Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15740 in Cell Phone Accessories
• Color: Red
• Brand: Samsung
• Model: SPHM320ZSS
• Released on: 2008-08-28

Features

• Affordable clamshell phone with VGA camera for still photos, easy-to-use menus, bright displays, and speakerphone
• Access to NFL Mobile Live (with live audio broadcasts); comapatible with Sprint Mobile Email, Mobile Sync and Picture Mail services
• Bluetooth for handsfree communication; text and SMS voice messaging; downloadable games and ringtones
• Up to 3.5 hours of talk time; measures 3.5 x 1.9 x 0.8 inches and weighs 3.1 ounces
• Includes: handset, battery, travel charger, battery door, quick start guide

Amazon.com Product Description
Attractive and attractively affordable, the Samsung M320 clamshell phone for Sprint provides all the essentials for voice and text communication and on-the-go productivity. You'll enjoy handsfree calls via the integrated speakerphone or via an optional Bluetooth headset, and the phone offers voice dialing capabilities. It also adds a VGA camera for capturing still photos and sending them to friends and family via Sprint Picture Mail. Other compatible Sprint services include NFL Mobile Live (with live audio broadcasts and up-to-the-minute stats), Mobile Email and Mobile Sync, which provides easy online address book synchronization and more. Other features include dual LCD screens, Web browser, and up to 3.5 hours of talk time.

Snap photos with the VGA camera and send to friends via Sprint Picture Mail.

Sprint Service Options
Sprint brings you closer to this season's NFL action with NFL Mobile Live, which enables you to listen to the live radio broadcasts of every NFL game throughout the 2008 regular season. Sprint is making it easier to follow a specific team by carrying a live radio broadcast for each game, including pregame and postgame reports in most instances. NFL Mobile Live also allows NFL.com fantasy owners to monitor the performance of every player in real time directly from their phone. Key information for individual players will be easily accessible, including real-time game and season cumulative stats, rankings, player profiles and photos. NFL Mobile Live is free of charge to Sprint data subscribers.

With Sprint Mobile Email, you'll get easy access to your favorite home email services including AOL, Yahoo!, Gmail, and MSN/Windows Live Hotmail and more. And Sprint Mobile Email Work enables you to access email from corporate servers, including Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007 and Lotus Notes Domino versions 6.0, 6.5 and 7.0 (with the latest software update).

The Samsung M320 features easy-to-use menus, bright displays, speakerphone, Bluetooth technology, Internet access and SMS voice and text messaging.

The Sprint Mobile Sync service enables you to store and manage up to 5,000 contacts in your Sprint Mobile Sync address book, including phone numbers, addresses, notes and other fields. After your phone is activated, every change you make to your address book will be automatically saved on the Sprint network and every change you make online will be updated on your phone. Create and manage personal Group Connect groups to instantly reach up to 20 other users, at the same time, via Nextel Direct Connect or texting. Import contact fields to your address book or synchronize them with your Microsoft Outlook contacts.

Sprint Vision provides innovative wireless services like web access, and email and text messaging capability. Plus, with the Sprint National Network, you get the nationwide coverage and excellent voice clarity.

Phone Features
Styled with a smooth, rounded finish, the Samsung M320 has dual LCD screens--an internal 2-inch, 65K-color display with a 128 x 160-pixel resolution and an external 65K-color display with a 96 x 96-pixel resolution (which provides an easy view to signal strength, battery life, and current time). Inside the clamshell, you'll find an alpha-numeric keypad and standard five-way toggle with send/end keys and two soft keys for navigation. The phone can store up to 300 contact entries--each storing 5 numbers, email and internet addresses--and it supports caller groups as well as ringer and photo IDs.

For convenience and adhering to local laws, the phone has a speakerphone that lets you hear callers loud and clear. It's also Bluetooth-enabled (version 2.0), allowing you to communicate handsfree with an optional headset or car kit.

Instantly send and receive SMS Text Messages across the room or across the country, anywhere in the Nationwide Sprint Network. Send voice messages to any mobile phone or email address--just select a recipient, record a message and send. T9 text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built into the unit--a plus for mobile email and text messaging users.

