- Uniquely designed camera phone with rotating display and 3-megapixel auto-focus camera
- Access Verizon’s V Cast Music and Video services via fast EV-DO data network; GPS-enabled for turn-by-turn directions
- MicroSD expansion; Bluetooth connectivity with music streaming; mobile email and instant messaging
- Up to 3.5 hours of talk time, up to 250 hours (10+ days) of standby time; measures 3.76 x 1.83 x 0.73 inches (HxWxD)
- Includes: Standard Li-Ion Battery, Travel Charger, Camera Strap, and User’s Guide
Amazon.com Product Description
Combining a cellular communications powerhouse with a powerful digital camera/camcorder, the uniquely designed Samsung Flipshot for Verizon includes a rotating display for optimal viewing while capturing still images and video clips on the go. Looking like a typical digital camera on the back with its round silver lens housing and flash, the Flipshot offers a 3-megapixel imager as well as a 10-step digital zoom, PictBridge printing right from the phone, and a wide variety of settings for capturing the perfect picture. Additionally, it’s compatible with Verizon’s V Cast Music service, which enables you to purchase songs through your phone and download them via Verizon’s fast EV-DO data network, as well as V Cast Video for streamed video clips from a variety of channels. Other features include Bluetooth stereo music streaming, mobile email and instant messaging, MicroSD memory card expansion, and a built-in GPS receiver for use with the optional VZ Navigator turn-by-turn direction service.
The Flipshot’s display rotates 180 degrees for optimal viewing in camera mode. |
Verizon Service
With support for the EV-DO high-speed data standard, you’ll enjoy fast access to the Internet and Verizon’s multimedia services (additional charges applicable), with average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps and peak rates up to 2 Mbps. (Learn more about where EV-DO coverage is offered.) The V Cast Music service enables you to download songs instantly to your phone, or purchase music through your PC and transfer the files to your phone. If purchased from your phone, you’ll receive two copies of the song: a Windows Media Audio Pro Plus format at 64Kbps stereo is sent to your phone, and a Windows Media Audio 9 format at 160Kbps stereo is sent to your account in the V CAST Music online store for downloading to your PC. V Cast Music offers nearly 2 million songs, with more being added all the time.
With the V Cast Video service, you can stream or download video clips to your phone from a variety of news, entertainment, sports, and weather channels, including CNN, ABC News, E!, CBS Sports, The Weather Channel, and VH1.
Getting on the Internet is easy using Verizon’s Mobile Web 2.0 package, which allows you to read and send e-mails, exchange instant messages and view your favorite web content on your phone. Verizon’s Get It Now wireless download service is also fully compatible with this phone. This pay-per-download service features application downloads, games and productivity tools. You can also personalize your handset with ringtone downloads using the Get It Now service.
With this GPS-enabled phone, you’ll be able to access Verizon’s VZ Navigator service (additional charges applicable) for voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions, heads-up alerts, local search of nearly 14 million points of interest in the US (such as landmarks, restaurants and ATMs), and detailed color maps. And Verizon’s Chaperone service lets you easily locate your loved ones from your Verizon Wireless phone or PC in real time. After defining a zone, such as an area designating a school or summer camp, you’ll be sent an alert via text message when the Chaperone handset enters or leaves the zone.
This compact clamshell phone measures 0.73 inches thin and weighs 3.88 ounces. |
Phone Features
The Flipshot features a traditional clamshell design with a swiveling display that can rotate 180 degrees, enabling you to close the phone so that the large 2.2-inch internal display faces outward and activates the camera mode. This internal display has a 240 x 320-pixel resolution and support for up to 262K colors, while the external 65K-color screen offers a 128 x 96-pixel resolution (1.2 inches) and provides call information, signal strength, and a digital version of an analog clock. You can also change the display wallpaper and the clock style. The phone also includes dedicated play/pause music controls.
The 3-megapixel camera snaps pictures in eight resolution options from 2048 x 1536 (2 MP) to 160 x 120, and it includes a 10x digital zoom, three quality settings, brightness and white balance controls, multi-shot capability, night mode, spot metering, and ISO selection. For video capture, the Flipshot records clips in MPEG4 format in two resolutions–320 x 240 and 176 x 144 pixels. You can shoot video as long as your memory card has available space, and videos shot for MMS messaging are capped at 30 seconds. View your pictures and videos on your home theater system with the TV—out option.
This phone provides Bluetooth version 1.2 wireless connectivity, and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and audio/video remote control. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking–surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server.
A messaging and wireless Internet powerhouse, support is built in for sending and receiving pictures, text, graphics, sound and video via messages. When used in combination with the phone’s built-in still and video camera, MMS opens up a whole new world of messaging fun. Instant messaging is also supported, and the phone ships with a built-in email client. The Flipshot also comes stock with a built-in web browser for downloads and mobile web browsing. T9 text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for entering text on handsets, is built into the unit–a plus for mobile email and text messaging users.
