- Affordable clamshell phone with VGA camera for still photos, easy-to-use menus, bright displays, and speakerphone
- Access to NFL Mobile Live (with live audio broadcasts); comapatible with Sprint Mobile Email, Mobile Sync and Picture Mail services
- Bluetooth for handsfree communication; text and SMS voice messaging; downloadable games and ringtones
- Up to 3.5 hours of talk time; measures 3.5 x 1.9 x 0.8 inches and weighs 3.1 ounces
- Includes: handset, battery, travel charger, battery door, quick start guide
Amazon.com Product Description
Attractive and attractively affordable, the Samsung M320 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. It also adds a VGA camera for capturing still photos and sending them to friends and family via Sprint Picture Mail. Other compatible Sprint services include 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 3.5 hours of talk time.
Snap photos with the VGA camera and send to friends via Sprint Picture Mail. |
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 M320 features easy-to-use menus, bright displays, speakerphone, Bluetooth technology, Internet access and SMS voice and text messaging. |
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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 M320 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:
- Capture images up to 640 x 480 pixels with the digital camera and zoom, then easily share photos with friends and family using Sprint Picture Mail.
- 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 M320 weighs 3.1 ounces and measures 3.5 x 1.9 x 0.8 inches. Its 800 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3.5 hours of talk time. It runs on the 850/1900 MHz CDMA/CDMA2000 1xRTT frequencies.
This is a pretty predictable flip phone with a camera, but mine has three annoying problems.
1). I must say, the earpiece is total garbage. I don’t have the volume turned up that loud, but already the speaker inside the earpiece has started buzzing, meaning the speaker is starting to blow out. (The speakerphone is located very close by and I suspect this could be the culprit).
2). When I turn the phone on and start talking, I notice that the phone keypad gets very warm. My face isn’t burning, but its definitely noticeable after only about ten minutes of talk time.
3). On most phones, there is a “speakerphone” button on the keypad. But on this phone, you have to press “Option” and then scroll down to “Speaker.” It makes for a very awkward transition when you first answer and the other person is like, “Hey are you there? “Can you hear me now” Are you in a tunnel?”
If you want a cheap phone that usually comes free with a contract, check out your other options. I can’t comment yet on the camera or any other features, but overlooking these 3 problems is quite difficult.
Rating: 2 / 5
I’ve had a lot of inexpensive and simple phones in my life, and I would take any of them back over this “nice” and expensive phone! this phone is supposed to be worth $200, but now I know why sprint was giving them away for free! (well, at the price of a painful 2 year contract!).this phone is not userfriendly and is very complicated to navigate. the longer I have it, the more it starts to malfuncion. it’s difficult to desprcirbe the malfunctions but I’ll try. most have to do with text messaging which I use a lot:
-It shows me the same text as received twice
It insterts numbers in words that I commonly use when using t9. for example “some7imes”
The text conversations are saved out of order in the log, so when I look back at the conversation, everything is scrambled and I have to look at the time of the text to see how the convo actually went!
When writing texts, it gets stuck sometimes on certain words, expecially when I press next to pick the next word on the list. When I press “back” it erases the whole message instead of just one word or letter, and that message could have taken me like 10 minutes to write!
The number pad doesn’t light up when it’s dark, so I have to turn on my overhead light when I’m texting and driving at night :b
the keypad still makes noise when I have the phone on vibrate or silent!
DON’T BUY THIS PHONE, EVEN AT A GOOD PRICE. it always makes me wonder if my texts have been properly sent or received!
Rating: 1 / 5
I received this phone free for a 2 year agreement. BIG MISTAKE. Speaker phone is “whack” you have to go through “steps” to get to the speaker button, takes minutes to send or receive a picture, not good for “big hand” people, ear piece volumn is not loud enough, speaker volumn works only in closed doors with no one around, picture taking is not all that, have to struggle to take back of phone off, (make sure you have a piece of tape to grip back)…just straight up garbage!! Advice, DON’T GET IT OR YOU’LL BE SORRRRRRYYYYY.
Rating: 2 / 5
I have had some of the same issues mentioned by others as far as the phone being hard to open and the first ring not being as loud as the next. Also, I’ve had this phone for 9 months and searched and searched for a speakerphone button and was convinced one did not exist until I read “kazootibbs” review. My phone does not get any service where I work, so the battery is run down on “searching for signal” after an 8 hour shift when it was fully charged before my shift. Also, for the past couple months my phone does this thing where it reboots itself randomly and all my recent calls and text messages are just gone. So annoying! Can’t wait to get my Instinct for Christmas!
Rating: 3 / 5
After putting up with the quirks this has, it has met with the end of the road. 7 months and I wont be eligible for an upgrade for another 17 YIKES
This may be the deal breaker for sprint 2 year contracts in the future
Sure it has been dropped a few times, passes the test there and kept on working, but this weekend during a walk in a light rain I take a call and it turned out to be a 15 minute conversation. No big deal it got a little wet…
WRONG seems it got a lot wet and is now in do not work well mode (My Bad) I am so happy I kept my old Sanyo A much more intuitive phone.
As others have mentioned it is hard to open and access features, “OK” if you are sitting in a tree fort with nothing better to do. Yep its a phone, takes pictures and you can access the internet sort of.
Oh and the mirrored cover? It cracked while in my pocket on the first month. Now if only Timex made a Phone… Hmm
Rating: 2 / 5