Question for UK D500 owners

[bentheslayer]

Hey guys, it's been a while since I was last here, hoping you can help me out. I'm currently using a Nokia 6230 on 02; great phone, **** network. As such I'm thinking of switching to Orange soon, and of all the phones available the D500 has caught my eye the most. I've just been browsing the forum and I'm aware of quite a few people being disgruntled about the Orange branding/tinkering; I'm not too worried about that, my question is to D500 users on all networks: what is the UI of the phone like? Especially coming off a Nokia, which IMO has the most user-friendly UI at the moment. Are the menus and their structure/layout clear and easy to use? I can remember back in the day when I had an A300 and found the menu system unappealing and often unintuitive, which spoiled an otherwise great phone back then. Obviously it's been a few years since the A300 so I expect Samsung has moved on with it's UI . . . I hope so, anyway!

So if anyone can offer any comments on their experience of using the D500, particularly if they switched from a Nokia, I'd be most grateful.

Cheers guys!

Ben

[yaris1001]

I went from a Nokia 6600 with symbian interface to the D500 on T-Mobile and the Samsung has a very easy to use 3 x 3 menu. I wasn't looking forward to switching over as I was used to an old NK3510i with is't series 40 (correct me if i'm wrong) then I went to a whole new breed of phone with having a real OS in the 6600 which was a breeze to use and then I was really suprised at how simple and almost familier the D500 felt with having icons. Oh I did have a T100 and V200 and the menus were a nightmare to use, thankfully Samsung sorted this out. I can't comment on the Orange version of the phone as I have even seen one but loads of people say the colour is a bit off putting and the side menu on the main screen is getting to some people. What about try to get the phone on Vodafone as they don't seem to have done anything to the handset and seems to come unlock. My one has T-mobile on the bit about the battery release button and the start up/shut down is T-mobile and can't be unlocked remotely. Hope that is some kind of help.

[bentheslayer]

Thanks for your reply Yaris, it was especially good to hear your opinion hearing that you'd come off a 6600 . . . I had a 3650 in the past and loved the series 60 interface, so it's good to hear that the D500 UI sounds just as good.

Luckily for me a friend of mine has just bought herself a D500, and on Orange too, so I'm gonna have a play around with hers and see what it's like :)

Thanks again for your reply

Ben

[gritbox]

well i've got it on o2 and it is superb with me. suppose it depends where you are geographically for your network but i have absolutely no complaints. well actually i do have 1, and that's that the earphones supplied are crap!! they do NOT stay in your ear no matter what you do. unless its just me with an evil, misshapen inner ear of course...!!

[Daedalus]

No its not just you gritbox, I mean they stay in my ears ok-ish, but their uncomfortable and the sound quality is TERRIBLE. I would truly not recommend this phone as an MP3 player. The loudspeaker on my Moto V500 is better than the one on my D500, and the SoundMate just makes it worse, all that does it make it louder but lowers the quality again. So I'm just using the memory for pictures, video's and ringtones instead, I've only used the headphones once then I put them back in the box :)
Besides, I've already got an MP3 player and my Moto E398 if I need music from headphones and/or loudspeakers.

[gritbox]

yeah well it stays in one ear ok but i think its the left one, just never does!!! i think its ok playing them loud i mean its a fone afterall not an mp3 player. i just wish samsung would release better headfones to use, it is a joke