Samsung Rogue User Reviews

 This phone is just horrrible if you want this phone you should just consider a jitter bug this is on of the worst phone you could get I mean the web browsing is just so dumb you realy dont get flash I think sprint is the way  to go they have the best plans the amazing phones I mean all verizon phones sound cool and all but not compared to sprint usually my rogue would randomly shut off constantly freeze i highly unrecomend the rogue sprint is the way

I have had this phone since the day it came out, so it's been over a month I'm sure. I have also had all of Verizons touch screen phones, including their Blackberry (yes, I spend LOTS of unneccesary money on cell phones) and I would have to admit 1. that this phone has WONDERFUL touch screen sensitivity and response! Aside from the fact that I prefer the slide out over the flip open phones (LG etc), there is no lag whatsoever upon sliding keyboard down. 2. that the camera on this phone (as long as it is being held perfectly still, or when on a timer it is being set on a stable surface) has AMAZING clarity and quality. The flash can be a bit too bright, but I'd rather it be too bright than not bright enough!3. That the call quality is just as good as the best Verizon has to offer, altho the speaker phone feature is not much louder than using the earpiece, I guess thats why they sell Bluetooth, right?4. That clicking on apps like Facebook/Myspace connect VERY fast to the internet, within a second or two, you are on the desired page.4. That I would pay FULL price for this phone again if I had to! I reccomment this phone to anyone that has had bad luck with phones or touch screens, and wants a reliable and fun to use phone that functions perfectly.

this phone is pretty good. the touch screen is nice, and i like the menu. my keyboard keys are a little small, but you get use to it very quickly. the big down side is that it freezes quite often, and the screen glitches a lot.  it is also a bit bulky.

 so i have had this phone for a month now and i gotta say its the fucken shit. i really like it the touch screen is really responsive haven't had no lag at all. i love the screen really bright. the camera just awesome the flash is really bright witch is a good thing. i only have 3 complains that i hope can get fixed with a software upgrade. there is some glitches in the phone but not a lot. i really wish there was a virtual keyboard its hard to text in class because wen i slied it its kinda notasibul under my desk lol. the music player is all right all it need is to be able to multi-task. oh and batter life is kinda sukky but what phone these days has a good battery life lol.i really recommend this phone. yeah it my not b no Droid but i still like it it dose the basics.

This is the best phone i ccould have ever have, it has long battery life and has an amazing touch screen.  on the down side i do not like the menu theme, but thats not a big deal. i would recimend this phone for every one but people who arent great at understanding technolagy, it can be a little complicated some times, and the key bored isent very good for people with big hands( or fingers).

