UTStarcom CDM-120 (Sprint)

Reviewed by

Nicole Lee

on 05/25/2006

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The UTStarcom CDM-120 has a 500-contact phone book, with room in each entry for five phone numbers, an e-mail address, and a memo. Plus, you can assign contacts to caller groups or pair them with one of 25 polyphonic (32-chord) ring tones. Organizational tools consist of an alarm clock, a calendar, a scheduler, a countdown clock, a memo pad, a world clock, a stopwatch, a calculator, and a unit converter. Other features include six vibration modes, text messaging, enhanced messaging service for sounds and emoticons, four minutes of voice recording, voice-activated dialing, caller ID, and a speakerphone that you can turn on as you're dialing a number. The CDM-120 has 16MB of flash memory.

You can personalize the UTStarcom CDM-120 with a variety of wallpaper and a personal greeting, and you can display your calendar or clock as a screensaver. There are two included games: Board Mania (a snowboarding game) and Ace of Aces (a flying title). Unfortunately, because there's no Web browser, you can't download more games or personalization options.

We tested the dual-band/trimode UTStarcom CDM-120 (CDMA 800/1900; AMPS 800) on the Sprint Nextel network in San Francisco. Callers heard us loud and clear, and vice versa, though there was a little static in certain locations. The speakerphone had good sound quality as well. The UTStarcom CDM-120 has a rated talk time of 3.5 hours while it showed a talk time of 3 hours in our tests. It has a rated standby time of 10.5 days. According to FCC radiation tests, the CDM-120 has a digital SAR rating of 1.16 watts per kilogram.