't too shabby.
Might appear slick but don't be fooled June 11, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bit the bullet and upgraded from my Samsung i730 to this Gylde. What a mistake...
Its really hard to navigate. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, I've had a Windows Mobile touch phone for years (from Samsung as well) so I'm used to touching the screen carefully but this phone just doesn't want to recognize where im touching it. I must have turned that speaker on and off accidentally about 10x by just trying to navigate the main menu. The worst are the corners, they never seem to register no matter what, I usually end up having to hit the home button under the screen. The one thing that I do like is you can have the phone vibrate slightly when it registers a touch. Very helpful when the phone does it random freeze up for a few seconds (which I experience about 1/4 of the time I reply to a text message) so I know not to start typing right away.
Its not intuitive. The user interface is just jumbled together. You can change the menu buttons but it doesn't seem to help. Sometimes I have to verify what I'm doing more than once ("Are you sure?") and other times theres no way to go back in programs without exiting to the main phone screen (like going to another account in mobile email). The phone can only save 100 text messages and have to view them one by one to delete (unless you use the delete all).
Sound quality seems to be excellent on my phone. Especially compared to my last one. Super clear and the other person can hear me just as well. No problems there at all. But ending a call is painful. Wake up the screen, then unlock it, then hit end, and yet again hit end. Not good!
I'm not sure why, but the first time I powered it off I lost all my contacts. I hope I'm only one with this problem, because this caused serious grief having to copy them all over again from my old phone. The text messages and pictures were still intact strangely just had phone #s instead of names on them.
The other night I replied to a text message (it might have been in its freeze up mode and I entered something wrong) but it replied to the person who text'd me before the latest one. Totally unacceptable. Its also very hard to see who I'm texting when its in slide-out mode since it cuts off a lot of information on the screen. Likewise if I want to read a text message, I have to unslide it so I can view the message using portrait mode. The keyboard took some time getting using to. That fuction key still gives me nightmares, theres no easy way to put in () without bringing up the symbols menu so don't even bother trying to send a smiley in a message.
I think it was a nice attempt to make something touchy and IPhone'ish but there are too many oddities and bugs in this phone. I'm probably going to return it next week for another Windows Mobile or LG.
Almost Perfect Phone June 10, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Just got the Glyde a couple of days ago. I was really contemplating between the Glyde, the Envy2, the Voyager, the Venus, and the HTC XV6900. Needless to say, I wanted to stay with Verizon (best network).
So far, the only thing that has been bothering me about this phone is the flat and tiny QWERTY keyboard. As much as I don't like the Envy and Voyager, I have to admit that the LG QWERTY keyboard is easier to type on, even with the space bar on the sides (where the thumbs naturally rest).
Other than the tiny keyboard the Glyde is superior in everything else. Customizable menu's, speaker phone accessible without having to open the QWERTY keyboard, flash on the camera with a self portrait mirror, and compact in size.
In addition, the music player is great. The phone's built in speakers provide enough to fill an average size bedroom. I had the volume on max and the sound quality remained clear without any distortion. Very impressive.
I upgraded from a Samsung flip phone and like the fact that I can access this QWERTY keyboard with only one hand (unlike the clamshell style keyboards). One thing I noticed missing in this phone in its text messaging options is the "deffered delivery", where you can type up a text, schedule a future delivery date and time, and hit "send" and the message won't be delivered until the specified date and time. But it's not a big deal.
Menu's are very user friendly, touch screen is great. Has a bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, it's unstoppable. I feel as though I can type out a text message faster using the touch screen key/number pad than I can the QWERTY keyboard.
Like I said, if the QWERTY keyboard was a bit larger and easier to use, this would be a perfect phone. The top row on the QWERTY feels very crammed, due to the side of the phone. I will give it another week or two to see if I can get used to the tiny QWERTY and determine whether or not it's a deal breaker. If I were to return this phone, my next choice would be the Voyager, only because it's a touch screen, similar to this Glyde.
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