Now that you've had your Intercept for a bit...

[TheRH]

I installed:

Launcher Pro
Handcent

Also I changed the way the notifications work as well as a few other things on it. I like this phone quite a bit. Is it a flagship phone? No, but it is a pretty good phone.

RH

 

[FaroeseViking]

Get it for her on Virgin. Its $25 unlimited everything except talk, which is only 300. But you can bump that up to 1200 min for $40. But as most of my friends kids do, they only txt and FB, and for that it's perfect. I just got mine 2 weeks ago, and I'm real happy for it.

 

[Mr. Ed]

hmm...thank you everyone...i need a cheap soulution for a phone for my son that is now walking to and from school.

best buy has this one for free today as part of the free phone friday promotion ....

I wanted a phone with android for him and this looks to be the one. (the free part really helps lol)

 

[jiml8]

rooting the phone is the secret to success. I purchased the phone tuesday, rooted it tuesday night, installed a JIT on wednesday (which sped it up by a factor of 6), removed a lot of vendor-provided cruft, and the phone works very well - and far faster than stock. No hesitations and almost no problems.

I apparently removed something I shouldn't have, because now the store crashes every time it does a download - but it doesn't crash until after the download is complete, so I can't say I really care...particularly because I specifically DID want to remove some of the google notifier stuff.

I like the phone. I like the keyboard (but you should see what I had before...). I have it configured to access my home workstation via ssh, and I have it set up to tether - and that works quite nicely - and everything seems to work fine.

 

[locoboy2222]

rooting the phone is the secret to success. I purchased the phone tuesday, rooted it tuesday night, installed a JIT on wednesday (which sped it up by a factor of 6), removed a lot of vendor-provided cruft, and the phone works very well - and far faster than stock. No hesitations and almost no problems.

I apparently removed something I shouldn't have, because now the store crashes every time it does a download - but it doesn't crash until after the download is complete, so I can't say I really care...particularly because I specifically DID want to remove some of the google notifier stuff.

I like the phone. I like the keyboard (but you should see what I had before...). I have it configured to access my home workstation via ssh, and I have it set up to tether - and that works quite nicely - and everything seems to work fine.

how did you root?

 

[joeblue7]

What are your thoughts about it? I'm considering getting one for my daughter when we sign up with Sprint and we'll be getting the unlimited data family package. Just wondering how owners are feeling about this phone. Is it any good?

I just got my Intercept less than 2 weeks ago and I love it!! This is my first ever smart phone, keyboard, touch screen phone and Iam loving it...does the basics for me...facebook, text, email..etc. Love it!

 

[manonfire]

what did you do differently the second time to root your phone? i.e. what's the recommended instructions to root it? and how much better is the intercept after rooting it?

 

[RunawayWind]

I've had my Intercept (on Virgin Mobile) for a week now, and I love it!

It's my first smart phone, so there's considerable "golly-gee!" in my getting to know it, but so far it's done everything I could hope, and then some!

I've had no problems with responsiveness or crashing.

I don't know how I lived without it before!

 

[stevespub]

Better than a standard phone. Nice keyboard. Terrible smart phone.

The interface pauses frequently, it's got very little RAM, and is notoriously bad at connecting to computers via USB. Had a lot of promise, but Samsung cut too many corners.