My Impression

About a month ago, I bought the Samsung Impression to replace my 4 year old Samsung x-497 flip phone. Let me be clear, I love this phone, but it has not been without its trials.

The Impression is not a “smart” phone, like the IPhone or the Blackberry. It is designed to be a messaging phone, but it is capable of doing some smart things. It has a touch screen, slide out keyboard and if turned on its side, a virtual on screen keyboard. The designers clearly had the IPhone in mind when they designed it.  It comes so close to being perfect and yet it is frustrating that it misses the little things. For example, it will let you put up to 16 gigs of music and videos on the the phone, but it won’t sync with Outlook for your calendar or contacts.

Now I don’t care about the music, but syncing the phone with my computer Outlook calendar and contacts is important. To be fair, I didn’t realize how important until after I’d had the phone for a while and started taking advantage of the additional fields now available to me because this phone has more memory than my previous phone.

But here’s the kicker. If I use the software that comes with the Samsung Eternity on this phone, it will sync with my computer like a champ (which is exactly what I did). In other words, the software that comes with my Samsung Impression purposely cripples the capability of the phone.

This phone has so much potential to be a great handheld device, instead Samsung stupidly crushed it before it got out of the gate. Way to drive people to the IPhone, Samsung. 🙁