Samsung SCH U470 Cell Phone
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- Installed Memory: 64 MB
- Connectivity: Bluetooth, USB
- Performance: Dual Band
- Design: Mobile
- Style: Slide
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great phone and MP3 player
Pros
Small size, phone and MP3 Player work great, cheap, includes all accessories
Cons
Small size, not for the person who has to have every possible feature.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
If you can accept the Juke for what it is, you'll love it.
I have had this for about a week now and I really like it in most ways. It comes with everything you need, earphones, cable, charger, so you don't need to buy anything else to get started. It is small and thin compared to most cell phones and so it may be a little weird to hold when using it as a phone at first. Phone sound quality and reception is great, better than my 6 year old LG flip phone. Battery life is very good, 4-5 days with limited use, 2-3 with heavier phone use and lots of music listening.
Features are limited, however the Juke is very cheap, currently its free with a 2 year contract with Verizon if you order it on the Internet and are eligible for the New every 2 program. I went to the store and it will cost me $9.95 after I get the rebate. If you must have a bigger screen, bigger keypad, better camera, better text ability, etc, well, just get a different phone, there's many to pick from. But if you are like me and don't care about that stuff and just want a good phone and MP3 player from Verizon this is the one.
I tried the all other phones at the store, the Juke has the easiest to use MP3 player. Most other phones do not have an equalizer, and to get to the Mp3 player you have to go thru a long series of menus. My wife has the touch screen Dare, it does not recognize MP3 genre tags, the Juke does and I loaded the same files on each phone. The Juke has more equalizer settings than the Dare, also more than the Chocolate VX8550 I had previously, and it has a custom setting which I did not find on any phone I tried at the Verizon store. The Juke's scroll wheel works much better thant the Chocolate I had, it also works better than the new Chocolate flip phone, its wheel is much too sensitive. The Juke in MP3 mode has no other keys accessible, which is a good thing so you dont accidentally clear the MP3 player like I did often on the Chocolate by hitting one of the touch buttons.
Folded up in its MP3 player mode, the Juke is chunkier than most dedicated 2G players, which is a plus for me as it is less likely to be lost or fall out of a pocket.
The Juke's not perfect. It does have 2G memory onboard, but no card slot to expand that. But, I have 497 songs loaded on mine, how many do you really need on your cell phone? The playlist format is binary, which is too bad as making playlists on the phone is not nearly as easy as doing so on your PC. The only tags supported are artist, title, album, and genre. I found the included earphones rather uncomfortable, but the sound quality was very good. You will need an adaptor to use normal earphones, and it has to be a 4 band 2.5mm to 3 band 3.5mm, the Verizon store was out of stock so I got one at Radio Shack.
All these are very minor things, just about every other phone has some problems with the MP3 player. And this was the reason I upgraded my phone, so I could have an MP3 player on me all the time. The Juke works very well for me and I will deal with the memory limitation by swapping out songs as I get tired of them. Which I'd be doing anyway with any phone MP3 player, as there isn't a microSD card big enough to hold all my tunes. So for $10 bucks, the Juke rocks.
Update 2-1-09: I had a problem with my Juke, after transferring music from my PC the MP3 player was locked out. The Verizon store could not get it working and gave me a new phone. I had suspected that there was a 500 song limit built in to the phone, and now I know that there is - however the phone does not tell you when you are loading songs on it, if you are over the limit. And I know now that doing so will likely lock up the MP3 player and apparently there is no fix for this. With that said the Juke remains a decent phone and a great MP3 player, the variety of EQ options is fantastic.
Update 12-09: I'd give this a lower rating now, maybe 4 stars. Call quality has gotten worse, I have noticed noise and echoing whenever I make a call. I am not using the MP3 as much as I thought I would and I am texting more, and the tiny display and small size has become irritating.
Features are limited, however the Juke is very cheap, currently its free with a 2 year contract with Verizon if you order it on the Internet and are eligible for the New every 2 program. I went to the store and it will cost me $9.95 after I get the rebate. If you must have a bigger screen, bigger keypad, better camera, better text ability, etc, well, just get a different phone, there's many to pick from. But if you are like me and don't care about that stuff and just want a good phone and MP3 player from Verizon this is the one.
I tried the all other phones at the store, the Juke has the easiest to use MP3 player. Most other phones do not have an equalizer, and to get to the Mp3 player you have to go thru a long series of menus. My wife has the touch screen Dare, it does not recognize MP3 genre tags, the Juke does and I loaded the same files on each phone. The Juke has more equalizer settings than the Dare, also more than the Chocolate VX8550 I had previously, and it has a custom setting which I did not find on any phone I tried at the Verizon store. The Juke's scroll wheel works much better thant the Chocolate I had, it also works better than the new Chocolate flip phone, its wheel is much too sensitive. The Juke in MP3 mode has no other keys accessible, which is a good thing so you dont accidentally clear the MP3 player like I did often on the Chocolate by hitting one of the touch buttons.
Folded up in its MP3 player mode, the Juke is chunkier than most dedicated 2G players, which is a plus for me as it is less likely to be lost or fall out of a pocket.
The Juke's not perfect. It does have 2G memory onboard, but no card slot to expand that. But, I have 497 songs loaded on mine, how many do you really need on your cell phone? The playlist format is binary, which is too bad as making playlists on the phone is not nearly as easy as doing so on your PC. The only tags supported are artist, title, album, and genre. I found the included earphones rather uncomfortable, but the sound quality was very good. You will need an adaptor to use normal earphones, and it has to be a 4 band 2.5mm to 3 band 3.5mm, the Verizon store was out of stock so I got one at Radio Shack.
All these are very minor things, just about every other phone has some problems with the MP3 player. And this was the reason I upgraded my phone, so I could have an MP3 player on me all the time. The Juke works very well for me and I will deal with the memory limitation by swapping out songs as I get tired of them. Which I'd be doing anyway with any phone MP3 player, as there isn't a microSD card big enough to hold all my tunes. So for $10 bucks, the Juke rocks.
Update 2-1-09: I had a problem with my Juke, after transferring music from my PC the MP3 player was locked out. The Verizon store could not get it working and gave me a new phone. I had suspected that there was a 500 song limit built in to the phone, and now I know that there is - however the phone does not tell you when you are loading songs on it, if you are over the limit. And I know now that doing so will likely lock up the MP3 player and apparently there is no fix for this. With that said the Juke remains a decent phone and a great MP3 player, the variety of EQ options is fantastic.
Update 12-09: I'd give this a lower rating now, maybe 4 stars. Call quality has gotten worse, I have noticed noise and echoing whenever I make a call. I am not using the MP3 as much as I thought I would and I am texting more, and the tiny display and small size has become irritating.
