The Samsung Glyde isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
I went and bought a new cell phone yesterday. My Motorola KRZR was giving me problems in the past couple of weeks and on Friday, the damn thing simply shut down. I had tried to make some phone calls, but the thing wouldn’t process the calls and when I tried to reboot the system, it simply became stubborn and wouldn’t turn on. So I went and bought the Samsung Glyde…and it sucked.
It’s a nice phone and if you like cool design, then go get it, but if you’re trying to find the proverbial iPhone “killer”, then this is probably not the way to go. The touchscreen is nice, but if you get a phone, shouldn’t it be easy to figure out how to use the damn thing? The touchscreen feature wouldn’t register pressure on the screen. I had to hit buttons like “Back” or “Home” multiple times and found it extremely difficult to access the web browser and other options around the phone. If you click on the center of the screen, you get the main menu, but if you click on the button explicitly labeled “main menu” on the touchscreen, then you’ll get an abbreviated menu. What’s the difference?
I like how the screen is the entire width of the phone, but Samsung needs to go back and figure out how to make it easier for regular folks to access their information. I think it also has to do with Verizon’s data system…if you upload your e-mail account into their VZ plan, it doesn’t seem to reconcile with your web mail account. I’ve typed out an e-mail in GMail online, but didn’t see it reflected in the email web browser. It just doesn’t seem to be working out for me…and so I dumped the phone and got a new one!
With all the technical glitches and inconveniences, I think that Samsung needs to go back to the drawing board. The Samsung Glyde looks awesome and has a good camera, nice display, but what it lacks is in certain functionality, which will screw people over. So save your money and wait a while until the Glyde is released in a newer version (whenever that’ll be). The TV commercials don’t do it justice.
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