Samsung Jet S8000 Comments

I'm guessing Gordon still doesn't like it though :D.

@Gordon - to give us a better idea of why you dislike this phone can you give us a top 5 things you think are rubbish about it? I had not considered this phone before Sandra's review but she makes it sound just like what I need for the next couple of years. (I had been considering the HTC Hero but @ £400 quid for something that `could do better` I think I`ll save a bit of money & wait until HTC do a better one).

Any reasons why Gordon? As I'm looking for views as I'm seriously looking at this to replace my current phone and Cowon S9. And for a very acceptable price it seems to offer all the features I will need on a regular basis and many more I won't, on top of the good media playback abilities (I'm sure it won't be as good as the S9, but I'm tired of missing calls due to listening from my S9 :P )

haha, I'm with Gordon on this handset, whilst I like it's size it's UI is horrible.

Just goes to show how subjective a reviews site's opinion can be relative to who's reviewing it. Could you list more info on each phone's OS and price off contract? 'Free on contract' means nothing at all.

@ lifethroughalens
You can get the Jet free on contract for about £20 a month, though I've found a couple of deals to get it for about £22 p/m with 500mb of 3G data which I think is a pretty good deal.

I'd be interested in more information about the browser as it was boasted as fully flash supported etc. but the review simply states "pretty good". Is there a veiled comment to "Opera is still better" in there somewhere?;)
All in all, it seems there was frustratingly little time to fully test the handset.

P.S. My brother bought an Omnia earlier this year as it seemed a pretty popular phone, but is now suffering from strange memory errors while having as little as 2 apps open (opera and msn), so in hindsight, I probably should have passed on your warnings!

@ Ed, what do you mean "third opinion?" Don't you have to represent Sandras' opinion in the video review? You don't want to confuse readers now do you?

No offence intended, but Sandra's reviews always seem very 'feminine'. While the boys go into detail, compare figures and sizes Sandra just says "this is ok", "this isn't" - which can either be great or frustrating depending. I think overall though the reviews need to be more detailed and cover more aspects of the phone. Not to mobilereview length, but at least give a decent paragraph for each of the main things people care about these days - call quality, contacts, camera, media abilities, internet (mail, web, FB/twitter integration, etc). Simply saying "this works ok" for any of these sections doesn't give us enough to go on and barely lifts it above a review you'd get in the Sunday papers.

This phone is a prime example of a device that can be great for someone used to dumb phones but sorely lacking for someone using a smartphone or the elegance of an iPhone. So Sandra thinks it's great whereas Gordon finds it sorely lacking. Reviews need consistency.

@HK - well said.

Samsung's mobile os is not my fav. Not to mention it lags most of the time - may have improved greatly on jet - the UI, especially to add a new contact etc, is not friendly to me at all. The Cube may look great to some others but to me it's just a waste of resources & energy.

The overall spec of the phone is great, certainly outruns iphone 3gs in many aspects. Though two years just seems too long to stick to it. Apple 4g is on its way...

P.S. : Putting it under the battery cover, doesn't make it easily accessible. Just really annoying.

I'm curious about the references to Samsung's proprietary OS... is it not a version of Symbian, as used in the i8910? (It certainly looks similar).

@ MrGodfrey
As far as I'm aware, the one used in the Jet is a proprietary OS made for Samsungs mid/low range phones. And apart from their Android phones I'm pretty sure their only phone that uses Symbian is the i8910, which they skinned to look like their proprietary OS but have the smartphone capabilities of Symbian.

Well I've had this phone for neally a month now, so just for those that are possibly considering this phone as a purchase.....as a rule, you won't be disappointed. In my opinion the review is pretty much bang on. As said it does just about all things well, at a swift pace. The response on the finger is good which is important to make it feel as an extention of your hand, which for me it now is. Though it does take a couple of weeks to get there.
It's true, it does have a menu too far. It has about 4 or 5 different ways to view the same image, bizarely though one of the ways I do view is by using the multi media cube. A couple of last points....my lead out SE K850i in my kitchen returned 2-3 on the signal strength where as most the time the Jet has none and again, coming from an SE I do miss a dedicated light!

Hey Kezman, say no signal compared to 2-3 is pretty bad ; with same carrier ?

Yes, same network provider. Though to be fair my initial fears regarding signal strength haven't really materialised. In areas where, for example, my SE phone has returned a strong if not full signal, then this jet will return almost the same with good reception. For me, it's areas that notoriously struggle for signal anyway. The SE would still have voice and txt capability most of the time, where as the Jet seems to be a '100 yard walk' if you know what I mean.
Buried within the camera settings in focus mode, there is a 'Macro' option, TR. Is it possible due to the constraints of review deadlines etc, this got missed? or did you mean something else by 'dedicated'?

I just recently purchased a Jet and I am over the moon! Must admit though that this is the first of this kind of high tech I purchased and am pleasently surprised by what it offers. I was a bit concerned by Gordon said but find Kezman's comment much more factual and am glad that I decided to get my Jet.