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Reviewer: Davey - Cornwall , UK
Date: 21st Jul 2010

I bought my Samsung Solid on eBay (faulty with a cracked window) I expected this to be easy to replace but I am sorry to have to say that I have really been given the run-around on this one. It's the throwaway society again. In desperation I have purchased some 2mm thick clear polycarbonate sheet (what the window should have been made from in the first place) but so far I have had no time to make the new window.

Best feature on this phone is the flashlight which will stay lit for a great many hours. I have used this feature a great many times for vehicle & trailer repairs that had to be done in the dark.

Worst feature is the fact that it is not a clamshell & can redial from ones pocket thereby wasting all ones credit. OK the keypad can be locked but then one has all the unlock routine to go through. I used to love my Motorola V3 (Razr) phone but it was really an indoor or handbag phone & there was no flashlight. Nevertheless I was able to use the Razr after a very wet crossing to the Isle of Wight done in a 2.7m inflatable dinghy, seawater was excluded by using a bag.

If only someone would make a waterproof clamshell phone with a flashlight they might find that they had hit the jackpot. I am still looking for such a phone.

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Reviewer: Ray - UK
Date: 19th Mar 2010

THIS PHONE IS A DEFINATE NO NO. The SCREEN WILL BREAK IN the WIND, YES the GADGET SHOW & OTHERS HAVE DROPPED IT, DROVE ON IT & FLUSHED IT. THIS PHONE IS ONLY DUST & WATERPROOF OTHER THAN THIS ALL OTHER PHONES ARE JUST AS GOOD. SAMSUNG WILL NOT REPLACE AS SCREENS NOT IN WARRENTY.

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Reviewer: David - Harlow, UK
Date: 2nd Dec 2009

Very poor phone indeed, it was sold to me as the most robust on the market but screen cracked with the minimum of pressure. Difficult to release the key lock. Almost impossible to text with, not least because the predictive text & numbers options kick in, almost at random, which is particularly galling in the middle of a long text. My wife, who has a Vodafone slide & is a 24/7 mobile user, cannot work this monster & would rather use a public kiosk than use this. They have tried to sell me the Solid Extreme to replace this but I guess all Samsung will be poor if this is anything to go by. It's a shame as the concept is a good one & the gap in the market is yawning for a really basic mobile that does texts & calls only, & is robust & easy to use.

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Reviewer: Simon - Dromore, UK
Date: 3rd Aug 2009

THIS PHONE IS NOT GOOD!

- Very hard to navigate.
- Can't connect to my Bluetooth hands-free.
- Can't use my own message alert.
- Very hard to navigate.
- Very, very hard to navigate!

(but it does look good, radio's not bad either).

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Reviewer: Rachael - UK
Date: 6th Jun 2009

My mother brought this phone because it had big writing for the older generation. It's the worst phone I have ever come across, but she loves it, surprisingly she's not a builder as well.

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Reviewer: Ed - UK
Date: 29th Apr 2009

OK I take everybody's points regarding this phone & if it were my only communications device I wouldn't have bought it or wasted time on a review. I have several gadgets & phones & have had the iPhone & still have the Blackberry Storm. While email & Internet are top on these devices, much of my time is spent on the phone & I need one I can rely on & which won't run out of battery every few hours. I also need to be able to deal with calls at a touch & operate outdoors or in rough terrain. I got totally frustrated by the complications of the so called smart phones & was after one phone where I could always be reached & call from no matter where I was or what I was doing. I bought the Samsung brick to see if going back to basics worked, it does. It's a brilliant little phone - totally basic & dependable but I know I can rely on it for what I need, namely a dependable mobile phone. I've got the BlackBerry storm to handle all my email traffic & for web browsing on the go, its brilliant for receiving & editing documents on the go etc but for basic calls it is a nightmare & too clever for its own good. So for those who want to call me & when it really counts I am always on my Samsung M110 brick like untrendy phone. Blackberry Storms & iPhones are great but when push comes to shove & I am stuck up a mountain or at sea, I'd never leave home without my Samsung brick & all those emails, maps, games & touch screen fancies that drain the battery but make the smart phones so cool are useless when the battery runs out or signal goes. My advice, if you need email & Internet then go for the fancy phones. If you want to ensure your phone works as a phone & to call people then stick with the boring basics. If, like me you need the email & Internet but don't want to be caught out then stick to the fancy phones for work but keep a reliable brick on hand to ensure you can always call when it counts.

