Gsm mobile phone related reviews
Product: Kyocera Slider V5 MTV Edition Phone (Virgin Mobile)
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: Virgin Mobile
Rating: 5/5
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: Virgin Mobile
Rating: 5/5
Got your eye on this phone but don't have or want to spend a dime. Here's a post to those lucky and fortunate enough to live in Canada. Bell is a generous company if you play it right and speak with the right customer service rep. Needless to say after mentioning that I have been a customer of Bell for over a year and was thinking about changing to another wireless provider because of the phones they carried, it set the pace for good things to happen. Request the best most expensive phone then after he/she offers a discount or half price for that one, you take them to your real choice. In this case it was the Kyocera "Slider" SE47. She was more excited about getting it herself that she just did the paper work and sent it off to be shipped to my front door immediately. Moral of this story:Verizon, Telus, Rogers AT&T or what have you, never settle for that old clunky or semi-outdated phone if there's a free and better phone out there. Still the SE-47 is worth the cost. For those looking to modify the phone like getting rid of the 1X that stays on the middle of the screen all the time [go online.]
Product features:
No prepaid minutes included. Comes with charger.
Unique sliding design - phone slides open with the push of a thumb
Full-color screen
Downloadable, polyphonic ringtones and vibrate alert
2-way text messaging, 1-touch and voice dialing
Product: PCS Phone palmOne Treo 600 (Sprint)
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: PalmOne
Rating: 4/5
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: PalmOne
Rating: 4/5
I just got this phone and it's really slick but there is one very significant design flaw in the Treo 600 that will cost you a ton of money -- BEWARE.It seems if you are on a call and your call-waiting goes off, there is no way to hang up on the first call and switch to the second. You can ONLY HANG UP ON BOTH CALLS! So what happens is if you tell one person you'll get back with them and then flip over to the other call BOTH CALLS CONTINUE TO RACK UP AIR TIME, regardless of whether the other person has hung up!This is a huge design flaw, or maybe it's intentional so you wipe out all your minutes. Whatever the case, I can't figure out how to deal with it except if you have call waiting, you shouldn't answer it, or you should answer both, hang up on both, then call who you want to talk to. This is RIDICULOUS!! BEWARE.
Product features:
Treo 600 combines a full-featured mobile phone and Palm OS organizer with wireless applications like email, text messaging, web browsing and even a digital camera
QWERTY keyboard makes entering text and accessing information fast and familiar-perfect for messaging and a must have for email
Built-in color web browser, Blazer, gives you fast access to nearly all the sites on the web-not just the ones optimized for mobile devices
Take a picture or share images with others via email-you can even attach a photo to a phone number so you can see exactly who's calling with Picture Caller ID
Because Treo 600 runs the popular Palm OS, there are thousands of applications you can download and use-like MP3 players, etc.
Product: Motorola V400 Phone (Cingular)
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: Motorola
Rating: 4/5
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: Motorola
Rating: 4/5
This is my first flip phone (with Cingular) and overall, it's pretty good. It's light and fits well in any pocket. However, the buttons (or software) don't respond quickly when pressed. My friend has an older Motorola flip phone and any time you pressed a button, it responded quickly. Not so with the V400. Sometimes it takes almost 2 full seconds before your button press gets a response. For example, to pull up the list of previously-called numbers, you press the SEND button once. That always takes over 1 second before the list is displayed. It gets annoying after a while. I'm still used to my old Nokia 3600 (?) model that responded the instant I hit any button.
Also, it's annoying that you can't just turn on speakerphone prior to making a call. You have to wait for the call to be completed.
Overall a good phone with tons of great features. I think they just packed far too many features into the software.
Product features:
Tri-band GSM phone is notable for its high-resolution display, VGA camera, and MP3 ringtones
Camera features 5MB of memory, self-timer, saves images for Picture Caller id
Large 65,000 color primary display for Internet browsing, game playing (Prince of Persia included)
External caller id display for call screening, phone book with 1000 entry capacity
Ringtone support MIDI and MP3 formats, as well as built-in MotoMixer ringtone composer
Product: T-Mobile Sidekick II Phone (T-Mobile)
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: T-Mobile
Rating: 5/5
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: T-Mobile
Rating: 5/5
if you into e-mai la portable web browser and a phone ..it great not bulky and easy to figure out the feature without the guide book...
better than the old sidekick ..a nice up grade..
needs more acessories ..hope so in the next few months...
