- 3G-powered smartphone with 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard; customizable and intuitive user interface
- Compatible with AT&T Navigator GPS, Video Share, AT&T Mobile Music, and streaming video from Cellular Video service
- 3-megapixel camera/camcorder; Bluetooth stereo music; MicroSD expansion (to 16 GB); digital audio/video player
- Up to 3 hours of talk time, up to 240 hours (10 days) of standby time
- What’s in the Box: handset, battery, travel charger, user manual, quick start guide
Amazon.com Product Description
A great choice for those looking for the latest in multimedia and messaging, the Samsung Impression for AT&T offers one of the most crystal clear mobile phone viewing experiences thanks to its 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen. It’s paired with a full QWERTY keyboard–great for composing long email messages and mobile blogging–which slides out from the side of the phone. Other features include a 3-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth connectivity for handsfre… More >>
This is more a review of Amazon than it is of the phone. I ordered the phone through Amazon, with the specification that I wanted to KEEP my old phone number.
I received the phone promptly…. without a MANUAL. While setting up the phone with AT&T, they said that sometimes things get left out when buying with other providers. Now, this wouldn’t normally be a big deal because you can find whatever information you need on-line. But this is a really complicated phone!!!! I couldn’t make heads or tails of anything I was looking at. Once you know where everything is, I imagine it would be much easier to operate. But I had issues.
And then I was informed that because of a glitch in Amazon’s site, that my old number had not transferred over to my new phone. And because where I live now has a different area code than my original number, AT&T couldn’t make the transfer for me. So now I have to return everything. So much for trying to save some dough.
Rating: 2 / 5
I was so excited about getting this phone! Read all the reviews and specs, I couldn’t wait, my only fear was with AT&T. Years ago, I had their service and it was bad, but thought I’d give them another try since many seemed happy.
Well there are many things I love about this phone, great for texting, very responsive touchscreen, very fast web browser, good picture and call quality to name a few.
What I didn’t like was the volume of the ring tones were too soft, if I were outside, I could barely hear it ringing, also the vibration mode, I could barely feel it vibrate, but I was still willing to keep it despite these drawbacks.
The dealbreaker for me, is when I went into my local Pathmark supermarket and had absolutely no signal, no 3G, no gsm, nada! I couldn’t call or text. To me this was unacceptable, I could understand if I were in a subway or elevator, but a store thats in a major city, NY, please! And I always got service in this store using Sprint and Verizon.
It seemed to be the same old AT&T. Some things never change.
I need a phone that I can depend on, a phone that will ring if someone is trying to call, if I’m paying top dollar with a 2 year subscription, I expect good service.
I doubt that it was because of the Impression, I blame the carrier.
Needless to say I returned the phone, I’m sure there were probably other places where I wouldn’t get reception, but I wasn’t willing to wait that long to find out.
The LG envy touch is coming out June 5th, gonna give that a try.
Rating: 2 / 5
i hate this phone. when i thought of this phone, i thought of the new touch wiz that had myspace and facebook, twitter… but no this is the older version. i do love this key Bord though. when i press on the phone in a certin way or if ipush the keyboard out to hard, the screen goes dark and you cant use the screen at all
Rating: 1 / 5
I initially liked this phone for the look of it…very stylish, like the color, like the size and weight, beautiful screen. It does have great features; calendar, contacts, touchscreen, camera, music, etc. all work fine.
However. Starting in the first week of owning it I ran into a major problem. It wouldn’t send text messages. The message will attempt to send then just get stuck in the outbox. I did some research online and found this to be a problem for just about EVERYBODY with this phone. The only resolve is to turn the phone off and back on to get the text message to go through. This probably happens 3 or 4 times a day. For a phone that classifies itself as a great texting phone…this is a joke. Another big problem is the vibrating mode. I have it set on vibrate, and didn’t even realize it wasn’t working till I dropped it once then it really started vibrating. Well that didn’t last long; it is back to this pathetic, unnoticable vibrate that wouldn’t even get anybodies attention. Other dislikes/problems: the unlock button is hard to push, you can’t see the screen AT ALL in the sunlight, no camera flash.
Rating: 3 / 5
I bought one of these phones with a two year contract, and switched from a Blackberry Curve. It has some very good features, like the large Qwerty keyboard and a good sized screen. It has some bad features as well, like low ring tone sound that you can’t correct and switching between calls, which is difficult. Overall I would say that the phone was marginal to average with some good features.
Here is what sucks. After having the phone for three months, I noticed the camera button had fallen off. Can’t take many pictures that way. I called Samsung – the not so much English rep in Texas (I suppose) said that I had to take it back to the retailer and they would replace it. I did – they laughed at me. I called back and spoke with a nice lady and after I explained 4 or 5 times that I had not damaged or dropped the phone and did not break it in any manner, she sent me a free mail label and I sent the phone in to Samsung in Texas. A short time later they sent me an e-mail informing me that my phone would cost $70.00 to fix.
I called them back and griped for several minutes to a first line worker and a supervisor. I got the same corporate BS line. That is not covered under the warranty as it is physical damage. I explained several more times that I had not damaged the phone and they responded by saying that the buttons on the phone were on the outside and not covered by warranty. Apparently the phone and anything else Samsung makes does not have much of a warranty. So Supervisor TIA, this is the first of many reviews I will share with anyone who thinks they might purchase anything Samsung. I warned you I would start an Internet campaign that lets consumers know your warranty sucks and you do not support your products. Many, many more to come. I guess I should have stayed with my Blackberry which was a great phone. And I guess Samsung is the Toyota sticky accelerator of cell phones.
Rating: 1 / 5