+ Slide-out keyboard
+ Speedy camera
- Unresponsive touch-sensitive keys
- Screen lock/power key shared by end call button
- Not compatible with newer computers.
Would I recommend this phone? No.
When I owned this phone, it was running the older Android 2.1, which was so horribly slow that it frequently made the phone frustrating to use. I discovered a glitch in which putting the phone into airplane mode made it impossible to get to the notification screen, and could be resolved by holding the “home” key to bring up the multitasking screen. It has since been upgraded to Android 2.2, which makes the phone considerably faster and solves some of the problems I had with this device, though at a price: connecting your phone with your computer will become a challenge. This will be most frustrating when trying to sync your phone with your music and pictures on your computer, tethering, and rooting. Also, the “home” and “back” navigation keys are not only touch-sensitive, but light-sensitive; the keys worked fine indoors, but as soon as I tried to use them in direct sunlight, they would become completely unresponsive. Finally, the button for turning the screen off is the same as the “end call” button, so if you take a call while wearing a headset and want to drop the phone back in your pocket, you better wait until the screen turns off, or you risk hitting random buttons.
There were two good points to this phone, though. The physical keyboard worked great. The camera has almost no shutter lag, and I could view pictures almost right after taking them.
Overall, I found this phone to be a major headache, and am glad to be rid of it.
+ Speedy camera
- Unresponsive touch-sensitive keys
- Screen lock/power key shared by end call button
- Not compatible with newer computers.
Would I recommend this phone? No.
When I owned this phone, it was running the older Android 2.1, which was so horribly slow that it frequently made the phone frustrating to use. I discovered a glitch in which putting the phone into airplane mode made it impossible to get to the notification screen, and could be resolved by holding the “home” key to bring up the multitasking screen. It has since been upgraded to Android 2.2, which makes the phone considerably faster and solves some of the problems I had with this device, though at a price: connecting your phone with your computer will become a challenge. This will be most frustrating when trying to sync your phone with your music and pictures on your computer, tethering, and rooting. Also, the “home” and “back” navigation keys are not only touch-sensitive, but light-sensitive; the keys worked fine indoors, but as soon as I tried to use them in direct sunlight, they would become completely unresponsive. Finally, the button for turning the screen off is the same as the “end call” button, so if you take a call while wearing a headset and want to drop the phone back in your pocket, you better wait until the screen turns off, or you risk hitting random buttons.
There were two good points to this phone, though. The physical keyboard worked great. The camera has almost no shutter lag, and I could view pictures almost right after taking them.
Overall, I found this phone to be a major headache, and am glad to be rid of it.
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