Hey. Getting Behold this morn---Be back with review.

I've had mine for a week now and I'm annoyed with a lot of the features (or lack of features, shall I say??)

For starters, there's no email widget yet they have TWO widgets for "Messages" (one of which is worthless)
There's no way to get rid of certain ones of the widgets like the Music Player widget or the Events widget.
The widgets menu resets whenever you turn the phone off or even go into the widget menu to revise.
The alerts volume is WAY too low even when you turn it up to 7 (Go to Menu, Settings, Sound Profiles, Normal, click the drop down menu in the upper right corner and choose "Message". Even if you set the "Message alert repetition" to "Periodic"  the phone wont periodically sound when you have a new alert message. And even if you set the "Alert tone volume" to the highest setting, 7, the darn volume is still WAY too low. You can barely hear it even if youre a few feet from the phone.
There's NO wifi!
The text message I wish would show up threaded like a conversation message.
Would be nice if it had a Stylus pen (it IS a touchscreen) becuase I sometimes use a regular pen top to navigate.


Anyway, the things I like about the phone are:
The look-love that it comes in Pink (umm, I mean the "Rose" color)  The back cover is a cool silver/titanium looking plate but they could have just made that pink too. Even on the Espresso (brown) color, the back of it is colored, not steel plated.
It's not reall heavy and feels great in your hand.
It's sleek and I like that it's a touch screen but you still have a few buttons at the bottom. The middle button is a "back" button
Also, you dont have to worry about it calling people on it's own if it gets bumped in your pocket or purse because it's not gonna just activate the keyboard when you touch it. You have to press the back button or the send or end button (Yes, even when the phone is not set on "lock keypad") 

I could add more to my list of likes and dislikes as well...

Hmmm, you know its a really tough call for me becuase this is the first phone I've really been exciteda bout and I wanna love it so bad but... there are lots of things that are stupid about this phone. I researched phones for months and I was going to leave TMobile to go with the pink blackberry pearl from Verizon. I also researched the Palm Centro. I looked at a lot of phones and played with a lot. I decided on this one. As of right now, the BEST thing I think I can say is that it is really cute. Unfortunately, for some, cute wont cut it...

Ok, I finally got the damn phone. lol.
Can u believe after promising me all what they have (see above) they still were 2 days late. lol. Anyway...

I actually like the phone. The movement and the little bells and vibrations add to the cosmetics of the phone. I honestly do not understand why why WHY did TMobile lock this phone. It seems that only half its potential is being tapped and that is what is leading to its being categorized as a NON-Smartphone when it easily could have been (like the Samsung Omnia) lives up to it's fullest. I am going to list the CONS then the PROS, in that order. lol.

CONS:
1. No pocket Word/Excel/Acrobat. This needs to be fixed, NOW!
2. As PREC said...WHERE IS THE EMAIL WIDGET??? Smart Phone or not, the phone needs email push.
3. NO WI-FI. Why would you risk dooming a touchscreen phone by not including WI-FI like moronic Sprint?
4. Let me customize my desktop (background) so I can make the phone mine. Geez.
5. The Browser BLOWS!!! My god, could nothing have been done about this? I've had better in 2001.
6. PREC was 1005 correct about the alerts volume. Not the ringer, but the message alerts. This is so low I almost got into it with a good friend who felt ignored when I really couldn't hear the alert.

PROS:
1. Not too big. Not too small. The sizing is a good enough not to be a baby phone and its pretty sturdy.
2. The Widgets are cool and a great touch, but it does default after a phone reset. DUMB.
3. I like the accelerometer that changes screen view with a tilt of the phone. Nice touch.
4. The keyboard reaction while typing is cool. Lets me know the key was actually pushed by giving a small nudge with each stroke.
5. I'm gonna cheat and give it another plus...POTENTIAL! I think a nice firmware update (or a nice unlocking by the boy-geniuses out there) will bring this unit up in the competitive market. That or the next version which Samsung can hopefully allow to remain more along the lines of its sister phone, the Omnia, which is a beast in comparison

Bottom line...this is not a bad phone. Not a great phone. Not a crappy phone (at all). You can always wait for the HTC Touch Pro (which I almost urinated on myself using...in a 'good' way) or get the G1 which is buggy due to the baby step stage for Google. I think Samsung will learn its lesson and update the firmware to allow more apps and stop being idiots for the sake of a buck.

Thanks to PREC18 who helped me make a decent choice.

Welcome to Samsung-Behold.com

LOL LOL
I get a kick out of reading your posts! What's happening at 7 am???
What's the comparison between the the Treo and the Palm Centro??

Got it! I'll be back with what they said after I give them a call.