Samsung SGH-V200

this mobile is so simple to use,easy menu system,smoothe flip action prevents accidental calls being made, with large internal screen + large numbers on screen when dialling.can customise all settings including how long the screen light stays on. a brilliant phone for all ages and better still for the elderly.

hi my name is dave and i have recently purschased the samsung v200 mobile phone and this is what i like about the phone it is easy to use it has a 2 way camera which i think is great it also has a colour screen infra red and mms which makes it easy to transfer and recive files

the things i dislike on this phone is that it has a ariel that sticks out the top of the phone and the camera is a bit tweddle to turn around and it dosent support music files but cant excepet to have it all lol

i hope this review helps you in deciding if to purschase this phone or not and if you woudent mind could you pls rate this guide yes or no at the bottom of the page as you opion is always apricated thank you.

Ive had a sam-v200 for about four years,I use it at work and have found it to be reliable easy to use,and a good size,camara good. phone book large enough for me.excellent thats why I brought another.

Got 2 ages ago --6 years on (we have one each) carried and used nearly everyday on pay as you go 02 top up card its very cheap and no monthly bills but the best feature is the seperate charger it sits at home with 4 batteries---just replace a charged battery once every two or three days and put the other on charge --I would never be without it now.--it even worked from abroad !

everything was alright and i was happy with everything. apart from the delivery it took 7days to deliver.

Great basic mobile. Calls, text, camera all easy to use. Flip style, and small enough for pocket or handbag.

There's a definite following for this phone. Witness the ebay bidding, many achieve high prices. The appearance is great, practically unique nowadays but my phone came with a fault and the camera wasn't brilliant. The phone was an Olympic special edition and we're not talking Beijing so was 4 yrs old+.

I did like the all action Hollywood alert light, the ease of navigation which would also suit older people, the good volume level, the fact that I couldn't take it off lock inadvertently with the clamshell design, ease of removing the back compared with Nokias, the time showing when closed. I also liked the longevity of the finish compared with the Nokia version, the 6101 which soon gets scuffed. I'd had a couple of those which both died suddenly, hence the change to the V200.

The phone had a good selection of easily audible ring and alert tones. The battery life was rather short and frequent charging was necessary. The camera on this phone was pretty poor and although the spec. emphasised it's brilliant colours, this one was wishy washy with faint vertical lines showing. Perhaps I was unlucky.

All the functions appeared to work initially and I spent some time deleting old sent texts, received texts, many contacts and a gallery of pics which had saved to the phone cards and bobbed up once I inserted my sim. The texts showed that all functions were not working properly before I received the phone. I discovered it was locked on upper case predictive and it wasn't possible to change to abc mode. The phone was therefore of no use to me because I text 95% of the time and didn't want to be accused of shouting.

I found someone who didn't text, a 99 yr.old relative who likes to make an odd phone call so I bought another Orange sim and gave the phone to her.

Because of the poor camera and the subsequent very high prices being achieved at Christmas, I decided not to go for another V200 and got an S.390 slider instead at the same cost which suits me fine.

The phone was almost brand new. I bought this phone because I used to have one but I broke it. I bought a Sony Ericcson but as I am 72 I found it hard to enter numbers.Also my wife has the identical Samsung so we always have a spare battery

Bought it for my elderly mother as the digits are in large type on screen. Item very scratched and not in working order, a waste of money.