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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
5.0 stars
"Had Windows Mobile before and this is SO much better"
Pros: It just works all the time, really high quality "engineered" finish, screen is great, keyboard is great when you get used to it, the sound quality and phone quality are top notch. It is very thin.
Cons: The headset it comes with is mono, the user guide is not very good
Summary: At first I just wanted to get access to my work email whilst on the road and having tried the hunt and peck approach with a stylus on a Windows based iPAQ i decided to get something with a keyboard. I also had a great experience with Psions years ago and Symbian is a development of that.
The phone just works all the time and is quick switching between applications. It just seems to work in a common sense sort of way which makes up for the user guide being useless! I have to say though that the apps layout is not quite as intuitive as my previous Sony Ericsson phone.
The other reviewers are right about the camera, it is great in good light and definitely worth having but no substitute for a proper camera or camera phone.
One of its best features is the web browser. It works seemlessly on my wireless network at home but is very nearly as fast over Vodafone GPRS (in the UK). It is also by far and away the best mobile browsing experience I have had. I actually use it to check things out rather than fire up a laptop/PC. The navigation is very good.
The keyboard initially felt way too small but after a week it turns out to be wonderful for the size. It is so much faster typing SMS and emails than using T9. All the characters are there and mostly without having to shift. The main exceptions being the # and * key which you need to shift to reach and they are used a lot in navigating voicemail systems etc. That is being really picky though.
The installed QuickOffice is better at Word, Excel and Powerpoint than my previous Windows device. Adobe Acrobat and flash all work too.
One strange thing: when someone you have contact information calls it more often than not puts the name up. However, I often put the UK country code on contact numbers and when those people call, the name does not appear. It is hard to tell who the SMS etc is from without a name!
There is a dedicated button for voice recording which is really handy.
I can't see the point of the Notes function when you have Quickoffice Word as Notes don't synch with the Nokia PC Suite. The rest of the Nokia PC Suite works great though and its nice to know that there is a proper backup of everything else should you lose your phone.
It could do with an encryption facility (like a private wallet) to store pin numbers etc securely but I have seen (not tried yet) some third party apps that do that.
The phone does not work with my previous Sony Ericsson Akona HBH-300 bluetooth headset so I will have to buy a new one. Think that may be a problem with the headset though.
It does smart (optional) things like send an SMS when you reject a call saying you will call later. You can set it to automatically retrieve podcasts when you, say, connect over your wireless network at home.
In summary - It does everything you could reasonably ask it to. It works really well as a phone, an email client, a web browser, an organiser etc and is a pleasure to use.
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Why would you rate it better than Windows Mobile? Not disagreeing with you, but just curious, since Mobile 5 or 6 seem to be the rage.
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