Midland 79-290 Detachable Face 120-Channel CB

Midland 79-290 Detachable Face 120-Channel CB
Manufacturer: Midland
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
The new Midland model 79-290 represents cutting edge technology in the communications field. From its high tech detachable control panel to finned cast aluminum transmitter heatsink it incorporates features found on no other CB. These features include full surface mount technology, fiberglass printed circuit board, dual power output stage, and a digital information screen using a black matrix LCD (liquid crystal display). All the features are under microprocessor control for increased function and reliability. Your Midland 79-290 assures you of having the ultimate technology in a CB radio.PRODUCT FEATURES: AM-USB/LSB-Weather; 40-channel CB with side band; 120 channel operation (USB-AM-LSB); 7-channel US/3 channel Canadian weather receiver; Detachable control panel for added security; Black Matrix LCD display with choice of channel number or frequency readout; 4-channel memory plus instant ch. 9.

Average customer rating: 3.5

Good Phone
2.5 stars The phone tries to do too much without doing anything really well.
Like it better than my RAZR
I made the mistake...
Take this phone and ....

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ASIN: B000K2F1N4
2006-10-10

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Customer Reviews:

Good Phone.......2007-06-09

Pros:
1) Main screen resolution is excellent.
2) Good camera.
3) Speaker phone quality is good.
4) Nice grip. Also when you open the phone the length is perfect.
5) Can change the font and color of the dialling numbers.
6) 3G capable. Although unless you are vrey tech savvy you will not use this feature.
7) MP3 capable. Can control from outside.
8) SD card fascility.

Cons:
1) Front Display is not up to the standard.
2) No Voice dialling.
3) Could have used annodised metal instead of plastic.

Overall a very good phone for its price.

2.5 stars The phone tries to do too much without doing anything really well........2007-06-07

I have been using this phone for several months now so I am over the wow phase of having a true MP3 player in the phone. While this phone does have many unique features, the overall execution makes this just an average phone.

APPEARANCE - The first thing that you notice is that the phone is rather large. Although some may say that this is due to the wonderfully big screen, the fact still remains that this phone is not as easy to carry as a lot of other phones available today. Another note about this phone's appearance is that it really looks rather bland, especially in the all black model. I purchased the red model just so that I could get a bit of color but the phone still looks plain. There is nothing about this phone that is stylish or even has a "cool" factor. The keypad is really a letdown with no tactile differentiation between keys and it just looks plain compared to phones like the Motorola RAZR.

INTERFACE - At first the interface of the phone looks really simple and easy to use. There are graphical icons that take you to different feature sets and then there are pop up menus that come up under each selection. Sounds great right? Well the problem is that the features are all over the place. Nothing is where you would really expect it to be and you will refer to the manual a lot in the beginning. Even after you have some experience with the phone you will still be frustrated because you will have to search through the menus to find the features that you only occasionally use.

FEATURES - The phone is a 3G phone which means if you want (relatively)high speed internet or the ability to watch streaming videos/tv on your phone then this should work better than the non 3g models out there. Personally I don't get why anyone would pay such ridiculously high monthly fees for the Cingular Data services just for the "privilige" of watching tv on a 2 inch screen! Apart from that the phone has most of the standard cell phone features available out there including, quad band GSM, bluetooth (including bluetooth stereo headphone compatibility), and a nice 2 megapixel camera. The camera takes wonderful pictures (as long you hold your hand still) but the video is pretty lousy (hey its a cell phone not a camcorder!). Despite all of these nice features there is one major omission in the feature set and that is the lack of voice dialing. This is truely a sin in this phone because what is the point of having handsfree bluetooth if you still have to pick up the phone and search the phonebook to dial a number while driving? Another big minus with this phone is that it does not include any cables to connect it to your computer.Normally I would not care if a cable was included with a cell phone but lets not forget that you have to have a way to get songs onto the phone. Not a problem if you have a blutooth adapter on your computer or you buy a micro sd card with an sd adapter to just put the songs directly on the card, but Samsung is really going cheap by making this phone have a proprietary connector and then making you pay extra to buy it.

CALL QUALITY - Definately a dissapointment with this phone. The phone sometimes has the signal drop to zero bars and then a few seconds later come back to 5 bars. This is very annoying and something I have not experienced with any of my other cell phones I have used over the years. Also the quality of bluetooth connections is definatley below average because if the phone is in your pocket or purse you will hear crackling sounds over the connection (I have tried 3 headsets with this phone and all experience the same crackling).

DISPLAY - This is one of the shining stars of this phone. The screen is very nice and large. It is bright and easy to use in most lighting conditions. Another great feature is that you can change the appearance of the numbers that display while dialing a phone number. My favorite is the quill setting that gives the appearance that the numbers on the screen are being written with a feather quill... really a nice touch. The external display, on the other hand, is a major letdown. It has a small font which makes it difficult to read without straining.

MP3 FUNCTION - This is the main attraction point of this phone and on this end Samsung has done a decent job. The song title displays on both the internal and external screen and it is easy to create playlists and navigate to the song you want. The phone also supports micro sd cards so you can have a 2gb MP3 player everywhere you go! The main problem is that it comes with no headset and it has a proprietary connector so you have to buy the Samsung brand or just get yourself some bluetooth headphones! The phone does have an internal speaker that surprisingly sounds decent and gets loud enough to be able to share your music in a car or quiet room. The one big drawback of the MP3 player is that the buttons on the phone's front cover that let you pause and skip songs lock out after a few seconds. This is extremely frustrating because you have to hold down the unlock button so that you can get them to work again. Why couldn't samsung just reverse the function and make the buttons stay on until you decide to manually lock them??

