Samsung Intensity III Cell Phone

This product is not a good long term phone. when used a lot the ribbon wire will be cut in a place that disables everything it makes it compleatly unusable.

I have used this phone for about a year now, and it has worked well for the most part. The slide out keyboard is fantastic for texting, and also for finding a song in my extensive library of songs. The camera is what it is. The photos come out decent, but not great. What do you expect for a 1 MP camera? The music organization works great once you add a micro SD card for storage. The only downside to this phone is that the battery drains quickly. When you have made 2 or 3 calls that last for 15 minutes, or used the music player for half an hour, the battery is significantly depleted. I find that even with moderate use, I am charging the battery every 2-3 days. Other than that slight annoyance, I haven't been able to find another phone that works this well without a data plan from the carrier.

Sure this phone is a basic text phone but is terrible during group messages. You have to download each message and when you try and respond it sends individual messages to the people in the group message

This phone is not at all fancy. It's a standard texting phone. It's an upgrade from my LG EnV2. This phone has group texting support which is nice though the implementation is kind of flakey. What really bugs me about this phone however is that when you get it there are banners that pop up. They seem like advertisements but actually it's random trivia you probably don't care at all about. To disable this you have to launch some weird app that is installed which you'd think would give you data charges but doesn't and disable them. This phone also has a really nice unlock system that keeps it from pocket dialing you. Once any key has been pressed you have to then hit the OK key and then the Right key... the problem is this sequence is rendered irrelevant by the fact that simply holding down the 0 key unlocks the phone too no matter what. So, like if you accidentally bump your phone against something in your pocket for a second and the zero key is pressed, now your phone is unlocked in your pocket and this is a problem. You will probably "pocket dial" someone or make "pocket contacts." The phone also has a tendency to occasionally ignore the fact that it is on vibrate and just play the ringtone anyway without vibrating. Upon investigating the volume setting... yep, it's still in vibrate. A restart fixes this issue. Incidentally my brother just got a new one of these phones in the mail today to replace his old one. This is good. He'll finally be able to hear me when I call him! Yeah... his old one inexplicably stopped receiving the audio in calls or the speaker got disconnected or something. It was a problem. It's actually becoming impossible to find a good well designed phone for someone like me who can't afford the data plan associated with a smart phone. (I have an iPod Touch for that.) The sad truth is that this phone, as horrible as I'm making it out to be, is on par with most phones available that are not smart phones. It's really frustrating and although I can't recommend this phone, it isn't the worst thing out there.

I bought this phone when my Samsung Convoy 1 died during a Verizon system upgrade. I was less than one year old. Verizon told me that if I drove to their non-franchise store (100 miles round trip) that they would give me a special deal on a replacement phone. Apart from smart phones this Intensity was the only available phone. The reception on this phone, compared to the Convoy is extremely poor. I can call only from one location in my house. The sound quality is poor. Voice mails are received without the phone ever ringing. I have owned this phone for a year. Thankfully the software did not fail during upgrades, as did the Convoy. And it has not broken or wore out. I am looking to buy another phone from a different manufacturer.