Well I jus bought the reliance cdma cellphone and its kinda good and bad. first the bad stuff,
- the handset gets heated up quite fast and drains the battery really fast, even though the battery is about 850mAh which is higher than most common GSM phones.
- in a cdma service there is no way you can hear a nearby conversation or as we call crosstalk is impossible. but in the reliance phone you can sometimes catch a conversation quite clearly.
- the data service offered by reliance really sucks. first of all it doesnt connect quickly. and when it does, it does in an erratic fashion.
- next is the browser which is inbuilt in the handset. its made by a certain Jataayu software, which happpens to be a b’lore company. whenever I want to check my mail, esp Yahoo, then it takes me all the way to my inbox and then when I click on a mail it always gives me a message not found error. now I really dont know wether this is a yahoo problem or the browser problem. oh and btw all these pros and cons are for the LG RD2030 handset.
- the voice quality is ok but the call gets terminated without you pressing the’end’ button.
- sometimes the call doesnt get placed. in the sense the call get through to the called party but the caller gets a total silence. when you switch off the phone and restart it, the call gets placed properly. so is the handset at fault here?
- in some areas the signal strength is really low.
now for the goodies,
- the handset is really snazzy and looks really good.
- call rates are quite appreciable.but the interconnect regime is yet to take place.so its a wait and watch game.
- data service is an added facility.
- voice quality is definitely better than older cdma phones.