Samsung Gravity t459 Phone, Gray/Lime (T-Mobile)
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Released: 2008-10-08
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Samsung Gravity t459 Phone, Gray/Lime (T-Mobile)
- Slide-out full QWERTY keyboard for easy typing; access to instant messaging and email services, text/picture/video messaging
- T-Mobile's MyFaves service provides unlimited calling to your five most called contacts
- 1.3-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth stereo music streaming, MicroSD expansion to 4 GB, organizer with calendar and notepad
- Up to 6 hours of talk time, up to 288 hours (12 days) of standby time
- What's in the Box: handset, battery, charger, user manual, quick start guide
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A great choice for heavy texters, the Samsung Gravity T459 features a slide-out QWERTY keyboard that makes it easy to send SMS text messages and email as well as keep up with your chat buddies on popular IM services. When coupled with web surfing capabilities, the Gravity allows users to stay up to date on the latest news, weather, sports scores and more. It will also keep you connected to your closest friends and family members with T-Mobiles myFaves. Other features include a 1.3-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth connectivity for both handsfree devices and stereo music streaming, MicroSD memory expansion up to 4 GB, digital audio player, and up to 6 hours of talk time.
T-Mobile Service
The Samsung Gravity operates on GSM 850/900/1800/1900 networks and can handle high-speed data connectivity via T-Mobile's EDGE network (which stands for "Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution"). This high-speed, mobile data and Internet access technology is fast enough to support a wide range of advanced data services (with average data speeds between 75-135Kbps), including video and music clips, full picture and video messaging, high-speed color Internet access, and email on the go.
When closed, you can use the standard alpha-numeric keypad on the face to send quick messages. It's complemented by a colorful five-way navigation pad, send
 The sleek horizontal slider Samsung Gravity features a full QWERTY keyboard and access to text messaging, email, and IM chatting. |
The Samsung Gravity operates on GSM 850/900/1800/1900 networks and can handle high-speed data connectivity via T-Mobile's EDGE network (which stands for "Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution"). This high-speed, mobile data and Internet access technology is fast enough to support a wide range of advanced data services (with average data speeds between 75-135Kbps), including video and music clips, full picture and video messaging, high-speed color Internet access, and email on the go.
It's compatible with T-Mobile's myFaves service, which allows you to call up to five of your most common contacts--on any network, even landlines--without using any of your minutes. Learn more about myFaves from T-Mobile.
Download cool new games, HiFi Ringers (real songs by today's hottest artists), MegaTones (instrumental versions of songs), and wallpapers quickly, as well as stay connected via the Web, instant messaging, and email.
Phone Features
The candybar-style Samsung Gravity holds a secret--turn it on its side and push the face up to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard, perfect for easy typing of longer messages and emails. The Gravity offers access to multiple IM clients including AOL, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger and MSN, as well as text and picture/video messaging. It's also compatible with POP3 email accounts (such as Gmail), and it comes with presets for AOL and Yahoo! accounts.
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and two soft navigation keys, and a dedicated email key. The Gravity has an internal 60 MB memory, which can be expanded via optional MicroSD memory cards (up to 4 GB in size). The phonebook can store up to 1000 contact entries, each with up to 3 phone numbers and support for caller groups and photo/ringer ID.
Handsfree communication is easy thanks to the integrated speakerphone. This phone also provides Bluetooth wireless connectivity (version 2.0), and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and file transfer. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking--surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server.
Other features include:
- 1.3-megapixel camera with video capture
- Digital audio player compatible with MP3 and AAC/AAC+ files
- Video player compatible with MPEG4, H.263 formats
- Organizer tools: Calendar, calculator, currency converter, notepad, to-do list
- Web browser
- Java (J2ME) support for downloadable games and applications
- 72-chord polyphonic and MP3 real-music ringers
- Vibrating alert
- USB connectivity
- Speaker-independent voice dialing
- Flight mode turns off cellular connectivity, enabling you to use media player
- Hearing Aid Compatibility = M3
- Bluetooth version 2.0 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BPP (basic printing profile for text, email), DUN (dial-up networking), FTP (file transfer), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures)
Vital Statistics
The Samsung Gravity weighs 4.3 ounces and measures 4.5 x 2.1 x 0.7 inches. Its 1000 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 6 hours of talk time, and up to 288 hours (12 days) of standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies.
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Product Details
Samsung Gravity t459 Phone, Gray/Lime (T-Mobile)
- Wireless Phone: 0 pages (2008-10-08)
- Publisher: Samsung
- Label: Samsung
- Studio: Samsung
- Average Customer Review: based on 11 reviews
- Sales Rank in Cell Phones: #26494
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: Broken within 10 months - Tmobile wants to charge $100 for replacement 2009-11-18
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Decent phone, keyboard is great for texting 2009-09-22
Comment: I have owned this phone for about 6 months now and the phone itself works fine. Overall It's a pretty nice phone. I wish I could say the same for T-Mobile's service with isn't as good as others in my area.