Overall this phone does have a lot to offer (especially if you get it for free or for less than $30) but it simply does not hold its own when compared to the other music phone options that are available.

Like it better than my RAZR.......2007-05-11

I got my Sync last night after my almost 2 year old RAZR died unexpectedly. First thing I have to say is that the sound quality is 100% better than the RAZR.(I do have Cingular and there are issues there, but I will save that for another time)I also finally got my Bluetooth to work, with my RAZR I could hear, but no one could hear me. I don't know how much music I will download, but it's nice to have that option.
Things I Like:
sound quality
gorgeous screen
fun features like post it notes number display
cool ringtones
looks pretty cool
downloads FAST

Things that they could improve:
better owner's manual
easier to use terminology
more intuitive commands
hate the little door you have to open to charge phone, I'll break it, I know I will.

I like this phone. I was pretty sure I wanted it, then went into a Cingular store to check my other options. I Googled a few things I had questions about after I got it, since the owner's manual pretty much sucks. I only paid $80 for it with a $50 rebate, plus I like it quite a bit. I spent a lot more on my RAZR and it was just okay.

This is a good little phone, I'm sure there is bigger and better, but since I use my phone for mainly calls, the camera, some games and a little texting, I think it is fabulous.

I made the mistake..........2007-05-06

I was excited about this phone. After shopping around and comparing with the Razr and LG models and hearing recommendations, I went out on a limb and purchased this phone from Cingular. The phone is cool, although rather plain looking. It does have a great screen. It can be a little difficult to manuever around as many of the features and buttons aren't where one would expect.

My biggest gripe is reception. I have lost more calls on this phone in the 2 weeks I've had this phone than the entire 2 years of my previous phone. It seems like in order to get reception, you must stand on one leg, with your finger on your nose and hop up and down. It's crazy. I can show a full 5 bars of reception and it won't let me make a call or answer a call.

I have contacted Cingular and am thankfully able to return this piece of junk. I have a new Motorola coming to replace it. (not the Razr I originally thought but a Slvr. I got addicted to the GPS on my friends phone so opted for this one). I found it humorous that when I called Cingular to complain, even the operator said "Oh, you got a Sync. Yeah their reception isn't good at all"

All-in-all I would say DO NOT get this phone unless you're wanting it perhaps for the music features and not the ability to place a call.

Take this phone and ...........2007-04-30

Three days ago I made the mistake of purchasing an SGH-a707 and I can't believe how bad the documentation is for a Phone that truly LACKS. It took three days and a magnifying glass to discover it lacks the key features I need and had been assured it had. I only had three days to return it so I'm stuck with it. I've been ROBBED! This thing doesn't do ANYTHING properly or well. The two key feature I NEED are Mac compatibility and voice dial! Who the F*&# doesn't have voice dial? Samsung apparently. Every time I have to shuffle for the thing, INSPITE OF MY $[...] headseat I HATE THIS THING MORE! I downloaded their NOT INCLUDED "software" and within minutes I had infections all over the place only to discover I had to go buy the NOT INCLUDED cable to connect the phone in HOPE that it MIGHT have a software upgrade appropriate to this century. You wanna be an iPod, (be mac compatible first) then be an iPod, AFTER you finish being a phone. Since I have no computer interface by which to manage the addressbook (and don't make me laugh by saying outlook), and the download diseased my PC computer, which I had to system restore to fix, I have to peck through the OVERLY LIMITED AND COMPLEX software to attempt to fix my EXTENSIVE addresss book which was imported from my previous SIM with multiple entries for each contact, NONE of which are properly identified as what they are. I have to dig through 5, 6, 8 contacts with a meaningless icon on them with no idea as to weather its a mobile, home, office, weekend home, fax, just a butt load of entries that have the same name and icon listed over and over and since I can't iSync I'm stuck with this stupid limited interface which is by no stretch of the imagination, intuitive. What genius came up with your address book? Clearly some geek who likes to text because the documentation is not written in complete words and easily 80% of the interface and documentation are designed for messaging. What the heck makes them think that ANYONE wants to peck away on a phone keyboard for messaging. If I wanted to text, I'd have bought a blackberry or phone with full keyboard. There are MULTIPLE acronyms throughout the phone menus and printed documentation which are never defined or explained. I had to go online to interpret the documentation. I guess they figured we're not gonna read it anyway. Do their programmers study GUI (Graphical User Interface) design or OOP (Object Oriented Programing) before they unleash them on the rest of us? What a Half Baked interface. Like throwing and egg at a wall, everything is everywhere and nothing is where is should be but look at all the pretty colors and movement HOW USEFULL ARE THEY, not to mention it's incessant beeping, chirping, tingling, blah blah blah. I can't wait to go to the movies!

This phone offends me 40 times a day and it cost and is costing me money. I can't even calculate my loss of productivity as I put down my cameras and spend ten minutes dialing wrong numbers as I PECK PECK PECK AWAY at this stupid Addressbook. I need a new assistant just to manage the damn phone. Every time I have to stop what I'm doing to pull the thing out and PECK PECK PECK at the addressbook I find myself cursing out loud. Even the "MP3" player forces me to pull the damn thing out of my pocked to confirm that I actually want to play a song, and why Why WHY! are there active controls on the outter casing. THEY WHOLE POINT OF A FLIP PHONE IS TO COVER THE CONTROLS! I should have gotten another razor. There's NOTHING handsfree or SYNC about this phone. I HATE IT!!!

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