I just got this phone yesterday and am a new Verizon customer so have not had any experience with their phones. But in answer to you picture quality question, it really seems to take pretty good pictures and seems like a very descent phone. I got it at a Verizon store in Mi.
At a verizon corporate store? Where in MI?
lewisr13 wrote:At a verizon corporate store? Where in MI?
yea i wanna know where too. well not in MI but in MD.
I got mine at a Wal Mart wireless store in Ionia, Michigan. It is inside of the Wal Mart.
I see that some of you have bought a 370 outside of the Verizon store. I have been a customer for 16 yrs now. If I buy a cell phone from an outside store, like Target, how do you activate it thru VZW? Keep in mind that I have 3 other lines attached to my family plan; does it matter? How did you get it to be on your V acct?? Be specific, please
I just recently purchased the SCH-U370 and while it's only been a couple of days, I am completely happy with the way it performs. My previous phone was an ENV-3, which I thoroughly loved. But I felt it was time to upgrade to a "big girl" phone without the "rich girl" price. I love the touch screen which is dead on for me. I don't have to do repaet touches to get done what I want. The lock screen, which requires you to drag your finger across the screen to unlock it, eliminates "butt dialing", something I was constantly doing with my ENV. The quality of my phone calls are crystal clear. The camera, unfortunately, has no flash but I think this is something that i can do without. There is a camcorder though which makes me happy. Probably the only thing that I could complain about, and this is reaching for me but may be a problem for others, is the fact that the manual doesn't give a ton of info on how to work the phone. I don't mind this because I've had fun figuring it out on my own.
Hope this was helpful.
jkwhitt:
My understanding is that "activating" means two things to Verizon.
1) When you own more than one cell phone, activating is when you go through the process of dialing star-2-2-8 and entering your phone number in order to be able to use phone (b) instead of phone (a). I don't think there's any limitation on which person on the family plan can do this or any limitation on how many times you can switch back and forth among the phones.
We just bought a new phone on ebay and, after dialing star-2-2-8 and the phone number, now we're good to go.
2) When you buy a phone at a contract price, activating the phone means that you are agreeing to terms and conditions that accompany the act of renewing your contract for the next one or two years.
In the case of buying a contract price phone from a non-corporate store, we bought a u370 from Costco. The cellphone employee at Costco did 99% of the work -- all we had to do was listen to, read, and agree to the terms and conditions for renewing our contract for the next two years. It was also the employee who handled the activation right there in the store by he himself dialing the star-2-2-8.
has anyone tried to use the nyc subway map in pdf format with the reality in FILEVIEWER?
http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/subwaymap.pdf
i can see the zoomed out map but i can't zoom in.
As people have noted, the U370 is the Reality without the data plan. I bought this phone from Best Buy, but Costco has it as well. After living with it for 2 weeks, I'm more excited about it today than even when I bought it. Fantastic feature phone without the cost of a data plan. Call quality is good, camera and video works with a 3.2 megapixel lens. Screen is pretty responsive for a touch screen that's not an iPhone. Tons of other features, that I might even use. Only thing I'd advise is to buy a screen protector. the screen is pretty scratchable.
If you want the best feature phone, this is it.
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