Samsung U600

I have had my U600 for just over a month, my screen keeps turning itself upside down, or back to front or just going blank. I got the phone as a birthday present thankfully my parents took out insurance and i have a garantee however i advise anyone who wants to buy this phone not to as it's not worth the money you pay for it.

Great phone, really nice design, but just not built to last! The screen cracked very eaisly, then, after just two months of ownership, the most fundamental part of any phone (the speaker) stops working. OMG, everything else works, but not the speaker! So frustrating. So, I take the thing apart, and discover a horrid construction. Everything's so small and delicate and covered in sticky tape it's a wonder it works at all. The way that the switch works for the slide is very crude, and the ribbon cable connecting the screen is extremely thin and actually rubs against the metal LCD surround, which I believe caused mine to split. I'm going to try and repair this phone with a new ribbon cable and install some kind of foam to protect it. If I get problems after that then it's going in the bin and I'll be very reluctant to try Samsung again! Shame.

I have the same problems as some of the people down there . phone is okay for about a year then totally packs up. Ive had problems ever since, sent my phone back for repair because it kept resetting everytime i text. The touchscreen has now packed up and none ofthe buttons on that section of the phone work. So now my phone is prtty much un-usable. I charged my phoneup last night and cannot even turn it back on. A Total let down, because its apretty phone.
If Anyone has any Suggestions to help me sort out my problems it wold be very much apriciated.

To be honest, all these reviews are bad and you all got really bad Samsung U600s. I bought one and it's working fineee, memory's a bit 'poo' but if you're looking for a good camera you should get this phone.

i hate this phone, i have had it jus over a year and the fone freezes none stop and i cant use any of the touch butttons as they do not work and they r asking me for £25 excess even though i have paid it twice before when it has broke i am up for an upgrade in jan cant wait to get rid of this thing.

I am on my fourth one in 14 months Loads of faults.
1. Rubbish battery life
2. Store number in phone and sim they appear twice
3. Freezes
4. Black screen/white with loads of colours/black and blue
5. Screen upside down
6. In relation to 4 if a text is recived it can take up to a an hour or more to read it cause of the screen.
7. jaggerd screen, hard to read texts and write texts
8. inputing a persons name to text is a pain it has to be exactly right.
9. Screen spilts in to two or two or three
10. poor signal this is nothing to do with network as people in same house on same network with different phones have a good singal
11. touch buttons are sensive while reading a text which means u call someone when not meaning to.
12. When you want to use the touch buttons they dont work
13. delayed resoponse when dialing a number
14. zoom is rubbish
15 sound when recording a video is poor
16. takes ages to take a pic ie if the person moves it is blury
17. many more problems

so avoid this phone. I cant wait for my upgrade in January

I've had this phone for 16 months and not had any problems with it until recently. It has just started to flip everything back to front or upside down which is really annoying when trying to write or read texts. I must admit i do use my phone constantly for texting so i am suprised it has lasted this long, but as i am on an 18 month contract i am trying to hang out for another couple of months before i get it replaced. Has any one else had the problem of "flipping text"? What did you do about it? Other than this recent problem my phone had been very good and i was very impressed with it!

I have this phone 9 months, i am on my third one, 1st 1 only lasted a week!! all showing the same problem, flashing, delay in buttons regeistering command switching off and eventually buttons not responding at all to anything!! soooo annoyed. Looks great bt thats about it STAY AWAY FROM THIS PHONE!!

Omydayz i wuz Lisin 2 music
and then it just crashd
gos white&Black
Thenn Rainbowy culahz:|
Stupid Fone
id Advise not 2 get it
Samsung is **

I have never had such an annoying mobile. Now after 14 months of stuggling with it, it is freezing all the time when I'm texting and seems to have lost the capability to store words in T9, having lost all the ones I previously put in it. Useless customer service at T-Mobile and Samsung as they are not really willing to help and hardly seem to believe you when you say what's wrong. A few days ago I was promised an envelope in the post from Samsung to send the phone back. It hasn't arrived yet. Also, they said it'll take up to 28 days to fix and I haven't been offered a loan phone. Considering I have an 18 month contract I think it's a cheek. If you rent something you normally get it repaired for free. I think it's such poor service and so frustrating. I would have gone for a Nokia but was kind of pushed into taking the U600 and it does look and feel lovely but that's about it's only good points.

