Samsung Glyde Phone (Verizon Wireless) | 
| Brand: Samsung
List Price: $399.99
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Rating:  16 reviews
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Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
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Model: Glyde
UPC: 635753470048
ASIN: B00192I762
Release Date: May 6, 2008
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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 11 more reviews...
 A First Hand Review of the Verizon Glyde May 11, 2008
Anne P. Mitchell (Boulder, Colorado)
20 out of 31 found this review helpful
This is a review of the Verizon Glyde - the newest of Verizon cellphones - which some are calling the Verizon iPhone (and technically it's the Samsung u940, and conflated by some as the "Samsung Glyde"). The Glyde is perhaps one of the most eagerly anticipated new Verizon phones ever, and definitely the sexiest of Verizon cell phone models (and one of the sexiest Samsung cell phones as well). As a bonus, this Verizon Glyde review also includes a comparison of the Glyde and the Verizon Voyager.
While they are unlikely to ever get the iPhone Verizon really doesn't need to worry about it - this newest of Verizon Wireless cell phones is sure to be the brightest star in the Verizon mobile constellation. As the only Verizon telephone to feature both a touch screen and a slide out QWERTY keyboard (the other Verizon phone with a touch screen and a QWERTY keyboard is the Verizon Voyager, which requires flipping the screen to access the keyboard), it's easy to see why Verizon cellular phone fans have been clamouring for the release of the Glyde, and why those who up until now had eschewed Verizon Wireless phones are now considering a switch to Verizon phone service.
In short, this is one hot phone.
The first thing that strikes you about the Verizon Glyde is how it feels in your hand. Yes, sure, the way that the Glyde slides open to reveal it's keyboard is slick, but the phone also just feels good in your hand. It's small, yet feels sturdy - when you open the screen to type, it doesn't feel as if the screen might snap off, as it does with so many screen+keyboard phones.
And speaking of the keyboard, it is a feat of engineering and design. Seriously - Samsung really got this right - a full QWERTY keyboard that is only 3 rows deep (how do they do that, you may ask? The space bar is in the middle of the zxcvbnm row, rather than dropped down below it.
And this is a hint at how it stacks up against the Voyager. The Voyager's keyboard, although larger, inexplicably has the space button (not bar, button) up on the side of the keyboard! Worse than crazy - unusuable for anyone who actually knows how to ..you know ..type!
Now, let's take a moment to talk about the size of the Verizon Glyde. This is definitely a palm-sized phone - but only just. It's noticabely smaller than the Voyager, and that is a happy thing for those of us who found the Voyager just a bit clumsy because it was just a tad too big to hold comfortably while actually using the phone for anything other than dialing.
Now, of course, any phone I test gets compared to my trusty T-Mobile Sidekick. For ease of photo taking and sending, the Sidekick just can't be beat. But still, the Glyde isn't bad. As soon as you snap a picture or video you are offered the option to "send", and while "via email" is not an option, the "as text message" option does support sending to email addresses. Woohoo!
[For my full review, with pictures, see http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/a-first-hand-launch-day-verizon-glyde-review ]
 Almost Perfect Phone June 10, 2008
Truonginator (CA, United States)
14 out of 15 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.
 Great Looking Phone but has drawbacks May 21, 2008
smart shopper (usa)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
I was originally looking to replace my old LG Verizon phone with a Voyager. I decided on the Glyde because it is not as bulky as the Voyager and has the same display size of 2.8 as the Voyager's exterior screen. The screen is bright and clear. The menu is easy to navigate. The phone has tons of features and is a good sized phone that is well built. The drawbacks to the phone is that it has bugs in the software. The phone has freezed up on me numerous times when navigating on the screen. The reception is not the best either. I have been told by people that I have called that I sound fuzzy and sound like I am calling from a tunnel even with a max signal. I did not have these call problems with my previous phone. Overall, I would say the phone is okay however I am going to return it so I can exchange it for the Voyager. From my experience, LG seems to built higher quality phones than Samsung along with better call quality.
unsure May 21, 2008
kak
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
i was really excited about this phone but after a wk of use i'm just not sure. i want to like this phone but i'm having a hard time. yes, there are many cool features, however there are even more bad features. to start, i wish this thing had a send and end button. without these buttons you have to take a few steps to get to where you want. i often to like to press the send key to call my recent contacs, but it is not possible with this phone. it is also hard to find contacts, and scrolling through can be difficult. furthermore the phone doesn't always lock so when i am on a call, it often starts dialing numbers bcs my face is touching the screen. i've also accidentally called a lot of people due to over sensitivity of the glyde. it is also extremely hard to navigate unless you are looking directly at it. it is even challening to pick up a call while driving, etc. lastly the top row on the keyboard is too small. i don't know, i'm going to give this phone another wk or so to get used to. i have a feeling it will be returned shortly. i'm interested to read others reviews.
 Thanks VERIZON u messed up AGAIN!!!!!!! May 21, 2008
Always Samsung (New York, NY)
11 out of 35 found this review helpful
Bless Verizon!!!!! Not only do they have the worst customer service in the world they also love taking a GOOD SOLID phone from a manufacturer and JACKIN IT UP!!!!!!! Now how did Verizon jack this phone up? Number 1, the user interface is again altered to match what Verizon wants. The one thing about Samsung is their amazing user interface and menu style options. That's what set them apart from the other cell phone designers out there. The nice menu style with colorful icons is gone here as Verizon completely over hauled the interface to that awful tab like features as if you're on a computer etc. Ughhh Verizon just knows how 2 mess a good thing up. With Sprint coming out with the Samsung Instinct this Glyde is just gonna fall into the shadows. On top of that the camera is only a 2.0 mega pixel. Every Asian & European country has 5.0 mega pixels and above. What is wrong with the US? Let's get up with the program. Verizon's V Cast logo also takes up 2 much screen space. When are they ever gonna LEARN???!! Save your money and get the Samsung Instinct or the new iPhone. I can't wait till AT&T gets their 1st Samsung touch phone. THIS DOES NOT COME with INSTANT MESSAGING!!!!! NO AOL, YAHOO, or MSN on this phone. IM is not allowed.
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