Product Description

You love BlackBerry, But you don't love having to carry that big BlackBerry device. The SAMSUNG T719 is a sleek, slim flip phone - with BlackBerry Connect built-in. The Samsung SHG-T719 isn't just a software thing; this phone is BlackBerry inside and out. It has licensed BlackBerry Connect functionality and the hybrid Semi-QWERTY keyboard you already know and love. You can connect yourself to Bluetooth-enabled headsets, hands-free car kits, computers and more. Hello, Bluetooth. Good-bye, wires. If you like taking photos the T719 allows you to take excellent pictures you can be proud of. The full 1.3 megapixels and handy rotating lens, won't let you miss a bit of the action. This GSM phone has 4 bands 850 / 900 / 1800 /1900 mhz. Travel anywhere in the world with this sleek mobile phone. Talk for a minimum of 2.5 hours. This mobile phone has many other features which include instant messaging, video recording, Voice Recongnition, calendar, to do list and many more. JAVA - 2 Internal Display - Technology 262K TFT, Resolution - QCIF, Size 2.2 External Display - Technology 4 Gray, Resolution 96 x 96 Pixel, Size 1.0 Talk time - Min. 2.5 hours / Standby time - Min. 200 hours Input Device - 5 x 4 Keypad Camera Resolution - 1.3M Digital / Optical Zoom - 4x Digital Zoom / LED Flash Short Mode - Normal shot / Self shot / Timer shot / Multi shot / Matrix shot / Capture only Video recording - 3gp (H.263 + AMR) / MPEG4 / Music & Sound - 40 Polyphonic Ringtones / 3D sound technology - MP3, AAC, SMF Business & Office - Voice memo & Voice mail SMS, EMS, Smart msg / Image / Sound / SMIL / MSG Size 300KB / OTA MMS configuration vCard / vCalendar Instant Messaging - (MSN,Yahoo,AOL,ICQ) Connectivity - Bluetooth Compatible / USB - USB 1.1 User Memory - 25MB 1000 phone book entries, calendar, to do list, scheduler, clock, worldtime, alarm, currency converter, calc

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8489 in Cell Phone Accessories
• Brand: T-Mobile
• Model: T719

Features

• Blackberry Connect Built in
• Bands 850 / 900 / 1800 /1900 MHz
• Network & Data - CSD / GPRS Class10 / EDGE Class10
• Operation System - Proprietary
• Browser - WAP 2.0

Amazon.com Product Description
Finally, a flip phone with the power and features of a smartphone has arrived. One of the first flip-phones to sport BlackBerry technology, the Samsung t719 is a full-featured, quad-band phone with a 1.3 megapixel VGA camera, advanced voice dialing and speech recognition, and much more. With MMS messaging capabilities, a built in e-mail client powered by BlackBerry Connect, Bluetooth, EDGE data, a flashlight, and wireless Web capabilities, the t719 is a powerful and svelte complement to T-Mobile service.

BlackBerry Connect on a compact clamshell; what a great idea. See the t719 in detail.

Design
Inside the t719's sleek clamshell design you'll find a large, yet crisp and clear 176 x 220 color LCD display with support for over 262,000 colors. The outside cover of the handset sports a supplementary monochrome LCD display that can display time, call information, battery and signal strength, and more. Most of the phone's features and on-screen menus are controlled by a five-way center button located above the phone's number pad. The phone includes 25 MB of internal memory. And because the t719 has an internal antenna, there's nothing to snag or break off.

Calling Features
The t719's phone book can handle up to 1,000 of your contacts, and you can store up to five numbers per entry, plus an e-mail address, and a note. In addition to having a discreet vibrating alert, the t719 supports both 40-chord polyphonic ringtones, which means you can really jazz up your incoming calls with cool tunes. Custom ringtones in MP3 format are also supported. A number of ringtones come preloaded on the phone, and more ringtones can be downloaded from T-Mobile's t-zones service. You can also assign ringer IDs and picture IDs to your favorite callers, while the speaker-independent voice dialing feature allows for quick, voice activated calling of pre-programmed contacts. Like all T-Mobile phones, the t719 supports voice mail, caller ID, conference calling, call forwarding, call waiting, call hold, built-in paging, and access to T-Mobile's 411 service.

Additionally, the t719 is Bluetooth-enabled, allowing you to use a variety of headsets and hands-free kits for total wireless freedom when you're on the go.

Messaging, Internet and Tools
When it comes to messaging and Internet connectivity, the t719 has you covered. The t719 lets you stay connected when you're on the go with excellent voice quality and real-time BlackBerry e-mail via T-Mobile's built in email client, BlackBerry Connect (optional BlackBerry service charges apply). There's also a built-in WAP 2.0 Web browser for t-zones downloads and mobile Web browsing. T-Mobile's t-zones service lets you receive and send e-mails, read news headlines, get weather updates, download games and ringtones, and more. The phone also supports traditional text messaging, as well as picture and sound messaging. The t719 sports a convenient QWERTY text keyboard, and SureType text entry, which is a predictive text entry 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.

The t719 delivers the legendary BlackBerry email experience. With BlackBerry service plans from T-Mobile, you can receive emails instantaneously from up to 10 email accounts (personal and enterprise). With BlackBerry push technology, you don't need to retrieve your email. Instead, BlackBerry devices are designed to remain on and continuously connected to the wireless network, allowing you to be discreetly notified as new email arrives.

