- Affordable clamshell phone with easy-to-use menus, bright displays, and speakerphone
- Access to NFL Mobile Live (with live audio broadcasts); comapatible with Sprint Mobile Email and Mobile Sync services
- Bluetooth for handsfree communication; text and SMS voice messaging; downloadable games and ringtones
- Up to 4.4 hours of talk time; measures 3.6 x 1.9 x 0.7 inches and weighs 2.7 ounces
- Includes: handset, battery, travel charger, battery door, quick start guide
Amazon.com Product Description
Attractive and attractively affordable, the Samsung M220 clamshell phone for Sprint provides all the essentials for voice and text communication and on-the-go productivity. You’ll enjoy handsfree calls via the integrated speakerphone or via an optional Bluetooth headset, and the phone offers voice dialing capabilities. You can choose such optional Sprint services as NFL Mobile Live (with live audio broadcasts and up-to-the-minute stats), Mobile Email and Mobile Sync, which provides easy online address book synchronization and more. Other features include dual LCD screens, Web browser, and up to 4.4 hours of talk time.
Compact and affordable. |
Sprint Service Options
Sprint brings you closer to this season’s NFL action with NFL Mobile Live, which enables you to listen to the live radio broadcasts of every NFL game throughout the 2008 regular season. Sprint is making it easier to follow a specific team by carrying a live radio broadcast for each game, including pregame and postgame reports in most instances. NFL Mobile Live also allows NFL.com fantasy owners to monitor the performance of every player in real time directly from their phone. Key information for individual players will be easily accessible, including real-time game and season cumulative stats, rankings, player profiles and photos. NFL Mobile Live is free of charge to Sprint data subscribers.
With Sprint Mobile Email, you’ll get easy access to your favorite home email services including AOL, Yahoo!, Gmail, and MSN/Windows Live Hotmail and more. And Sprint Mobile Email Work enables you to access email from corporate servers, including Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007 and Lotus Notes Domino versions 6.0, 6.5 and 7.0 (with the latest software update).
The Samsung M220 features easy-to-use menus, bright displays, speakerphone, Bluetooth technology, Internet access and SMS voice and text messaging. |
 |
The Sprint Mobile Sync service enables you to store and manage up to 5,000 contacts in your Sprint Mobile Sync address book, including phone numbers, addresses, notes and other fields. After your phone is activated, every change you make to your address book will be automatically saved on the Sprint network and every change you make online will be updated on your phone. Create and manage personal Group Connect groups to instantly reach up to 20 other users, at the same time, via Nextel Direct Connect or texting. Import contact fields to your address book or synchronize them with your Microsoft Outlook contacts.
Sprint Vision provides innovative wireless services like web access, and email and text messaging capability. Plus, with the Sprint National Network, you get the nationwide coverage and excellent voice clarity.
Phone Features
Styled with a smooth, rounded finish, the Samsung M220 has dual LCD screens–an internal 2-inch, 65K-color display with a 128 x 160-pixel resolution and an external 65K-color display with a 96 x 96-pixel resolution (which provides an easy view to signal strength, battery life, and current time). Inside the clamshell, you’ll find an alpha-numeric keypad and standard five-way toggle with send/end keys and two soft keys for navigation. The phone can store up to 300 contact entries–each storing 5 numbers, email and internet addresses–and it supports caller groups as well as ringer and photo IDs.
For convenience and adhering to local laws, the phone has a speakerphone that lets you hear callers loud and clear. It’s also Bluetooth-enabled (version 2.0), allowing you to communicate handsfree with an optional headset or car kit.
Instantly send and receive SMS Text Messages across the room or across the country, anywhere in the Nationwide Sprint Network. Send voice messages to any mobile phone or email address–just select a recipient, record a message and send. T9 text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built into the unit–a plus for mobile email and text messaging users.
Other features include:
- Speaker-Independent Voice Dialing: Say the name of any entry in your phone book and the number is dialed automatically without using the keypad. This feature is speaker-independent, so there is no need to train the phone to respond to any one person’s voice.
- Built-in productivity tools including a calendar, scheduler, to-do list, world clock, calculator, stopwatch and alarm clock
- Voice memo for up to 60 seconds with a maximum of 10 recordings
- Choose from a wide selection of polyphonic ringtones playing in rich, 32-chord harmony
- Compatible with select TTY devices
- Hearing aid compatibility = M4/T4
- Wireless Backup to manage contacts list in the event that the phone is lost, stolen or damaged
- Downloadable screen savers, ringtones, applications and games
Vital Statistics
The Samsung M220 weighs 2.7 ounces and measures 3.6 x 1.9 x 0.7 inches. Its 1000 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4.4 hours of talk time. It runs on the 850/1900 MHz CDMA/CDMA2000 1xRTT frequencies.
I got this phone to replace another phone that I lost. Since I am so obviously irresponsible with phones I decided to get the cheapest one Credo offered and since I’ve had good luck with Samsungs before: this is what I ended up with. I can’t stand it. It’s alright for making a call, and it CAN text, but… if you are used to any halfway decent interface and navigation you will be very irritated with this. The menu icons are primitive. The phone is very lightweight which gives it a “cheap” feel. But the worst part is that when you’re texting the “space” is unreliable if you text fast. Whichcanmakeallyourwordsruntogether if you are not watching the screen carefully. If you type enough to fill the screen it jumps down a whole text block and won’t let you scroll up just a line.
The phone seems to get warm pretty fast, which worries me. And it seems that the battery wears down pretty quickly, which would also worry me if I planned on keeping this phone or depending on it.
The main screen IS color, which is nice. There is bluetooth, and apparently you can download some of your own content, choose ring tones and images specific to individual contacts, which is also nice. There isn’t a folder for pictures so I don’t think you can download thumbnail photos. I can’t find where it says how much memory the phone has, so I’m guessing not much. It has a “scheduler” and a memo pad, an alarm clock, and calculator. Space for 500 contact numbers.
There is no camera.
The annoying texting is a deal breaker for me, so I won’t be keeping this phone long enough to see how its other nice features work.
Rating: 3 / 5