 The Rogue is definitely a great phone, obviously much better then the Glyde. I am coming from the LG Dare (which was also a very great phone). I really enjoy the entire phone throughout. It's doesn't lag too much when using it, usually just as much as any other phone. The camera is really great with a lot of features and the flash is almost blinding and the vanity mirror really helps to take a good picture. Just make sure that you hold the camera a few seconds after you hold the camera button. The display is absolutely amazing!!!!!!! Absolutely amazingly clear and so nice not to be able to see the pixels in the display. The slider works really well. It is smooth and quick to open the well spaced keyboard. Not the best designed keyboard I think but definitely works well once you really get used to it. The buttons light up really well in dark situations and the display can light up and entire room. Speaker is alright, not really loud, but works well in quiet areas. Bluetooth is exceptional, connects without entering passwords even. I really enjoy the displays use of colors. It seems like all the pictures and symbols are in high definition and even neon colors. Really fun to use and look at.If you text message a lot make sure that you set the keyboard to start a new text message once you start pressing buttons, such a great feature and saves time. The messaging is threaded and is IM like in that it allows you to reply to a message without hitting the reply button. just keep typing and typing away. I have done 2000 messages in a week because it's so easy. the emoticons button saves some time, just make sure you get used to the ones you use most frequently. Just make sure you are using the backspace button instead of the clear button on the bottom of the phone, it will end the message if you use it.The voice commands button is easy to use and responds well to any command you say. The earpiece is clear and loud especially if you have it up high. I have yet to run into problems with anyone hearing me on the other end. Signal is quite good and the EVDO is really really fast. even with one bar of EV, it's still as fast my laptop running on cable internet.All in all I am really impressed with the phone. It lives to my expectations especially for messaging. It sends and receives messages within seconds and almost feels like an IM device. Signal even in poor signal areas can still pick up signal no matter where you are. Voice quality seems to be quite good and bluetooth is great too. Battery life is okay, not the best especially compared to the LG Dare. The keyboard takes a little getting used to but is great to use after. Camera is quite good and works really well with flash.The display is absolutely amazing. Definitely blows away a lot of the competition. It is much brighter and clearer then the LG EnV touch. Text and pictures are like watching a HI-DEF TV, videos on youtube are alright, not the best tho. The music player is good, but disappointed that it can't multitask but I don't use the music player often, so it's okay for me. But the 3.5mm headset jack is a great incentive. The TouchWiz interface is fun to use but if used on the desktop can take up a lot of space including the favorites menu or the shortcuts. All around I think it's a great phone. Great for messaging, web browsing with the fast Rev. A network, and social networking. I would definitely recommend this phone to anyone looking for a fun phone that has a great bright display and a fast data network. If you message a lot, it's a great phone for messaging as the EnV touch is as well. They compare to each other quite well.

this fone is amazing nothing wrong that i can find with it :)
good battery life
nice keyboard
greAT look
nice touchscreen
not too heavy
good html browser
nice display
overall greAT phone





 id recomend this phone for anyone thats anyone

this phone is the best way better than my alias. i like everyting from this phone the camera widgets and the touch screen. the only problem i have is the battery its not the best but hey now a days phones batters suck so i can live with it. i recomend this phone to everyone. and the is one nice screen. 

This phone has many pros and only a few cons. I have had it 4 days now. The screen is second to none. I am very impressed with the display. It takes awesome pictures. When I am on 3G network , the browser loads fast and it is very user friendly. Touch screen is very nice as well. If you have big fingers like myself , you will need a stylish to touch the screen with. I was hoping it would be bigger since I have such big fingers but that is cool. The only issue I have with this phone is I can't browse certain web pages. I think it is a great phone but it is still not an I phone. My friend has an I Phone and the I Phone still rules IMO.

The Rogue is easy to use, and takes good pix.  It's easy to transfer pix to pc, then edit.  I took advantage of this to poke fun at myself to amuse people on my email list.  It's easy to send your pix to other people's phones too.  Most importantly, the caller reception and transmission is excellent.  People I spoke to said I sounded like I was in the same room, and the people who spoke to me sounded very clear!

 Overall I really like this phone. I upgraded from the LG Dare to the Samsung Rouge a few days ago and I do not miss the dare at all. This phone has such a vivid, crisp, and detailed display. The phone looks stylish and modern. The slide QWERTY keyboard works great and the speech to text feature also works very well. Surfing the web and performing other high end tasks is fast as long as you have good reception.On the con side, I've found that the battery life is somewhat to be desired. I like to surf the web when I'm bored or play a game and I can barely make it through the day without the phone dying on me. I am considering buying the extended battery. At the very least you are going to have to charge this phone every night. I also didn't like some of the menu options. In other phones you have more that one way to set a wallpaper or caller picture ID. With this phone there is only one way to do things and it is sometimes frustrating to have to try and guess which way it is.In the end I'm very glad with this phone. Hopefully Samsung will grace us with a software update to take care of some of the menu and customization issues. I would strongly recommend this phone to anyone.

