Samsung Hero Music E1232B

I am Samsung mobile user since 2 years and overall I am not satisfied with it. Two years back I bought Samsung mobile worth 12000/- and I felt it was just waste of money. Anyways that was past and I will not talk about it. But yesterday I bought 'Samsung Hero Music E1232B (Titanium Silver)'. The features it is offering with the given price is really good. But only one point I want make is, Samsung does not use common sense for basic features.

Why anyone will go for such basic phone is because he/she is mainly interested in:
1) incoming/ outgoing calls
2) text sms
Most of the time phone will be used for calls, messages and to see the time. So before designing any fancy and advanced feature more focus should be given to this.

I think designer of this phone wanted to give more and more and were totally ignored the basic things.
For example,
1) To make a call, I will go to contacts and directly type in keys, for example 'ra' to find all my contacts starting with 'Ra...'
Nokia exactly does this and naturally this is very intuitive as well.
But here in Samsung, if you go to contacts, you need to press various 3 keys to reach out to search bar and then you will start typing. And top of this these 3 keys are not near-by keys.
This is really annoying. This is the MOST BASIC thing anyone can expect.

2) Many times when we are driving or we are on some conference call and we want to check the current-time quickly, Then mobile is most convinient medium to check time. (Personally
speaking I don't use watch.) With this model, if phone is locked and if you press any key, expected behavior is key-press will not take any effect and wall-paper will be shown on which time is shown. But here you press any key, it will show message 'press * to unlock' This message will occupies half of your screen and you cannot see the time unless you unlock it or wait for some time. In summary, on this phone if you want to check time it needs at-least 20-30 seconds. This is absolute ----.
Imagine you are driving and you want to check time, 30 second ignorance can cause what not...
Please check any Nokia model for the expected behavior.

This is also one possibility that I am not using phone correctly, please suggest me the right way to use it.

Samsung guys, please think or do some market research before you design anything. I am also from engineering background, while designing we need to keep one thing in mind, do not unnecessary complicate the things....

This is a good basic mobile with useful features at this price...For those people who feel that there is no conventional searching option for contacts by name... There is a smart search feature in this phone i.e In idle screen...if you type upto 3 numbers it'll display the contacts containing those number combination below so that you can choose one to call! In addition to that, THERE IS AN ALPHABET SEARCH,PRESS THE REQUIRED BUTTONS CONTAINING ALPHABETS ONCE (NO MULTI TAPPING) FOR EACH ALPHABET..GIVE ATLEAST FOUR ALPHABETS OF THE CONTACT NAME AND PRESS THE CENTRE BUTTON AND YOU'RE DONE!!!! It'll display all the contacts with this word combination... For example...If you want to search all the contacts with the name 'RAHUL'...with idle screen... you've to simply press the keys '7','2','4','8','5' and then press the centre button...It'll display all the contacts containing the word "Rahul"...It's even simpler than the convetional word search...There is no need to goto options and then search everytime..
Hope it Helps!

This is the best phone at this price. Period.
I ordered this in flipkart and got it delivered the 2nd day. Awesome service!
About the phone:
Looks like a 5k phone. Samsung tried a lot to make this look like a costlier phone and it worked!
Good hardware design with intricate detailing (e.g, aluminium finish around the front edge)
Got a decent screen size. Seamless dual SIM operation.
Battery life - 2 days with extensive usage (calls, texts and music).
Nice, loud, speaker.
Got one-touch access to music player.
The Torch/flash light works even when the keypad is locked! -a very nice touch given the situation we would use it.
Nice calendar settings (reminders, appointments etc).
Haven't used bluetooth yet.
Finally mobile prayer app, which you can choose to play on each day of the week at a specified time, similar to an alarm but with prayers.
All-in-all, a great phone for a sub-2k price...
Will definitely recommend to everybody!!!

Yesterday, I received this excellent mobile phone just 2 day after ordering it. it is absolutely best phone in its class. I recommend it to buy Samsung E1232B mobile phone for the person who does not need any high-end features and can serve for dual SIM and cheaper also.

Pros :-
1) dual sim
2) user friendly
3) battery talktime 12 hours
4) Phone Memory - 1000
5) SMS Memory - 1000
6) Internal Memory - 3 MB & Supported Memory Card upto 4 GB
7) You can use Torch even when phone is locked.
8) Regional Language Support
9) 3.5 MM Audio Jack
10) Look of phone is good as compared to Nokia 101.

Cons :-
1) 3.5 MM Audio Headset not provided in the Box
2) Music player is not playing in background
3) Not Dual-Active : while talking on one sim,other sim is out of coverage..

otherwise it is a nice phone :)

I received this product just 1 day after ordering it and i'm using it since a week and i feel its really a very good phone at this budget...there are no bugs n works really very well. The load speaker is pretty good and ive changed only once since i got the mobile...over all its really a very good mobile for basic use like music msg and calling...no phone can beat this phone at this price tag....5 stars to this product