Samsung Transform price and reviews

I am a large 6'4" Marine who hates using tiny keys or touchscreen keyboard. The slide-out keyboard on this is the clincher for me. The software is typical Android, which is great. Call quality is good, the speaker is very loud. Not much to say because it's not all that different from other Androids that I've used.

I purchased this phone after owning a Moto Q and an HTC Hero. I wanted a functional phone that had a solid build and useful functions without costing me a fortune. This phone out performs my other phones when surfing the web and texting. The screen resolution is better than the Q but less than the Hero in my opinion. Video streaming smokes both of my former phones by a long shot. I have put it in heavy use for almost a week now with not problems other than the following: There are no USB drivers to allow synchronizing with your computer. You can take your SD card out and insert it manually, but that is a hassle. Samsung doesn't even have it listed on their site, or have any fixes for the issue. You cannot make changes to contacts that are imported from Facebook, nor can you sync those contacts with non facebook contacts (this means 2 or more phonebooks). That front facing camera is not currently supported by any applications at this time. If you're a hardcore android user your gonna be dissappointed that the phone doesn't live up to the advertised expectations. If your tired of glitchy videos, touchy screens with super fancy widgets that are glitchy, and phones that freeze or reset themselves in the middle of your experience then you will be satisfied with this phone. Hopefully the issues that hurt the experience will be solved by Christmas or Samsug will be added to the list of phones I'll never buy again along with the two above.

My background: 34 yrs old, with a good bit of technical knowledge of cell phones and computers. I've owned several types of smartphones (Blackberry Curve, BB Bold, HTC EVO, Samsung Transform, MOTO Q,etc) and used many others. I used this device a lot over three weeks, personal use and corporate use (emails, calendar function, etc)

Phone design: The phone feels good to hold (size), but button placement (touch screen buttons, and physical buttons) is not good. I'm constantly hitting multiple buttons that I don't want to hit. This results in pre-maturely sent emails, txt messages, and calls. This also leads to illumination of the screen when I did not want it.

Overall Performance: This phone is sluggish in the store, sluggish out of the box, and after some tweaking, still slow. The touch screen is slow to respond in just about every application, and even on the home screen, with no apps running. The "pinch to zoom" feature, used within the internet browser is near unusable. It's either fully zoomed in, or fully zoomed out. I tried other browsers (opera mini) and had the same issue. There is also an issue with a couple keys on the keyboard. You'll be typing an email or text message and the phone will suddenly open another email, or open some other application. It's almost like some of the keys are acting as shortcut keys for apps, or the messaging function. This often times makes the phone unusable for messaging of any kind. We were told by sprint that it's a known issue that their working on. We had to restart the phone to get it to work properly.

Calling Function: This is the biggest let-down. Several times a week I've had problems making and receiving calls. Because the screen is so slow to respond to commands, answering an incoming call can be tricky and I only had a 70% success rate at accepting calls.

Facebook and other Apps: I know this is a third party app and can't really be supported by sprint, but this is a necessary application for any smartphone/facebook user. Facebook rarely worked over the 3 week period I had this phone. There were constant errors, etc. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling the application, with no success. Facebook really only worked about 50% of the time. Other apps had problems opening(like weather channel and others). Apps would attempt to load and then close immediately.

Conclusion:
After all the issues with this device a master reset was done, hoping to fix the issues by taking the phone back to factory settings. This did not work. I think this phone has some serious design/software issue, is extremely unpolished, and is not really a device I would recommend to anyone.

read the basics guide and this phone is definitely worth the money
great, simple, and functional smartphone

Updated on Dec 27, 2010

I have been an iPhone 3G user for 2 years, and while I was at first satisfied with the iPhone, it became increasinly slow after apple's updates that were clearly targeted for their new faster 3GS and 4 phones... I had used a couple friends android based phones and was impressed. Unfortunately the Transform is the worst one I have used yet. The phone was slow to begin with, but After installing 3 to 5 apps, the functionality went from very slow to borderline un-usable. Simple functions like placing calls, reading texts or even just UNLOCKING THE PHONE takes anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds or doesn't work at all, causing the phone to crash. I just timed how long it took for me to unlock my phone, go to the facebook app and respond to an email, and I GAVE UP AFTER 8 MINUTES. I didn't think it was possible for a phone to be worse than my 2 year old iPhone in terms of performance, but this one sure as hell takes the cake. By comparison, the old iPhone even with a ton of apps and new operating system that is WAY too complex for that processer to handle, feels LIGHTYEARS faster than the transform.

I have even installed an app that is supposed to free up memory space, and it's not helping. Absolutely awful.

Its a good Android phone especially being a female its just the right size and not to heavy. To bad the sprint ID doesn't work on wifi that would have been a plus as well as the marketplace but being that I'm ever hardly at home it really doesn't matter about the wifi. I love it and wouldn't trade it for another well except the iphone but I'm not really an Apple fan.

I switched to this phone after a awful week and a half with the Transform's "little brother" the intercept, that phone is garbage. I really like the screen size I can't imagine having the epic or the evo (I'm sure that they are great but they are huge). The slide out keyboard is nice but like I say I haven't really used it cause the on screen keyboard is big enough for me.

I'm sure the sprint id will get more themes soon but the stock ones haven't wowed me. They do take a bit to load and switch, I have the sprint one on right now, and it's ok I guess. the battery life is to be expected with a android phone, task killer helps. For some reason I cant edit my facebook contacts info or sync them with existing contacts, maybe I'm not doing it right.

Over all think it's a great value, and if froyo does come out before the end of the year it will be even better. Please go easy on me this is my first review of anything.

this phone is a very decent phone worth its price if you manage to get the right app killer so it wont have too many apps running in the back because it doesnt have as a processor as other phones do.

it does it jobs but its basically like an infiniticar. very good for its price and decent...but its not a mercedes or a lambo or any of that stuff. but its not some shiity smart car .. if you get what im saying. its good not the best but its a good overall phone with minor bugs the keyboard and speakers are good the camera is alright.

DONT BUY THIS GARBAGE! You will regret it! I cannot believe Sprint has not recalled all of these already. They are absloutly frustrating and a waste of plastic!