When finished with your clips and shots, you're awarded a plentiful set of options for sharing your work. Besides saving pictures to the phone, you can upload them to an online Sprint album, send them to a friend via Bluetooth or a multimedia message, transfer them to a printer using Sprint's PictBridge application, and send them to a participating retail outlet for printing. You even can upload shots directly to MySpace, Photobucket, YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr. The Exclaim has about 586MB of shared memory. We'd suggest using a microSD card for even more room; our review phone came with a 512MB card, but the Exclaim's card slot will accommodate cards up to 8GB.
You can personalize the Exclaim with a selection of screensavers and alert sounds. You can download more options, and additional ringtones, from Sprint using the WAP 2.0 Web browser. The handset comes with demo versions of three games--Brain Exercise, Clue, and Lego Indiana Jones--you'll have to buy the full versions for extended play.
Performance
We tested the dual-band (CDMA 800/1900) in San Francisco using Sprint service. Call quality was quite satisfactory. We enjoyed clear conversations with loud volume. Voices sounded natural and we encountered no static or interference from other electronic devices. Occasionally we heard some background noise, but it wasn't too troubling.
On their end, callers said we sounded fine. A few mentioned some background noise, but here again it wasn't a big problem. Most could tell we were using a cell phone, but that's fairly common. Automated calling systems could understand us with few issues. Speakerphone quality was slightly less sharp. The volume is a tad low and the audio quality on our end was muffled. Also, we had to speak close to the phone in order to be heard.
The Exclaim's EV-DO speeds are zippy. Pages loaded swiftly, even if the browser's WAP design doesn't lend itself to frequent surfing. We also downloaded data files in just a few seconds--a 3.78MB song took about 45 seconds to load onto the phone.
Multimedia quality was average. We cruised through the Sprint Music Store and Sprint TV app quickly and videos took little time to load. Video quality was decent, though the size of the frame is much too small, even on the display's landscape orientation. It's suitable for watching short clips, but we wouldn't want to bother with a movie or full TV program. Music over the phone's external speaker is unimpressive. The speaker had a weak output and our tunes had an echoed effect. Headphones will offer a better experience.
The Exclaim has a rated battery life of 4.75 hours talk time. We received a talk time of 5 hours and 5 minutes. According to FCC radiation tests, the Exclaim has a digital SAR of 0.78 watts per kilogram.
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