Samsung convoy 2 windows 7

This was at least the third punt! Well, the Samsung guy wasn't going to do anything. He did suggest taking the phone to a Verizon store and have it "flashed" there. No, that's no good: I already tried that. The corporate Verizon store already told me that they couldn't do it. So then the Samsung guy says to go to a Best Buy store and have them do it.

A real long shot, I thought. I found some very knowledgeable and willing to help people there. They have a lot of Samsung cell phone products and a dedicated Samsung support guy. But their Samsung guy told me that he no can do: That they are only set up to flash true Smart Phones. The back cover is pretty plain, save the metal "screw-top" panel that protects the battery from Mother Nature's more tricky conditions.

It's easy enough to screw off with a fingernail or a coin, no special equipment necessary. Features The Convoy 2's phone book is 1, contacts deep, with room enough for multiple phone numbers and e-mail addresses, an IM name, a photo ID, a calling group, and one of 21 ringtones, plus silent mode.

You can customize the message tone as well. As with any rugged phone, some of the most impressive features account for resistance to shock, altitude, temperature, radiation, humidity, sand and dust, and so on. In addition to that, the Convoy 2 includes push-to-talk mode. There are other creature comforts as well. In the phone book, Samsung includes contact backup and in-case-of-emergency ICE numbers. Universal search is also included, as is a storefront for downloading more apps, like Bing search and Uno.

Of course, the Convoy 2 also has essential tools like a calculator, a calendar, an alarm clock, a stop watch, a world clock, and a memo pad. The camera display is messy, but navigable, and there are options for choosing one of five shooting modes, four resolutions from 3. The camcorder shares many of the same settings, but can also limit your shooting resolution to better fit into a video message. As for the image quality itself, color fidelity was pretty good if not perfectly rich for all shades.

While some pictures we took were spot-on in focus, others were off. Manually focusing on such a small view finder is tough, and you may find you need to work harder to hold the camera still. While video volume is serviceable, the playback was shaky and pixelated. That's to be expected from a phone of this class, so we can't hold it too much against Samsung; although we'd love to be pleasantly surprised. Call quality was adequate overall, although we did notice some cut-outs and bleeps of digital distortion.

On our end, caller volume was strong and voices sounded fairly faithful, although the voice clarity sounded muddy to our ears. On their end, callers described our voice as "warbly," fluctuating at frequencies. For both sides, the call quality improved over the duration of the call. We were unable to test the push-to-talk feature at this time.

Speakerphone quality was poor. Voice timbre sounded robotic and unnatural to our ears, in addition to hollow. Colors - Shows the number of colors that the additional display supports. RAM - This is the type of memory that the device uses to temporarily store data from the OS or currently-running apps.

The more RAM available to the device, the better the performance will be when multiple or heavier programs are running. Capacity - The bigger, the better! However, battery capacity is not the only factor that has an effect on battery life. Those include the chipset in use, the software running on the device, as well as the consumer's unique usage pattern. Location - This field shows the positioning systems supported by the device.

Every wireless phone device that is sold in the U. Date approved - Shows the date when the particular phone is approved by the Federal Communications Commission.