By: Rodrigo Lourenco on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 From: Raleigh, NC (United States) Experience: 60 Days
Pros: Easy to use, slim design, bright display, changable face plates, lots of available accessories. Cons: Bad signal inside some buildingsSummary: Although beautiful, this cell phone does not work everywhere. I've to keep a land line to use at home just because it won't work inside my place at all.
By: jay fat head on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 From: lawrenceville, NJ (United States) Experience: 1 Years
Pros: Lightweight, big screen, color, cameraCons: Buttons too small, camera doesnt have the best resolution Summary: Great phone for any teen or adult who wants a lightweight phone and doesn't need wi-fi or great picture quaity. Great Games avaliable for this phone any many cool screen savors and wallpaper also avalible. This phone is easy to "trick out."
By: Judith Crawford on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 From: Lagrangeville, NY (United States) Experience: 7 Months
Pros: Color, size, features, camera,reliabilityCons: noneSummary: I really love this phone. All of the features perform as indicated. The buttons are lighted and can be viewed easily without my reading glasses which is a plus when glasses are not an option. The bluetooth option is fantastic when driving, easily set-up and easy to use. I have even dropped this phone - nothing happened. Color is great too.
By: Christina Perry on Sunday, October 15, 2006 From: Oak Lawn, IL (United States) Experience: 90 Days
Pros: This phone has a camera and video capabilities that I really like. I also like the menus. I like the voice record recording and the voice activated dialing. Good size screen and number buttons. Cons: The picture can be kind of dark even when the area is lit up. I also have a hard time playing games because the center selection circle is so close to the menu button, I always have to hit resume to get back into my game of Bejeweled. It is too easy to hit a button on the side and change your ringer from vibe, silent, etc. Not enough good ring tones or wall paper selections. Summary: Considering the cost of these phones, it is amazing to me that there are only 5 relatively decent songs to chose for ringers and the same goes for the wallpaper choices. I like the look of the phone and the functionality, but hate the fact that I set it for hit a key answer and it answers when I open it is very surprising to say the least. I do like the phone, but I have had much lower models give me a great variety of music and pictures for my phone to play with and change as I felt necessary. This phone is missing that.
By: Karin Deen on Friday, October 13, 2006 From: Baton Rouge, LA (United States) Experience: 15 Days
Pros: The phone is light weight, you can see who is calling on the front of the phone, or even by special ring tone. The Cons: Web sites take pretty long to download. All phone numbers are listed in the address book, even the ones with multiple numbers - therefore it takes longer to scroll through your address book.Summary: The phone itself is terrific. I have thoroughly enjoyed it since I've had it. It's no more expensive than some of the bulkier models available and it has a bigger screen than most. Although the pictures you take look semi-distorted in certain light, it actually takes pretty good pictures.
By: Joseph Demastrie on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 From: West Springfield, MA (United States) Experience: 30 Days
Pros: Great Look Solid Design Excellent Reception Easy to UseCons: Trendy Not a ton of Multimedia usesSummary: My wife recently got the RAZR phone and I couldn't help, but compare it to my A900M. I find the two phones very comparable since they both fit the trendy super thin design fad.
The RAZR has a great design and is fun to use, great sound quality and signal. Unfortunately for a phone which is echoing the previous RAZR phone, there isn't much improvement. There is more multimedia capabilities, but they don't seem to go as fast as my A900, but that could be because Sprint is faster.
By: michelle yamashita on Monday, October 09, 2006 From: torrance, CA (United States) Experience: 6 Months
Pros: thin, easy to use, bluetooth capableCons: kind of wide, batter doesn't last longSummary: I find this phone very handy. It's thin so it easily fits in my purses. I found that the batter life is fairly short so I have to charge it every day. It doesn't come with many ringtones to start with so that's a down side.
Fierce! It's the unique new LG Lotus for Sprint - a square-shaped clamshell with a full QWERTY board inside. GPS, Sprint TV & Music, 2MP Camera, HTML Browser, Mobile IM and Email ... Noah checks out this fashion-forward feature phone.
Hey, look what just came! Thanks, Vanessa ;-) Here are some photos of the black LG Lotus for Sprint. The QWERTY board feels GREAT so far, as those bubbled chiclet-style keys make up for the relatively small size of the layout. Sprint's new One Click UI is sort of cool and helpful and sort of overdone; I'll have to play with it more, but I hope it winds up being handier more often than it gets in the way. And I'm...
