Comments on: (Updated) Video Review of Samsung Behold 2

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:28:45 +0000

I got the behold2 12 days ago and the thing will not bootup! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I hate to complain, but I need this for a business phone and thought it would be the best phone for e-mails and booking parties. T-mobile is sending me another behold2. I hope it last longer than 2 weeks for $200.00 the price I paid for just the phone not including net service of $30.00. I hope I don’t have sucker writen on me somewhere.

By: aj

aj — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:08:53 +0000

I got my behold 2 a week ago, think is a really nice phone love the display menu and everything about it, to bad mine decided to start vibrating every day after the second day i got it, so I have to return it and I dont know what phone to get cuz tmobile has some bad phones and att has some crapy contracts…..

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:31:50 +0000

I got the behold 2 over the cliq and mytouch and I’m super happy with it. I just love it and I guess maybe I’m just not geeky enough to whine about petty things. I am sure updates and hacking and so on can fix tons of things and holy shitballs batman the screen is so sharp and bright. I like it and appreciate even the cube. Don’t feel a button was needed for it because I can reach it on the screen too but yeah. Whatever people..soooo picky. tsk tsk. You guys are like the phone nazis. Is anything ever good enough for geeks? Don’t think you guys will ever be happy with anything.

By: John

John — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:35:21 +0000

Way to be rough on the Moment. I returned the Hero because dust got on the actual screen and once I did a little research it seemed like a common complaint. Using Panda Home as an alternative to Sense is not perfect but definitely good enough. Like someone mentioned, Android is open source and with a little perseverance you can get good results. The Hero was not without its own problems when I first got it. The headphones played in Mono, the battery life was worse than the moment, the messaging app kept the phone from sleeping, and it wasn’t without its own lag (though a lot of that was fixed with a firmware update). Nevertheless, I did love that phone and I originally chose it over the Moment. But since I’ve switched, the ONLY things I feel I’m missing out on are the complete Facebook integration in my contacts list and the camera app and the physical keyboard is a huge plus to me. It’s all subjective anyway but not everything Samsung does is that terrible.

By: culo77

culo77 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:47:37 +0000

I returned the mytouch 3G and got the behold2. i cant be more happier.
Too much behold bashing going on with in the intertubez.
Some hate touchcheesewiz but it has grown on me, and i do use the cube. I will not say touchmyselfwiz or the cube are great things but are really not as bad as what has been said.

the behold has the best screen out there and the camera rivals my canon 12mp camera. (well i exaggerated there).

you guys should know…its android, you can hack anything and when behold is 1-click rooted or 2.0 is OTA update things will be legen……wait for it……dary

By: jeremy

jeremy — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:52:10 +0000

Ill wait for the X10 to go to Tmob. Fingers crossed. Maybe I should just ditch them and pay more and have crappy customer service….. or wait for some rumors to surface and stick with who is going to have the fastest data in the country within a year.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:53:19 +0000

Went Smartphone shopping the other day. Wanted to buy Samsung Moment. But comparing it to HTC Hero, there was no comparison. Moment was ugly, thick, boring, and lag was so visible. finally bought the Hero, and boy ! am I gald I made a good decision.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:22:32 +0000

i dont get it…if you like the form factor and hate the cube overlay, why not just shut the overlay off and run something like panda home to give you way more customization? and if you hate the keyboard you could probably download a more capable one from the market…its open source people thats why android phones in general trump other phone os’s because of the insane level of customization

ps, im not defending this phone at all…samsung cant develop a decent phone to save their life. they screw up other os’s so bad that they have to make their own so it can run half way effective on their own hardware

By: Jouten

Jouten — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:20:54 +0000

@James

Thanks James, I will do that :)

By: James

James — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:21:39 +0000

@Jouten

If you need a world mobile and the Hero doesn’t pan out for you (though I think it will…excellent phone, I have one and love it), you should look into a Moto Milestone. It’s the UK version of the Droid.

By: jason

jason — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:59:43 +0000

@Josh
Everything is relative. As it stands, the 3gs and droid set the standard of excellency for smartphones. You don’t get to recalibrate the language based on your yet-to-be achieved expectations just to win an argument. Also, I spent all day with my co-worker’s moment today, and it is extremely snappy…even outpacing a droid with 2.0 by a fair margin. A 2.01 droid compares favorably.

By: Keni

Keni — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:20:40 +0000

What a horrid, horrid phone =S

By: jo

jo — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:04:13 +0000

the phrase “the next thing i hate is..” pretty much sums up this review.

By: roger

roger — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:02:18 +0000

What do they mean the. Cube might be fun if ur from 1992? Im from 1992 and i hate the cube lol WORST android phone yet, theres alot of things that make the mytouch WAY better

By: Jouten

Jouten — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:59:02 +0000

@Mensahwatts

I’m needing the GSM type phone though. The Droid is a powerhouse monster compared to the iPhone though. The HTC Eris looked great too.

However, I need the ‘world’ phone freq’s because I do international travel occasionally.