Other features include:

• Capture images up to 640 x 480 pixels with the digital camera and zoom, then easily share photos with friends and family using Sprint Picture Mail.
• Speaker-Independent Voice Dialing: Say the name of any entry in your phone book and the number is dialed automatically without using the keypad. This feature is speaker-independent, so there is no need to train the phone to respond to any one person's voice.
• Built-in productivity tools including a calendar, scheduler, to-do list, world clock, calculator, stopwatch and alarm clock
• Voice memo for up to 60 seconds with a maximum of 10 recordings
• Choose from a wide selection of polyphonic ringtones playing in rich, 32-chord harmony
• Compatible with select TTY devices
• Hearing aid compatibility = M4/T4
• Wireless Backup to manage contacts list in the event that the phone is lost, stolen or damaged
• Downloadable screen savers, ringtones, applications and games

Vital Statistics
The Samsung M320 weighs 3.1 ounces and measures 3.5 x 1.9 x 0.8 inches. Its 800 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3.5 hours of talk time. It runs on the 850/1900 MHz CDMA/CDMA2000 1xRTT frequencies.

Customer Reviews

Decent Phone, Crappy Speaker
This is a pretty predictable flip phone with a camera, but mine has three annoying problems.

1). I must say, the earpiece is total garbage. I don't have the volume turned up that loud, but already the speaker inside the earpiece has started buzzing, meaning the speaker is starting to blow out. (The speakerphone is located very close by and I suspect this could be the culprit).

2). When I turn the phone on and start talking, I notice that the phone keypad gets very warm. My face isn't burning, but its definitely noticeable after only about ten minutes of talk time.

3). On most phones, there is a "speakerphone" button on the keypad. But on this phone, you have to press "Option" and then scroll down to "Speaker." It makes for a very awkward transition when you first answer and the other person is like, "Hey are you there? "Can you hear me now" Are you in a tunnel?"

If you want a cheap phone that usually comes free with a contract, check out your other options. I can't comment yet on the camera or any other features, but overlooking these 3 problems is quite difficult.

Difficult to use
I got this phone about 2 months ago because it was free with a new contract. I had the option of getting this or a Rumor, and specifically took the m320 because I wanted something for talk-only that would be easy and simple to use. Well, that was a bad choice.

I didn't like that the phone default is that you have to press a button after flipping it open to answer a call, I just want to flip and talk when I get a call. That can be changed, but till I found where to set that option took a while. Here are my remaining beefs:

1. Speakerphone requires 2 button pushes - you have to go to options, then press 2 or scroll down and select 2. This is a MAJOR inconvenience for me when driving, and has already almost caused an accident when I had to pick up an imortant call while driving and had to look down to the bloody thing to see what I needed to press. This problem becomes less hazardous as you get used to the settings, but it becomes no less annoying that you have to press 2 buttons. And I still hit the wrong button sometimes because I don't want to take my eyes off the road.

2. If you don't have long fingernails, it's difficult to open the phone. I'm not kidding. There's no easy way to open it other than getting your nail into the paper thin space provided between the 2 sides of the phone. I have missed calls trying to open the phone.

3. (really 2b) The phone is nice and shiny, but seems slicker to handle than others I've had. This exacerbates problem #2 when trying to open it.

4. The volume buttons are on the left side of the phone. I find it easier to use on the right side, since I (and most people) are right handed.

5. I'm sure some people prefer it this way so they don't need to look at 2 lists, but I don't like sent and received call history mixed together, I prefer them separate.

6. Minor point, but might as well - when adding a new contact, there's no button that says 'done' on your screen until you scroll down the option list. That takes getting used to, and is not at all intuitive.

7. I don't know if it's supposed to be this way or if it's just my phone, but the first ring is sometimes much more muted sounding than the rest of the rings when I get a call, so I often don't hear it till the 2nd ring.

Other than that, the phone works fine, reception is ok, and it has survived a couple of mid-height unprotected drops with minor scratching (it does scratch quickly though).

Rain killed my phone?
After putting up with the quirks this has, it has met with the end of the road. 7 months and I wont be eligible for an upgrade for another 17 YIKES
This may be the deal breaker for sprint 2 year contracts in the future
Sure it has been dropped a few times, passes the test there and kept on working, but this weekend during a walk in a light rain I take a call and it turned out to be a 15 minute conversation. No big deal it got a little wet...
WRONG seems it got a lot wet and is now in do not work well mode (My Bad) I am so happy I kept my old Sanyo A much more intuitive phone.
As others have mentioned it is hard to open and access features, "OK" if you are sitting in a tree fort with nothing better to do. Yep its a phone, takes pictures and you can access the internet sort of.
Oh and the mirrored cover? It cracked while in my pocket on the first month. Now if only Timex made a Phone... Hmm