Do not buy this phone from orange. Their policy for repairs is disgusting. My phone was brought in march and has already broke 3times. My screen flickers,freezes,turns it self of flashes all the colours of the rainbow and eventually turned black and was unusable.I feel that it should have been recalled. Getting your money back for this phone seems to be more or less impossible.

hi there
i phoned trading standards this morning and am going to paste all he said to me for anyone who needs help solving there problems with orange as i have the same phone and having the same screen problems. this seems to be a common fault and please read my review as it will help all.
Sony consect 1979 entitled to repayeer or new phone argument is repairs not being and ur entiled to replacement if this is common fault then u want refund less of usage charge

This phone is terrible and the Orange/Samsung service is even worse. It first started cutting out back in Feb and I got it fixed under the warranty, so it was fine for a bit, but then it began flipping the picture 6 weeks ago and cutting out, changing colour, etc. the works. Orange couldn't offer me a loan phone (all their grand total of 3 loan phones were out) so even for their extortionate £15 fee for fixing my broken phone I couldn't even have a phone. At all. The only option, acording to them, is to have an expensive upgrade or buy a new pay-as-you-go phone! For a problem that has nothing to do with me and that they fixed before! This phone is junk. I'm getting in touch with Trading Standards as it's clearly not fit for purpose. If I could give it a lower score than 1 I would do. Don't buy this phone. It's worse than useless.

I have had this phone 21 months now...took a second contract for 18 months after first year contract ran out. I hate to say it, but a couple of months back it started freezing as i was ringing someone, then it froze when sending texts. Recently it's just started to play up on calls now, think it's the slide action that's gone with it now! I can ring out and listen to people on other end if i hold the slide half way down the key pad with my finger! Otherwise i hear nothing, and they just hear me talking. Not insured as don't get a like for like phone! I won't be getting another one of these now. I was happy with it at first, but all these reviews just goes to show there is problems with the phone.

i have the samsung u600, my advice stay clear just not worth the risk, u need to be carefull of the touch sensitive buttons or your end up ringing people you dont want to, and you can loose your messeges you just wrote out, and now to top it of my phone keeps turning itself off, ive had it 11months, yeah it may look good but what does that matter if you cant ring or txt anyone,also my mate got one exactly the same time he had the same problems even earlier than mine,samsung should be appalled by themself at this day and age they cant even create a mobile that will last longer than a year, i hate this phone so much,stay away from this phone...angry costomer

I have had this phone for over a year and i have never had any problems. It can be annoying as its very easy to call someone by mistake as the phone is so sensitive. Its also so so difficult to put the phone on loud speaker when driving that its not even worth risking trying. theres no function so you can answer it and its straightaway on loud speaker not that i know of anyway?

Another thing i dont like is why doesnt the phone tell you the time and date you sent a message? this isnt displayed on sent items .

I got my u600 as a birthday gift just under a year back. It was working perfectly well until a few months back. The phone kept on freezing. The sound went...couldn't hear people when they called. Now the screen goes multi-coloured/blacks out. It even switches on/off by itself. I am fed up with the phone but I don't want to repair it if it'll cost a fortune. I have given it a 2/10 because I LOVE THIS PHONE because it was a gift. But it doesn't even last for a year. I think I will be sticking to Nokia's from now on! DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE!!!

wel i got this phone on the 23rd of august.I think its great. Its stylish and really sleek but ive been reading some of these comments and I'm not to sure now! I'm just really hoping this will not happen to my phone. Can i have some answers back please on what YOU think. If i do discover any problems like the ones you have discovered then I will no doubt be taking it back to the shop to get it repaired. But, if it tends to happen again then I will certainly be taking it bak FOR GOOD!