Pro's
1.3 megapixel camera/camcorder
Slide-out keyboard for easy texting
You can check and send your personal email from your phone
Holds a charge for several days
Digital audio player (you must purchase a micro sd card)
Web browser
Vibration alert
Bluetooth compatible
Con's
Camera and camcorder only does well in bright light
Somewhat bulky design
T-Mobile's network isn't the best and you might lose signal where other providers work just fine
Pro's
1.3 megapixel camera/camcorder
Slide-out keyboard for easy texting
You can check and send your personal email from your phone
Holds a charge for several days
Digital audio player (you must purchase a micro sd card)
Web browser
Vibration alert
Bluetooth compatible
Con's
Camera and camcorder only does well in bright light
Somewhat bulky design
T-Mobile's network isn't the best and you might lose signal where other providers work just fine
Customer Rating:
Summary: Decent Phone Lacking Common Sense 2009-07-21
Comment: It's in the details with technology these days, and this is sadly where the Gravity falls short.
I'm a college kid who doesn't have the cash for the extra fancy online options like web surfing and game downloading. But I do text, A LOT, and I make calls a fair amount. Besides these two basic uses, I use my phone for the occasional picture and morning alarm. Point: I don't use my phone to make coffee in the morning, and I figure if it can do the basics then I'm a happy person.
Good:
-Free alarm clock! I hear some phones you need to pay for it now...
-Easy to text: You get used to it eventually, and the keys feel spaced out well enough to text quickly
-Relatively easy to navigate, understand
-Size, camera, weight: It's nothing special but it isn't overly heavy, the camera takes decent pictures, and it doesn't feel like a brick.
-Voice quality: I hardly have problems hearing others, and they can usually hear me just fine.
-Extras: I don't use these but there is a MicroSD slot and a headphones plugin if you want to listen to mp3s from the phone. I wouldn't recommend this as the battery isn't made for it.
-Look: I like it when my phone just 'looks' cool, and here they pull it off decently, with a decent mix of color options
Bad:
--Doesn't remember recent text: This is HUGE for me because each of us use certain words more than others. My old phone would remember my most recent word when texting from the front of the phone. So if I last used "dont" when I text those same letters again, "dont" will be the first thing to come up. But with the Gravity, if you NEVER use "foot" or "font" in your life while texting, it will still bring those up first before "dont" forcing you to press more buttons. When you text often, this gets old real fast.
--New Word Input: If the phone doesn't have the word you want to use if you're texting on the front of the phone and need to spell it, it takes you to a new window to spell out a new word, only the default size is CAPS! So if I want to use "dont" instead of "don't" the phone will initially have it in as "DONT" and it stays caps when you enter it forever after..so you need to resize with putting it. Too many extra steps.
--Limited button customization: There are tons of buttons on the front, but they only let you change SOME of them, and the ones that you can change, you can only change to be shortcuts for a short LIST of things. Want more options? Too bad.
--Battery status: It will drop from 5 bars to 1 faster than you can say "What?" But it will sit at 1 bar for what seems like 10 times as long as it took to go from full to empty! It just doesn't make sense...if I'm texting and talking on the phone, I need to charge it every night, so battery life could be better as well.
--Customization options: only 3 options for text size and there is no option for a plain background color. I have good eyes and like to read small text, but the small text on this phone feels like large to me. And I don't need a fancy background, because if I have something like black it will help save battery power. Too bad it isn't an option.
--Side menu buttons on full keyboard feel wrong, out of place, not useful
--Plastic buttons on full keyboard are stiff, sometimes get stuck and add two of one letter when texting
--ALT LOCK! When you are texting on the full keyboard and need to insert a number or symbol, you need to pretty the ALT key. Easy enough, right? Well once you press it, you stay in ALT mode until you press it again. No option to change it to if you press ALT key, it unlocks after the first button you press after, like if you need a $ or * symbol. Might seem small, but when you have to look at the keyboard while texting and forget, you realize half your message is all symbols before correcting the mistake. Which brings us to...
--BACKSPACE! If you want to backspace, on a computer you hold it down and it get going quick if you hold it down long enough. Not with the Gravity. On the Gravity, if you hold it down more than a second, it deletes EVERYTHING on your screen. There is no 'undo' option for this and no way to change it. So if you wrote a few sentences and need to delete them, be prepared to press the backspace button for each character. Such a poor design!
