Comments on: Hands-on with the Android-powered Samsung Moment

By: Lynn Buettner

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:05:16 +0000

I installed an advanced task killer in the “market” section and whenever I am done with the phone I just do the pull down and kill all the tasks that I had gone to. This saves a ton of battery time.

I have had to replace one phone already as it was stuck in the airplane mode and now the back cover won’t close all the way.

The phone is big and bulky and I wish there was a better choice but all of the salespeople say this is by far the best phone on the market today.

By: Angela

Angela — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:21:55 +0000

I bought the Samsung Moment, the day before it actually came out…I loved everything I read about it…I did not want the Hero, because of the obvious, no Qwerty Keyboard…I didn’t want an all touch screen phone.
I can’t say that I dislike the Moment, but, I bought it on Saturday and had to get a replacement on Monday. There was a problem with the charger plug in device. The battery barely lasts through a 30 min conversation. My biggest problem with this phone is the battery..is is of no use to me, if I cannot use it to text more than 6 text messages and make many phone calls…I am very disappointed. However, my friends with the T-Mobile HTC Google have told me they also have battery issues…
One would think if the manufacturers were indeed concerned about the public opinion of their devices they would strive to insure that the battery produced enough power to handle more usage than it does.

By: Cool Fx

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:10:07 +0000

my name is Judy, and I plan to exchange my Hero for the Moment as soon as Best Buy gets it in (I have already talked to them about doing that) precisely because the Moment does have the landscape slider. Don’t you just love having choices? I want to stay with Sprint and Android, so I couldn’t be happier that Sprint is committed to providing choices for everyone. Share your view with me at http://www.SamsungMomentForum.com a fans site for the upcoming Samsung Moment.

By: Dave S

Dave S — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:58:24 +0000

So my question is a little more complex. My corp. e-mail requires that if you use ActiveSync, your phone has to be encryption enabled,,, which means basically if you don’t use the phone for about 20 minutes the phone must have a password entered. HTC Pro 2 does this, Palm Pre does not. I had to go to a Sprint store, find a Sprint employee with these phones, and try to log in on their phone to find out. Seems it’s not often somebody requires this, so how do I find out if the Moment is capable? Other than the obvious answer, go to a Sprint store, find an employee with this phone, try it…
Much appreciated if anybody knows.
-Dave

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:31:28 +0000

its called a Vanity Mirror

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:12:00 +0000

From other AMOLED vs TFT comparisons I’d say pretty well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FICAHsE_enE

Also if you really can’t wait you can always stop in an AT&T store and get your hands on a Samsung Impression (if they even still have any) and see for yourself.

By: wowlfer

wowlfer — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:27:30 +0000

After tmobile/sidekick/Microsoft lost all 4 years of my data I’m sold on the Samsung Moment as a replacement. Bye bye forever darn stupid company. Only an idiot hires idiots to manage their IT department and that’s what tmobile did. Get that MS? Your the idiot too as it’s you that insisted on upgrading Danger’s cloud servers and didnt’ do and validate a backup. No offsite emergency catastrophic backup either. Insane in this day and age and reflects how little tmobile cares about it’s customers.

By: Dominik

Dominik — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:13:49 +0000

Have you tried to use the phone as a modem?

By: Haxcid

Haxcid — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:33:07 +0000

Not a dumb question. To steal a line from another companies marketing…

There is an app for that.

By: Haxcid

Haxcid — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:26:38 +0000

Sense UI is an HTC software product. However from what hear it can be ported to other android phones.

By: David R. Fredrickson II

David R. Fredrickson II — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:45:11 +0000

Nice…so dumb question…does it sync with outlook? How bout wit a mac?

By: Robert N. Lee

Robert N. Lee — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:11:09 +0000

This.

By: Jasper St. Germain

Jasper St. Germain — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:19:48 +0000

Would the last device to leave symbian please turn off the lights?

By: Greg Kumparak

Greg Kumparak — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:15:32 +0000

No Sense UI. Sense more or less makes the Hero.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:44:38 +0000

Greg, you should do a comparison of the Palm Pre, HTC HERO, and Samsung Moment.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:38:52 +0000

It seems as thought this beats out the Hero In the things that are important, Mainly the processor speed/ and a physical KB witch is always better than a touch screen one. But still, I would hate to buy one or the other to find out a month down the road that i should have gotten the other one lol. Cause by then its too late.

By: Gaurav Shukla

Gaurav Shukla — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:17:48 +0000

wow.. Samsung is surely going the Android way.. three handsets in a row…

Guess Samsung is surely thinking of giving competition to HTC over the number of Android devices..

By: bkfist

bkfist — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:59:39 +0000

I want to know too. This will be the deciding factor for me. If it has a compass, I’ll wait until November, if not, it’s a Hero for me this weekend.

We “need” to know this :)

I have not seen compass listed as a feature in ANY article yet.

By: Greg Kumparak

Greg Kumparak — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:00:25 +0000

Hah – nah, that’s one of the fluorescent lights above the show floor. They make shooting devices a total pain in the ass.

By: twistyaction

twistyaction — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:04:48 +0000

capacitive 320×480 screen
I’m getting ready to bail on Verizon for a Hero on Friday. The Motorola Tao had me second guessing, but this phone makes me sure I’m headed for Sprint’s much cheaper plans. I guess I’ll try the Hero and if I’m not satisfied because of lag or no physical keyboard, I’ll switch to the Moment. At any rate I’ll be looking to Cyanogen for a better ROM for either phone. Is multi-touch hardware or software or both?

By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:55:36 +0000

I’m deciding between this and the Hero for my next phone, trying to weigh out pros and cons.

Hero:
Better UI
Better camera (presumably)
Trackball
Physical Home\Menu\Back buttons

Moment:
Faster CPU
Flash for camera (or flashlight use)
OLED screen
Optical trackpad
Physical keyboard

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:49:00 +0000

This may be my new phone…. Is it a capacitive or resistive touchscreen??

By: spin84

spin84 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:48:49 +0000

Looks like a good alternative to the Hero if you NEED a physical keyboard, but for the same price the Hero is the better device. Right?

It looks kind of cheap in the pictures – how was the build quality?

Interested about battery too, as that seems to be one of the Hero’s negatives

By: Josh Hyde

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:46:58 +0000

Tsk, tsk. Somebody used the flash while shooting a device with a screen:)

By: roach

roach — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:21:23 +0000

Any word on compass or multitouch?