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| Brand: Samsung
List Price: $399.99
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 9152
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
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Model: SCHU940DBV
UPC: 635753470048
ASIN: B00192I762
Release Date: May 6, 2008
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 34
 Dont Listen to the Negative Reviews May 22, 2008
A. Kraemer (PA)
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
Dont listen to the negative reviews. This phone is actually really good. First and foremost this phone has a small profile which is awesome. I was a little worried about the touch screen after reading some reviews but let me tell you its not as bad as they say it is. It does have its quirks though which I hope will be fixed in a firmware update. Before I got this phone I had the voyager and let me tell you that I prefer the glyde over the voyager. When the touch screen works right its really good and scrolling in menus works really well. The qwerty keyboard is great once you get use to it. I give samsung props for making a small qwerty keyboard that actually works. While the voyagers keyboard is really good so is the glydes and its smaller too. For me having a smalller phone is more important so thats why I prefer the glyde. Its small and sleek with a pretty decent touch screen (not perfect) and a nice slide out keyboard. Also the browser works pretty well too and loads quick. Battery is alright but seems to drain quick if you like to browse the internet a lot and listen to music. Some people say that icons are too small but I dont think they are. As long as you hit them right the screen seems to respond well. The call quality is really good too but that is to be expected with any verizon phone. I love having a phone with a qwerty keyboard and now I dont have to sacrifice having a bigger phone to get one. Overall its a small compact phone while not perfect which no phone is I highly reccomend it and with a firmware update it should even be better. Go out and try it and trsut me I see no reason why anyone wouldnt like it.
Great phone/POSSIBLE FIX FOR THE TOUCH SCREEN June 16, 2008
rockview
6 out of 7 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.
 Might appear slick but don't be fooled June 11, 2008
Izaak (Aptos, CA USA)
5 out of 6 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.
Glyde, not got June 23, 2008
Keith E. Schare (Long Beach, NY)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
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 touch screen phone with full QWERTY keyboard! August 8, 2008
Sandra Trolinger (New Braunfels, TX USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
My husband informed me I could upgrade my old Razr phone so we went to the Verizon store and I had several picked out that were possibilies. As I looked over the vast array of phones that seemed too simple, too cheaply made, too expensive, etc. and I was going back and forth between a few models I happened to pick the Glyde up as it looked interesting and caught my attention. I loved the heftiness and the firm slide mechanism and it felt good in my hands! I do a lot of texting and the keyboard definitely caught my attention and the touch screen was a bonus I didn't expect. For such an integrated phone I was happy with the low price and after checking out the Voyager (which seemed flimsy) and the Dare (which had only a virtual keyboard and was much higher in price) I came back to the Glyde and told my husband I wanted it. I brought it home and it has been fun to use for the whole family. It is very easy to use and YES it does have a problem with the touch screen at times as it may not respond to the first or second contact. The rep told me there is a new upgrade to download at the main Verizon stores so we will be getting that done soon.
I am very happy with the phone and feel a tiny bit guilty for splurging but I know I will have it for over 2 years so it works out to less than $8 per month to own it not including the monthly bill.
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