Comments on: Review: Samsung Epix

By: cat987

cat987 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:11:19 +0000

if your interested, i figured out how to fix the notification problem

By: cat987

cat987 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:10:29 +0000

go to ur account online, should be a code you put in

By: cat987

cat987 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:09:41 +0000

i know how to fix the notification problem, go to settings, notifications, on the first tab, make sure the second box is checked, it should say something like enable notifications. im super excited i figured it out, now i can keep my phone! email me if you have more questions kitty_lovely@rocketmail.com

By: Jamie Vandecamp

Jamie Vandecamp — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:04:44 +0000

It would be nice to hear a review from someone who is in the workforce. No offense but you are retired correct. Your use pales in comparison to someone who would use it in a real business environment. This review is great for a casual user, but not for the power user.

By: Bluto

Bluto — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:39:10 +0000

I don’t have this phone yet. I read that the wifi works better if you download Opera as the browser. Would that conceivably resolve the wifi problem addressed in this review?

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:16:08 +0000

I actually forgot my password and now ii cant do anything.. Only recieve calls :(
so please can someone hel meee!

By: Danny

Danny — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:46:16 +0000

well as for missed calls I use Bluetooth. Always a ring there and why put your pocket PC up to your ear too much skin oil on screen(gross). as far as special cord/adapters they come with the phone. The issue I have come across is it is hard to find a case to protect it while caring it. Well I have the phone and I love it. You did it justice ;)

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:20:26 +0000

Thank you very much for this review! It is by far the most detailed and descriptive I’ve found online. In particular I was pleased to see you mentioned the ability to turn off the haptic vibe response to the touchscreen being touched. It was a setting I was curious about on my own, and probably the first thing I was going to change about the phone, other than menu style, etc.

I also noticed you paired the GPS to your external GPS. I was hoping to get a review of the onboard GPS itself. Does it work for google maps out of the box? Is it true GPS or the aGPS that first looks at cell-tower triangulation and then gives coordinates?

Rich

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:45:49 +0000

fantastic review i must say. ive been looking for a decent one for a few weeks and i finally found one. i get the epix on monday im pretty excited. as for the wifi problem i also read about changing the proxy settings to do not use, hopefully it works or that they have a patch by now. so thanx for the review it deffinitly made the phone look more confident being its quite a different phone.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:49:00 +0000

Two basic, yet HUGE problems with the EPIX. 1) Notifications (sounds & blinking light) for missed calls/txts/emails do NOT obey the settings… they don’t work. 2) The Ringer is fixated on “increasing ring” even though you can “change” it to something else. You end up missing many calls because by the time the ring volume is audible, the call is forwarded to voicemail. Thus, I give the EPIX a 2.5 out of 5… because even though all of the high-end features of the phone seem to work perfectly, I am ultimately displeased and disatisfied that “they” left out the BASICS.

By: Kevin Turner

Kevin Turner — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:40:23 +0000

The Work setting? No, this is my first pocketpc device and I have no idea what that does. I configured it so all connections are to the Internet.

By: Jack Cook

Jack Cook — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:43:04 +0000

Thanks for that comment Kevin. I did try that along with a few other “fixes” that others found worked for them … no luck at all.

I’m assuming that you chose the WORK setting when using WiFi … correct?

By: Kevin Turner

Kevin Turner — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:44:20 +0000

Like you, I had Pocket IE refuse to work over wifi, and spent quite some time with customer support trying to work it out. In the end they were useless and I found the answer on the forums: Go to Settings/Connections/Proxy Manager and tick the “Do not use a proxy server” box.

AT&T ships the device configured with IE always using a proxy server. That proxy server is only accessible through cell data, not your wifi. Stop using the proxy server and IE will be functional over wifi, but you won’t be able to access any of the AT&T-specific media services that have URLs like “device.home”.

By: Jack Cook

Jack Cook — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:21:04 +0000

Thanks for that Maikeru!

By: Maikeru

Maikeru — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:08:47 +0000

Great review, lots of detail and a real-world perspective on living with a device. Regarding the WiFi issue, I’ve seen this on other WM devices trying to use IE — you have to leave the cellular data connection on in order to use WiFi. I’m not sure if it’s a design issue or more for operators to monitor on-net vs. off-net data usage. Anyway, I just gave up in my previous encounters, left cellular data connection in place and used WiFi.

I would note that Symbian 60 lets you browse exclusively on WiFi, no problem. iPhone seems to work more like WM on this by requiring cellular data on for WiFi browsing, though it will let you shut off 3G (drops down to GPRS/EDGE). Anyway, unless you’re trying to keep ATT from seeing your url history, it’s not really a big deal. Yeah, it’s problematic for “private” browsing, but there’s really no privacy anyway. Just use the WiFi with cellular data on.