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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
2.0 stars
"Looks good but not thoughtfully designed"
Pros: Shiny, nice screen, good camera
Cons: Bluetooth issues, no bulk select, joystick, camera in low light, volume, battery
Summary: I was so excited to get this phone, but after a week, I am very let down. The volume is very low, ringer and speaker. On speaker phone, the sound quality is very poor. You can not connect to your PC via bluetooth and send files. There is no software to support bluetooth a connection either. The camera takes nice pictures if the lighting is just right, but after an evening where I took about hundred photos, not one of them came out, even with the flash and other settings.
Since I couldn't send the photos via bluetooth to my computer, I had to save all the photos onto my micro card, put them into my Samsung Sync (previous phone) to upload, which took me over an hour because there is no way to select multiple items and transfer them all at once like there was in my razor and sync.
My problem with the joy stick isn't that it moves too quickly, it's that it's too large to use with your finger tip and too small to use by pushing your fingers on it's side. You have to slide your fingernail behind it, which makes it impossible to use the phone with one hand.
There are also a few other little annoyances. For example, If you use the buttons on the front of the phone to select a caller, you have to open the phone to hit the green or red buttons. If you use the buttons on the inside of the phone, you have to use the ones on the front to make changes. Jumping from the bottom to the top is annoying.
Again, I was very excited to have the newest, coolest phone, but I'm sending it back. The Sync and Walkman, though not as cool looking, are both far better phones for design and features.
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I just have one thing to address to this reviewer, thanks for reviewing, but it looks like you need a camera and not a phone! If you're taking that many pics with your "phone" you need to buy a "camera."
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> "If you use the buttons on the front of the phone to select a caller, you have to open the phone to hit the green or red buttons."
But don't you have to open the phone anyway to use the telephone and speak to the person on the other end? -
good review but a couple of points to clarify - don't expect any quality pictures from phone camera, or any camera at low light situation. Most likely the flash wouldn't be very strong on camera phones, and you do need sufficient amount of light to take any picture or expsure control. I'm surprised bluetooth file send doesn't work on this phone, but you can take out micro SD and stick it into any SD card reader (with adapter) and you can select multiple files and transfer quickly. That's not so bad.
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