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"HP iPaq Glisten" on by smartphonemaniac
Pros: Keys, roaming, call quality, battery life
Cons: Performance, multimedia, operating system, apps
Summary: Overall rating:3.5 out of 5
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"This is not a good smartphone!" on by Susanne_S
Pros: Battery life, Size/Weight but that's about it.
Cons: Way overpriced for what you get. Internet web browser painfully slow and often never does load up the page. Text messaging not reliable. Even with all the tower bars up it will not be able to send simple text. Screen locks up ALL the time.
Summary: I really have nothing good to say about this phone. The screen locks up ALL the time. I have to reset by taking out battery. Touch screen is either too sensitive or not sensitive enough. Accidently dials out but when I lock touch screen I can't unlock it. I often end up missing calls because the touch screen is not working for me to accept call. When using the web browser the screen text is microscopic and then when I try zooming it takes forever to load. The phone was way overpriced and non of the main electronic stores carry any accessories for it. Including the AT&T stores! Text messages have to be resent multiple times even when I am in a good reception area and there are multiple tower bars. Camera function is OK. Battery life is reasonable. Overall, I am totally disappointed with this phone. Not sure what smartphone to pick next.
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"OK if you are already familiar with Win Mobile" on by Sensei Terrie
Pros: Basic Win Mobile phone, decent reception and few dropped calls. Downloads email from server and general basic functions, good (not great) battery life: 48-72 hours
Cons: Limited hot button reassignment. I had more variability with Win Mobile 5 & 6. I expected more w/ 6.5
difficult widget "scroll" featureCamera difficult to fiqure out.
Unusual "today" screen with limited personalizationSummary: The sad thing is that I "had to have this phone" but could not find ine to try out before I bought it. (ATT only had it available on the web. I've used several windows mobile phones, 2 different Treos and other Palm OS phones. I was hoping for a good mix of "all of the above." This was not it, but it is sufficent for now. I guess I'll just have to keep waiting and looking! Reasonable phone, but not the smartphone I was hoping for.
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"very complicated and not user friendly" on by loreal3
Pros: did not have any problems with dropped calls
Cons: small and hard to use
Summary: very complicated and not user friendly difficult to tell if there was a missed call or if you have received a text message, very small text and hard to read, buttons for typing are small and hard to use, touch screen doesn't work very well, slow and difficult to download apps. the most non-user friendly phone I have ever used, even reading the direction book didn't help with figuring this thing out. can't personalize and arrange the main screen, only gives the option to move icons up to top or down to bottom. just an all around bad experience using this phone got and iphone instead much easier to figure out how to use!
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"Good for techies" on by unicron2e
Pros: Keyboard is above average (but I miss the old treo w!)
Very utilitarian, and you can make it into a fun deviceCons: winmo standard almost anything sucks. use workarounds, until I got G-Alarm it didn't even function as a real alarm device
FiLE MAnagamentSummary: Phone: excellent, access contacts easily
Keyboard: Good enough keyboard -most mobile keyboards really aren't
Screen: Utilitarian touch functionality, it's not a touch-toy in any way though, not with the standard software
Features: Media player works -runs in background nicely, etc; if stripped-down, today screen is informative; assignable shortcut buttons make operation smooth. Media management is way awkward with WinMo, you have to sort through file folders is all.
Bad calendar is a headache, but like I found for the horrible alarm (with G-Alarm), there are usually workarounds.
All in all, very good for the seasoned user
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