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UTStarcom CDM-7075 (Verizon Wireless)

Reviewed by

Nicole Lee

on 05/03/2007

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The Verizon Wireless CDM-7075 has a camera lens above the external screen.

Underneath the screen is the navigation array, which includes two soft keys and a four-way toggle with a middle OK key. The toggle also works as a shortcut to the Web browser, the phone's Get It Now menu (where you can access new ringtones, pictures, games, and more), the phone's Get Pix menu (where you can access the camera), and a programmable shortcut key. There's also the Send key, the Clear key that also acts as a voice command key and the speakerphone key, and the End/Power key. Though slightly slippery, all the keys, including the alphanumeric dial pad, are raised sufficiently above the surface of the phone; plus they are well spaced, so it is easy to dial and navigate by feel. The keypad has a pleasant blue backlight when active.

Features
As we mentioned earlier, the CDM-7075 is an entry-level camera phone with few fancy features. That said, it's still a pretty good phone to make calls with. The CDM-7075 comes with a decent-size 500-entry address book, with room in each entry for five numbers and two e-mail addresses. Each entry can also be assigned to a group, a picture for caller ID, and one of six polyphonic ringtones. Other features include a vibrate mode, text and multimedia messaging, voice command and voice dialing support, a calendar, an alarm clock, a world clock, a notepad, a calculator, and a stopwatch. There's also a built-in GPS that will enable the network to locate your position for E911 emergency services.

The Verizon Wireless CDM-7075 takes pretty good pictures for a VGA camera.

The CDM-7075 only has a VGA camera but it does come with quite a few options. They include three resolution settings (640x480, 320x240, 160x120), a self-timer, brightness settings, white balance settings, three shutter sounds plus a silent option, color effect settings, and either a landscape or portrait capture mode. The resulting image quality of the photos was actually quite impressive for a VGA camera. Colors were sharp and images appeared nice and bright. The edges seemed a little blurrier than megapixel camera phones, but that's to be expected.

There are quite a few personalization options with the CDM-7075. You can download additional wallpaper, screensavers, ringtones, and more from Verizon's wireless Web browser. Though the phone doesn't come with any applications or games, you can always purchase them.

Performance
We tested the dual-band (CDMA 800/1900) in San Francisco using Verizon Wireless service. Call quality was actually pretty excellent, with callers reporting little to no static from our end and vice versa. Speakerphone quality was nice and loud as well, though voices tended to sound a tad tinnier when heard from the speakers.

The Verizon Wireless CDM-7075 has a rated talk time of 3.45 hours and a rated standby time of 6.75 days. We managed to get a talk time of 4 hours in our tests. According to FCC radiation tests, it has a digital SAR rating of 1.29 watts per kilogram.