It's the ruggedized Samsung a837 "Rugby" for AT&T. It's the Crane of Death in downtown Berkeley, CA. Push to talk technology meets a giant crane. But will Noah have the guts to scale the crane to drop the phone? Find out here!
Heads-up, phone phans! Nokia's planned an announcemnet for next Monday, October 13th - and has a viral campaign to hype things up in the meantime - and Motorola's announcing something new and "Clear" (as per their PR campaign) on Tuesday, October 14th. My bets? I have no idea what Nokia's gonna drop, but I bet MOTO unveils the Kraze smartphone for Verizon Wireless.
Stay tuned for all of the juicy bits as we get them. And...
Out of the box! It's the newest AT&T 3G phone, the pearly white Samsung a637. Low-end means high-tech these days, and this candybar packs 3G, support for XM Radio Mobile & AT&T Music/Video, and a 1.3 MP camera with video capture.
Might this be a peek into our near-term future? I hope so. You're looking at the HTC T8290, a shiny, sleek, badass looking piece of kit from HTC destined for Russia's Yota network.
What's neat about this device, besides its obvious good looks, is that it packs both GSM and WiMax connectivity so you can get your voice and high-speed data on in style. There's a 3.8", 800 x 480 hi-res display for all of that content you'll be...
First off, how cool is it that HTC dropped some significant cell phone news on the blogosphere via Twitter the other day? I'm not saying Twitter itself is/isn't cool, but rather that it's neat to see a tech company innovate when it comes to communicating with the media. Particularly so a tech company that uses the word "Innovation" in their marketing materials.
Second, my post about the possibility of the HTC Touch HD coming to...
An Android Community user - and T-Mobile Store Manager in Florida,
apparently - who goes by kaziko has posted the first user
review of T-Mobile's G1 Android phone. The review - which takes the
form of an ongoing forum thread - is summarized nicely in this post if
you don't care to dive into the 11+ page thread. Of course, if you do
there's text galore to tide you over until those G1s start
shipping on the 22nd.
So what's kaziko...
For the past few weeks I've been considering writing a post about how California's law against driving while holding a cell phone has done pretty much nothing to curb the habit - at least in the Oakland/Berkeley area where I live and work. Yesterday on my bike ride home from the office I figured out why I hadn't penned the post yet. The law has done something, I think. Sure, I still see at least three drivers with cellies in...
While i'm not exactly sure what's going on with some of these code names (Behold? Eternal? Huh?), I am sure of this: Samsung Mobile's bustin' out all over with their Xmas-time lineup of new phones for US carriers. Here's a little summary for you, best as I can cobble it out of truth, rumors, and other stuff that's just across the line from pure fiction:
T919 "Behold" (T-Mobile): This one's all but a lock. TouchWiz UI...
Okay, this is more like a "Paper DogFight" than a real dogfight since, you know, none of these phones are actually available yet. So what? Let's look at 'em on paper and see how they stack up so you can get a jump on arguing with your FaceBook Friends over which of these new phones is the best.Note that I'll include the US carrier for each phone in the competitor run-down. I'm well aware that the Storm is also available in...
This week's Noah's Bark podcast features an interview with Chloe Sladden, VP of Special Project Programming at Current TV. Chloe and I talked about "Hack the Debate," a collaboration between Current and Twitter which allows viewers to post "tweets" - in this case, short commentaries on the debate - some of which are chosen to run in a constant stream on the bottom portion of Current's TV broadcasts of the debates.Last night I watched the...
It's official! Verizon Wireless and BlackBerry have confirmed that the Storm will be available later this fall. The first BlackBerry touchscreen will make an exclusive debut in the U.S. with Verizon next month. Making changes to their OS, the BlackBerry Storm provides consumers with a full QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode and a SureType keyboard when in portrait. Find out more below in the official press release made...
When I first heard that T-mobile was offering a VoIP service, frankly, I wondered what could cause them to do such a thing, and what would motivate a customer to buy it. I've never paid much attention to VoIP because I've gotten so used to being mobile, 100% of the time. I went to my local T-Mobile store to check it out, and saw that they were pushing it as the hot new product.
The service is $10 a month for unlimited calls, to anywhere in...
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October 6, 2008 - Cogratulations to Omar Flores of TX. He is our week 17 winner of a brand new Motorola Q9m. "It feels good to know i won, I really did not expect for me to win, it came of great shock to me, thank you phonedog.com for the awesome phone!"