Good inexpensive option
by whiskey7 Jul 3, 2006
Basic, but handsome with very nice call quality. Camera is usable. However, the software lacks customizable options found on many other phones. This phone trades off screen size and resolution for long battery life.
Positives:
-Build: it is ergonomically comfortable to hold and talk on. Very solid; nothing is creaky, loose, or cheap feeling.
-Call Quality: excellent. Incoming call quality is very clear and natural. For the person you are talking to, it is pretty good too. (In the forum I wrote that outgoing call quality wasn’t so good, but upon further analysis I think it is fine…on par with most good cell phones.) I've never used Cingular before so I can't rate reception.
-Battery Life: impressive
-Camera: typical; not bad. Has black/white and sepia. Sends pics via mms with ease.
-Has counters that keep track of minutes and kilobytes used. You can reset the counters at any time.
Negatives:
-Main menu is ugly and can not be changed (it is grid style)
-The four-way directional pad has hard-coded shortcuts. You must go through like 3 menus to get to the calendar.
-Speaker phone works ok in terms of volume and sound quality, but could be better. You have to go through a couple menus while on a call to activate it. Also, you can't activate the speaker phone until a call has connected. So, you have to wait until the person you are calling picks up before turning on speaker phone.
-The color landscape on the external display adds a cheap element to the phone.
-The external display doesn't show both the time and date at once; with the flip closed, you have to use a side volume button to toggle back and forth from the time to the date.
-The charger is the long flat type with those pins that you have to depress when plugging into the phone's charging port.
-you can't adjust the earpiece volume until an outbound call has actually connected (you can't adjust it while the other line is ringing).
-The pre-loaded ringers and wallpapers are mostly cheesey
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