--FAILED TEXTS! If you try to send a text while without service, it will ask to save to drafts, and if you say yes, it just sits there waiting for you to resend when you learn you have service. This is different from other phones I've had that will put it in the outbox to send whenever the phone gets service on its own. I live in the mountains, so if I'm driving and get a bar for a minute, I don't have time to keep my eye on the phone. I thought software was supposed to make life easier?
There are also little things that they try to push on you, like a new feature called 'Audio Postcard' which is just a big waste of space.
The Samsung Rant, which was made just for Sprint, is a much better option from what I've heard...just not an option if you have Tmobile. I would avoid this phone if you're looking for something that you'll really enjoy, because the bottom line is that the details, the mistakes, will get to you eventually.
I'm a college kid who doesn't have the cash for the extra fancy online options like web surfing and game downloading. But I do text, A LOT, and I make calls a fair amount. Besides these two basic uses, I use my phone for the occasional picture and morning alarm. Point: I don't use my phone to make coffee in the morning, and I figure if it can do the basics then I'm a happy person.
Good:
-Free alarm clock! I hear some phones you need to pay for it now...
-Easy to text: You get used to it eventually, and the keys feel spaced out well enough to text quickly
-Relatively easy to navigate, understand
-Size, camera, weight: It's nothing special but it isn't overly heavy, the camera takes decent pictures, and it doesn't feel like a brick.
-Voice quality: I hardly have problems hearing others, and they can usually hear me just fine.
-Extras: I don't use these but there is a MicroSD slot and a headphones plugin if you want to listen to mp3s from the phone. I wouldn't recommend this as the battery isn't made for it.
-Look: I like it when my phone just 'looks' cool, and here they pull it off decently, with a decent mix of color options
Bad:
--Doesn't remember recent text: This is HUGE for me because each of us use certain words more than others. My old phone would remember my most recent word when texting from the front of the phone. So if I last used "dont" when I text those same letters again, "dont" will be the first thing to come up. But with the Gravity, if you NEVER use "foot" or "font" in your life while texting, it will still bring those up first before "dont" forcing you to press more buttons. When you text often, this gets old real fast.
--New Word Input: If the phone doesn't have the word you want to use if you're texting on the front of the phone and need to spell it, it takes you to a new window to spell out a new word, only the default size is CAPS! So if I want to use "dont" instead of "don't" the phone will initially have it in as "DONT" and it stays caps when you enter it forever after..so you need to resize with putting it. Too many extra steps.
--Limited button customization: There are tons of buttons on the front, but they only let you change SOME of them, and the ones that you can change, you can only change to be shortcuts for a short LIST of things. Want more options? Too bad.
--Battery status: It will drop from 5 bars to 1 faster than you can say "What?" But it will sit at 1 bar for what seems like 10 times as long as it took to go from full to empty! It just doesn't make sense...if I'm texting and talking on the phone, I need to charge it every night, so battery life could be better as well.
--Customization options: only 3 options for text size and there is no option for a plain background color. I have good eyes and like to read small text, but the small text on this phone feels like large to me. And I don't need a fancy background, because if I have something like black it will help save battery power. Too bad it isn't an option.
--Side menu buttons on full keyboard feel wrong, out of place, not useful
--Plastic buttons on full keyboard are stiff, sometimes get stuck and add two of one letter when texting
--ALT LOCK! When you are texting on the full keyboard and need to insert a number or symbol, you need to pretty the ALT key. Easy enough, right? Well once you press it, you stay in ALT mode until you press it again. No option to change it to if you press ALT key, it unlocks after the first button you press after, like if you need a $ or * symbol. Might seem small, but when you have to look at the keyboard while texting and forget, you realize half your message is all symbols before correcting the mistake. Which brings us to...
--BACKSPACE! If you want to backspace, on a computer you hold it down and it get going quick if you hold it down long enough. Not with the Gravity. On the Gravity, if you hold it down more than a second, it deletes EVERYTHING on your screen. There is no 'undo' option for this and no way to change it. So if you wrote a few sentences and need to delete them, be prepared to press the backspace button for each character. Such a poor design!
--FAILED TEXTS! If you try to send a text while without service, it will ask to save to drafts, and if you say yes, it just sits there waiting for you to resend when you learn you have service. This is different from other phones I've had that will put it in the outbox to send whenever the phone gets service on its own. I live in the mountains, so if I'm driving and get a bar for a minute, I don't have time to keep my eye on the phone. I thought software was supposed to make life easier?
There are also little things that they try to push on you, like a new feature called 'Audio Postcard' which is just a big waste of space.
