nüvifone™. The navigation phone.
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4.0 stars
"It's More than a Phone!"
Pros: WM5, AKU2.6., Excellent Voice Quality, Solid Feel, It Works!
Cons: Heavy, requires ext life battery, user interface takes getting used to
Summary: Let's face it, this isn't a phone. It really is a mobile intelligent terminal (MIT) that has great phone/voice capabilities. After being a Treo 600, 650 and 700P user, it took some getting used to (to transition from the treo User Interface to the WM5 UI). But as a true mobile tool for a business professional, it's outstanding! Voice quality is great. Speaker phone is loud and clear, internal Mic and Speaker are clear as well. Easy to hear in noisy environment.
There are tricks to getting the most out of the menu's... worth spending an evening or two to investigate and create quick button menu access to your favorite tools.
Spb NewsReader: don't even bother. This news reader (doesn't come with phone but just HAVE to tell you this) is NOT updated to work with this phone, causes root reformatting after hanging the phone. Other readers work fine.
Screen is quite bright (no pda is that great in the sun, this one is up to par with the rest). Touch Screen very accurate and forgiving.
Active Sync 4.2 comes with it, setup quite easily. Works nicely. I setup other POP/SMTP accounts using the default outlook messaging app on the phone, works great! I was worried when I was giving up my snappermail (palm) for this... but my fears weren't justified. No problems at all.
Battery Life: not sure what Samsung uses to measure battery life... with GPS turned off (don't worry, even off it turns on for 911 calls), Blue Tooth turned off (when not using BT headset which by the way works GREAT! I use the Palm BT Headset/ear bud and everything works wonderfully... including voice recognition/command)... and having screen 1/2 dimmed, I get about 3 hours max talk time before recharge needed. In all fairness, I do a lot of activesync over bluetooth... I may switch to dual USB/Charge cable accessory (if I can find one that works.. tried Dr. Mobile's and it didn't).
Contacts Management AOK. Everything you can do in outlook you can do with this... same goes for calendar, tasks, notes, etc.
Get an SD Storage Card! I bought a 4Gbyte SD card for $149. Worth every penny.
Get SPRITE BACKUP. It works flawlessly! Have it backup to your SD card and tell it to put copy of sprite backup EXE on the card too. When the Spb RSS Reader hung the phone and causes Root Reformat, I recovered fully in under 4 minutes via Sprite Backup. Thank Goodness!
SafeStore is a FLASH RAM memory area on the phone. Good if you ran battery down to the ground and refused to shut off and lost volatile memory. But don't rely on SafeStore area... use Sprite Backup to backup to SD card. Far more flexible. And it Works!
Word, Excel, PowerPoint (pocket edition) work quite well. You can also do a SAVE AS to take a pocket edition version and save as a DOC, XLS, PPT file to email to someone's workstation address (or beam or BT it over). Again, no surprised. Works great. Table formatting stays with it. I haven't tried embedded images in word and excel but everything else works.
I use MindJet MindManager Pro vers 6 on desktop. Just installed MindJet Pocket version... oh my... works like a charm! Amazing horsepower in the hand.
It is heavy. Still looking for right case or clip to use. If you need Windows Mobile PPC that does everything you need, this is it. If you're an ex-treo user like me, pls remember: this is an MIT, not just a smart phone. Think of it as a micro-laptop. Keeping that perspective, you can't go wrong. Enjoy!
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I travel to Romania frequently and I have a Vodaphone calling plan with a Vodaphone SIM card. I use this SIM card for calls that I make within Romania whenever I am there. Right now, I carry 2 phones around. 1 which is my Sprint phone which I use whenever I am in the US. The other is an unlocked GSM phone which I use when I am in Romania (with the Vodaphone SIM card). It would be great if I could pop that SIM card into this IP-830W phone and have it work, so that I can only carry around 1 phone. When traveling internationally, do you know whether this phone is compatible with SIM cards of local cell phone providers? In other words, would this phone be considered an unlocked GSM phone that can work with SIM cards from any provider? I'm curious because I would rather not pay Sprint international calling rates when making calls within Romania
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