I have had the Samsung Rogue for several days now and I am very happy with it.  It seems very well-built with the exception of the battery cover, but once that thing is on it is on solidly.First and foremost I need a phone that works well as a phone.  I live in a rural area where signal can be iffy and dropped calls are fairly common.  The Rogue pulls in a great signal and calls have been clear on both ends.The AMOLED display is amazing!  Everything looks crisp and clear and the colors are vibrant.  It is also a very usable touch screen, even for a "touch newbie" such as myself.  Very responsive!  The menus are well organized and the widget bar is great for quick access to tools, games, etc.  I am a little disappointed that the Rogue only has one display theme, but that is not a big issue for me.  The ability to fully customize the home screen almost makes up for the lack of themes for me.  The QWERTY keyboard seemed a little cramped until I got used to it, but now I'm finding texting to be a breeze!The camera is excellent for a phone camera!  It definitely won't replace a high-end digital camera, but is great for everyday pictures.  I love all the camera options, especially the macro mode.So far the battery life has been better than I expected.  Right now I am only down 2 bars after a day of calls, texting, taking a bunch of pictures, playing games, checking Facebook, and just playing around with the phone in general.  I was expecting much worse after reading some reviews so I am rather pleasantly surprised.Overall I am very happy with the Rogue.  A great upgrade!

As far as mobile phones go, the Rogue is as close as it gets to perfect. The touch screen works wonderfully, the colors are rich and vibrant and it has a user-friendly physical keyboard. I honestly have no idea why anyone would complain about battery life. I've charge this thing not even to 100% and it still only used one bar from a full days worth of playing through the menus, calling, texting, facebooking, checking email, browsing, etc. ONE BAR. The keyboard is kinda wonky, but that only takes some getting used to; once you do, it's as easy as any other mobile keyboard to use. The camera is excellent for 3MP, the best of any phone I've owned, the effects leave a little to be desired, but that's nothing to really worry too much about. Overall, a great phone. I upgraded to the Rogue from the LG Voyager and I'm glad I did.

The Samsung Rogue is something of an enigma. It has a clear and bright AMOLED screen and the latest iteration of Samsung's TouchWiz interface. But at the same time, the battery cover is so flimsy---like some kind of stiffened paper---I was afraid of breaking it while attempting to get the latch secured. It's almost as if Samsung strove to include one flaw for every triumph.

The AMOLED screen and TouchWiz interface are a winning touchscreen combination, which is actually pretty responsive for a resistive screen. Dragging is sometimes problematic, but still much better than LG's efforts thus far. The main success in this regard is that Verizon has, by and large, left Samsung's interface untouched, meaning everything is easily touchable. Call quality is crisp and clear, and incredibly loud. But the speakerphone is abysmally quiet, while the included ringers are ear-shattering. Games too, are obnoxiously loud.

I tested the browser on several sites, and text was clear and legible. HTML heavy sites rendered closely to what a real browser might produce. This is a stark contrast to every LG I've had the misfortune to "use". There are still some problems with lag in scrolling, or losing pressure and "dropping" the page while scrolling, but these are forgivable.

Sliding open the keyboard presents a very tactile four rows of responsive backlit keys. This automatically orients the screen in landscape mode, and confusingly, rotates the wallpaper to match that orientation. Wallpapers should be square 800x800 to avoid black bars. There's no option to change this, either. The included arrow keys, easy switching between case, and function keys make this a very complete keyboard. The space bar sits in the same row as some of the letter keys, making typing a little annoying at first.

The phone is equipped with a motion sensor, but isn't always on. The phone is always in landscape with the keyboard open, and always in portrait with the keyboard closed, yet the included dice game proves the motion sensor is highly responsive. This does save battery life, so it's hard to complain. Simply typing can launch a text message, enter a note, or open the contact list. In addition, should a user start typing while reading a text-message, a quick-reply is started---bonus! Messages are threaded by default, color-coded for clarity, and sorted from newest to oldest, but there's no way to change this sorting.

The TouchWiz II interface is a refreshing departure from Verizon's normal UI.  Menus scroll when flicked, tabs pull when dragged, the contact list accelerates in the direction of a control arrow, the desktop can be filled with touchable widgets, etc. But again, there's that little nugget of fail lurking below the surface. Verizon's taint has rendered several menus as garish columns of bland bars in quite possibly the ugliest user theme ever devised. The music-player too, suffers from ancient ugly-itis; it's a stark contrast.

