Samsung Juke Phone, Blue (Verizon Wireless)

Samsung Juke Phone, Blue (Verizon Wireless)

Samsung Juke Phone, Blue (Verizon Wireless)
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Customer Rating: Rating 3.5 out of 5 (12 Reviews)

List Price: $399.99

* as of Wednesday March 10, 2010 18:44:58, UTC

Product information Brand: Samsung
Publisher: Samsung
Category: Wireless
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Model: SCHU470NBV
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Features
  • Digital audio player/cell phone in blue with swiveling front cover reveals numeric keypad
  • 2 GB of internal flash memory holds up to 500 CD-quality songs; easy synchronization to your PC via USB
  • VGA camera, stereo Bluetooth streaming, optional GPS navigation service
  • Up to 3.5 hours of talk time, up to 250 hours (10.4 days) of standby time
  • Includes: Standard Li-Ion Battery, Travel Charger, Stereo Headset, USB Cable and User's Guide
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Editorial Review

Amazon.com Product Description: At first glance, the Samsung Juke looks like a typical stick-style MP3 player, which it is. But swing open the swiveling cover and you'll find a shiny keypad underneath that unlocks the advanced cellular features of this amazingly compact phone. It's a great way to combine two devices into one, with the Juke offering 2 GB of internal memory and compatibility with a wide variety of digital audio formats. It also features USB connectivity for transferring music from your PC, stereo Bluetooth for streaming to wireless headphones, integrated GPS, a VGA camera, and downloadable games, ringtones, and wallpapers from Verizon's Get It Now over-air service. In addition to blue, the Samsung Juke also comes in red and teal.



Offering powerful digital audio playback features, the Samsung Juke swivels to open up a wide array of cellular communication tools, including text/IM messaging and GPS navigation.
Verizon Service
This phone is compatible with Verizon's Get It Now wireless pay-per-download service, which features application downloads, games and productivity tools. You can also personalize your handset with ringtone downloads using the Get It Now service.

With this GPS-enabled phone, you'll be able to access Verizon's VZ Navigator service (additional charges applicable) for voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions, heads-up alerts, local search of nearly 14 million points of interest in the US (such as landmarks, restaurants and ATMs), and detailed color maps. And Verizon's Chaperone service lets you easily locate your loved ones from your Verizon Wireless phone or PC in real time. After defining a zone, such as an area designating a school or summer camp, you'll be sent an alert via text message when the Chaperone handset enters or leaves the zone.

Note that this phone is not compatible with either Verizon's V Cast music or Mobile Web services

Phone Features
The Samsung Juke functions flawlessly as a full-featured digital audio player. A navigation thumb wheel on the front allows for easy searching through music play lists, contacts and settings. The 1.45-inch TFT LCD has a 128 x 220-pixel resolution, support for 262K colors, and displays 10 lines of text. The 2 GB flash memory capacity will hold approximately 500 CD-quality songs, and it's compatible with MP3, AAC/AAC+, and WMA/WMA Pro file formats. You can create and manage playlists on the fly, synchronize music from your PC to the phone, and multi-task using other functions on the phone while listening to your tunes. You can listen to music via the on-board speaker or the included color-matched stereo headset. Other features include a choice of music skins (visualizer or album artwork) and preset equalizer and 3D sound settings.



Amazingly thin and light, the Samsung Juke measures just 1.2 inches wide and weighs 2.82 ounces.
This phone also provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity with the A2DP Bluetooth profile, which enables you to stream music to compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones or speakers. It also includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, audio/video remote control, and serial port/object push for vCard.

A little flick of the thumb and the display spins up to reveal all the keys you need to dial, text, take pictures or almost anything else you want to do. Support is built in for text messaging and mobile IM. When used in combination with the phone's built-in still and video camera, MMS opens up a whole new world of messaging fun. T9 text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for entering text on handsets, is built into the unit--a plus for mobile email and text messaging users.

You can also snap photos on the go with the integrated VGA camera, which can capture images in three resolutions (640 x 480, 320 x 240, and 160 x 120 pixels) with variable quality settings. It features a night shot mode for less-than-ideal lighting conditions, a self timer, brightness and white balance controls, multi-shot capability, and choices for shutter sounds (including silent mode). This phone does not offer video capture capabilities.

The Juke's internal phone book can hold up to 500 contact entries with five phone numbers and two emails per entry (as well as notes). You can also pair contact up with a group, a picture for caller ID, or one of 11 polyphonic ringtones. Other features include:

  • Voice Commands: Voice dial, digit dial readout, call announcement
  • Personal Organizer: Calendar with scheduler, note pad
  • Tools: Calculator with converter, alarm clock, stopwatch, world clock
  • Speed dialing
  • Speakerphone
  • 72-note polyphonic ringtones
  • Bilingual user interface: English and Spanish
  • Hearing aid compatibility: M3

Vital Statistics
The Samsung Juke weighs 2.82 ounces and measures 3.82 x 1.18 x 0.83 inches. Its 750 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 210 minutes (3.5 hours) of talk time, and up to 250 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the CDMA 800/1900 frequencies as well as the CDMA 2000 1XRTT data frequency.

Customer Reviews

Great Little Phone!

by M. Mahaffey 2009-12-31, 0 people found this review helpful
This handy little phone has served me well for almost two years and I still love it!
Originally I bought it because of the small size and the features. The main things I wanted were:
- small size (fit in your pocket and not be bulky)
- bluetooth capable & voice recognition
- MP3 player

It has lived up to those requirements very well. I love using my Jabra earphone for voice dialing and listening to music.
It is also more durable than I expected. The swivel has not been a problem at all. It still works as well as the first day out of the box.
I usually keep the phone in my shirt pocket and have dropped it many times. It still works just fine. I expected the cover for the charging plug to break off after a while, but it too is in good condition.

Downside:
- I wish it had more memory or a slot for a micro SD
- Small screen is hard to read but I knew that going in (small phone was my main goal)
- Increased camera pixel count and ability to copy directly to computer would be nice.

Overall voice quality and usage of the phone is excellent.

Basic phone that works, but...

by M. Schroeder 2008-06-27, 3 people found this review helpful
The phone is attractive, quite compact, and is essentially an imitation IPod MP3 player.

Not too much innovation, just a blending technologies. My opinion of the Juke is mediocre.

On the positive side, it IS compact. Battery life is great. Pretty factor is a 9. USB connectivity and software work well. No visible antenna (yay). Bluetooth.

Negatives: Feels under-engineered. The swivel doesn't feel very sturdy. Cable and headphone covers feel like they'll pop off if they're pulled just a little too hard. With a compact phone, keys are very small, not for manly fingers. Software not very intuitive. Keys have icons which (unless you study the manual), seem abstract. There is only one small screen. NO VIDEO. My biggest beef with the Samsung Juke is you have to pay your wireless company to TRANSFER YOUR PHOTOS. If you like having a camera close at hand to take quick snapshots, you'll have to pay to retrieve them. You can however, look at your snapshots on your small phone screen for free.

Overall, it works. I'm neither blown-away or disappointed. Just another phone.

Excellent product

by Christopher Langford 2008-05-02, 4 people found this review helpful
I've had the Juke for two months and still think it's cool. Phone reception is great, good battery life, MP3 features work well, and it's snazzy sleek look is sharp. The display screen is awesome for mp3s - even shows the album cover of the song it's playing. Loading your tunes from Windows Media Player is a snap. I also use it with Jabra JBT8040 bluetooth and have had no problems whatsoever. I highly recommend this phone.
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