Product features:
Real web browsing
Built-in camera with flash
Built-in organizer with PC synchronization
Photo caller ID
AOL Instant Messenger, text messaging, 6 MB email account
Product: Audiovox SMT5600 Smartphone (Cingular)
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: Cingular
Rating: 5/5
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: Cingular
Rating: 5/5
I bought this little powerhouse (hardly any larger than my Nokia 8260) last fall and it's everything I'd been looking for in a Smartphone. Looked for over a year and nearly bought a Siemens X56 and an MPX200, but each had major flaws, including older slower software and processors. This phone has no noticeable software lag. Punch a key and it's right there. I couldn't stop playing with the phone during a two hour train ride the day I bought it and intermittently for the next couple of days - great way to learn how to use it
Finally I can retire my IPAQ and take just one device with me to business meetings and on trips. Just navigating the menus is a pleasure because of the bright, easy to read screen and the familiar Microsoft interface. You'll have to get used to the lack of a touch screen and enter/synch any serious data via your PC, so this is not a Blackberry substitute. But my biggest concern, navigating through 1000+ names (while driving) to make a call has been solved brilliantly. Just start keying in the first or last name (one keystroke per letter) and the software narrows the list down based on all the possible letters represented by the number keys pressed. So that after three or four keystrokes, you're there; it's way faster than scrolling.
Two important things to note. First, on Nov. 15 AT&T's GSM coverage improved in many service areas (check with your rep) when they combined tower coverage with Cingular. I stuck with my TDMA phone way too long because GSM just didn't have adequate coverage on eastern Long Island.
Second, accessories are few and far between. My dealer didn't have a car charger, so I ordered one on the internet. Fortunately, battery life is excellent. And if you want to load up on software and/or multimedia files, you'll need a larger, hard-to-find mini SD card. (Sandisk makes a 1gb mini sd card, but it's on backorder as of May.) Finally the price is right ($199) with a Cingular service plan.
After six months this is still a great phone. Battery life is excellent and it's survived a few drops (onto floor) with no ill effects. The persistent alerts never let me forget a meeting or appointment. Now that Cingular is selling it, it should dominate its category. Only complaint is the speakerphone is not very loud. But the included stereo earbud headset has GREAT sound, and I just purchased a Parrot Easydrive bluetooth car kit (plugs into the cigarette lighter) that works brilliantly with the SMT 5600!
Without a kwerty keyboard you can forget about outgoing e-mail. But if you keep up-to-date with Outlook, this is your pocket daytimer and Rolodex.
Product features:
World's smallest Windows Mobile Smartphone
Call, email, text message or instant message - all from one integrated phone
Email, contacts and calendar sync seamlessly with your PC
Built-In CMOS VGA Camera with Camcorder
Built-In Bluetooth and Speakerphone
Product: palmOne Treo 600 PDA Phone - Next Generation (AT&T)
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: PalmOne
Rating: 5/5
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: PalmOne
Rating: 5/5
wow what a phone. I have had my treo for 6 weeks, and I must say it is the best phone on the market. I have had the nokia 6800,3300 and the hp 610, blackberry 7520. and the sleek motorola razr. this phonw also supercedes the blackberry. I like the syncing feature. the best feature is the madden 2005 game you can buy on PALMONE.COM. there are so many features they are unexplainable. I have just downloaded some AOL software for it and it is amzing. I can sign on to AOL and check email and im's. I love it. and the browser feature is sooooo nice. I can bid on ebay, check out just about any website available. and guess what......i am on my TREO RIGHT NOW!!!! I AM SURFING AMAZON ON THE TREO AS I TYPE. you can type lightning fast, and get things done... PERIOD!!! IT IS A THING OF BEAUTY.
Product features:
Treo 600 combines a full-featured mobile phone and Palm OS organizer with wireless applications like email, text messaging, web browsing and even a digital camera
QWERTY keyboard makes entering text and accessing information fast and familiar-perfect for messaging and a must have for email
Built-in color web browser, Blazer, gives you fast access to nearly all the sites on the web-not just the ones optimized for mobile devices
Take a picture or share images with others via email-you can even attach a photo to a phone number so you can see exactly who's calling with Picture Caller ID
Because Treo 600 runs the popular Palm OS, there are thousands of applications you can download and use-like MP3 players, etc.
Product: Samsung E105 Phone (T-Mobile)
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: Samsung
Rating: 5/5
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: Samsung
Rating: 5/5
We bought two of these phones on the family plan and love them. They are loaded with features that are easy to use once you read the instructions...which by the way, are as easy as a 2nd grade reading book. Congrats to the Samsung industry for not only making a great, fun, easy to use cell phone, but providing an easy to read instruction manual.Buy one...or two...you won't regret it.
