Samsung Saga Reviews

Name: Bob
Location: Washington DC
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The device is nice, seems to be built well and has a lot of features. However... the storage card is not always recognized, frequently I have to remove it and reinsert it to be able to access it. Lately the device locks up when typing an e-mail or text message, the only option is to reset it and even then most of the time it does the same thing on start up.
I suspect it is a software issue but haven't been able to determine the cause. It has been VERY frustrating. It is a business phone so I don't have the choice to change, otherwise I wouldn't have it any longer.

Name: Patrick C.
Location: Mission Viejo, CA
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I love this phone. It may not have every fun app out there, but that's not what it was intended for. Office Mobile works great. The phone settings can be altered so you have to tap the power button to wake which prevents the screen or buttons from turning it on. My only criticism is the phone should have been sent with the extended battery. The stock one is simply too small. I only manually synchronize emails on the phone. The touch pad works great for controlling the mouse. I also have a work blackberry and find the keyboard is just as funtional.

Name: Scott Brooks
Location: Indianapolis
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There are not enough words in the English language to describe how horrible this phone is! Had mine for a week, and can think of nothing better to do with it than smash it to bits with a hammer.

If dealing with WinMo 6.1 weren't enough punishment, the touch screen is a total pain to use, constantly putting you into a screen you didn't select etc. You must use it with a holster as if you put it in your pocket, it will do all kinds of crazy things like pocket dial the last call you made or worse, send phantom text messages, reset functions, once it even de-selected the phone from the settings tab. I pulled it out of my pocket to see that I had missed three calls, and all of them had came in the past 5 minutes. When I went to the settings tab, there was a big red X through the phone icon. ridiculous!

I am certain there is a bug in the firmware as about once a day the phone will "lock up" where the touch pad works as far as moving the cursor around the screen, but the button function of the mousepad does not work, nor does any other button on the entire phone work, including the on/off button. So....when it goes into this lock up mode, the only thing you can do is to remove the back of the phone and take the battery out for a few minutes and re-install. It will return to it's normal crappy operation at that time.

The battery life is utterly ridiculous. This morning I unplugged it from the charger at 8:30 am, used it sporadically through the day, maybe 60 minutes talk time total. By 4:00 pm I was getting a low battery notification and by 5:30 it had shut itself off due to low battery. Completely unacceptable!

Unless you like headaches and frustration, I would avoid this phone completely if at all possible.