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4.0 stars
"No phone is awesome, but this is pretty good."
Pros: Form factor and usability.
Cons: No voice dial for a $300 phone? Cumbersome menus, needs more battery life.
Summary: Overall I'm impressed. It's not gonna win an award or anything, but it gets its jobs done better than other cell phones I've had, such as the Motorolas, some Ericssons and Nokias. I bought this as a weekender away from my Palm Treo 650 brick phone. It fits in any pocket and is light enough to not bug me. Call quality and reception are excellent, camera and video are decent, and pretty much most of the features are good enough. Good enough, meaning, they get buy reasonably weel, but nothing is exactly stellar (like most phones). I like the alarm clock, as I have my phone with me 24/7, so it just stands to reason that it should have alarms with adujtable snooze. PIM apps are pretty usable and contain barely enough features, though most are burried deep in the menus. To be fair, the more features a phone has, the more burried they'll have to be. I detest the fact that AT&T adds adware to the OS which can't be deleted, and worst of all, it's kind of in your face and gets in the way of the phone's usefulness. Most AT&T phones are this way though. The shortcut customization ability is hit and miss. The shortcuts don't allow you to dig deep enough into the system to get all the features. For example, you can't assign a shortcut to the Note application. When you need to make a note on a phone like this, you need it quick. The battery gets me less than 3 days with moderate texting and MediaNet surfing, plus a handful of short calls. I suppose you can't expect a lot from such a small battery though.
My biggest disappointment is that there's no automatic voice dial. A phone this expensive in this day and age should have it, especially given that it has BlueTooth. Speaking of BlueTooth, I get at least a good 30 ft or more using a cheap $50 BT headset, which is very nice.
Text messaging application is pretty bad, but I've seen worse. The problem is there are too many choices and buttons to press just to get one stupid message out the door. Annoying, but again, I've seen worse. At least it works very well.
Overall I like this phone and I'd buy it again. I've been able to customize it enough to replace my Treo during nights and weekends, and find myself getting by lately with just this phone. Voice calls, internet surfing, text messaging, BlueTooth, alarms, calendar, tasks, notepad, etc, this phone is good at them all, though it excel's at none.
More impressive than the dozen or so other phones I've owned or tried. I recommend it.
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