Why do you hate your Samsung Dart?

[Traveling Chris]

I have a Dart, and it is a POS. The first week it was okay. Now it disconnects itself from the WIFI, it won't load the simcard fully, it won't read the SD card half of the time. It shuts off at random intervals even on a full charge. What about you? Why do you hate the Samsung Dart?

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.I purchased the Dart on sale for $100 directly from T-Mobile and have had this phone for over a month.

Battery life, as with most Android phones, is average. With regular usage, I need to charge daily (I keep the charging USB cable in the office and the AC charger at home). The camera isn't particularly good, but I don't mind since I have a dedicated point-and-shoot for doing serious photography. If you are looking for 4G support, also note that this supports 3G only. That said, I am using the Dart without a data plan, relying solely on wi-fi, which works great.

The screen size on the Dart is smaller than most, but keep in mind that this phone has a very small footprint (see photo). Having carried an LG Env2 previously, I opted for the Dart specifically because of its small size (see picture) as I wanted something that would fit comfortably in my pocket. The downside of this, however, is that some applications (e.g. Words with Friends, AnyStop) are not supported by the Dart.

I thought I would miss having a physical keyboard, but Swype works great for texting, and speech-to-text works reasonably well, too.

PROS: small size
CONS: average battery life, not-so-great camera

I am still mostly satisfied with this phone (small size is its best feature IMO) but thought I'd add a few more observations.

1. Internal app storage is somewhat lacking. Naturally, I tried moving whatever apps I could to the microSD, but this is a limited solution. I have not rooted the phone (and have no desire to do so) but am running the stock Android distribution.

Running the DiskUsage app shows 177 Mb of internal memory, and I usually have about 20 Mb free, which is close to the threshold of triggering the low memory error. I don't install an inordinately large amount of applications (Touchdown, Maps, Facebook, and ThinkFree Office are the biggest space users) so encountering the warning from time to time can be an annoyance. I typically deal with this by clearing cache for various apps.

2. I flip between using 3G and WiFi, disabling one or the other in an attempt to maximize battery life. Sometimes this results in the phone entering a state where enabling WiFi returns an error repeatedly. Usually, this can only be resolved by rebooting the phone. I don't know if this is specific to Froyo or the Dart.

3. I've dropped the phone on hard surfaces a few times (bare, no protective sleeve), and it works fine.

[Akhand]

yes Samsung Dart is not a smart choice battery life, low memory, slow performence etc r lot of difficulties,