Most functions perform admirably, but you may never get accustomed to this schizophrenic configuration.
Introduction
With the SCH-u740’s unique double-hinge design and QWERTY keypad, Samsung has tried to solve the nagging problem of composing text messages on a standard cell phone. Outwardly, the champagne-colored SCH-u740 (available from Verizon for $99.99 USD with the usual two-year commitment and online rebates, or $149.99 USD in the store) looks like a standard thin clamshell, and the lid flips up like a regular clamshell for normal phone operation. But, it also flips up horizontally like a little notebook PC. Under this unique dual-hinged lid is a combination QWERTY/numeric dialpad. Flip it vertically, and you get numbers. Flip the lid horizontally, and you get a QWERTY keyboard.
Great idea, right? Except this keypad might as well be a bowl of alphabet soup with letters and numbers swirling helter-skelter in a jumbled mess. Also, phone applications are arbitrarily and unnecessarily segregated between those that work with the lid up vertically and those that work only with the lid up horizontally. Most functions perform admirably, but you may never get accustomed to this schizophrenic configuration.
by Dougy on November 8, 2009:
“We own two of these phones. First my daughters quit charging and the phone talk only works on speaker. I gave her a hard time based on it being "over-used". Three months later mine did the same. I'd been charging her battery for her daily. We found a universal...” More...