I wont be going into technical specs much in here, but am mentioning only those features that I feel were great!
I got a decent backup of the battery for the whole day:
a. Incoming and outgoing calls were to the tune of abt 1 hour, 28 mins, and 47 secs.
b. GPRS was actively on for abt 2 hours with abt 2.3 MB of data transfer.
c. 1 SMS sent, 7 SMS received.
d. 4 MMS of abt 80k each were sent.
e. ’’Record conversation’’ option was ’’on’’ for abt 25 mins during calls.
f. ’’Loudspeaker’’ was ’’on’’ for abt 45 mins calls.
g. I played games for abt 1 hour.
Pros:
The best feature that I liked in this was ’’record conversation’’ option available when speaking on phone. This is a pretty cool feature where we can record both parties speech, especially useful while taking down phone numbers, or say taking directions.
GPRS was quite fast. I could download a 291kb file in under a minute in the morning at about 7:40 AM. Might be because network was free that that speed was attainable.
Games are quite cool, and some were ’’rainbow six’’ or ’’prince of persia - sands of time’’ were literally like on comp. A cool gaming device too!
Really good feature is ’’power conservation’’ mode, where after time-out, power to screen is cut off. one press on the button on the side displays time without lighting up the phone, double press displays time with backlight on. Real cool feature!
Gets charged up pretty fast! Took abt 2 hours to get fully charged. And battery indicator has 10 levels!!!!
Cons:
The problem I found is ’’low volume’’ while playing games!!! Even at full sound on, its hardly audible. Overall volume of handset can be increased.
Even in silent mode, when I play clips, the sounds come on, instead of getting suppressed. And u need to adjust sound for each clip individually.
Wallpapers, even tough are of proper resolution, don’t get fitted full screen! There could’ve been an option of setting up full screen wallpaper, as in Motorola E398.
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This phone has a capacity to hold about 80 games and applications in all, provided their total size is within the 41MB memory capacity of phone.
------------------------ edited and added on 24-09-2005 ------------------------
Am adding this content after using Hutch Access on my cell to connect to Internet through my PC via cell. As mentioned by Hutch 32-40 kilobits speed was attainable, cos it managed and sustained a decent 5.1 kilobytes, averaging abt 15-20 MB download per hour. This is quite more than sufficient for a continuous user who is more interested in browsing and occasional downloads of large files above 15-20 MB. I personally found it pretty comfortable.
Added to this, unlike most phones, this phone charges up too when connected to PC, be it connected to net or not. So there comes no issue of charge getting reduced or separately charging it when using on PC. Frankly speaking, its been more than a month now since I used the charger (i am regularly connected to PC).