Comments on: Surprise, more "Behold" info!

By: Thainguu

Thainguu — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:43:26 +0000

It’s doesnt support FM radio, huhuhu

By: hi

hi — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:24:40 +0000

max stepper is right the price is really high on this phone and its not even in the same league as the iphone or g1. its a low class phone.. like the lg vu compare it to that. at least at&t sells the vu for 49.99

By: Maxstepper

Maxstepper — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:24:40 +0000

Add to my Bookmarks ;)

By: Tex

Tex — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:52:30 +0000

I don’t understand why you guys are comparing this phone to Iphone, g1, & storm. This phone isn’t meant to compare. It’s a basic phone turned touch screen, and added a 1st generation GPS and basic web browser. YOu should compare it to the other multimedia phones(ie..lg vu cu920, lg rumor, samsung sway, lg venus, lg voyager vx10000 . Co’mon you guys are being a little unfair with the products that you are comparing it too. You guys hyped yourselves up on the phone setting your own expectatins of what the phone should be and the get mad when it’s doesn’t have windows and the best browser in the world. Just my opinion!
Until next time!!

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:39:13 +0000

I have this phone, got it on the first day it came out when i was going to get a new phone (blackberry flip or G1) but was talked into this by TMO rep. Terrible phone unless you want a souped up regular phone that has a touch screen. Def not a smartphone.

To answer some questions: the brown looks black, I didn’t even know it was espresso or whatever till i read it here. No Wifi, doesn’t remember passwords, can’t minimize browser if you get a text or something. Yahoo mail won’t work and you have to use built in t-mobile e-mail app. Won’t let you download/install Google maps, gmail app or anything, have to use workaround to use opera (which won’t work in landscape mode), camera looks nice but they want you to save to an online album or something, but then it complains that attachment too big (also to send mms). Can’t add any new widgets, won’t push e-mail from gmail so it tells you you have a message and then you have to wait for it to log in to gmail after starting the app, then it shows you the subject or sender, if you want to read the message it has to download that (not worth it unless i get like 3 e-mails a day), quicker to log in to gmail on website.

GPS is useless, looks nice but can’t get a signal for nothing.

copy and paste is apparently on here but can’t figure out how to do it, tired of typing username/passwords over and over for certain sites. especially annoying if your password is not a word.

scrolling is a pain, especially in the phone book always go by too far or clicks on a name.

not enough options to set and manage, can’t even sort bookmarks

battery life is suspect as well, did come with a 1GB card though but won’t hold very many text messages without deleting then oldest without warning.

If i can’t add new apps like gmail and google maps (even though the tmo rep said I could) what is the point of this phone? as a phone it sounded nice, but if I didn’t get the 2yr agreement and data plan I wouldn’t be paying 150 for this phone but 400. I could go get a g1 and a nice digital camera for less than that. damn tmo needs to get something like the storm

i could keep going…I’m returning this and getting a G1, sorry Samsung nice try

By: Atlanta Person

Atlanta Person — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:16:18 +0000

im staying buyinh it

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:36:36 +0000

Worst phone ever release by tmo …. played with it at work and hate the design the workings of the touch interface and dont get me started on the gps that never works!!!!

By: Sal

Sal — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:03:03 +0000

Can you use google maps or opera mini on this phone? I heard taht you can’t since Tmobile blocks 3rd party apps.

By: thaone&only

thaone&only — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:01:36 +0000

@ Slater
Wat? It dnt show the actual page!! In your opinion, do u thinl the Sidekick’s (LX) Web Browser is better?

By: Slater

Slater — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:03:02 +0000

i played with this phone yesterday and can’t say that i was all too impressed. however, it would be a great phone for my wife b/c it has the touch surface technology, and the operation of the phone is extremely straight forward. i did find that the desktop was a little funky as far as trying to drag the icons up and down to get to the app i wanted to use. in fact, the very last app icon didn’t even show fully (the click & drag simply wouldn’t bring it up into full view). also, it seemed to be a little to excited to pull up an app when i was merely trying to scroll up and down on the desktop’s app list. perhaps this could be adjusted with the touch sensitivity option that is built into the phone. if not, i would say that the phone is not very intuitive about what the user is trying to do.

the major drawback to me on this phone was the web browsing. I don’t know if having a data plan would change this (i’m not sure how the store’s demo was set up in regards to this), but all the web pages (even yahoo) were in the text format only. so good luck on flashing your brand new Behold and then not even being able to pull up an actual page that you want to view or show someone.

my post-disclaimer to this comment/mini-review is that i probably spent no more than 10 minutes with the Behold. honestly, it simply didn’t keep my attention. it sort of seemed like a glammed out phone for people who want the appearance of modern technology without the functionality of it. but, again, that’s exactly what my wife would want. good luck.