The battery performs as advertised---uncommon these days. An hour of usage and several texts through the day consumed a single bar from the battery indicator. Long-term longevity may not be as hardy, but for now this wafer-thin power-source can keep up with the undoubtedly strenuous demands of the Rogue. The screen is perfectly bright on the second to lowest setting, and disabling vibrate on touch can save more battery grief. But every touch results in an audio beep that no setting will disable. Bad Samsung!

Samsung is still using a proprietary connector while nearly everyone else has switched either to micro or mini USB. Worse, this connector is on the right-hand side! Fine for charging, but immediately informs us that Samsung has no future plans for this device. There will be no third-party adapters or accessories here; this is no future iPod Touch or iPhone killer. The Rogue can't be used as a regular USB drive, either. It's OBEX transfer, a proprietary transfer app, or nothing.

Finally, while the Rogue is smaller and slightly lighter than the EnV Touch, it's 1mm thicker.  Why? The upcoming (2010) Motorola Sholes promises to be 25% thinner than the Rogue, while running Android and offering Wifi. Like the EnV Touch, it's an immense, bloated brick that won't fit in any of the cellphone pockets in my cargo shorts. The Nokia Twist may be better for on-the-go usage.

Yet this is still one of the best phones Verizon offers, and will do while we wait for Android or LiMo phones. I'm glad I didn't immediately purchase an Env3 or Env Touch. But the Rogue had a lot of potential beaten out of it by a series of confusing and avoidable flaws and missing configuration settings, it could have been much better.
 

I like many have been looking for a new phone to come out from verizon with a full html browser. I didnt want something with windows mobile because thats more of a business type phone. I got this phone to check fantasy football scores, talk smack talk, and check some webpages here and there. The lady at verizon told me to get the 25MB plan saying it would last. 48 hours later i am 12.9MB's into my monthly data plan usage somehow. I work in a school where i get limited service during the day, my phone looks for serivce all day long and usually dies by the end of the day. I don't know how i put on that much MBs for jus visiting a few webpages the last 2 days. I would say get the unlimited plan but then if ur going to do that why not get a blackberry or why not wait for the iphone or something with WIFI to come out. Internet i found terribly slow no matter where i was. The browser lags, i think the vibration gives u false sense of touch on the browser. The zoom is OK, iphones is much better. The keyboard is average, small keys and kind of out of place. I am very un happy with this phone. I am bringing it back tomorrow and taking my old phone back and waiting for the google phone or the iphone. if ur looking for a full HTML browser, save your time and wait... i've been waiting since july, but i will wait even longer after this experience. 

I got this this phone the day it came out. I have had almost every touch screen Verizon has had to offer. This phone has the best touch screen I have ever used, it's amazing. It has great call quality and audio playback. Doesn't have the standard Verizon menus.The keyboard is very quiet and easier than I had excpected. Battery life is pretty good but could be imporved. If you are looking for an attractive phone with great features, this is the best phone Verizon is curently selling.

I've had this phone since the day it came out, have to say it's a notch above the enV Touch.  I originally had the enV Touch, but didn't like some of the design "features."  This phone is an improvement to everyone of the cons I found with the Touch.  The speaker is loud, and is on the outside of the phone.   There is a button on the screen and on the side to turn on the speakerphone, instead of having to flip the phone up.    The phone's lock feature seems to work better for me.  I haven't pocket dialed anybody yet.  The search bar doesn't automatically take over half the screen in contact list like the Touch, which is great. 

The browser isn't nearly as good as I had hoped.  This was touted as the first "Flash Enabled Browser" for Verizon.  It even has a widget for You Tube.  Well, it can't handle all You Tube videos!  I was then disappointed that it couldn't handle Hulu.  Other sites I had visited that played flash videos wouldn't work as well.  Many other Java sites wouldn't work quite right either.

The widget bar is nice, but it would be nicer if it you could creat custom widgets, icons and all. 

