I find it hard to text through the keyboard, so I use T9- no problem.

I’m not sure about others, but my Behold restarts whenever it wants.

& at first, the battery will last you a day.
But now, it lasts me 20 minutes & I buy new batterys consistantly.

Though that coule be because I talk and charge my battery at the same time. You’re not supposed to do that, but I never learn.

1) does the behold get scratches really easily?

2) is it hard to text

3) how often does it freezes?

4) how long does the battery last? like, does it last 6-9 hrs??

First of all, the GPS just doesn’t seem to work! I’ve had it work one time and it took forever to locate me. I had to stop and let it “find me”. However, my cousin has the same GPS service on his phone (telenav) and his works quickly and efficiently? Most of the time on the Behold it gets stuck at 96% and then says GPS signal is too weak. When I called customer service about this, they basically told me to hold it directly toward the sky (silly!) and that it would probably only work in major cities. Okay, fine… but I live in BOSTON and like I said, it’s only worked once for me. Unacceptable.

The 5mp camera so far is my favorite feature, however, it’s slow to take photos. There is like a 5 second delay before it actually shoots the shots. You get used to the timing, but at first it was pretty annoying. The pictures do come out really nice though, especially if you can take time to set up shots well. There are quite a few options on the camera as well. I mostly have only dealt with the flash settings.

I have a 4gb micro SD card (for now) in my phone and the Behold recognized it right away, unlike many other phones I’ve tried that sometimes never recognize cards or you have to format them and install software on your computer. The Behold just comes up like a flash drive on the computer. It shows up on Rhapsody Music Player (which I prefer to iTunes, so I have never tried it with iTunes) and putting music on this phone is easy as pie. The video though… I had to do some research to find the right size/resolution and file type that would finally play and I had to find a program that would convert files to that. Once I did all that, the video player worked and it plays nicely.

The internet browser is NOT full HTML. I don’t know why Samsung is portraying it as such. It just simply is not. It does alright, but a lot of pages don’t even work no matter if you view the full version or the mobile version. I can go to Facebook, gmail, eBay and my bank site, and MOST other sites, so it’s not a huge deal to me, but it’s frustrating that I didn’t get what I was expecting when they said full HTML.

The keyboard I like for the most part. It works well for me, although sometimes when people with larger hands use it (I’m petite), they complain about it. Also, it drives me nuts that I have to enter passwords on a numeric pad, like on a regular phone. It switches to this mode automatically when you click on a password box and it’s really silly to me. I can’t figure out how to change it, so I don’t think there is a way.

Setting songs as ringtones is the easier on this phone than on ANY phone I’ve ever had and I’ve had a lot. (Blackberry Pearl, T-Mobile Shadow, Samsung Blast, samsung t819, Motorola RAZR to name just a few). Also, people seem to complain that this phone doesn’t have a 3.5mm jack. I got one on eBay for 2.99 free shipping, so.. that doesn’t really bother me. Also, the hands free headset it comes with isn’t all that bad, if you can fit earbuds in your ears, which I can’t. ;)

The interface has been fine to me. Sometimes it can lag and then it will do the last 2 or 3 things you asked it to all at once, but I would expect this from any phone like this and it hardly ever happens. I never had these resetting problems that others have talked about here… The phone works really well as a phone and I like the simplicity of the interface for such a small little complex machine, I just wish they would have spent more time on the features they boasted about.

I’ve had the phone since it first came out, so if anyone has any questions I might be able to help. And if anyone knows a fix for the telenav situation I would love hear it! Thanks!

So now we wait 7 days for a new battery to be shipped! JUST to see if it works. If it doesn’t than they said they will replace the phone at no charge.

Anyone else have this problem with their phone?[/quote]
[quote comment="57488"]I dunno bout the phone yet, i’m not the type to carry around a camera which is why I got it..
I still kinda like the instinct, and sprint’s service compared to t-mobile’s.
Soo I have some time more to return it[/quote]

The Same thinq Happen to me .. i got my phone on 12-12-08 .. and dee next day after havinq iit .. it kept resetinq it self .. soo i called tmobile and dey send meh a new battery .. when ii put dee new battery in .. it still kept resetinq it self AGAIN… Soo ii called tmobile again .. and dey just send mehh a WHOLE new Phone with a new charger …… i havent gotten it yet .. but ii hope it works

From time to time the phone will reset itself, but i figure it’s normal i have only had it for a few weeks now.
im guessing as time progresses it will stop,
or am i wrong?

So now we wait 7 days for a new battery to be shipped! JUST to see if it works. If it doesn’t than they said they will replace the phone at no charge.

Anyone else have this problem with their phone?

yea we really need to get a update cuz if the g1 haves a marketplace and there able to download a new aim that supports custom aways and everything else the behold should cuz we have to same data plan cuz there aim that came wit the phone is the same as ours on the behold but hopefully they get the memo soon…cuz i miss my sklx too and i never receive any of my aims on this phone = [

idk how ur using the camera but to me my camera is nice clear and gr8 indoors and outdoors and i didnt even touch setting yet and i had my phone for like 5 days already

other than that, i love the phone :)

If one uses the address fields in the phonebook, be prepared to be really annoyed anytime you look up an address.

The available fields are as follows: address 1, address 2, city, state, country, zip. It displays that information as follows: address 2, address 1, zip, city, state, country.

For example —- my old phone displayed address information like this:
Jane Smith
4186 N. Univ Parkway
#2205
Provo, CA 90010

This phone displays the address information as follows:
Address
#2205 4186 N. Univ Parkw
ay 90010 Provo CA USA

Since customer service is in India (I determined this from the strong accents, but they wouldn’t comfirm that fact), their standard response was “send the phone to us and we’ll see if we can fix it”. Apparently, the idea of software updates hasn’t hit that side of the world yet.