Product features:
This sporty little model is as fun as it is stylish
Large color screen (65,000 colors)
Download MegaTones from the hottest bands
WorldClass international phone (dual band: 900 & 1900 MHz) for travel in over 100 countries
Comes with picture messaging and AOL Instant Messenger
Product: Motorola V60i MKII Phone (AT&T)
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: Motorola
Rating: 5/5
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: Motorola
Rating: 5/5
I originally bought this phone used on eBay but I like it so much I am going to buy a new one. I was interested in this model as an upgrade from my baisc Nokia for 2 reasons: 1)I work in an industrial environment and never heard my Nokia ring at work (didn't have a vibrate setting) and 2)the Nokia was an 'open face' and I was really beating it up wearing it on my belt. The V60 and exceeded my expectations. Also I'm not sure what the reviewer that said it ony has three ring tones was on about. The V60 has lots of them, he was discribing ring settings, not tones, and failed to mention several other options such as simultaneous ring & vibrate (I use this one so I don't have to switch setting every time I enter or leave work). I also found the User Guide pretty straight forward, so I guess if you don't understand that you won't be able to use too many features effectively. It also has the ability to sync info with almost any desktop computer, I find it much easier to manage my phone book and calander on my Mac (although you have to use iSync or other 3rd party software, not the Motorola software) and then download to the phone, I can even change the speed dial numbers on the desktop. Last but not least are the asthetics: a very sleek and professional looking mobile!
Product features:
This update to the v60i model adds EMS, chat, downloadable ringtones and graphics. Other notable features include world roaming and GPRS high-speed data.
External display allows you to view text without opening the phone
Interchangeable metal housings
Up to 4 hours' digital talk time and 10 days' digital standby time
Includes battery, charger, and headset
Product: palmOne Treo 600 PDA Phone - Next Generation (AT&T)
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: PalmOne
Rating: 3/5
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: PalmOne
Rating: 3/5
Not only is the manual useless, so is the website. Phone support for this product is only free for the first 90 days, and subsequently becomes about $20 per "incident." At this point, I have been on hold for over half an hour and it is nowhere near a peak calling time (Friday evening). I may be returning this soon.
Product features:
Treo 600 combines a full-featured mobile phone and Palm OS organizer with wireless applications like email, text messaging, web browsing and even a digital camera
QWERTY keyboard makes entering text and accessing information fast and familiar-perfect for messaging and a must have for email
Built-in color web browser, Blazer, gives you fast access to nearly all the sites on the web-not just the ones optimized for mobile devices
Take a picture or share images with others via email-you can even attach a photo to a phone number so you can see exactly who's calling with Picture Caller ID
Because Treo 600 runs the popular Palm OS, there are thousands of applications you can download and use-like MP3 players, etc.
Product: T-Mobile Sidekick II Phone (T-Mobile)
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: T-Mobile
Rating: 2/5
Productgroup: Wireless
Manufacturer: T-Mobile
Rating: 2/5
The T-Mobile Sidekick II is a great device; however since I have gotten the device it has had problems connecting to the popular Yahoo! IM service and really has reduced in purpose to nothing more than a giant paper weight.
The Yahoo! Messenger service is somewhat frustrating in nature. When you try to connect to the service, even when your user name and password is correct, the Yahoo! program complains that the "User name and password you have used is invalid."
I have to give it up to T-Mobile though. They do have a wonderful customer service team available 24/7. I called them up and asked them exactly what is going on. They told me that they are having a problem with the Yahoo! Program (No duh) and they have no ETA when it will be fixed. That was eight days ago and the program still doesn't work.
If you are one of those users that are up late at night (12 midnight to 3AM-ish Pacific Time), be prepared to lose service on some nights with this device. T-Mobile has to do maintenance on their server which cuts off the entire network to this device during this time. You can still place calls, but all data features will be unavailable.
On the plus side to the sidekick, it does have a web browser that actually displays the entire web page of any web page. It is a real neat device that is about the same as a PDA. Games are wonderful along with the ring tones.
If you are one of those mass Instant Messenger junkies (like me) that need to be in touch with your buddylist 24/7...don't depend on T-Mobile. You are better off leaving your computer on overnight with the away message up. At least this way you will get your messages.
All others looking for data services, look around for a PDA that uses a different service other than T-Mobile. Come to T-Mobile as a last resort.
Product features:
Real web browsing
Built-in camera with flash
Built-in organizer with PC synchronization
Photo caller ID
AOL Instant Messenger, text messaging, 6 MB email account
