- Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 144 reviews Back to product review
- My rating: 0 stars
Full user review
-
52 out of 59 people found this review helpful
4.0 stars
"PPC-6700 - One Major Flaw"
Pros: If you got this far, you have already read all the pros.
Cons: Lack of Memory, The Speaker is not Loud enough
Summary: By & large, this is a great unit. I believe I am holding in my hand, the true next generation PDA/phone. The battery life or lack thereof, does not concern me for two reasons.
1. It is reported that with the New Windows Memory architecture, you are able to R & R the battery without loosing any setup parameters, settings or data. You may therefore, swap batteries as many times as you like without loosing any more than the time than it takes to swap the battery. I have had mine since Monday 9-19 and honestly, even though I use it heavily, I have not yet run he battery out between available wall receptacles or car trips.
2. Mini USB chargers for wall, car and solar energy sources are readily available. if you can afford this unit, you should be able to afford those too.
My biggest peeve is that though they claim this unit has 64 MB of RAM what they don't tell you is that only 43.5 MB is usable. I am therefore led to conclude, that the OC and other bundled programs consume 16.5 MB. Having come from an iPAQ HX4700, I find this falls vastly short of meeting my requirements. I have yet to procure a mini SD card and have yet to hear from ANYONE as to whether data on the card will sync with a PC using active sync 4.0. If it?s like it used to be, the answer is no. This will require a lot of creative shuffling in order to keep files and documents at home, the laptop and on the 6700 all up to date. If anyone has tried this unit with a mini SD card, please let us know how it responds!
The 128 MB flash ROM seems plenty sufficient to handle every web site I have attempted to access.
The phone works well however, the speaker lacks sufficient volume to use in real life anyplace other then in a church or a library. (In others words, in a real quiet place).
A foot note to the last post? Sprint would NOT grandfather in my unlimited vision services because EVDO is a different and step advanced from vision. I was told that I could stay with the grandfathered unlimited vision however, would NOT be able to get the high speed connection but rather the same old slow vision.
Windows Mobile 5.0 ~ Hmm? The jury is still out. I don?t like that you can?t manage your memory allocation as you can with CE 2003.
All in all, I think I?ll keep it but may remain frustrated until someone comes up with a way to dump at least 128 or 256 more MB of RAM into it!
- 9 replies to this review
-
1) The power button is triggered too easily. It is especiallty difficult if you're a woman that likes to keep her phone in her purse. The slightest little tap on the power button turns the phone on, draining the battery power unknowingly.
2) The phone is not recognized by many independent software i.e. handango's yahoo instant messenger software.
3) Before my mention the 3rd flaw, I'm putting my disclaimer out: people should not be fumbling with cell phones when they're driving. Now that's been said, we know everybody does; I sure do. It's difficult to dial a number on the touch pad without pressing the wrong button and that's coming from me, a female with manicured nails. I can only imagine how difficult it would be for men with big fingers and short nails.
4) The flight mode. When you place your phone on flight mode, you're not supposed to get any calls because the phone doesn't intercept any signal. During meetings, I always use this setting so no calls come through at all. To my surprise, twice phone calls came through during my meetings, interrupting briefs.
Overall, the phone is great but it's the little things that gets under your skins. P.S. What Erdaram said about the speaker mode, TOTALLY TRUE! In any kind of normal environment, it's barely heard. -
I've had this PDA/Phone a little long than you. I use a 512MB SD card and still have plenty of room on it. It syncs well with my PC using Activsync and a folder that installs on my PC to save what is stored on the SD card. I slso have a card reader on my PC that I use occasionally to upload photgraphs, etc. I also don't like that it is not PCS Vision capable. That is the only drawback for me. This is my first experience with Windows Mobile but the Palm software on my previous TREO 650 was no beter, maybe a little less usable.
-
I also upgraded to the 6700 from plain, slow Vision. The EVDO is fabulous AND only costs $15 a month. Verizon has exactly the same phone and exactly the same EVDO service and charges $49 a month. Sprint is a great bargain for broadband speed always on and available anywhere. I absolutely love mine.
-
512 megabyte mini sd works well. some probles with downloaded apps? no problems with downloaded music. windows media is very nice. im ready for windows voice comand.
-
I'm considering getting this baby. It sounds like a miracle gadget, however, I'm pretty frugal. Buying a portable music player (Ipod), digital camera , PDA, and GPS reciever is like thousands of dollars and chargers. Not to mention my cellphone and laptop. So Im like ok this is a PDA (Check) and it has expansion for MP3playback (check), also a digital camera (check), Keyboard for text messaging (check), EV-DO blazing internet/laptop modem {with the Sprint orderd cable}(check) Video playback(check).
Finally heres my question before I plunk down all my money. Since its a phone and all cellphones have GPS reception, why can't I just pucrchase GPS Navigation Software with voice prompts from the likes of "TomTom" or "Garmin" install them a WHAMO, GPS reception?? If you know if thats possible please, please email me and let me know matwior@yahoo.com. -
I just shelled out the bill for the expansion card and i can say that it does sync with your desktop.
-
I've had mine since the beginning of Nov. By the way, Circuit City has the hard to find mini storage cards (512 MB), right at $50.00. I bought two and have had no problems sychronizing anything to date, as a matter of fact, it's actually been very simple compared to my previous devices. Speaker is horrible. Listening to music consistently though, while shopping for instance, will kill the charge quickly on your blue tooth headset, but synchs easily to your storage card through windows media. Not voice activated is the only other fault I've found to date, and believe me I'm a heavy user that uses every single feature, and often. Great device - voice activate it and it will almost be perfect.
-
i bought the new ppc 6700 thinking i would love it, i dont there are alot of stuff i still can not figure out, memory has its down falls, im looking for free o cheap music streams and ringers unles its on my computer it doesnt exist.
-
As small a foot print as 1 Gig SDram is I thank their shooting their self's in the foot.
%20user%20review%20and%20rating%20-%20CNET%20Reviews&srcUrl=http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/audiovox-ppc-6700-sprint/4864-6452_7-31517199-2.html){kind=small}