Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6821 in Cell Phone Accessories
• Color: Red
• Brand: Samsung
• Model: Juke
• Released on: 2007-10-18

Features

• Digital audio player/cell phone in red with swiveling front cover reveals numeric keypad
• 2 GB of internal flash memory holds up to 500 CD-quality songs; easy synchronization to your PC via USB
• VGA camera, stereo Bluetooth streaming, optional GPS navigation service
• Up to 3.5 hours of talk time, up to 250 hours (10.4 days) of standby time
• Includes: Standard Li-Ion Battery, Travel Charger, Stereo Headset, USB Cable and User's Guide

Amazon.com Product Description
At first glance, the Samsung Juke looks like a typical stick-style MP3 player, which it is. But swing open the swiveling cover and you'll find a shiny keypad underneath that unlocks the advanced cellular features of this amazingly compact phone. It's a great way to combine two devices into one, with the Juke offering 2 GB of internal memory and compatibility with a wide variety of digital audio formats. It also features USB connectivity for transferring music from your PC, stereo Bluetooth for streaming to wireless headphones, integrated GPS, a VGA camera, and downloadable games, ringtones, and wallpapers from Verizon's Get It Now over-air service. In addition to red, the Samsung Juke also comes in teal and blue.

Offering powerful digital audio playback features, the Samsung Juke swivels to open up a wide array of cellular communication tools, including text/IM messaging and GPS navigation.

Verizon Service
This phone is compatible with Verizon's Get It Now wireless pay-per-download service, which 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. And Verizon's Chaperone service lets you easily locate your loved ones from your Verizon Wireless phone or PC in real time. After defining a zone, such as an area designating a school or summer camp, you'll be sent an alert via text message when the Chaperone handset enters or leaves the zone.

Note that this phone is not compatible with either Verizon's V Cast music or Mobile Web services

Phone Features
The Samsung Juke functions flawlessly as a full-featured digital audio player. A navigation thumb wheel on the front allows for easy searching through music play lists, contacts and settings. The 1.45-inch TFT LCD has a 128 x 220-pixel resolution, support for 262K colors, and displays 10 lines of text. The 2 GB flash memory capacity will hold approximately 500 CD-quality songs, and it's compatible with MP3, AAC/AAC+, and WMA/WMA Pro file formats. You can create and manage playlists on the fly, synchronize music from your PC to the phone, and multi-task using other functions on the phone while listening to your tunes. You can listen to music via the on-board speaker or the included color-matched stereo headset. Other features include a choice of music skins (visualizer or album artwork) and preset equalizer and 3D sound settings.

Amazingly thin and light, the Samsung Juke measures just 1.2 inches wide and weighs 2.82 ounces.

This phone also provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity with the A2DP Bluetooth profile, which enables you to stream music to compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones or speakers. It also includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, audio/video remote control, and serial port/object push for vCard.

A little flick of the thumb and the display spins up to reveal all the keys you need to dial, text, take pictures or almost anything else you want to do. Support is built in for text messaging and mobile IM. When used in combination with the phone's built-in still and video camera, MMS opens up a whole new world of messaging fun. T9 text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for entering text on handsets, is built into the unit--a plus for mobile email and text messaging users.

You can also snap photos on the go with the integrated VGA camera, which can capture images in three resolutions (640 x 480, 320 x 240, and 160 x 120 pixels) with variable quality settings. It features a night shot mode for less-than-ideal lighting conditions, a self timer, brightness and white balance controls, multi-shot capability, and choices for shutter sounds (including silent mode). This phone does not offer video capture capabilities.

The Juke's internal phone book can hold up to 500 contact entries with five phone numbers and two emails per entry (as well as notes). You can also pair contact up with a group, a picture for caller ID, or one of 11 polyphonic ringtones. Other features include:

• Voice Commands: Voice dial, digit dial readout, call announcement
• Personal Organizer: Calendar with scheduler, note pad
• Tools: Calculator with converter, alarm clock, stopwatch, world clock
• Speed dialing
• Speakerphone
• 72-note polyphonic ringtones
• Bilingual user interface: English and Spanish
• Hearing aid compatibility: M3

Vital Statistics
The Samsung Juke weighs 2.82 ounces and measures 3.82 x 1.18 x 0.83 inches. Its 750 mAh 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 CDMA 800/1900 frequencies as well as the CDMA 2000 1XRTT data frequency.

Customer Reviews

Second Only to the iPhone for Audiophiles
If you're a music lover, the Juke is for you. Granted, it only has 2 GB storage, so if you want more, the iPhone is the best thing for you. On a similar vein, if you use iTunes it would be a good idea to buy an Apple products - it took me hours and hours to get past Apple's copy protection used in iTunes (I had to burn CDs of my music, then import them as MP3s...). One final issue before I shower my praise upon this miracle of a machine: The headphone jack is not the standard MP3 player size (3.5mm) - it's a smaller size meant for phone headsets (2.5mm). Thankfully, a 2.5mm to 3.5mm converter is cheap. But these are really the only drawbacks I can think of for this phone. I can't complain. Everything else on the phone is straightforward and intuitive. The Juke is a minimalist's dream; so simple, yet so powerful.

The impetus for my purchase of a new phone was the need for bluetooth support. California law required that I have a hands-free headset, and so I set out looking for a phone to work with that. I didn't have restrictions on the phone carrier because my contract had conveniently and coincidentally just ended. This phone is everything the average cell phone user needs and, at the risk of being redundant, even more to the audiophile.

The built in camera is nice - 640x480 pixels is relatively good for a phone's camera. I've used it a bit and definitely appreciate the ability to take pictures at a larger resolution than the small screen itself!

I've never had a problem with reception, sounding too quiet or any such problem with communication itself. Actually, texting is a bit slow compared to a phone with a built-in keyboard, but I only use texts sparingly anyhow.

It's a nice phone - I highly recommend it to the average audiophile. However, if you need to text or store a freakishly large amount of music, maybe this isn't your phone.

Totally awesome!!
This outlasts anything!!

Call me a bad phone caretaker, but I *washed* my juke. In the washing machine. At first, I panicked because the battery started draining while it was turned off, and also the speaker broke (as in, you couldn't talk into the phone without sounding really fuzzy). I found two solutions--- take the battery out and use the headphones for speaking.

Not like I needed to, because after a couple weeks it was completely fixed! I'm not sure how, but it works as good as new now!

Also, with only 2 GB it can hold 400 songs, which makes it just as good as any other iPod, and anyone who knows iPods knows that they are *extremely* sensitive to water damage... not this phone/MP3 player =]

Simply the best cell phone I have ever owned.
I have to say I agree with all of these other reviews because the Samsung Juke from Verizon is simply the best cell phone I have ever owned in my life I love everything about it the crisp bright screen and display the camera is actually pretty good for a VGA camera and the phone is tiny and perfect to fit into your pocket the ringtones sound nice and loud when played and flip your phone closed to play music either from speakerphone or with nice headphones it comes with the menus look new and nice and texting is actually not a pain on this phone despite the size Verizon actually does something I like finally you get to preview ringtones and wallpapers before you buy them its a miracle no more buying ringtones without knowing which part of the song it is and if its like 10 seconds and you can look at the wallpapers before you buy them overall I am very satisfied with this phone and would definatly 100% reccomend it to anybody