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4.5 stars
"After a ton a research, the best phone for me!"
Pros: awsome call quality, great battery life and a ton of fun features
Cons: a little slow through the menus at times
Summary: I've been looking for a phone for a couple months or two now, this is the best thing i've found hands-down. Love it so far.
It seems a lot of the new phones with their touch screens and big digital cameras get so focused on doing the gadget-fun-stuff that they forget to simply make a good phone with decent battery life 1st and foremost.
Not the E8 ... the "crystal talk" sounds perfect, always loud enough, and the battery life is the best of any phone i've ever had.
I've read some reviews about the quirky slide control wheel. And it's completely true that you'll whiz right past the thing your aiming for with the smaller menus and such. But what those reviews didn't tell you was that it still has the traditional North-South-East-West pad that ALSO works for menu navigation. So you can you the slide wheel arc to get through huge lists easily like your music or phone book and then switch to the directional pad once you get close. It's the best of both worlds!
And while it a good phone 1st, it's still a lot of phone too. The 2GB internal memory let's you store a ton of music comparable to most phones and the music player is predictably fantastic.
The morphing keypad is bad ass.
And it has a fun Voice Recognition that doesn't even have to be programed! Anyone can use it and if spoken clearly, it will guess what you said right the time.
The camera isn't great, but who cares, there isn't a really good camera phone out there anyway. All the ones that are good cameras have other issues. It's 2MP and serviceable in daylight at least.
I don't need internet on my phone since i have it all day elsewhere, so i almost searched out a 2G-edge phone. DOn't want to pay for the 3G-capable if i'm not going to use it right?
The only negative is the occasional slow menu lag, which isn't a big deal to me because everything else is so great.
Just wanted to stick up for this phone because it's better than some of the ones rated higher than it.
Hope this helped someone! Cheers!
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