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Reviewer: Andy - Petworth, UK
Date: 10th Apr 2009

Had this phone for six months now. Bought it for its solid construction & splash & dirt proof features. Battery compartment sealed with O ring & screw fixing, that sort of construction.

As others have said, simple tough phone to talk to people, with some tricks like an SOS button you can enable to call a predetermined number, built in LED torch (used for camera flash), FM radio when supplied earphones used (as aerial), VGA camera, Bluetooth, voice recorder, GPRS to browse mobile friendly web sites (can check weather forecast on BBC etc if out hiking). Other sites come up with too big to load page but Google understands it is just a phone & works fine for simple things.

Good battery life as stated by others & speaker phone so an ideal phone for outdoors use.

Countdown Timer plus a Stopwatch with 3 split times shown on screen.

Don't know why people complain about text message tone as you can change the alert tone used for a text message, or turn alert tone off & set a repeat tone that keeps reminding you until you read the message. Useful if you put the phone down in your jacket & you miss the text coming in, when you pick up your jacket it will still be beeping every min or so to remind you. Plus you can turn all tones off so you don't even get a click when you take a photo if that is what you desire.

Limitations, the calendar has limited entries (about 50 & it warned me), so I have to delete old ones that have passed. Currency converter very limited no UKP. Yep the charger socket is just protected by a rubber plug as another person has observed. So take care with this item.

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Reviewer: Jim - Norwich, UK
Date: 15th Mar 2009

Rubbish don't bother, my company provided this phone for me, I guess because it was the cheapest worst phone they could find. I persevered with it for 3 days & gave up, there is nothing good about it.

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Reviewer: Anglesey Jack - Wales, UK
Date: 29th Jan 2009

I bought this phone to replace my trusty Nokia 5140i because I needed Bluetooth. The phone itself was fine but the software was a big backward step (akin to Nokia 2003 software) & after 2 weeks it was on eBay & sold at a loss.

I now have a Nokia 5500 which is somewhere in between the 5140i & M110 Solid. I really hope someone from Nokia reads this & has the common sense to remake the 5140i with built in Bluetooth because I'd buy two!

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Reviewer: James - The Hills, Ireland
Date: 22nd Jan 2009

As a mountain biker I spend many hours a week outside in all conditions. The rough & tumble nature of the sport demands a robust phone. The m110 solid is perfect in this respect.

The reviews which bemoan the phones lack of features are completely missing the point, this is not a phone to show off to your mates, it's not some sort of fashion statement or extension of your personality. It's a rubber brick that makes & receives calls & texts, it's got a torch & an incredible battery life.

In today's society people regard phones as aspiration items, something that makes a statement about them, though the reality is if you need a phone to say something about your personality then you don't have a personality. The Samsung is for people who don't care about this nonsense & just need a PHONE.


The phone is unbelievably robust, the gadget show drove over it with a tractor twice (destroying the JCB the tough phone still functioned. I've dropped & submerged mine on numerous occasions & it didn't skip a beat. All environmental seals still work perfectly.

I would recommend this phone to anyone who REALLY spends time outdoors in all conditions. It is definitely not a phone for poseurs, phone fanciers, gadget geeks etc. This is a tool nothing more, a useful practical tool for practical people.

I'll never waste money on another phone.

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Reviewer: Mary - UK
Date: 16th Jan 2009

Worst phone I have ever wasted my money on. Was sold it by the shop on the basis that it is a builder's phone & was designed to withstand most things, in fact I was assured that I could drive my car over it & it wouldn't break.

Sadly within 6 weeks it was dropped out of a pocket onto a desk, a distance of about 2 feet, ended up with a cracked screen & totally unusable.

Shop didn't want to know as apparently the phone is only shockproof (& denied giving me their sales spiel about driving a car over it, despite me having several witnesses with me when I bought it) errr, so I take it that means you mustn't give it a nasty surprise kind of shock, like saying boo because it can't take any kind of physical shock.

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Reviewer: Davy - UK
Date: 20th Dec 2008

- Quite robust.

- Decent battery life.

- Poor Camera

- Annoying chime when you delete texts, can't be switched off!

- Currency Converter does not include £ sign, can't change exchange rates either.

- Thumbs down on this phone, wishing I hadn't bothered now.

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Reviewer: Mark - UK
Date: 4th Dec 2008

It is possible to change ringtones, although there is not enough memory to take a full song you can edit a MP3 or picture by going to Samsung website & downloading PC studio 1.0. If it was possible to expand the memory this wouldn't be a bad phone for the price, but 2MB is pretty useless. The screen is the weakest link & I can't see the charger cover lasting long. It does look like it was designed in 1983 & isn't much of an improvement from the Nokia 5210. The instruction book isn't much help & it took quite a while to work out how to turn the predictive text off. Overall it's OK for the price, but I wouldn't buy another one again.

