Audeo Perfect Fit Ear Buds by Phonak
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
3.5 stars
"useless speakerphone and other stupid design flaws diminish a good phone"
Pros: Looks good, small, sturdy, bluetooth, display quality
Cons: useless speakerphone, half-screen picture viewer
Summary: First positive: This phone is exactly what I was looking for: world phone, clamshell, style (no comparison with the cheap looking asian phones), bluetooth, and the speakerphone. I use bluetooth for hands-free operation via car-kit and also to upload pictures, rings, and even short video clips I take with my Canon camera. Uploading pictures taken with a decent digital camera produces much better results than using the crappy built-in one. The screen is the best I have seen so far.
After a couple of month of using this phone, however, I must say that it has some really annoying flaws that make me wander if the people designing it have any common sense.
1) The speakerphone can not be turned on until you dial, connect, and wait a few seconds into the conversation. By then you might as well keep talking with the phone to your ear. This is especially true if you're driving because taking your eyes off the road to find the speakerphone button can be pretty dangerous. There is also no way to pick up the incoming call via the speakerphone. There should be an option to answer a call without even opening the phone. The right-side button would be ideal for this; it is useless right now.
2) The date display can neither be turned off nor moved anywhere but the top-left or top-center of the screen. This is precisely the location of the faces in most of the family pictures I use as the wallpaper.
3) Picture gallery viewer only uses the upper half of the screen. The bottom half is taken by the picture of the 4-way joystick control with directions for scrolling forward and backward. Maybe Motorola is trying to make their phones idiot proof but I bet that most people would quickly figure out that 'up' scrolls up and 'down' scrolls down and would rather use the screen to maximize the picture size. I would be willing to hold my phone sideways to get a full-screen view of the horizontal shots. This applies to the video viewer as well.
Overall, this is still one of the best phones around but it can definitely be improved.
Where to buy
Motorola V505 (AT&T):
$18.99
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