- Compact slider phone for voice communication as well as text and instant messaging
- Pay for just the minutes you use with no annual contract–easy refill via Internet or prepaid cards
- VGA camera for still photos; Bluetooth for handsfree devices; personal organizer tools
- Up to 6 hours of talk time, up to 336 hours (14 days) of standby time
- What’s in the Box: handset, battery, charger, wired handsfree headset, getting started guide, user manual (English/Spanish)
Amazon.com Product Description
Stay in touch with all your contacts and keep your busy life organized with the Samsung T239, and pay the way you want with prepaid and postpaid calling plans from T-Mobile Pay As You Go. The compact, T239 slider phone includes multiple messaging options–including text, picture and instant messaging–and it provides handsfree communication capabilities via an integrated speakerphone and Bluetooth connectivity. Other features include a VGA camera for still photos, personal organizer tools, compatibility with T-Mobile’s My Faves service, and up to 6 hours of talk time.
Easy to use yet packed with powerful communication tools, the prepaid T239 from T-Mobile Pay As You Go lets you pay the way you want. |
The compact Samsung T239 slider phone includes a VGA camera for still photos, Bluetooth for handsfree devices, and access to popular instant messaging services. |
T-Mobile Pay As You Go Prepaid Service
T-Mobile prepaid plans give you wireless access with less commitment, so you can pay–and talk–as you go. With no annual contract, no credit check, and no monthly bill, prepaid plans are a simple, direct way to go mobile. There are many ways to conveniently refill your T-Mobile Prepaid Plan so that you can stay continually connected with the people who matter most, including using web2go directly from your phone, via the T-Mobile web site, or using refill cards available at over 90,000 locations nationwide.
With Pay As You Go, you get wireless service exactly how you like it–there’s no long-term contract, no credit checks, and no surprises. Add $100 in refills with Pay As You Go and you’ll become a Gold Rewards customer, which gets you 15 percent more minutes on all refills and your minutes won’t expire for a year after the time you refill.
You can also pay only $1.00 per day for unlimited nights and unlimited nationwide calling to any T-Mobile number. All other domestic calls you make are just 10ยข per minute.
T-Mobile includes the following services with this T-Mobile Pay As You Go phone:
- Nationwide long distance (including calls to Alaska and Hawaii)
- National roaming on the T-Mobile USA network
- T-Mobile web2go (free shopping for HiFi Ringers, MegaTones, wallpapers, and more; not available on all devices)
- VoiceMail, caller ID, call waiting, three-way calling
- Free e-mail address (10digitnumber@tmomail.net)
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Additional services available for additional fees:
- Text messaging ($0.20 to send, $0.20 to receive)
- Picture messaging ($0.20 to send or receive)
- Download ringtones and wallpaper (prices vary)
- Download games and applications (prices vary)
- 411 & More directory assistance ($1.49 per call plus airtime)
- International dialing to over 150 countries (international rates apply)
- Prepaid international roaming rates
To keep your mobile number active, refill within 90 days after your minutes expire. After 90 days, your account will be canceled and you will lose your phone number. If you want to restart service after that time, you will need to activate new service.
It’s also compatible with T-Mobile’s myFaves service, which allows you to call up to five of your most common contacts–on any network, even landlines–without using any of your minutes. Learn more about myFaves from T-Mobile.
Phone Features
The Samsung T239 slider phone has a brightly colorful LCD screen (176 x 220 pixels, 262K color depth) that sits above a four-way navigation pad that’s surrounded by send/end keys and two soft navigation keys. Push the face upward and it smoothly slides open to reveal the standard alpha-numeric keypad that’s complemented with dedicated keys of accessing messaging tools and the phone’s web browser. This phone has a small 10 MB internal memory, which cannot be expanded. The phonebook can store up to 300 contacts with multiple numbers per contact entry.
Handsfree communication is easy thanks to the integrated speakerphone. This phone also provides Bluetooth wireless connectivity, and includes profiles for communication headset and handsfree car kits.
