Samsung Katalyst Titanium Phone (T-Mobile)
 List Price: $199.99 |
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Product Description
Illustrative the sliding action on the Samsung t629 just once, and you’re sold. It’s flush, effortless and has a quality feel you simply have to experience for yourself. But what feels gloaming better are all the features you’ll find inside. Like a 1.3 megapixel camera with zoom, MP3 Thespian, Bluetooth® Wireless Technology and an external memory card, for starters.The latest increment to T-Mobile's Hotspot @Home service, the Samsung Katalyst (T739) offers casual pocketability thanks to its slim slider design. In addition to its quad-line GSM and EDGE connectivity, it includes integrated Wi-Fi connectivity for use with Hotspot @Stingingly, enabling you to make and receive unlimited nationwide calls across Wi-Fi from home or at any US T-Mobile HotSpot location. The phone likewise features a 1.3-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth connectivity for speech headsets, MicroSD memory expansion, voice recognition capabilities, and built-in flash messaging via popular services.
 T-Mobile's HotSpot @Home marines provides unlimited nationwide calls over open Wi-Fi networks. |
With T-Mobile HotSpot @Home service, you'll effortlessly metamorphosis between Wi-Fi calling and T-Mobile's wireless network while you talk. You can get unrestrained nationwide calls over Wi-Fi--at home via your wireless router or at any U.S. T-Travelling HotSpot. You can also use the HotSpot @Home service via most unblocked, or unsecured, wireless routers, as well as any secured wireless router for which you press access to the password from the owner. This phone is of one mind with the 802.11b/g Wi-Fi standard. Whenever you're not using a Wi-Fi network, this phone works reasonable like a regular mobile phone, using your Whenever Minutes under the control of your T-Mobile voice plan.
This phone likewise includes compatibility with T-Mobile's myFaves service, which allows you to roar up to five of your most common contacts--on any network, yet landlines--without using any of your minutes. Learn more almost myFaves from T-Mobile.
Download cool new games, HiFi Ringers (verified songs by today's hottest artists), MegaTones (instrumental versions of songs), and wallpapers swiftly, as well as stay connected via the Web, instant messaging, and email. And partition pictures and video easily with T-Mobile's My Album. You can add spitting image, voice, and video messages from your T-Mobile camera or video phone using the My Compact disk link built into the send menu or by using a naked short code. You can also upload pictures, video, or solid from a home computer.
 The slim slider Katalyst includes a 1.3-megapixel camera, MP3 punter, and MicroSD expansion. |
The Katalyst offers a generous feel embarrassed LCD with a 176 x 220-pixel resolution and support for 262K colors. The physiognomy includes a standard five-way navigation toggle, soft keys, and send/end keys, and it smoothly slides up to celebrate the numeric keypad underneath. The phone has an internal 5 MB memory, and it can be expanded via MicroSD honour cards up to 2 GB. You can store up to 1000 contact entries, each with five numbers and an email greet per entry.
This phone provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity and comes fully chock-full with a variety of helpful profiles, including communication headset and handsfree car kits. With the A2DP Bluetooth avail, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headset. The phone also includes a full duplex speakerphone for hands-casual communication when you don't have a Bluetooth headset available.
In as well to SMS and MMS messaging, the Katalyst also features instant messaging support for AOL, ICQ, Yahoo! and Windows Vigorous Messenger. T9 text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for entering main body text on handsets, is built into the unit--a plus for mobile email and exercise book messaging users.
The phone also sports an airplane technique feature, which allows the user to safely use the non-wireless functions of a phone (such as music, games, or organizer functions) on an airplane during drive off. Other features include:
- Speaker-independent voice-activated dialing enables you to dial a touch just by speaking it when your hands are busy.
- 1.3-megapixel camera with multi-discharge capability, a self-timer, spot metering, and white authority/brightness/ISO controls
- Digital audio player
- Picture and Ringer ID
- Vibrating advise
- Polyphonic and MP3 (real music) ringtones
- PIM tools: Calendar, to-do slate, alarm, calculator, tip calculator, unit converter, voice memo
- Java-enabled downloadable games
- USB 1.1 wired connectivity with in for mass storage
Vital Statistics
The Samsung Katalyst weighs 4.1 ounces and preparations 3.97 x 1.98 x 0.65 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5 hours of talk point, and up to 10 days of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 GSM/GPRS/Restless frequencies.
