Yes, it does record sound, I just took the sound out because I don’t like the sound of my voice and I didn’t want the entire internet to hear me talking to a couple of farm animals.

It’ll process for a while, then all your photos will have the little memory card symbol next to them after that. Then you can move them to your computer or whatever you want.

But your best bet is to ask a T-Mobile representative when you visit your local shop.

Do you happen to know how to make the contacts list sort by last name instead of first

Record a video. In the video recording screen under the settings button, go in there and make sure it’s set to save your video to the memory card, not the phone’s memory. If you accidentally record to the phone, you can go to your phone’s files and move the video to the memory card.

Plug your phone into your computer using the USB cable. Tell your computer to open up the device and view the files and folders stored on it. There should be a folder for images and one for videos. Your video should be in there, and you can just copy it to your desktop or wherever you want to save it on your computer.

That’s how I do it.

Anyway, just be mindful that this is not as good a web-access phone as the iPhone or Google Phones. It’s mainly for the camera. Unless you have 3G network, you’ll probably have a very slow time trying to use youtube. Twitter works fine.

It’s a shame i might have to dish out the extra 20-something dollars for a data plan. But at least I’ll be able to tweet and youtube on the go.

Have you managed to find a screen protector for it in stores?

3 – I’m not sure, but I’d be willing to bet you need a data plan for this also.

I suppose you could buy the phone without a data plan at first, see what works, and then if nothing works, get the data plan later. I just paid for unlimited data and texting, so I could avoid hassles and get right to doing whatever I wanted.

1) When you say AIM needs internet to go on AIM, are you talking about an internet plan or is a text messaging plan suitable enough?

2)”Flickr uploader – there’s a built-in shortcut to send your photos to your Flickr account right after you take them.”
Can you upload pictures without an internet plan? (And not pay for any data)

3)Can you get weather updates from the widget without an internet plan? (Again with not paying for data)

Basically, what can’t you do with an internet plan for the phone.

It would be super great if stuff could go directly from the phone’s memory to the computer through the USB cable. But I haven’t figured out if that’s possible either. Sorry I can’t be of more help. If you find a way, please let me know.

One thing I did to make this easier is change the phone’s USB settings to “mass storage device”. You can do this by going to Menu > Settings > Phone Settings > USB Settings > Mass Storage.

Another thing to note is that for some reason my camera defaults back to storing captures directly on the phone rather than the memory card. So if you have time, before you start using the camera or video cam, just check that the settings are adjusted to store your captures on the memory card by default. If you don’t remember to do this and you need to get photos from the phone’s memory to the removable memory card, you can move them by going to the photos folder and touching “more” “manage”, where you will find the “move” option.

Other ways to transfer data from this phone to the computer is by uploading it to the web via facebook, flickr, etc. The built-in email app does let you make attachments to gmail messages, but gmail’s mobile website does not. Either way, when you upload things to the web or send them to people, you typically have to wait for it to load. Using the USB cable is pretty close to instantaneous.

I did some research on the screen. Based on this article: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question716.htm I am pretty sure the Samsung Memoir has a resistive touch screen. Sometimes I touch it and need to press a little harder to get it to register. I can touch it with a pen cap and it works just as well (though I don’t due to fear of scratching). It was a pretty low-priced phone. These things are all characteristics of a resistive type touch screen according to what I read in that article, so I am pretty sure it’s resistive.

I have also noticed that in certain light conditions and from a very sharp angle, I can see a faint grid of dots over the whole screen. I figured this has to do with the touch technology.