Samsung SGH-T301G User Reviews

I have had this phone for three years now and it is still working great! It is very durable-I have accidently dropped many times and it has held up. This is a cheep and basic phone, but it is still usefull. I would recomend this phone for somone who plans to use their it mainly to make calls. Besides that, the phone's fearures aren't that exciting.

great phone for texting, but I find the slider function a little bit of a pain. Trying to open this thing up without shooting it half way across the room is a challenge in itself. I've dropped the phone a couple of times trying to do this, but it still keeps on working. No, I'm not a dufus butterfingers, but it would help to be a little easier to open. It seems very durable, and the reception quality is far better than the Samsung 101g. Battery life is a little short, and quite a bit shorter than the LG 420g. If you get 2 days without a recharge when you use your phone a few times, you're lucky. All in all, a good phone, with a bigger than average screen for a tracfone. Tracfone service is great, and the value you get with a Tracfone cannot be beat for average cell phone users.

The voice reception is terrible on this Samsung T301G. The text reception is better and the keypad is easy to use and the camera is quick and simple to take. The price is good. The manual could be better and include better descriptions of the display pad and how to change them.

No man! Surely this phone is a con. The blue tooth is limited, it doesn't have an even basic music player, calling the camera poor, is to give it credit, and if this battery, which is only two months old, can give me two days, I'm super happy.
Fortunately I feel it does make, and tak egood cals, and to text is a pleasure. Which makes it I suppose, a good basic phone, with some added features. I would however not touch this phone unless it was, is sold with double minutes for life.

i have had this phone for around a year and it has been very durable in the sense it can be thrown dropped and kicked and still work fine (though i broke the screen with smarties in my poket) sense then i got a new one and it still functions amazing. the arrow keys can be modified to custom hot keys. btw if you replace this phone you will not be able to keep anything you downloaded from previous phone. other than that it has served me well

I've been extensively using this model for almost a month, and from my understanding, the phone is very good overall. TracFone, the Samsung T301g's phone provider, on the other hand, I find to be quite bad. It's not that the coverage is good; it's just that TracFone uses minutes, instead of an unlimited plan. Therefore, I find myself running out of minutes quite frequently. With the exception of that, this phone has exceptional reception, a nice build, a not-so-bad mobile internet, the possibility of multimedia messaging (although videos and some forms of audio formats can't be received with this model), good, but not great call quality. All in all, I found the phone to great, especially for minimal cell phone users.

i got this phone as i was shopping for a new contract, and i realised this was what im looking for in a phone, its a great little phone, its really well built and is very durable, its user friendly and has all the things you need from a phone,  i like the fact i can use the phone and pay simple $20 a month, i dont even use all the minutes, they just build up, but im not stuck in a contract and when i need the phone my minutes are there, not like my old contract the charged me when i didnt use it and a mess of a bill if i did. its amazing how good the service is. im so happy to have found a carrier that provides a reliable service that cares for users and not just this cnfusing bill every month. i would seriously advice this phone if you are minute wise.

I got this phone a while ago. yesterday I was checking out all the funtions and I accidentally locked the phone, it would let me do anything until I called customer service to receive the "PUK" code. If I had continued to guess the code, it would have fried my SIM card. (As I have seen on earlier posts) But thankfully it only took ten minutes and my phone is working great. This phone is great if you don't want to be tied down to a monthly bill, or contracts. Also the network coverage is amazing. Although I would have wanted the Manufacturer's manual that is not included with the phone. I bought my Samsung T301G at a local shopko for only $20. It included 10 free minutes,(<--called Airtime) and 60 days days of network service. Texting only costs .30 of Air time minutes. This phone has many great features including: Text,Mobile Internet,Camera, and many other Applications and tools. The only thing I dont like about it is the Internet button, I get mixed up with the menu and the Internet button which are right across from each other, everytime I accidentally push this button it charges me money, even though I didn't even use the Internet. So each time you push the internet button accidentally it charges me. Also, I would have liked to have the Manufacturer's manual which is not included, to prevent the "Locking" and almost Crashing of my brand new phone's SIM card. Good Product, some flaws.

IF THE SAME THING HAPPENS TO YOU THE PIN IS USUALLY: 1111 DO NOT KEEP TRYING RANDOM NUMBERS WHICH CAN CRASH FOR SIM CARD ON YOUR PHONE. CALL CUSTOMER SERVICE BEFORE ATTEMPTING ANYMORE TRIES.

i'm back! i have found a solution to the poor antenna design. those cheap antenna booster stickers which you place in the battery compartment. now i thought these things where a scam as any of you. but i did try it out and did increase my reception (a little). the secret to it is to place it as close to the actual antenna as possible so what i did was to remove the back case of the phone and place the sticker directly on the inside of the phone case @ the bottom near the antenna. not in the battery compartment!all in all it did work! but i have decided to move on because my old motorola c139 still has better reception and you can buy em for $5 vs.$35 for a phone with worse signal go figure! motorola the way to go for communications devices!bottom line i bought the new droid! once it arrives see ya later tracfone!

this is a great phone except the fact that the internal antenna is located at the very base of the phone which impeeds signal due to the fact most people hold the base of the phone covering the antenna. if you look at the phone the antenna placement is in the bottom of the phone directly under the keypad and it is very small compared to other tracfones. i previously had a motorola c139 which is a very cheap phone but had a 9 out of 10 for signal because the internal antenna is located at the very top of the phone and is much larger than the samsung. i rate the samsung a 5 of 10 on signal. i am currently working on an enhancement for this antenna and will be back to inform everyone on my results.

I purchased the tracfone slider in june 2009 and the keypad stopped working in august. The phone acted like it was locked but wasn't. I could receive calls but could not call out. Anyhow, I called tracfone and was given alot of BS on how they could send me a new phone but not the same phone, quote( we will see what is in our wharehouse and send what we can) then I am to send back the slider to them. Now I purchased the phone online from them and told the the order # and how the phone was only 2 months old, could I please have a phone that had a camera and double minutes since I did pay $49 for the slider. Anyhow I was sent a $14 phone no camera as a replacement. I called back after getting the crap phone and spoke to someone else explained my situation and now I am waiting for a replacement of my slider phone that is an actual new slider phone. I will return my old phone and the cheap crap that they sent me back to them. Just want people to know the run around i got..

Great phone.  It doesn't come with a comprehensive manual but is pretty easy to figure out.  I've had a few Tracfone phones and this one is the Best by far.  I no longer feel that I have to sacrifice ALL of the good features to save money.   What few features of this phone are not Tracfone compatible like surfing the web, I don't miss with this phone.  I got it on sale at a local store for $20 off and it came with double minutes for life.  Great deal!!  The only negative I've noticed so far is that you can't do much with pictures because it's a Tracfone phone.  I still think it's a great phone. 

This may be a nice phone, but too bad the instructions are almost non-existent.  I purchased this and it is not even compatable in my area, even tho Tracfone states it is.  I receive no signal.  The instruction manual provided with the phone is extremely inadequate, and Sansung's manual on line is even worse.  There are many great features in this phone, but no instructions on how to use them.  Tracfone and Samsung both dropped the ball on this one!  They need to take it off the market until they can publish a comprehensive manual!  Unless you are an electronic guru, stay away from this one.
This one gets returned!!!
 
 
 
 

I have the above samsung cell phone. It is a good looking slider  phone and has all the functions I wanted such as camera,bluetooth and many other items, to many to list