This is the worst phone i have ever had. It looks nice but is constantly breaking. Do not get one, you will regret it..How samsung can still supply this phone is beyond me. It's probably a job for trading standards though, read the reviews, it's clearly a complete lemon..shame on you samsung, i will never get another one...I only gave it a 1 out of 10 because it's the lowest score availiable, but it is at best a big fat zero...

the samsung u600 is the worst mobile i have ever had. i have had to send it off to the repair centre no less than 5 times. and now its broken again, for the third time they touch keys have stopped working. the phone was fine for a couple of months but then it kept braking. it looks good and thats the only reason i have given it 2/10. i definetly reccommend that you DO NOT buy this phone.

this phone was really good, in a way... cos i loved al the things it coud do, torch, mp3, radio, camera, video camera,.... it was amazing... then the inner screen broke... got it fixed... was fine again! i only got it 5 months ago... and now it keeps turning off... when the battery is full... sometimes it stays on for a long time... but then sometimes it turns off every 10 seconds... and today... all the buttons under the screen (touch buttons, up, down, left right, and the centre button) NONE of them work... so i cant turn on the fone... yeah... that sucks... anyone know how to fix it? im not bothered going all the way to the shop i bought it in! =[

l have had the same problems as every one else, am now unable to send a text it keeps freezing and swiching itself off, when texting was ok it took forever to send a text, had to keep re sending etc, slider is now loose, its only 7 months old and has been very well looked after,never dropped, an absolute nightmare phone,DONT GO THERE, it will be a big relief to go back to a bullet proof Nokia.

this phone was wonderful ... until the touch keys stopped working its rubbish i cant even call anybody coz the call key doesn't work... its like frozen or something AND I LOVE MY PHONE!!!! it was such a good phone until it started to stuff up! not even a year
the only reason i give it a four is because it worked good until now

I have had this phone a year past in June. Nice phone when it works. Recently I have discovered that it isn't a problem with the screen whenever it goes back to front upside down and sometimes black out. It's actualy the ribbon that connects the key pad to the screen because I purchased a screen thinking that was the problem. So my friend opened the phone and saw the tear on the ribbon. So it seems that the ribbon tears on these phones after about 12 months or maybe sooner depending on slide usage. I got a ribbon online for under £4.00 including postage (Not easy to fit ribbon, delicate opperation). The phone is now as good as new. So don't throw your phone in the bin just yet get a ribbon and it might last you another year

The Samsung U600 is an amazing looking phone, its got a good quality camera, slightly annoying but easy to get used to touch screen and is an all over good standard mobile. But it seems to stop working after about 6 months of purchase. The screen is very easily breakable even putting it in your back pocket is a no no! The delicate screen is a major let down to this phone. But i still loved it, the pink one on o2 is the best to have =] if you wanna reli waste your money that bad

i have the same problem with my samsung u600 at first it started freezing then the screen kept turning white,multi-coloured then black then touch screen stopped working, had to slide it down half way to use it now that dont work! this fone is rubbish only had it just under a year. if ur thinking of buying one dont!

This phone is a no-buy no-brainer. I'm on my third handset now..

Handset 1. After about a month, it developed the old "screen back to front and upside down" problem that people have reported here. So, that went back to Orange and I got a replacement.

Handset 2. Again, after about a month, the screen looked as if it had a diagonal crack in it. Above the "crack" was unreadable, below the "crack" was OK. Couldn't read text messages so back it went to Orange.

Handset 3. So far, so good -except- the battery life on this one seems to be much less than the other two handsets I've had. It ran out unexpectedly this morning so I am now without a phone for the rest of today.

If I get any more problems with it, I'll either revert to using my old but reliable Nokia 6230i, or refuse another U600 and insist on getting something that actually works for longer than a month.

All in all. Don't even think about buying this phone. Not a good move.

I have had my Samsung U600 in purple for 7 months now. It's a great phone, good games, connectivity, great camera. It's an amazing phone. All of a sudden out of the blue, the phone would not switch on. Plugging in the battery made no difference. The phone was powerless. It has now been sent away for repair at Samsung. Apart from the phone not working I loved it and it was and still is a great phone and very attractive.

I love this phone! I've had it for about two months and think its v cool. A while ago I even droped it in a bath and after a few days (while it dried out) it was working perfectly. Unfortuunately it got run over a few days ago (I am slightly accident prone)and I am now considering getting another one.