You’ll be able to stay in close contact with friends and family via both text (SMS) and picture (MMS) messaging, and this phone provides access to popular instant messaging services (including AIM, Yahoo!, and Windows Live) for fast, on-the-go conversations. This handset includes built-in T9 predictive text entry technology, which makes it easier to enter words and text.
Other features include:
- VGA digital camera (640 x 480 pixels) for still photos with 4x digital zoom
- Organizer tools: alarm, calendar, tasks, calculator, world time, converter, timer, stopwatch
- 40-chord polyphonic ringtones plus vibrate mode
- Graphic format support: JPEG, GIF, PNG
- Voice note recorder
Vital Statistics
The Samsung T239 weighs 3.34 ounces and measures 1.87 x 3.78 x 0.68 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 6 hours of talk time, and up to 336 hours (14 days) of standby time. It runs on the 850/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS frequencies.
Samsung t239 Prepaid Phone, Charcoal
I’m looking at the Samsung T239 manual right now (pg. 60) and it certainly DOES vibrate. The other reviewer is referring only to the alarm. And while dedicated web and mail keys may seem unnecessary on a prepaid phone, where you wouldn’t expect a lot of Internet access, this phone is also used with other types of T-Mobile plans.
One other thing. The product description has an error. While text messages on T-Moble’s monthly plans are $0.20 to send and receive, on the prepaid plans they are $.10 to send and $.05 to receive. Go figure.
Rating: 5 / 5
It’s better and has more future then the older model sidekicks *The only smart phone I’ve ever owned* Battery life is great, looks good, plays games, you could use your own music for ringtones *Take that Sidekick* camera is great *and it could Zoom unlike another phone I used* You could change the plan on this phone at any time, free web browser *only could look at some random stuff, sports, and news* the list goes on and on… GREAT PRE-PAID PHONE!!
Rating: 5 / 5
I had an opportunity to help a neighbor with her “new” Samsun St-239 from T-Mobil. It’s her first cell phone.
She like the fact that it had a camera. She used it on a trip to California last week. Today she asked me to upload her photos to her computer.
You can’t do it with this phone. It does have Bluetooth but it is specifically not provided with any software that allows one to directly transfer (i.e. upload) photos to a pc or a Mac.
So how do you get the photos out? Per the user manual, you email them to yourself one photo at a time! That’s right, one photo at a time..
You also can upload them to your Samsung MyAlbum somewhere on the web, but I believe that uses up some of your minutes.
Anyway, my personal feelings is that this is pretty archaic. My 5 year old Nokia 6102 flip phone uses Bluetooth to upload to pc’s or macs.
Plus the photos are VGA. Her pictures were grainy and fuzzy. The camera and the lack of Bluetooth uploads makes this phone/service combo more than a bit out of date to me.
Rating: 1 / 5
Samsung makes some pretty crappy phones but this has to be the worst of the worst. I needed a new phone without extending my t-mobile contract and this happened to be on sale (first sign to not get it).
Problems so far:
Falls apart easily (Back slides off and battery pops out)
Bad sound quality (sometimes it sounds like your underwater or talking in a box)
Random missed calls
Horrible Reception
Only Pros:
good battery life (very rare for a samsung phone)
Bunch of other annoying stuff also.
Rating: 1 / 5
bought this phone and had to send it back. poor design w/ the shortcut button setup. the navigation buttons can not be set for user shortcut. when you slide the phone up theres a button only specifically for web (who uses web for this cheesy prepaid phone). also on the right there is a shortcut limited for only mail/text. why would they put this when their is already a shortcut for this on your navigation button? seems poorly designed.
my BIGGEST complain is i used my cell phone for alarm and this phone does NOT vibrate and the sound is really LOW. you can barely here it. sent it back and got the nokia 1680 instead. a way better phone with lots of shortcut options.
Rating: 1 / 5