Samsung Impression Review

hovelfire • July 7, 2009
Rating: 4/5

I have had the phone for 3 days now and have found it very intuitive and easy to use. I haven’t been an avid user of smart phones, so I am still experiencing what all I can do. Disappointed in the headphone jack being non STD. Overall, still a good phone.

Rating: 8 :: 1 out of 1 people found this user review helpful.

Darren • August 12, 2009
Rating: 2/5

The Samsung Impression made a big impression on me, until I spoke on it. The call clarity is poor and when my girlfriend calls me from her home phone the sound is hideous! it makes a loud crackling sound. Now I don’t know if I just got a hold of a bad Impression or what!

Rating: 4 :: 2 out of 2 people found this user review helpful.

Mandy • August 17, 2009
Rating: 5/5

This phone is wonderful! I got it a few days ago and I love it already!! It is really easy to use! It has a wonderful touch screen, and it’s easy to text, offering 3 different ways to text. They have the slide out keyboard, a touch screen keyboard, and a touch screen way to text like with a flip phone. The battery life is good and it hasn’t frozen for me yet (knock on wood [:) Also, the pictures it takes are phenomenal! It looks like a professional camera took it. You can also add cool effects to the photos.I only noticed a few problems. Sometimes when I text, it doesn’t send it so I have to turn my phone off and on, but then it works fine. Also it doesn’t do banners or signatures. Other then that this phone is wonderful, I love it!

Rating: 10 :: 1 out of 1 people found this user review helpful.

julie • August 27, 2009
Rating: 1/5

The Samsung impression is the most expensive phone I’ve ever had and it’s given me the most problems ever, I hate it! If it weren’t for all the glitches it would be a great phone but, like many others, I’ve also had the problem where it stops sending messages and you have to turn the phone off and on again also if your inbox gets close to full it starts receiving messages extremely slow. It will take an hour to get a message from someone 10 feet away and now my screen is frozen in the middle of typing a message. I’ve tried taking the battery out and putting it back in but that doesn’t work so I don’t know what to do. I’ve only had this phone for a little over a month and all the problems I’ve discovered revolve around texting, which is ridiculous because it’s a phone made for texting!

Rating: 2 :: 3 out of 4 people found this user review helpful.

Marisol • September 6, 2009
Rating: 2/5

Hi. Well I’m not “Impressed” with the phone thus far. I’ve had to return and get a second one now and now this new second one I’ve gotten has the same problem. It turns off on me when I’m using the Texting and Messaging system. Also sometimes when I press the back button it also turns off on me. Eventhough I really liked the phone at first, this problem makes the phone sucky. Time to get a BlackBERRY!!!

Rating: 4 :: 2 out of 3 people found this user review helpful.

Tifani • October 20, 2009
Rating: 1/5

I’ve had my phone almost 6 months now. It was great at first. I loved that it had touch screen and a full slide out keyboard. But once the problems started (and I’ve found that it’s NOT just my phone) it became the worst phone I’ve ever had. Compared to the iPhone I love that you can use your finger or finger nails rather than just your fingers. I loved that it wasn’t just touch screen – I can text faster on the keyboard than the touch screen.

My first known problem, just weeks after I got it, I noticed it would freeze on text messaging. I have to turn the phone off and restart it.

I don’t like where the key lock button is.

If I attached a picture then tried to add words with it the phone would freeze and I had to turn it off.

My biggest problem- the screen didn’t respond correctly. If I went to touch something on the screen I had to press about 1/4 of an inch further down than where it actually appeared to be. I couldn’t make calls or get into my menu button AT ALL. I had to get a replacement phone and now (after having it about 2-3 weeks) it’s starting to have texting and service issues.

I would NOT recommend this phone- unless it comes out with the flaws fixed.

The idea of the functionality of the phone is great and I love it… Just don’t like the flaws.

Rating: 2 :: 1 out of 1 people found this user review helpful.

James • November 14, 2009
Rating: 0.5/5

Looks like a million bucks but it’s all show and no go. Hangs up at the worst possible times like when you are trying to pay your bills online or in the car when I am trying to contact my wife! I went through three of them before AT&T admitted they had a problem! Stay away from this unit.

Rating: 1 :: 1 out of 1 people found this user review helpful.

mr. criminal • January 7, 2010
Rating: 0/5

the impression has many glicthes.Its very annoying to send messages, it has the same problems as the rest,it freezes when you send the message. and at&t wont even admett it.

it took me over 2 weeks for them to finally send a new one!

and when i got the new one it worked fine for a couple of days then did the same thing.

id have to turn it off and on five times a day just for it to work agian.

Rating: 0 :: 1 out of 1 people found this user review helpful.

mr. criminal • January 7, 2010
Rating: 0/5

i think you have to hard reset it maybe it will work.

Rating: 0 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

barb • January 10, 2010
Rating: 0.5/5

My impression will slide open in my purse & unlock. then it will call the person whom I most recently called. All on its own. this is very frustrating and I wish I had been told the phone did this so I wouldn’t have purchased it.

Rating: 1 :: 2 out of 2 people found this user review helpful.

Corine • March 24, 2010
Rating: 1.5/5

This is a very good phone but as Tifani said they are many flaws

I expereinced all of those problems. my first phone just froze on me and i couldnt use the screen at all and i couldnt read my messages. So when that happened i called in amd asked for a new phone and when i got my new phone which was about 5 months ago, i am now experincing the same problems.

I seemed to notice it happens alot when people text alot.

OVERALL i hope they come out with a better versioin , because i really do love this phone.

Rating: 3 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.