It would appear that after a year of use, this phone gives up! I loved this phone and 2 weeks ago, I would have given the phone a much higher score. However it started flickering over a week ago and yesterday the screen buttons stopped working. The keypad works but that is no good becasue you can type in a number but then you can't call. I can read messages. I can't do anything. I can't even call orange to say I have a problem. I really need to use my phone today and I can't!!!!!!!!!!! I have had phones which have lasted for years but this phone clearly only lasts a year!

For any of you who have these same problems, what have you done about it???? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

I got this phone in dec 2007. Its brilliant i've had no problems at all. The only thing i found a bit annoying is that sometimes when writing a text i accidently touched the cancel button and lost what i was writing but i soon learnt to be careful. Its still working absolutly fine.

aweful phone, 2nd handset has just suffered the same problem as first (flashing screen, upside down, turning on and off, now just a blank black screen) do not buy this phone, dreadful electronics simply hasn't been sufficiently tested by samsung yet they continue to sell these pieces of junk.

I've got this phone, and I've got the exact same problems. The touch buttons have stopped working, and now even sliding the phone halfway down to try and activate them doesn't work anymore. So if I receive a text, I can't activate the menus to read it. This phone gives the impression of not having been fully tested, and I would tell anyone considering buying this phone - DON'T. It's a piece of junk.

I am so fed up with my U600, i just died on me a moment ago, the worst part of it all is that this is the second phone i got from my service provider. The the screen of the first one was a total nightmare, it changes colour, totally blank loses sound.
This one just died and i dont wana own it any more. Is ther something that samung manufacturers dont tell us about U600?

Over the past year I would have given this phone 10/10 but now after owning the U600 for a year my screen is flickering, blinking and sometimes going completly black. After reading other reviews it would seem I'm not the only one it's happened to but there is some hope because I have just seen screens online for £19.99 so that should keep me going for another year.

okay, so i got this phone in december 2007 on my bday, the phone has good colour, good sound when playing music and i like this phone. the only cons i have with it..is after a few months i have found that the keys are starting to be hard work when texting and also..almost as soon as i had put songs onto it..the music area is very slow e.g. when i select "play" or "next song" it will take about 5-10seconds to react..also, the last thing is, my phone turns it's self off and on again randomly lol..and it does scratch easily..but it is a good phone lol :D

great phone, have loved it and still do. at least i would if i could use it! Last week (after 1 year of happy use) the screen has started stuffing up, projecting a flipped image, mirrored, and then stopped displaying completely!

The Samsung U600 is a stylish and brilliant phone, I love it. I have had mine for a while now and I think its great, however with all Samsungs I have found that it loses signal and switches off throughout sending a message. Its so annoying, and is the reason I didnt give the phone a 10. It's sexy, and its compact, but with the phones out nowadays, the question is..can it compete? No..sorry. It needs a memory card for any sufficient storage, and looks great, but we all know that its not perfect. Sorry guys..I want something new. I'm bored of its pinkness! Bec

My phone has been great until last week when i went to read a txt and my touch screen button just wouldnt work.I have 2 slide my phone half way down for the buttons to work which is really annoying. Please help??

the u600 is soooo bad nd it wont work. the screen keeps breakin nd the camera id no good plus the touch keys wont work so i cant use it anymore nd the screen keeps goin white sometimes black nd somtimes multicoloured as if u run a magnet over a telly


DONT BUY THIS PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey ,, I've had this fone for roughly 5 months now and it has given me no trouble, he camera is great + so is the music player. The sim changing is quite fiddly but apart from that i find this fone great. It is only a couple days ago it has started giving me trouble,, my batery went completly flat as i was listening to the radio whilst in bed( which is great!) and so by the morning my batery completly died. This happens a lot with me,, so i went to place my fone on charge and now the fone jus ISNT CHARGING!! Ive tried switiching it on but nope! that doesnt work either.