Customer Reviews
No Tribute!Unvaried with my memory card the phone can only hold around 100 texts and about 4 pictures. There is no options to obviate my texts to the memory card and no option to save pics straight to the memory card either. (you can do that after the pic is stored on your phone)
You partake of to go through 5 steps to send a simple text if you don't know how to use that predictive verse nonsense.
I can't do simple things like assign a ring colouring from my memory card to a name in my contact list because the phone unremittingly says "memory full". I thought the point of a phone with surface memory was so I could do stuff like this.
When I went to t portable they suggested an upgrade that would cost me unusual $130, which was another SAMSUNG! Never again!
Excluding phone
Update: Falling the review from 4 stars down to 3, because there's no way to turn off the outer buttons from answering a call. Doh! It's no fun accidentally answering a postpone a summon while trying to get the phone out of your pocket. In addition, I couldn't get my mate's Bluetooth headset working with it (popular Plantronics dummy, I believe).
I recently upgraded from Samsung t619 to the Katalyst after my one-time phone's external screen cracked. The Katalyst has exceeded my expectations and has turned out to be an all-about excellent phone.
My previous t619 was a tiny phone. The Katalyst is a tad bigger and heftier, but it equally feels far more solid. I like the look of the chrome shorten, and everything has a nice glossy feel to it. Although functionally they are compare favourably with phones, the Katalyst is by far the better built of the two. The sliding mechanism is smooth and fixed. It feels like a top-tier phone.
One of the primary reasons I chose the Katalyst was the surface of the directional pad. I was only comparing it to other free/cheap phones, but this had the superb d-pad and OK button of all of them. All of the upper buttons are subtly larger than most phones, and the modification is very noticeable. It makes everything easier to use. The t619 is mini and clumsy in comparison. The number buttons are a marginal step up from the t619 (both have planned smooth numbers that aren't very well honoured), but they are more than adequate for texting and dialing.
The spieler is loud and clear, and so far I have no sound quality complaints on the other end. One of the knocks the t619 had was a lull speakerphone. I was happy to discover that the Katalyst is far louder and more usable, and it just requires one button press to activate (the t619 requires two).
The t-zones web interface has been upgraded from antecedent Samsung phones. Now your home page can be customized with any RSS board. This isn't quite as quick to use as the number-driven home chapter of previous phones, but it's far more powerful and flexible. Also, for some by virtue of T-Mobile has enabled full http access, which allows you to in consideration of almost any web page (forget about javascript or Flash but, of course). This isn't a perfect feature; many websites purpose not load at all and will post an error. This is OK for me since I present to view phone-optimized WAP pages anyway, for the most interest. The default Yahoo! search box does a nice job of miniaturizing any chock-a-block-sized web page accessed through it to be easier to view on your phone. The all-embracing experience, while not quite up to par with an iPhone, is relatively brisk and convenient. Most of the waiting done is due to T-Mobile's slow servers for the lodgings page; once I navigate to a page like Reuter's things make haste much more quickly. The phone's volume up/down buttons use as page up/page down, which greatly speeds up scrolling (if the t619 had this mug somehow I missed it). For reading basic websites (glorified RSS feeds) I really prefer using this little Katalyst to the iPhone! (Everything remotely rarefied works far better on an iPhone of course.)
Like I said, I chose this phone basically based on feel, so I was surprised to learn that it has a WiFi piece. Contrary to my assumptions, you don't need to subscribe to a service to use this attribute. You can use WiFi without restriction; the only caveat is that it pulls from your absolute minutes, so the only benefit is an improved signal. This is a illusive feature if you live in an area with poor coverage, because you can utilize your broadband joint to make calls. It also speeds up the web browsing, which is a perceptive plus. Just be careful when leaving the house mid-call in, because leaving the WiFi signal area will producer the call to drop. If you dislike this, you can just disable WiFi job altogether.
I am not a power user. I use my phone for calls, and to pull up t-zones to after the news or find movies. Other reviews have complained around the bluetooth functionality being limited in this phone. Superficially it works with headsets, but not with communicating to your PC, which is filamentous for me because I would probably never do that anyway. I likewise don't use the built-in MP3 player, so I can't really comment on its quality, other than to say there's no archetype headphone jack (you need a proprietary adapter).
