What would you like to carry with you ?
Phone
Camera
Pager
Organiser
Music player ? (Let MIDI tones satisfy you for the moment)
or would you like to carry just one device that does all of the above... and is cheaper than the combined prices of all of the above
Enter Motorola E365 !
Well tech specs ?
Dual band
Integrated digital camera WITH Self portrait & automatic & night mode <---- GOOD Large TFT screen (128x160 pixels) <---- GOOD
65, 000 colours <---- GOOD
WAP 2.0 <---- GOOD
GPRS SMS with iTAP predictive text
MMS and EMS <---- GOOD
Java Capability
Phone book (300 entries)
Polyphonic ring tones
Phone Memory of 2MB
Games
Vibrate
Alert Clock and alarm Calculator,
Currency converter
Organiser and Voice Memo
Talktime up to 3 hrs 10 min <---- GOOD
Standby time up to 150 hrs
Dimensions 107x45x20mm
Weight 100g
Cons first
Well its not a nokia ... but then nokia rip you off ... but then nokia are nokia. ok whatever ... its not as easy to use as a nokia. The Menu is weird, the Call and Disconnect button are reverse... the ergonomics have go to dogs. It loox .... well not as cute as a nokia and definitely not as sleek as the samsungs. The keypad is not good for sms freaks.
Pros
But all said its a work horse... The camera being the main feature, works like a charm, It doesn’t have many fancy features like framing and editing but it does the basic point n shoot thing with style and it does it good. It has a NIGHT SHOT feature, this nifty feature slows down the shutter speed and allows you to take shots in low light with excellent quality. The Picture resolutions are VGA that means 640x480... this is at par with other phones that are more expensive than E365.
The standard with bill package comes with a datacable so you can download all the pictures you have taken and upload wallpapers and MIDI ringtones. It supports MMF/MIDI and other ringtones formats and for wallpapers it supports JPG/GIF/BMP etc... Messaging with E365 isn’t bad either initally the iTAP feature took a lil time getting used to .... I’m a nokia guy but I also own a samsung and I feel iTAP is far faster and easier to use than a SAMSUNG T9.
The phone Supports EMS 5 which means you can send color icons and animations in EMS... now the MMS ... every peice of multimedia you upload on this phone can be sent as a MMS and the limit is roughly 60K but can be increased. The PHOTOCLI is cool too, this is where along with the number of the person called the picture (if stored in ur phonebook) will also be displayed. The reception is good ... this holds on to signals where my samsung ditches me...
Basically at a MRP of 11K in Delhi this phone is value for money when it comes to camera phones. The price alone is a major plus point for this phone.
Cheers,
sid