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Reviewer: Beno - UK
Date: 24th Nov 2008

I have had a lot of different mobiles & some of the top brands & models, as I am in the building trade I have found this phone to be my overall favourite, yep you might call it a brick & yep it may be slow but the battery lasts forever. & therefore in my eyes it's the daddy, that's what I am talking about.

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Reviewer: Ezzy - Oldham, UK
Date: 14th Aug 2008

Needed a tough phone for work bought this it was in my pocket for a day at work with no other items in my pocket pulled it out of my pocket guess what the screen has a nice big crack in it. Took it back to the shop & they don't want to know going through the Samsung site now.

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Reviewer: Grabob - Keighley, UK
Date: 13th Aug 2008

Ugliest MOST USELESS phone I have had the misfortune to come across. Cannot hear it ringing at full volume. Bluetooth does not work. Menu useless. I had to use different phone to switch answer phone on. I rated at 5% because I cannot rate any lower.

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Reviewer: Bob - UK
Date: 10th Aug 2008

As a builder this phone is marketed at people like me, had my phone for 3 days now & it's in the bin. Been out & bought a Nokia, take my advice, don't buy it, only gave it 5% because it will not let me go any lower.

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Reviewer: Mr Richards - Rotorua, New Zealand
Date: 28th Jul 2008

This phone in theory is great (toughness) but it is extremely limited in choices. I would like to have the choice to change from one of the 4 preset message tones for a start but this is not possible & the 4 you do get to choose from are pathetically quiet considering the main market for this phone is the MAN AT WORK.

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Reviewer: B Armstrong - Northants, UK
Date: 11th Jul 2008

I work in construction & find this phone to be almost perfect, it does exactly what it says on the box, my only wish is for a better camera but overall an excellent little phone.

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Reviewer: Anon - UK
Date: 19th May 2008

This phone looks well solid! The design looks cool only bad thing is size of the screen! It's too small! If Samsung do make a N-Series it has to increase the screen size without affecting the phones size. Improve camera to at least 2MP (about average) & make it a MP3 player with turbo network! In other word just improve the features.

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Reviewer: Jak - Cumbria, UK
Date: 5th Apr 2008

Despite being a girl, I've trashed the last 3 mobiles I've owned, so wanted one that could withstand being dropped in the washing up bowl or bounced off a wooden floor! The good news is the Solid should even be Me proof.

I also wanted a simple basic phone that just rang & texted. I am not a teenager & won't be spending hours listening to music via my mobile or playing games. But there's basic & then there's out of the Ark basic! These are my gripes.

- If you switch off the phone the alarm doesn't work.
- You can't use any other tone than the 4 presets for text message alerts & the presets are next to useless.
- You can't specify a tone for the alarm other than the preset one.
- Every time you send a text or make a call, the phone tells you how much credit you have left (on O2 Pay & Go) & plays have. Annoying loud ringtone which you can't turn off.
- You can't go straight to your Contacts List when sending a text, you have to bypass empty lists first (I have no idea what these are for! ). Sending a text is stupidly complicated for such a simple phone.
- It lists Sent texts in reverse order I.e. A text you sent last week appears first & texts you've sent today are off the screen. Though for Received texts it's the opposite & shows newest texts first!
- the screen is very small & although you can set text size to small you can't save this setting & it reverts back to large text the minute you press send.

However, there are things I do like about the Solid, including.

- Excellent battery life.
- Simple Scheduler with alarm.
- Good sound quality for calls.
- Nice big keys for texting.

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Reviewer: Rinaldomerlo - London, UK
Date: 13th Feb 2008

I've had mine now for about a week. It very much lives up to its name, you buy this as a solid workhorse phone not a fashion accessory. Having said that it still looks pretty cool in my opinion.

OK, a bit of bad stuff now, the VGA camera is worse than useless. I can't believe people still make phones with those. I'd happily pay more if they'd have put a 2MB camera in there to make it really useful. I appreciate that the majority of their target market wouldn't care but I still think they've really narrowed the appeal of this phone as consequence. The OS is less refined than Nokia's, a lot more button presses to do a simple thing like send or view a text.

Finally, the FM radio works fine & the headphones look like real Walkman headphones as opposed to the Nokia ones. The battery is EXCELLENT - I have no reason to doubt the quoted 8 hour talk time or standby time & yes it's SOLID.



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