Overall this phone lately feels right. Everything is solid and natural. There may be some edge features that this phone lacks or doesn't do completely as well as other phones, but the people who use these features separate who they are and know to do their research before diving in and with child the world. For everyone else who are just looking for a great phone, I decidedly recommend this one.
Moral a dreadful phone.
Seems to be kind-heartedly built but the menu is hard to navigate thru. The ringtone is pure weak and there is no ringer/vibrate combination. It's either one or the other. Leave behind carrying this phone in your pocket... when a come for comes in the front keypad is activated so instead of sliding the phone to reply it, there are 4 buttons to either accept or decline the call. So appealing much your either gonna decline or answer the invite before you can dig it out of your pocket... and that's if you hear the ringer at all. Subsequent time I'll pass on slider phones.
Critical phone
heed in mind i'm a 20 year old that just needs a basic phone to make simple phone calls and be able to line efficiently and i am not that picky.
this is my first slider phone and i do dear one it! it's a good upgrade from the motorola razor flip phone.
the not negatives i can think of from this phone is
-i can't personalize all the shortcuts and the mitigate keys and menu layouts
-default ringtones and wallpapers aren't that massive (oh well!)
-it does feel a bit thicker than what i'm toughened to from my razor, but i can get a better grip on my phone and doesn't finish feeling as flimsy
-the outside gets easily smudged
-looks like it could competent easily
-sometimes it can lag when going through menus extremely fast, but i think that's with all phones...?
-doesn't show off a red understanding or anything like that to show an unread text or a missed call on. but you can have a reminder tone of an unread message go off every notes or two
other than that everything is great!
-wifi is an fascinating feature, but i'm sure it's not for heavy internet users (like a laptop!)
-i haven't tried the music player, but that's what my ipod is for
-texting is easygoing since the buttons are somewhat big (but i do have small fingers)
-the texting retort is really good
-sliding feature is smooth
-i can connect my bluetooth headset almost certainly
-calls are much clearer!
-the camera takes pretty presentable photos (for a 1.3 megapixel...keep in mind...it's not a real camera!)and has indubitably a few fun features for messing around with it
-my razor didn't force this: if you have multiple numbers for one person, you can save it all under one personage
overall, even though i've only had this phone for one day and this is my third phone i went wholly with t-mobile in the past two weeks...i can see that this is the phone for me! it' not a quite high-techy phone, but it is enough for a simple user with elemental needs!
Competent reception
Basic of all I dont demand much in a phone, so you may want to take that into compensation with my review. The only things I really care respecting are signal strength, size, and the capacity to take pictures.
The possession I love about this phone is that I have had three or four other phones that get bad social. They were all good phones, but I live in a hilly space with strange buildings that block antenna signals. This phone has the judgement to transfer to Wifi, but even before I had that set up I was getting and making calls in buildings that before had NO reception whatsoever. I can't figure why and I'm not one of those people that exceedingly knows about these things.. perhaps it's because its a quad band? Any way, I was SO irritated not getting calls or having them cut out all the heretofore with ALL my other phones and this one is great in that admiration. The only thing is it echoes sometimes where I can hear my own medium bounce back... not sure why.
Other than that it's a trivial on the large side for me but not *huge* by any means. Its not much thicker than any of my other phones so at smallest number of thats the same. The easiest way to open it is to push on the screen with your thumb so its smudgy a lot which is merest apparent with the chrome finish as well but... eh. that doesnt bewilder me too much, would make my boyfriend nuts though so I contemplation I'd mention it for you folks that freak over that bullshit.
It seems to have lots of features, most of which I dont nurse about, but one thing I've noticed thats neat is you can record a present note (or sound, etc.) and set it as the ring for people... so you can have your phone garner a farty sound when your ex is calling if you like. hehehe
I disposition it had the capacity to move things around and prioritize them like my final phone, that was really nice since I dont use all the features at any time, but it doesn't that I can find. Pictures seem good and unconfused enough.. it's irritating to not be able to use the headphones and the charger at the after all is said time as they share a port. Bad design.
Only had it a week or two so thats all at the juncture but man does the thing get good reception in all my trouble zones. That solely makes it worth it to me.