I have had my samsung since October, it was working great and i loved my phone but then my touch screen buttons stopped working at all. i ve tried everything to get it to work, and sometimes when im viewing my pictures the phone stops and turns itself on and off again.

i have the u600 got it for xmas was happy with it (camera is so slow but nice and thin) now the screen is upside down back to front fuzzy freezing is there more YES when texting or geting a text its all back to front wrong way round i have had it i rang samsung they say there is NO FAULT on the phone i am going back to where i got the phone for a full REFUND if we all complain some thing WILL get done

hiya
such a bad bad phone.i think it just to buy this foolish thing and to put it a drawer. nothing works. my touch screen buttons don't work when i slide it up. but when i slide down it works. i really don't know that its happening. i'm fed up with that.
with so many comments of everyone ,so
Don't buy this phone. awful

i got this phone for xmas from my bf, an absolutely loved it but last week it started freezin wen i wrote two words in a text then after 10seconds turns itself back on or totally freezes an i have to take the battery out. orange wil send it off for £15 to be fixed, but do i want it to be sent off if they're gona end up sendin me a new phone an its gona happen again???!!!!!!!!

I've had this phone since November and it was great until about a month ago when it started freezing when I tried to send a text, and then restarted itself. I wondered if it was because I'm storing a lot of texts - if I delete one or two, it works again, althoug the memory isn't full. It's going back but it's going to be a pain being without a phone whilst it's sorted out;

First i loved this phone, i have always had samsungs. BUT this one is sooooo annoying! I have just sent it off today for the FOURTH time to repair the same problem. They have changed the whole handset twice so the prob is obviously with the technology of the phone. The screen and all the text appears upside down, back to front, different colours, goes completely black or completely white and just freezes.........it does my head in!!!! And this has been in the space of three months. I would not recommend this phone to anyone! The man in the repair shop said that it was a common problem with the samsung u600 and lots of people bring them in time after time with screen problems. Dont get this phone. I will be changing mine x

at first, i loved the phone, ive had it nearly a year now, but over the past few weeks my phone has been freezing when i text, and switches itself off. ive noticed tho, this can be solved by taking off predictive texting, i know we shouldnt have to do it, but it does solve the problem. i will be taking my phone to the shop over the weekend to see what else can be done because i prefer to use predictive texting!

Like many others I though it was a really great phone.
Now I don't. it turns on with the display not only upside down but a mirror image. A slight tap on the screen & the display disappears altogther until its switched off & on again & then its 50/50 whether the display will be the right way round.

When I first got this mobile, it really impressed me with the desing, slim and sleek. The touch button was a major prob, and phone is slow, and camer is awful, and during txt msg its cuts off. and sometimes during call. but nothing major happend until now. i talked to someone recently, and my suddenly got so heated up, i thouht it would be for the best. my phones jammed, the screen got blurry, it lost its color. i try to restart, and i wont work. I just died. i have tried everything there is to try, and honeslt i am fed up with this crappy phone. DONT BUT THIS ONE. ITS EXPENSIVE AND AWFUL.

Wish I'd read these reviews before buying this phone in January! Haven't had any problems with texting, but touch sensitive buttons are a pain and I'm now having trouble with the phone switching itself off and reverting back to factory settings. I'm too afraid to turn the phone off cos I have to customise it every time I switch it back on. The camera's too fiddly and long-winded, and so far I haven't taken a decent shot! The radio's good though, and the keypad's numbers/letters are large enough for me to see without having to put reading glasses on!

I would never buy this phone again, which is a shame cos I've had Samsungs previously and have always been very pleased. Judging from the countless reviews and forums on the internet, you'd think Samsung would've withdrawn this phone.

this phone is an absolute joke!!!! i cant text cause it keeps freezing, the camera takes ages to load and take a photo, it turns itself off all the time and basically its terrible for the money i paid for it. now i have been waiting over a month for it to repair without no phone in the mean time!!!

I think this is a new amazing piece of technology and this the future of technolgy I am really excited that samsung have created such a piece of art.I can't wait till my new sammsung U600 gets delivered to my house I am so excited.I think that samsung is like totally the best make ever.!!

Samsung U600 Blue is a very pretty, stylish and sophisticated handset which comes with a slide opening mechanism. This lightweight slim device offers an impressive range of features that include a Document Viewer for opening email attachments, has touch sensitive soft keys and a four-way navigation key which is very easy to use. The 3.2 megapixel camera comes with auto focus and LED flash. You can stay connected across the world with the quad band technology. The battery life is not good as it needs to be charged minimum every two days! One must look after this delicate handset as it gets scratched quite easily!

i got bought the u600 for xmas this year and had problems from the first week my txt doesnt work properyl it freezes and i can call people without touching my phone.i wake up this morning to see a big crack across the screen the bad thing is i have no warrenty and dont no how much it will cost to have a new screen.

