Straight Talk Samsung T528G Prepaid SmartPhone with Bonus Skinit Special Offer

After reading the reviews for this phone I wasn't quite sure what to expect. Set up/opening: The packaging and set up instructions on the phone are pretty straight forward. I think the older folks and non-tech savy could get in and be ready to use the phone without technical assistance. Construction: I will start by saying that the phone itself is well made and feels pretty solid. I haven't dropped it yet, but it feels like it would take a few drops without serious damage. The screen is made of glass, I think, so that is a plus. All of the buttons have a nice feel to them. The charging cord is kind of chintzy, but all you do is charge with it so not a big issue. Smartness: This phone is not on par with more expensive models. Saying that, this phone is not a real smart phone only because it doesn't have an OS(Android or the Apple one). Meaning it only runs generic Java based programs through a program designed for this phone. So the only thing you will miss with this phone is the neat apps. Don't be discouraged because of that though, this phone is awesome for the regular user who doesn't need the junk. Useage: The phones screen and text useage has been a review debate here. I think the screen is great, but the texting is a bit of a letdown. I have used slider phones with the push button qwerty keyboards and they are alot better, but in the half month I have used the touch screen I have become much more proficient. Calling sound is good, I can hear others and they can hear me. Enough said. Speaker function is loud and clear. The phone locks during calls so no cheek dialing. Extras: This is what sold me on the phone overall. The things that I never used on my old phones, such as the calendar, alarm, calculator, and others are all so well laid out that they make the phone seem like a real smart phone. The alarm allows you to choose what days you want each alarm to come on, and how long the snooze is and how many times it comes on. The calendar is very useful. It lets you set appts. simply and has the alarm function for those as well. Hands down best feature of the calendar is the repeat function. If you have the same appt. every week you don't have to enter it in over and over again, just once and hit repeat, awesome. The phone also has WiFi, I use it pretty much every day and have had no problems with the dropping issue others have complained about. Overall: This phone is very user friendly and fairly simple to use. The texting is a little tough, but it works well. If you buy get used to the T9 text function, it is your friend or your worst enemy. The build is good. Battery life is very long, I left mine on the counter for five days and it still wasn't dead when I came back. Functions are amazing, if you like to be organized this phone is very handy. If you want to venture out into the touchscreen "smart" phone world this phone would be a good entrance.

I had the Nokia E71 smart phone and decided to drop it into my drink the other night HAHAHA (accident). Well I had to get another phone and wanted a touch screen and went ahead and purchased the Samsung touch screen. It has not given me any issues at all and I live in the mountains, the signal is great and the phone has not been acting weird at all. I have read all the reviews before and after I got the phone and all I hear is bad, bad, and worse about it. I do not know if these people have abused this phone or what but mine has not froze, cut off on its own, or lost signal/dropped calls. Come to find out after I allowed my Nokia E71 to dry out and kept it apart for a day, I put it back together and it works like a charm LOL. I guess paying $200 for that phone was well worth it since it took a whole cup of mountain dew and still works like I had just purchased the phone (crazy). I still plan on using the Samsung touch screen for now and hopefully I do not encounter all the issues everyone else has mentioned on this site and others.. Great Buy

I bought this phone mainly because It was touch screen and thought that is going to be a good phone. Well I was wrong this phone and I have had a love hate relationship from day 1. You can be talking on it and it will just restart its self out of no where. It is so irritating when you are talking to your boss and the phone turns it self off twice.I love the touch screen and the fact that it is light and slim makes it supper easy for travel and everything but Its now worth the head ache. I bought this phone when it was $99 I thought that was a good price at the time. Well they have since reduced the price and and it is too high in my option. I hope that if you do buy this phone that you dont have the same luck as I did but from what I read your chances are slim.

Not a good phone. Touchscreen is slow and the QWERTY touchscreen keyboard is too small to be useful. I could deal with that, but what I can't deal with is all the problems. It randomly reboots itself and often just dies even when battery icon indicates there is plenty of charge left. Sometimes windows or alerts will flash with beeps for no reason and will not stop until you pull the battery, plug in the charger, then put battery back in (in that order). Most recent problem is messaging sometimes will not initialize so I can't send or receive messages, and even when I get it back, it no longer recognizes my contacts so only the phone number displays not the contact's name. StraightTalk has agreed to replace phone but I doubt the next one will be any better. Read up on this model of phone and you will find plenty of other people who have similar issues.

I have owned countless touch screen phones, both high and low end. This is the absolute worst one. The locking feature (press and hold an on screen button) takes a couple of tries to access the phone. The texting interface is very ANTI user-friendly and even highly experienced / fast paced texters have to take their time on this phone. The widgets are glitchy and sometimes get stuck on the screen. If you use a memory card to hold additional pictures then it is hard to access them. As far as the hardware goes, this is the least durable touchscreen that I have ever owned. A one foot drop will leave a very nasty crack, even if it doesn't fall face down.