Fido Launches Samsung F266 Slider

James Falconer

James was born and raised in Winnipeg, Canada. Almost 15 years ago he started out in the 'real world' as a web and graphic designer. Through the years he has finely tuned his skills in SEO, internet marketing, conversion strategy, and project management. To date, he runs his own successful consulting business where he advises companies all over the globe. A co-founder of www.crackberry.com, and sole proprietor of www.mactropolis.com, James in recent years has become very active in the tech blogosphere. Online community building and strategy is fast becoming one of his passions. Watch for James' no frills attitude, unique perspective and to-the-point comments here on IntoMobile!

• John

  Hi James,
  Fido has now updated their site and shows it’s available for the $25 2/yr price plan.

• James Falconer

  Excellent. Thanks John!

• None

  I bought this Phone from Fido with a plan.
  The Fido guy told me it was better than the “MOTO Z6W” “Samsung SGH-E747″ and “Samsung SGH-A736″ which were my choices to start off with.
  This phone cost me 25$ with a plan, it is 150$ without.

  MAIN MENU: The main menu is simple, but when inside a menu option it is sort of confusnig and takes awhile to get used to. It has extra junk in the menu that isnt really usefully and junk.

  DISPLAY: It is a nice looking phone, good screen size. flips nicely. Has 7 button funtions on the front while unflipped. 4 of which you change to your own style and 2 very side ones are not changable, one links to the email the other to the internet which is rather annoying and there is no phone lock. The phone overall is a good stylist phone.

  LAYOUT: The phone has 6 wallpapers that are just eh, the ringtones are nice. You can change the font size and color when dailing a #, and i think size small still too big! The thing that bothers me is the ‘theme’ Moto would have different display themes, and this phone does not. So every time your in the menu it is a black background, with white letters highlighted with ORANGE when you chose something – I find that ugly! You can turn the keytone beeps off, but everytime you change something in the menu it will make a sound saying its saved which you cannot turn off, which I personally would. Plus you may find texting a bit difficult if youre a texting type since the buttons are small, but you can get used to it.

  MEDIA: Everything works perfectly, one problem I noticed people has was the PC Studio Program that it comes with. YOU DONT HAVE TO USE THIS. You cau use Media Player for example to import music. The Program isnt hard or confusing either way. I did not have a problem putting music such as mp3s, pictures, files onto my cellphone. But you cannot use the music as ringtones, but so what? Theyre ringtones are fine. It has 37 MB internal memory, I’d suggest to get the 2GB chip it is 20.00$, it comes VERY handy to add music and extra items onto the phone.

  EXTRA: Bluetooth, 850/1800/1900MHz, Built-in handsfree speaker + earphones which you can use as well to talk from, Vibrating alert (is weak) Has yahoo, msn, email for those messenger junkies. Radio YES . Talk time 8 hours, 7 days stand by, Battery life very good, and there is an any key answer, No keypad lock, but it does lock while closed, PC Synchronization and Serial Connection- yes

  When you buy this phone it comes with an USB Cord, A charager. You can charage you phone from both. There is a 50$ warrenty on 3 years, Samsung is very tough but in case 50$ is nothing for 3 years. A USB Adpartor (which the guy gave me for free) and suggested not to use it unless i dont have the USB cord. Also comes with earphones and with the program I mentioned + user guide.

  Overall, Buy this phone if your interested, I personally like it, good sound for mp3, no dropped calls, good batttery life, easy to use and quick to learn. Its better than the Fido ones I mentioned which are on the Fido market!

• Jamie

  How do you store the music onto the memory card from the pc?

• patrick kwong

  samsung f266 is the worst phone in the market!!!!

• Ryan Demarco

  hey yea i’m with Jamie how do you store music on the memory card in this phone?

• Ryan Demarco

  hey did you ever find out how? can u help me out?

• melon

  how do you turn the keytone beeps off? they’re sooooooo annoying!!!

  they’re driving me nuts!

  help please!

• Prasn

  How do i upload my pics from the Phone.I dont have a memory card installed.I am using the internal memory but the phone wont show up on my computer or when i use the PC studio software.
  URGENTLY need help

• jemisso

  when your phone is pugged in to your computer,
  go to menu>settings>set connectivity>pc connections then select mass storage

  then you can copy paste your music/pictures and other file to your phone memory card..

  so far that’s how I do it

• Manny

  Hey,
  I put some songs in my phone but is telling that “52 characters exceed” so i can only play one song at time is kind of annoying…
  could you tell me how to play all the music without doing one by one…
  btw I load the music thru the windows media player…
  anyways any assistance will be good