The Flipshot’s internal phone book can hold up to 500 contact entries with five phone numbers and two emails per entry, while the phone’s picture ID system allows you to assign pictures to your most common callers. And the Flipshot’s voice dialing feature makes calling family, friends, and business associates as easy as saying their names. Other features include:
- MicroSD expansion up to 4 GB
- USB 2.0 connectivity with mass storage capability
- Compatible with 72-chord polyphonic ringtones
- PIM tools: Calendar with scheduler, note pad, alarm clock, world time, calculator, unit converter
- Stereo speakerphone
- Vibrating alerts and silent mode
- Supported digital audio formats: MPE, WMA, WMA Pro, WMA Pro+
- 2.5mm headphone jack
- Bluetooth profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BIP (for sending images to another device), BPP (basic printing profile for text, email), DUN (dial-up networking), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures), PBA (transfer contacts); note that this phone does not support all Bluetooth OBEX profiles
- Hearing aid compatibility = M3/T3
- TTY compatibility
Vital Statistics
The Flipshot weighs 3.88 ounces and measures 3.76 x 1.83 x 0.73 inches. Its 880 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3.5 hours of talk time, and up to 250 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the CDMA 850/CDMA 1900 frequencies for voice and Verizon’s EV-DO data network.
Samsung U900 FlipShot Black Phone
If you are a camera lover like I am and you love gadgets then you will love this phone!!! It is a great cell phone but an even better camera. It takes great pictures and has excellent special effects. I can only find one thing wrong with this phone. The calendar has a little software glitch where when you put in a reminder it will lose it or it will disappear. Other than that this is the niftiest phone I have ever had and I get lots of comments on it when I flip the screen over and turn it into a really neat camera !!!!!!
Rating: 4 / 5
It’s a good phone, a little big, but decent. I had higher hopes or the camera. It would be better if once it’s flipped into camera mode, it would act like a digital camera. It doesn’t, it acts like a phone with a camera. Which is exactly what it is.
Good
-reception
-sound quality
-battery for talking, camera eats the battery pretty quick
-flat sides make the phone comfortable to hold
-nice to always have a camera with you
Bad
-The big, ring around the lens that sticks out, is just for show. It may look like a real digital camera, but it’s just like any other phone with a camera
-picture quality is good outside in daylight, but bad inside, or in any low light
-slow to focus, slow to next shot
-if you rest your finger on the shutter button waiting for your shot, it will switch to camcorder mode
-Verizon has disabled blue-tooth file transfer, so you can’t send your pictures to you blue-tooth enabled PC.
-doesn’t automatically save the pictures you take, after you take a picture then you must do an additional step to manually save it.
Rating: 3 / 5
This phone is great. It is light-weight, user friendly and has many features that normal cell phones don’t.
The pros of this phone are:
-It has a 3.0 megapixel camera. The screen actually flips around so that you can use the phone as if it was a regular point and shoot camera. You can also record videos on this phone.
-It has many different features, including GPS navigation system, Music Player, Calculators, Alarm Clocks, Internet, E-Mail and more.
-The calculator is my favorite option because it also has a Tip Calculator so when you are at a restaurant, salon or wherever and need to calculate a tip you can punch it right into the calculator. It does the work for you.
-I also love the GPS option. My husband and I have used this option many times on trips. We ran into a traffic jam once and it re-routed us off the highway and around the traffic incident. It saved us tons of time!
-The music player is great and acts just like an I-POD or MP3 player. It is located on the front of the phone so you never even have to open the screen to access your music.
-You can E-mail your phone pictures and display them as your background, set them up as Photo ID’s for your contacts or just store them for personal use.
-The battery last a long time in this phone. I have had it almost 2 years and the battery still last between 2-3 days before I need to re-charge it.
Some things to consider when purchasing this phone:
-Although the camera is great it is a little slow. When you try to take a picture it does not always take right away. There is approximately a 2-3 second delay from the time you push the button until it takes.
-Many of the options (GPS, Internet, E-Mail) cost money if you do not already have a Data package. You should consider this before using these features.
Overall I would give this phone 4 stars.
Rating: 4 / 5
I won’t repeat all of the stuff that’s already been said about the phone. It definitely has its strong and weak points. But when i was looking at reviews when deciding to buy this phone or not, i couldn’t seem to find any sample photos, so i decided to post one. Behold the glory of the Flipshot: [...]
Rating: 4 / 5
It has a 3 megapix camera. I hate the fact that it takes the camera so long to take a pic as it adjusts and focuses. If you want to take a picture but hold down the take picture button too fast it will switch to camcorder mode.
Plus with all Samsung phones, the calendar/scheduler doesn’t work as it should and has a nasty habit of replacing data on your calendar. If you set a reminder for a date and set it up with any reoccurring feature (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly) then it will screw up all the rest of the dates as you browse through it. Therefore I have to reschedule every birthday every year individually or it won’t work.
Rating: 3 / 5