I got this samsung u600 phone cus it looked nice, i got hte pink one. However it is the worse phone i have had. nothing but probs, it cuts of when i am on a call, the sound keeps breaking up so cant hear whos on the other end, not good when u are using the phone for ur business when i cant hear what my customers are trying 2 book an appointment for. I am not happy, and dont even get me started with the touch tone buttons arrrgh i just want 2 scream!!!!

This phone is absolutely AWFUL. It freezes when I try and send texts, freezes so I can't even use it at all, and just generally makes me want to throw it on the railway tracks. STEER CLEAR. We ought to have free new phones given to us by Samsung as compensation for their awful product.

First and foremost in all my time as a mobile owner I've had Nokias - since the 1611 - and worked my way through Nokia upgrades. But... I decided that this fone was really stylish, was slim and lightweight and wasn't too bulky for my suit.
Gotta say this phone is the worst I've ever had - it might look the part - but it freezes mid way through texts or emailing - and is so frustrating! I know of no solution to fix this "freeze" and to put it mildly - I HATE THIS PHONE !!!!! I'm glad there are others out there who also have experienced this trouble because when I took my first handset back to the Orange shop (I've had 3 so far) the guy said that he wasn't aware of any problem...

hmmmm......

He will be after I point him in the direction of this website!

This has put me off Samsung handsets now as well - maybe harsh - but this phone has let me down too often.

Phone kept freezing everytime I changed .MP3 Song in '' Music Player '' Updated The Firmware With OptiFlash, Updated Firmware To
27/12/2007, And My Firmware Before Hand Was 5/2/2007 Soooooo, T-Mobile Gave Me An Outdated By 7 Months :(....

Good Phonme Now With This Firmware....Camera Takes no Longer Than a Second AND!!! if you research it up...you can get themes aswell ( Like A Sony Erricson )

This phone is rubbish!!! whilest texting the phone swichs it's self off, the camera is very poor, and now the touch screen has packed in

THIS PHONE SUCKS! I've had problems with it almost from the off (less than 3 months). It freezes, switches itself off, won't retain some personalised settings, the camera is SLOW beyond belief, the touch buttons are a MAJOR pain, the T9 text is a nightmare. Need I go on.
DON'T GET THIS PHONE!!

i thought this was a good phone when i got it, apart from not having 3G so internet is slow. After 2 weeks it started switching itself off and freezing during text messages. i got it rebooted with new software and lost internet and multimedia messages. I maanged to get internet back after copying my wifes settings who has same phone but no luck with multimedia. its been 3 months since it got wiped and has started freezing again, hence this review. my wife who has same phone is having the same problems. it may look good but it wont do the basic functions! Very Poor

I agree, the phone does have issues as there apears to be a lot of these that have this problem. I had the same phone and sent it back and was given another one. Its doing the same thing. I reset it and now seems to work fine. But I should need not to reset this phone to solve the issue. Fact is the issue should not be happening. As for your internet and media messaging loss. This is no issue to your phone this is within every handset that is new as you had run your phone through a full reset. All you need to do is register your phone to recieve WAP and MMS! Like any new phone.

When I first got this fone I really liked it, it looks good and it nice an light. After 2 weeks however it started to turn itself off, it started freezing when I tried to text and then switching off and also the numbers in my phone book were not showing properly. I got a brand new U600 replacement and now, after 2 weeks, the same problems are happening again! I will be returning it today and asking for a different model as I think this fone has some major technical issues and most of them will be the same.

I have had nothing but problems with this phone from the start. I was veered away by the orange rep from the phones i wanted and was told to get this phone. Initially i thought it looked great and had some good features. About 2 weeks after receiveing the phone, whilst texting my phone shuts itslef of, this went on and on until i could not send texts at all. The camera is hard to use beacuse of the slide and does not have good lighting. Eventually after 5 weeks my handset has been reset and my texts now wrok, but i have lost internet access and media messaging.