Samsung U470 Juke

great design, beautiful color/casing, perfect size, comfortable to hold/carry/use, great sound quality, pretty durable, and amazing battery life

I've had it about a year and a half now, and it is possibly my favorite of phones i've ever owned and/or used! Yeah, i prefer this little guy to any blackberry/iphone/treo out there-- much more comfortable on your ear. I'm also not really interested in being able to check email/internet all the time or playing games on my phone, so if you're looking for that kind of thing, this isn't it. The battery generally lasts about 5 days with normal use (less if you play music) and charges pretty fast (and through USB if you want).

It is so sad they discontinued this phone. I've had mine for two years now and I'm about to have to say goodbye. I was stupid enough not to get insurance on it when I got it, and it turns out, while it would have been nice, it was not needed. I had a teething puppy chew on it, dropped it more times than I can count, the button that keeps the battery in place popped off from being dropped so many times, and once even lost it in snow for 20 minutes. Through all that, it still works great. The button no longer turns thanks to my dog's teeth and it refuses to sync or play music any longer, (no idea why that last part, but I suspect brain damage from frequent droppings.) Like I said, it would have been nice to be able to replace the phone for one without teeth marks, or whenever it lost the ability to sync and play music, but it wasn't necessary. The phone still works great, takes suprisingly good pictures considering its size, when the music player did work, it was clear and could get loud enough for me to entertain everyone in a Walmart backroom which is huge, and the color is beautiful. My only complaints are the sound quality for phone calls isn't so great. I can't understand half of what people are saying to me when they call, I frequently got ribbed for the size of the phone (though I personally like it, it is pretty small which makes viewing pictures on it hard,) and it has no video recorder. But considering everything else you get, especially the enormous memory for music files, (which is the reason I got it in the first place,) it was well worth the buy. I do, however, strongly reccomend getting insurance for this phone because it lost the ability to sync to computers or even play music after awhile. I still don't know whether that was my fault or a standard bug that pops up in all phones, but it really would have been nice to replace my phone once it stopped playing music.

This handy little phone has served me well for almost two years and I still love it!

Originally I bought it because of the small size and the features. The main things I wanted were:

- small size (fit in your pocket and not be bulky)

- bluetooth capable & voice recognition

- MP3 player

It has lived up to those requirements very well. I love using my Jabra earphone for voice dialing and listening to music.

It is also more durable than I expected. The swivel has not been a problem at all. It still works as well as the first day out of the box.

I usually keep the phone in my shirt pocket and have dropped it many times. It still works just fine. I expected the cover for the charging plug to break off after a while, but it too is in good condition.

Downside:

- I wish it had more memory or a slot for a micro SD

- Small screen is hard to read but I knew that going in (small phone was my main goal)

- Increased camera pixel count and ability to copy directly to computer would be nice.

Overall voice quality and usage of the phone is excellent.