Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17752 in Cell Phone Accessories
• Color: Black
• Brand: Samsung
• Model: Beat
• Released on: 2007-10-01

Features

• Lightweight clamshell mobile phone with built-in audio player and 1.3-megapixel digital camera
• Ultra-bright TFT display with 176 x 220 pixel resolution and exterior 4-way navigation pad
• T-Mobile myFaves support; runs on global quad-band technology for worldwide communication
• 30 MB integrated memory; expandable via microSD card slot (includes 1 GB card)
• Includes: Battery, Charger, Stereo Hands-free Headset, Stereo Headphone Adapter and 1GB SD Card

Amazon.com Product Description
Enjoy listening to your favorite tunes, surfing the web, or messaging with your friends with the Samsung Beat mobile phone. Easy and fun to use, the Beat packs a ton of features--including a music player, stereo Bluetooth service, a 1.3-megapixel digital camera, and a microSD expansion slot--into a compact package that looks like an MP3 player from the outside.

The music-focused Samsung Beat includes an exterior thumbpad for easy on-the-go navigation.

T-Mobile Options
Available exclusively from T-Mobile, the Beat communicates through the company's GSM/GPRS and EDGE networks, with quad-band support (GSM 850, 900, 1,800, and 1,900 MHz) helping guarantee global connectivity. As a result, the phone is ideal for international travel, giving you full mobile voice and data coverage all over the world without requiring you to change phones, phone numbers. or e-mail addresses. The Beat is also myFaves compatible, allowing you to call up to five of your most common contacts--on any network, even landlines--without using any of your minutes. Beat users who are myFaves subscribers can also send an audio postcard--a photo accompanied by a voice message--as well as send an e-mail, launch an IM client, or send a text message right from the myFaves home screen.

The clamshell housing opens to reveal a 176 x 220 pixel TFT display.

Design
The compact clamshell phone offers an ultra-bright TFT display offers a 176 x 220 pixel resolution and support for up to 262,000 colors. Below the screen, meanwhile, sits a four-way navigation pad and dedicated shortcut keys, with a second pad located on the outside of the clamshell for easier music navigation while on the move. And text messaging is fast and easy thanks to the phone's predictive-text technology, which anticipates which words you're about to type and finishes them for you.

Multimedia
The real star of the Samsung Beat, however, is its music support. Not only does it include the aforementioned exterior thumbpad--which makes it easy to skip songs or adjust the volume while the phone is in your pocket--but it also supports both MP3 and AAC files, and offers a Bluetooth profile for listening to music wirelessly through a compatible stereo headset. And as with most of the latest mobile phones, the Samsung Beat includes a built-in 1.3-megapixel camera that offers such features as a 4x digital zoom, a self-timer, and multiple picture modes. The camera is also capable or recording small video clips via the 30 MB of integrated memory or longer clips when saved to a microSD card (the phone includes a 1 GB card and supports up to 2 GB of expandable memory).

Calling and Messaging
The Samsung Beat offers plenty of handy calling and messaging features, including a voice-dialing function that makes it a breeze to call friends and associates by simply saying their names; a full duplex speakerphone that lets you hear callers loud and clear; a WAP 2.0 browser and e-mail application; support for SMS and MMS messages; instant messaging, and such handy tools as a calendar, notepad, alarm clock, to-do list, and tip calculator. Connectivity is aided by the Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity, which offers profiles for communication headsets and hands-free car kits.

Vital Statistics
The Samsung Beat measures 1.5 by 3.7 by 0.66 inches (W x H x D), weighs 0.27 ounces, and includes a rechargeable battery that provides up to four hours of talk time and 250 hours of standby time. The phone comes with a one-year limited warranty.

What's in the Box
Samsung Beat phone, rechargeable battery, charger, user's manual.

Customer Reviews

Awesome Phone for the Average User, Exploding with Features
This phone had barely just come out when my current phone started to fail. I went to T-Mobile for a replacement only to be disappointed. T-Mobile stores don't have a great selection of phones at all.

I decided to pick this little flip phone up, and I was NOT disappointed.

On the outside the phone looks pretty sleek and stylish. I've received plenty of compliments on how it looks.

I like Samsung phones and I loved this one. Samsung makes gorgeous displays (I own a Samsung MP3 player and TV as well) and this phone didn't disappoint.

It comes with an solid Mp3 player that pumps out amazing sound quality through the built-in green speaker on the front of the phone. This little speaker is amazingly loud, and was an instant hit with all of my friends.

The earphones it comes with also pump out top shelf sound but are a tad uncomfortable in my ears. If the included earphones are a problem for you, don't fret, the box comes with an adapter so that you can use any headphones you want.

It also has an excellent 1.3 megapixel camera that takes great pictures for a phone in this price range.

The Video camera is capable of a 352 x 288 resolution screen, with a duration that is as long as your Micro SD memory card can take.

You can transfer both your pics and videos easily using an included micro SD adapter.

The box also includes a USB adapter that you can use to transfer your songs to the phone using Windows Media Player. The sync process worked seamlessly for me, and was super simple to use. You can then set any song in your phone as ringer as well.

The only bad aspect I've seen with this phone so far, is an bad battery life. My last Samsung phone could last 3 and a half days with regular use, on one single charge. Make sure you charge your Beat every night, because it won't last 2 days without some juice.

Altogether, this is a great phone, packed with features. An excellent piece of technology for the price.

Beg To Differ
I beg to differ regarding this phone. The most noticeable downfall for me was the sound quality of the internal mic. My callers all said that I sounded muffled to them and I often had to repeat myself because they couldn't understand me. The second thing was the text messages received didn't save in date received order. They were all over the place after I closed the flip. Yes it's cute but other than that I sent it back after a week.

Good range of features, terrible phone
As the Samsung employee (M. Sanchez--go look at his reviews, they read like a marketing campaign) who gave the Beat a glowing review states, this phone does pack a surprising breadth of functionality for what is now a free phone with a service contract ($18 "upgrade fee" if you extend your existing contract). However, after use, it skips a Beat (AHAHAHAHA...whatever. You guys suck as an audience anyways).

The Samsung Beat is woefully underpowered. Everything from the music player to scrolling through your MyFaves contacts suffers from a delayed response. Get used to hitting the Play button about 8 times before you finally figure out that you have to press it and wait 15 seconds to be sure the Beat noticed you pressed a button.

The Beat is a horrible, horrible telephone. As the other users have been nearly unanimous in decrying, the sound quality of the microphone will surely elicit complaints from your callers. The headphones do indeed hurt like the dickens after about an hour (and I have big ears). Worst of all, the internal antenna loses signal constantly. While my Nokia 6103 had no trouble around my house (3-4 bars of signal strength), the Beat loses connection repeatedly near any large object. I had to switch to the Nokia yesterday to continue a conversation because the Beat kept dropping the call when I'd get near the washer and dryer. I have the same trouble standing at the counter washing dishes, with a flippin' window right in front of me.

The phone desperately needs a second connector. It uses one proprietary connector for everything: USB, power, and headset. T-Mobile should have also streamlined some of the menu options. For example, setting the ringtone from the main menu does not affect calls from your MyFaves contacts, although nothing indicates that there is a separate setting for those contacts (there is: you have to click around in the Options menu while hovered over a MyFaves contact, and each contact has a different ringtone that must be set).

If it didn't hold and play a sizable chunk of music, I'd huck it out the window and leave a stylish imprint on some unsuspecting passerby's face. Look for something else!