The Samsung Rant, which was made just for Sprint, is a much better option from what I've heard...just not an option if you have Tmobile. I would avoid this phone if you're looking for something that you'll really enjoy, because the bottom line is that the details, the mistakes, will get to you eventually.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Overall good but has its drawbacks - Comparing to Blackberry Curve 2009-06-11
Comment: Previously I had a blackberry curve, I came across this phone and really liked the keyboard and overall layout and style of the phone. I ended up picking it up soon after & have had it for awhile now.
Good:
Sliding mechanism works perfect and feels very solid
The screen is a good size and fits a lot of text in there
The camera is only a 1.3 mp but it looks & feels like a real camera when you take a picture, as opposed to my blackberry curve where it felt like I was taking a picture with my phone.
The Email and AIM client is free ( as long as you have texting ) . That was my main draw to the phone, my blackberry you normally have to have a data plan, saves money.
The look of the phone
Cell phone call quality to me sounded great
Battery life is rated for six hours, I get more than that out of it and I use it often, my curve was only four
Price
Good volume levels
AIM works perfect , main thing I like about the phone
Bad:
Pretty heavy phone, a lot heavier than my blackberry curve
The keyboard is perfect for casual texting, my girlfriend and I text back and forth through out the day and non stop texting on that phone is quite tiresome, keys you have to push down quite hard and just overall cannot get nearly the same texting speed and accuracy that I could get with my blackberry curve. Its alot more moving of my thumbs also, honestly I text so much and the extra movement makes my wrist a little sore sometimes.
The menu layout you have to go thru a lot to do simple things
Not a major thing at all, but you can't play music while doing other things on the phone such as texting or anything else. Just a heads up.
Email on the phone isn't the easiest thing; you have to download each message and are slow downloading.
Overall I just don't know if I will be able to keep this phone, I love the AIM on it and looks of the phone, but its frustrating doing simple tasks such as texting multiple people, you have to go through a lot of screens, it might not be that big of deal if I didn't have my blackberry. I guess I was spoiled with there great layout and didn't appreciate how well it worked.
Good:
Sliding mechanism works perfect and feels very solid
The screen is a good size and fits a lot of text in there
The camera is only a 1.3 mp but it looks & feels like a real camera when you take a picture, as opposed to my blackberry curve where it felt like I was taking a picture with my phone.
The Email and AIM client is free ( as long as you have texting ) . That was my main draw to the phone, my blackberry you normally have to have a data plan, saves money.
The look of the phone
Cell phone call quality to me sounded great
Battery life is rated for six hours, I get more than that out of it and I use it often, my curve was only four
Price
Good volume levels
AIM works perfect , main thing I like about the phone
Bad:
Pretty heavy phone, a lot heavier than my blackberry curve
The keyboard is perfect for casual texting, my girlfriend and I text back and forth through out the day and non stop texting on that phone is quite tiresome, keys you have to push down quite hard and just overall cannot get nearly the same texting speed and accuracy that I could get with my blackberry curve. Its alot more moving of my thumbs also, honestly I text so much and the extra movement makes my wrist a little sore sometimes.
The menu layout you have to go thru a lot to do simple things
Not a major thing at all, but you can't play music while doing other things on the phone such as texting or anything else. Just a heads up.
Email on the phone isn't the easiest thing; you have to download each message and are slow downloading.
Overall I just don't know if I will be able to keep this phone, I love the AIM on it and looks of the phone, but its frustrating doing simple tasks such as texting multiple people, you have to go through a lot of screens, it might not be that big of deal if I didn't have my blackberry. I guess I was spoiled with there great layout and didn't appreciate how well it worked.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Pretty solid phone 2009-06-04
Comment: This is a pretty good phone. I love the qwerty keypad! Great for texting. The Camera's nice too. 1.3 Megs, but it takes it like if it had 2 megs. The video camera is okay too. Has other nice fetures, like a calendar/planner, cauculater, stop watch, bluetooth, airplane mode. nice features. And the music player! Awsome. Just slip in a memory card with music and you're all set to roll. It's a pretty cool phone to have.
Bad thing though, the battery is crap. I charged it the first night I had it and the next day I took it to work with me with a full battery. Once I got home it was at one bar! and I hardy even used it!
Over all a great phone, but poor battery life.
Bad thing though, the battery is crap. I charged it the first night I had it and the next day I took it to work with me with a full battery. Once I got home it was at one bar! and I hardy even used it!
Over all a great phone, but poor battery life.
I brought one in Jan 2009. Sth fell loose and stuck out of the back of the slide-out top. So the query keyboard cannot be slided out any more and the keyboard became useless. My phone is still under 1 year warranty. However, Tmobile calls it "standard wear and tear" and refused to honor the warranty. They want to charge $100 for the replacement.
If you do not want a phone standard-wear-and-tear out in 10 months, do not buy this phone. If you do not want a provider who do not honor its warranty, do not from Tmobile.