With its QWERTY keyboard, e-mail is obviously a big draw for the UTStarcom XV6700, and it doesn't disappoint. The smart phone gives you access to your Microsoft Outlook, POP3, and IMAP e-mail accounts, as well as Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. Microsoft's Messaging and Security Feature Pack will bring push e-mail technology to the phone. You have the option of Verizon's VZEmail solution for wireless-e-mailing syncing, and the phone supports text, multimedia, and instant messaging. As far as phone features, you get a speakerphone, speed dial, smart dial, a vibrate mode, and eight polyphonic ring tones. The Contacts list is also robust, offering you space for up to 12 numbers, various addresses (home, company, e-mail, and IM), notes, birthdays, and family information for each entry.
The smart phone is powered by a 416MHz PXA270 Intel processor and comes with 64MB of RAM and 128MB of flash ROM. As a Windows Mobile 5 device, the UTStarcom XV6700 includes the full Mobile Office suite, including Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, and PowerPoint Mobile. These are great apps for the mobile professional who needs access to such documents on the go. You also get a couple of extra utilities, such as a download agent and Zip for Pocket PC. However, we all know that work and no play makes for an unhappy camper, so Windows Media Player 10 Mobile is on board for your entertainment needs, as well as two standard games (BrickBreaker and Solitaire).
The UTStarcom XV6700 also has a 1.3-megapixel camera. You have the choice of shooting images in five sizes (160x120, 320x240, 640x480, 1,280x1,024, and 1,600x1,280) and four qualities (Superfine, Fine, Normal, and Basic). To enhance your photos, you can apply various ambience settings, including Daylight, Incandescent, Night, Sepia, and Cool. You get an 8X zoom; a 5- and 10-second self-timer; a time and date stamp; a picture counter; and the option to turn off the shutter sound. In addition, the camera can record videos with sound in three sizes (128x96, 176x144, and 320x240) and three formats (MPEG-4, Motion-JPEG AVI, or 3GPP2). Overall, picture quality was good, with crisp lines and bright colors. Video quality wasn't as sharp, though, with blurry action shots. However, we've come to expect these kinds of results with camera phones.
The UTStarcom XV6700 offers some robust phone features, such as a speakerphone, speed dial, smart dialing, C12 numbers, various addresses (home, business, e-mail, and IM), birthdays, family information, and eight ring tones.
We tested the dual-band (CDMA 800/1900) UTStarcom XV6700 in San Francisco using Verizon's network, and call quality was mixed. On our end, conversations were perfectly clear, but our callers said we sounded echoey, and they could definitely tell we were using a cell phone. Speakerphone quality wasn't much better. Callers had the same comments, and this time, we could also hear an echo. On the bright side, volume was more than adequate in both situations. We also had no problems pairing the phone with the Logitech Mobile Traveller Bluetooth headset.
The UTStarcom XV6700 has a rated battery talk time of 5 hours and a standby time of up to 8.3 days. In our tests, the XV6700 failed to meet the talk time, with the cell petering out after 4 hours. According to the FCC, the XV6700 has a digital SAR rating of 1.09 watts per kilogram.
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