T-Mobile Samsung Behold SGH-T919 Review
Filed under: Cell Phones, Handsets | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: November 13, 2008 | 24 Comments
The Samsung Behold SGH-T919 or Instinct is the latest phone on T-Mobile so it deserves a review, just to see if the new cell phone has what it takes to mix it with the big boys. So many phones have come out of their corner with big words, saying that they will be able to take on the mighty Apple iPhone. When the phones did come out of their corner, the iPhone took one punch and the competition fell flat on their face.
The Samsung Behold SGH-T919 is another of those phones who wants to take on the iPhone 3G, but could this actually be the one, the “iPhone Killer.” The iPhone and the Samsung Behold look very similar to look at, but they do have their differences.
Both the iPhone 3G and Behold / Instinct are evenly matched, but the latter does have the edge when it comes to multimedia messaging, video recording and voice dialing. I am an iPhone user and I hate that the phone lacks these features, but we hope that a firmware update will correct this small issues.
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Well, then again the ringtone isn’t loud enough to hear over loud noises. I think that has to be changed.
The Telenav actually works fine, although it is just a 14 day trial. Although, there is the google maps that can be downloaded onto the phone.
Also, I found this site that gave directions on how to run multiple apps. at the same time. I tested it and it works… but if you have games where it saves data & stuff like for guitar rock tour, the career game play was at 77% completed… but then since I changed the phone to run 2 apps at the same time, it deleted any saved data… so now I have to restart playing the easy levels again. XD Oh well, it’s okay. I like playing it anyway.
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1469208
UPDATE:
There are a few apps. that can be downloaded onto the behold. I don’t want to post every single step on here… so please just visit samsung-behold.com It’s a forum where many others, new and experts of Behold join together to help one another. It’s a really helpful forum I can guarantee you that. That forum and a few others have helped me to become knowledgeable about the Samsung Behold.
By the way, yes I agree with Tom. The Samsung Behold is not very suitable for texting with one hand. It’s like a sidekick. I don’t think you can do that with one hand as well for the sidekick right? L0l. Unless you’re really talented and have very bulky hands. Other than that, I think the touch screen keyboard is responsive. It’s hard to type as fast as you want to just like other phones.
This phone is just cool to look at and thats about all. TXTing is mediocre at best, and one of the worst parts is not being able to see the thread. For some reason some Samsung developer decided that it was better to put the replies in the outbox and the received messages in the inbox?!?!? The lack of applications not only frustrating but really annoying. And here is something that also frustrating, you have the ability to go into sound profiles and change loudness of messages however Samsung decided to buid into the phone that messages are ascending which means they start quiet and get louder. The browser is really bad does not have a minimize feature, so when you get a message you cant minimize and check your message you have to close the browser. Overall this is not a very impressive phone, I could go on and on about all the negatives but I think you all get the point. Im going back to my Blackberry…
Aren’t most phones like that though? The messages you sent to people are placed in the outbox (that’s why it’s called outbox) and the messages you receive are placed in the inbox.
Right now there are only a few applications. There are a lot of people trying to create or find applications that can be placed on the behold. If you visit http://www.samsung-behold.com you’ll find a lot of useful information and sites to applications and touch screen games.
I’m not sure what you mean by the messages ascending … do you mean the ringtone? You can actually change the setting in the sound profile. That way the volume stays constant and doesn’t go from quiet to loud.
I’m not sure about the browser though as I don’t have internet with my phone. There may be an update to that.
I think this is a fun touch screen phone, and im glad tmobile finally got a touch screen phone most of the other services have.
I like how you can look at the pictures. And at first i wasn’t sure if you could change the wallpaper but am glad you can! Havent figured at the lock screen but will try.
Over all i think its a good phone
I like the behold but i was a little pushed to buy this phone. I think its a good phone i like the camera and how i can adjust the wallpaper. but i have nails and its a little hard to scroll down when im on the web. is there anyway to change the screen saver? im tired of looking at the same designs. i hate it that it doesnt have apps that would be cool. and theres only three different fonts i had the blackberry and i liked the different fonts and sizes. its an ok phone. but ive dropped at least 10 calls no kidding.
I bought two beholds back in december 2008. Beautiful phones, no problems until recently. Both drio calls left and right. At lest 5 or 6 times per call. cant hear the person you are calling, or they cant hear you either. When calling each other they wont connect. All this has been happening during the last two weeks. They are useless. No signal at home. I have been a T-Mobile costumer for 6 years and this is the only phone that has dropped calls on me. These phones are the only phones that get no signal. I called T-Mobile and I should be getting two new phones next week, hopefully these work. Otherwise is Hello iphone and goodbye Behold.
I bought my behold in November and have been dealing with samsung on several issues because t-mobile support is pretty much useless. The manual pretty much sucked which is why I think t-mobile people couldn’t help. The samsung people were good depending which person you got to help you. I have had problems with the touch screen not responding when I try to hang up a call. Even when I hit the red button at the bottom, many times the call wouldn’t hang up. Samsung received my phone on 2-10-09 for repair. As of today, 2-24-09, I still don’t have my phone back and when I call them to inquire about the progress of the repair, they read the crap off the teleprompter to tell me it’s going thru the repair process. There are some very cool things about this phone; 5 mp camera, qwerty keyboard etc but there are so many negatives also that I wish I hadn’t bought this phone when it first came out! Overall, I’m pretty disappointed with the behold.
i highly recommend you don’t but this phone.I’ve had it for 3 days now and its horrible. it drops 2 out of every 4 calls.And restarts automatically at times.Also its getting to the point where it shuts off by itself. Why did i buy this phone T.T .
LOVE it. Best phone I have used so far. Everything works really good, and everything works as advertised.Figuring it out is very easy I didnt even need to open the book to read up. This was a great buy.
The behold looks nice, but it kinda sucks due to simple, avoidable flaws.
reasons:
- No WI-FI
- There is no ‘jump to’ option for the mp3 player, meaning that if you pick “tracks” and you expanded to the 8 gig memory, you will be stuck scrolling for at least 5 minutes to find the song you want.
-The camera quality is decent, but only if the subject is COMPLETELY still or an inanimate object and there is a strangle delay on the flash.
- The alarm (this actually has just made me late for class today) automatically sets itself to not snooze AND sets the ‘alarm sound’ volume to ONE. You have to go to alarm sound to set it to a higher level…very stupid layout.
-Battery life is lame especially when you’re using it for mp3 and texting. It doesn’t come with a car charger (30 bucks more)
- The outlet jack for the headphones is some stupid samsung port instead of a regular headphone jack (and the headphone cable could easily have a headphone jack, but doesn’t) so you can’t connect it to any type of speakers or a cassette adapter for your car.
-The applications/widgets are few and horrible. Telenav is ridiculously slow and useless.
-If you’re illiterate and still want this phone, buy a case because it also scratches easily.
The only cool thing is the little texting keyboard, the expandable memory and the decent internal speakers and call quality (except when it drops, or you pick up random peoples convos thanks to t-mobile).
Definitely one of the stupider 3G ’smart-phones’