NO SAMSUNG phones work with Toyotas!!!

I've had several Samsung Phones, Tvs & Computer Monitors. I vow to this day to NEVER buy or use another Samsung product. They just never seem to work right and are quite inferior to others.
That being said, if you have insurance on your Cingular phone, call them and tell them you dropped it in the lake. Send something else. If not call and keep asking for the next person up, if it is that new, they will eventually swap before they loose a customer. They will make you pay shipping etc, but they will swap.

Worst case, tell Cingular you want them to note on your account that you are still eligible for a phone upgrade, and that you have already paid the $18 upgrade fee. Tell them you’re going to get a phone on your own. They will if you are persistent enough. Tell them you will send them your Samsung after the upgrade. Then go to Wal-mart and buy you a Razor for $63. It will ring up like a new contract, and WM will call Cingular and verify you are eligible for the upgrade. That's why it has to be noted on your account. Wal-mart already applies the rebates, so you don't have to mess with that. I bought 2 Razors for $126.00 plus tax. 2 yr commitment.

Hope it works out.

 

Usually they will send you the guts of the phone, and you use your faceplate and battery and back plate. Then you send them your bad guts. This is on the exchange program. That's why I say. Tell them the entire phone is gone, and you want another brand phone that is the same price. If they say no, the tell them option 3. They would love to note on your account, and YOU go get a phone. Then you’re into a new phone that works, and your phone plan/insurance will all carry over to the new phone.

 

Kells,
FWIW, I have owned absolutely (2) samsung consumer products in my lifetime, and I actively avoid anything having to do with samsung if at all possible.

First of all, the one I did have was so incredibly badly designed (it was a flip phone that for some god-awful reason, would allow dailing/accpting calls while flipped shut!?!? ... no speaker. also it's "lock" feature could be unlocked when the phone was flipped shut)

Secondly, they aren't supported by iSync on my mac, and do not support synchronization on the mac in any way (perhaps this is Apple's issue, but still... Wth?)

Thirdly, they seemed to be in the "cheap" market, but are still "glitzy".. exactly the kind of phone I DONT want. I can stand the old Nokia, "cheap, ugly, but works great" but that's hardly possible when it's both "cheap" and "feature-filled" esp. when those features are crap I don't want or need, and will likely cause the phone to freeze or me to pay bucks for a mispressed button.

Nowadays I have a Treo 650, and tho it took a while to get working with the Prius, does wonders. This is a good high-end phone, tho I would have preferred a more simple (Sony T610 type) phone, only Nokia makes stable ones (aside from this palm phone, apparently).

The phone industry in the US is an absolute nightmare of providers/protocols/models/features, and they're all bundled and tightly integrated in the worst of ways. I pray for someone like Apple to come along and break the market... but given their lack of involvement, it may be the case that the current quagmire is unsolveable except by government regulation, or the providers getting smacked down by their customers.

 

I have a Samsung i730 (Verizon) and had no trouble pairing it with both Prius (2005) and Lexus (400h). I never transferred the phone book but had no trouble making phone calls (made many today) through my car using the 18 assigned numbers (they cover about 99% of my phone calls anyway). If I want to use another number I just dial it through the phone and the car bluetooth connection picks up. I just followed the instructions in the car manual, did not have any problems.

 

Not saying there arn't some decent Samsung products, but if I'm going to sign a 2 year phone agreement, I don't want to be stuck with a Samsung. :blink:

 

I also have a Samsung i730 and also had no trouble pairing with Prius 2005 and 2006. I also have never transferred phone book entries, but other than that, everything works well.

I am very fussy, currently have 3 cell phone accounts, and I think the i730 is an excellent product.

 

I also have a Samsung D307 (Cingular). Don't give up trying to pair it with your Prius bluetooth. You should be able to get it to work. It failed a few times when I first tried to set it up, but got it working after a few tries. Now it works pretty reliably. Sometimes I've noticed the D307 LCD display light (on the outside) stays on constantly after using the phone in the car. The only way I've found to turn the light off is to recycle power on the phone.

Rick S.

 

I will be looking for new phones next month. I have crossed Verizon off my list, because of their "business model" that does not include enabling Bluetooth and I guess I should take a hard look at Samsung.

 

I highly recommend Sony Ericsson W600i from Cingular.
It is MP3/FM Radio/Cell Phone/Camera/PSP combined into one! (all in smaller scale)
The 256M memory space is the only drawback.
For Prius owners, it has the one-shot phone book transfer!
So far, I have found only one minor bug on my phone. For a phone this complex, it is acceptable.

I used to carry Moto V551. SE W600i is one-gen better.

 

Samsung works just fine with the Prius. Now, each model may or may not (ala the samsung a900 for sprint, but that thing had issues with everything) but in general, it should work just fine.

 

Good luck not being stuck with one. They're the biggest phone maker in the world.

 

Nothing special, but it's a bit tricky getting them paired up. It takes several tries. I had to delete the name of the other bluetooth device several times (in both the phone and in the car) and start the process from scratch before it finally worked. Once I got them paired up, everything has been working fine ever since; except of course the problem I still have once in a while, where the phone's LCD backlight sometimes gets stuck on. As I stated before, all I need do to correct this is recycle power on the phone and the backlight problem goes away.

I wish it worked better. I've now gotten into the habit of pulling the phone out of it's holster after I've been in the car to check if the backlight is stuck on.


Rick S

 

I use a Jitterbug. Works just fine

 

Re: NO SAMSUNG phones work with Toyotas!!!

I have a Sony Ericsson W300i, which is an earlier version of the W600i. It works great.

Tom

 

Re: NO SAMSUNG phones work with Toyotas!!!

For those of you with compatibility issues, go here...

Toyota Bluetooth Phone

It has a list of all phones, and what options will work with the Prius.
It worked for me, I got Verizon Envy, 99.9% compatabile. Good enough for me!

Good Luck