If your company has a BlackBerry Enterprise Server installed, you can take advantage of the power of wireless calendar synchronization. Your calendar events are exchanged wirelessly and automatically so that your desktop calendar and BlackBerry handheld calendar are synchronized. All your meeting requests, changes, and updates are instantaneously synchronized instantaneously with your desktop. Make meeting requests, invite new attendees and more, all on your t719. Users without BlackBerry Enterprise Server support can manually sync with their desktop calendars and contacts via Bluetooth or USB using BlackBerry Desktop Software.

A number of handy software tools are bundled with the t719, including a voice memo recorder that allows up to a minute of recording time per memo, a calculator with unit converter, a calendar, and an alarm clock. Support for SyncML-based PC synchronization of your contacts, calendars, and other data is also included.

Imaging and Entertainment
The t719 is easy to customize to suit your style. Screen savers, themes, and wallpapers can be set to your tastes, and you can even browse and download more wallpapers from the t-zones service. The t719 is Java-enabled, meaning it supports games and application downloads written on the Java platform. Games are available via the T-Mobile t-zones service.

As mentioned, the phone sports a powerful 1.3 megapixel camera. The camera also features support for video capture. Store as many videos as you like, as long as there is available memory.

Vital Statistics
The Samsung t719 weighs 3.50 ounces and measures 3.70 x 2.00 x 0.72 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3 hours of digital talk time, and up to 5 days of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS frequencies. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.

Customer Reviews

Nice phone combined with good features
I bought this phone with the ~$100 money back, it was the cheapest for T-mobile >$39 service. If what you need is just a phone and phone related features--not pda or mp3 stuff--it's a great one
Pros:
1. Very handy Voice command dialing (especially when with bluetooth earphone)
2. Large display but not a clumsy looking like Motorola razors.
3. Camera can spin to facing you or facing the direction you are looking. You can take photo for yourself easily. (I don't use cellphone camera, but someone may.)
Cons:
Battery life sucks. You have charge at least twice a week if you don't use it. If you use it, charge every other day.

Disappointing
I've owned and loved three different Samsung clamshells so a Samsung clamshell combined with blackberry functionality seemed like a dream come true. Unfortunately I was sorely disappointed with the t719 and got rid of it a week later. Here's my summary. Note that I used it with my employer's Blackberry enterprise server for email and appointments and I receive upwards of 200 emails a day. I've never owned a Blackberry, but I hear that actual Blackberry products are more feature-rich than the t719. Perhaps some critical features were cut for enterprise users in favor of ease of use for casual users.

Cons:
- Text messages and email are intermingled in one view with no option that I could find to separate them. This was impractical for me since text messages generally have a higher priority than email and they weren't easy to find mixed with the email.
- The text entry functionality is the worst I've ever used. The t719 seemed to be very bad at guessing what I wanted to type and there's no way to add new words to the dictionary.
- White space isn't economized when reading email. There were big gaps of empty space which work fine in a traditional email reader, but are huge annoyance on a small screen.
- Emails longer than a few hundred characters were impractical to read since I experienced big delays while the phone retrieved more email text between pages. Seems like it could retrieve more text in the background while you're reading rather than waiting for you to click "page down."
- The calendar didn't sync wirelessly via the blackberry enterprise server. I had to plug the phone into my PC.
- Won't run downloaded java apps that need network connectivity so I couldn't run the nifty gmail client that google offers. Not sure why Samsung disabled this.
- The annoying camera click that you can't disable is a good second or two off from the actual capture of the picture. Cheesy.

Pros:
- I think Samsung's interface and menu's are the best and the prettiest. It's very easy to navigate options. Too bad there aren't enough of them.
- The phone's camera flash doubles as a flashlight. This is pretty cool and extremely handy.
- Samsung phones are always very durable and the t719 is no exception. In comparison, a couple of accidental drops for my Razr resulted in dust under the screen. I've never had any durability problems with a Samsung.

Pretty good phone with one exception.
This phone is reasonably sized and not too thick for a flip-phone, which I wanted because my previous phone (choc bar) screen had got scratched and cloudy. Also I was fed up with dealing with external buttons getting pressed accidentally. I also wanted bluetooth (for the car) and a reasonably good still-shot camera (it does video too) with more than 1Mpixel, as video-only resolution cameras are really not very good quality. Unlike some phones, there is no external button to turn on its camera with the case closed - a really good thing. This phone seems to fit the bill, except because of all the extra functions, doing basic operations is somewhat more complex than I would like.

My biggest problem with this phone is the decision to use a QWERTY keyboard. If a company gives a number like 1-800-XXXHELP, how do you readily translate the letters to numbers? When I use a QWERTY keyboard, my finger memory allows me to use it efficiently. This does NOT translate into correct finger memory when holding the phone in one hand and using one or two fingers with the other hand. It would be much easier to use the old-style keyboard in this case. I guess its the Blackberry influence ;^(

Finally, if you use a bluetooth connection with your car for so-called hands-free operation, then when the car is started or the phone first switched on in the car, then the phone prompts you to confirm if you want to make a connection to the car. This is a real pain - you start driving and the phone starts to beep at you until you get it out of your pocket (not always easy when driving), flip it open and confirm. This may not be a safe thing to do while driving, but the alternative is to try to ignore the beeps, or to pull over and do the deed safely. Why can't they have a mode that just establishes a connection automatically for selected devices? Do other phones do this?