The one thing the Touch had over the Rogue is that you could play your music in a mini player while in other parts of the menu, such as the browser.  The Rogue quits the music as soon as you get out of the music screen. 

Overall, I am very satisfied with the phone, yet with the lack of full flash and java support in the browser, I'm do not like having to have a data plan.  I'm very much of the idea that I'm either going to get an unlimited data, or no data.  I think they hurt themselves with trying to put a limit. 

This is a terrific phone.  I original wanted to the Omina for the screen size and high speed internet but didn't want to take on a smartphone plan.  This phone solved that problem! 

I previously had a Glyde and was worried about this one being chunky as well, but it is slightly slimmer and with it's larger dimensions it doesn't feel too chunky either.

Another thing, I checked this phone out at 2 different VZW stores.  The 1st said I'd have to drop my plan and sign up for a data plan (25MB / 75 MB / or connect).  I said what if I already have VCAST, but they still say I need the new plan.  So I ended up leaving.  I went to another store a few hours later to check out other phones.  When I asked the rep about it he stated I didn't need the new plan and was "grandfathered" in with my VCAST, hell yeah unlimited data for $15!

Games are okay, but hey, it's a phone not a PS3.

Just like the title says, a super cool phone without the smarts. I brought as soon as it came out, ever since the fake release dates, I been waiting patiently for it, because this phone is just awesome and definitely worth a wait. I saw this from June, August, now September, I got it.

 I had a Iphone till i got this one and i love this phone way more then i ever liked my Iphone.. Not really as many apps for it but who cares i buy a phone for a phone and to text so on that this phone is great... There is nothing wrong with this phone it great.. The touch screen is great everything works even MMS lol thanks verizon ya'll know how to do things. If anyone wants a great phone this is it... HANDS DOWN THE BEST PHONE EVER...

i love this phone! got it yesterday its great! keyboard does take some time to get use to and the battery isnt the greatest.... does anyone know if there is any other display themes cuz i dont like that one and i cant seem to find any others.....

Had the phone for about 5 hours now, and have been playing with it non stop. I returned the Env Touch on Friday, to go back to old faithfull Samsung. So far I love the phone, it did take some getting used to the layout of the keyboard tonight, but know that I have a feel for it, the keyboard works. I do prefer the EnV touch keyboard a little better, but now that I am aquainted with this one, I am happy. The screen displays a little better in the sun than the EnV touch. I couldn't see anything on the screen outside and at least with the Rogue and can at least see who is calling from outside. Also the Pictures do not display as crisp as the EnV touch did, at least with the inside screen of the EnV touch, but I did not buy the phone for pictures soley. Touch screen seems more responsive than the EnV Touch and the battery appears to hold longer. Website viewing is also nicer as it doesn't automatically display in a Micro font like the EnV Touch so viewing a webpage is readable on the first load with out having to magnify everything. The phone is fairly thick, but that is to be expected with a slide out keyboard. Overall very happy with this phone.

Had the phone for about an hour, love everything about, best phone i had so far, really easy to navigate, awesome screen, very nice dice program, iam very certain everyone will like the phone.

So far I have had it for about two days and have been playing with it non stop. The phone layout is really nice. The menu is a cross between the traditional obnoxious Verizon OS and the Samsung Omnia style. The speaker is very loud and the touch screen has the nice feedback vibrate that I've grown acustomed to. Touch screen is very responsive and fast compared to my Voyager. My main concerns so far is the lock is simply a button on the side, instead of a sliding switch type like the Voyager LG family style phones. I for see butt dialing being an issue in the future. So far, this phone has met and even exceeded my expectations. I will update my review in 1 month.

 This phone is just an amazing phone. The AMOLED screen is very vibrant. The camera is great. Coming from a Versa is just a huge step up. Everything about this phone is good. The only thing I don't like is there is no micro USB port it is Samsung proprietary. This is just going to be a really good phone. Nothing lags on it. Theres a 3.0 mm head phone jack. I can't think of one thing wrong with it.