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well, I got this for the holidays.
it's a pocket PC telephone, excellent camera and video recorder, blue tooth, and through my sprint PCs wireless phone account, it acts as a modem that is pretty darned fast.
my only complaint is how small the screen is, and the terrible speaker phone quality, but everything else about this phone is excellent
sprint just started releasing tons of bandwidth for power users and right now I'm hooked up to a the phone to access the internet on this site... I only have 3 bars of reception out of 5, and I'm surfing at 300 kbs.
this is pretty good, and I'm supposed to be able to get 2 mbps with full signal...even if I only get the average, which is about 650 I'm a very happy puppy
the pda is pretty functional, a real mechanical keyboard slides out of the side and the screen automatically flips sideways for a wider resolution
this thing has one of those Microsoft mousy buttons which is VERY handy on such a small device, it's also got forward and back buttons right at the fingertips...pretty good one hand navigation as a whole
it also has a native wi fi card, when there's a wi fi signal, I can use the hot spot instead of my pcs isp, but I really don't see the need for that, since this is as fast as most hot spots and I don't pay anything extra for usage, it's all an in one fee
the wi fi detector is REALLY fast, I can use the phone as my net stumbler to find hot spots for my laptop, and that's all good
it connects to my laptop with either usb or blue tooth, I had to get a blue tooth thingy on my laptop to receive though...pretty cheap, about 40 bucks
this is worth it just for the extra bandwidth...I always had sprint wireless access to the internet, at about 190 kbs, which was a blessing since I can go on line anywhere I have a phone signal...this is just unbelievable with the extra bandwidth.
anyway, I might add to this when I get to know the phone, but this is a must buy for anyone that has access to the sprint service.
it's a pocket PC telephone, excellent camera and video recorder, blue tooth, and through my sprint PCs wireless phone account, it acts as a modem that is pretty darned fast.
my only complaint is how small the screen is, and the terrible speaker phone quality, but everything else about this phone is excellent
sprint just started releasing tons of bandwidth for power users and right now I'm hooked up to a the phone to access the internet on this site... I only have 3 bars of reception out of 5, and I'm surfing at 300 kbs.
this is pretty good, and I'm supposed to be able to get 2 mbps with full signal...even if I only get the average, which is about 650 I'm a very happy puppy
the pda is pretty functional, a real mechanical keyboard slides out of the side and the screen automatically flips sideways for a wider resolution
this thing has one of those Microsoft mousy buttons which is VERY handy on such a small device, it's also got forward and back buttons right at the fingertips...pretty good one hand navigation as a whole
it also has a native wi fi card, when there's a wi fi signal, I can use the hot spot instead of my pcs isp, but I really don't see the need for that, since this is as fast as most hot spots and I don't pay anything extra for usage, it's all an in one fee
the wi fi detector is REALLY fast, I can use the phone as my net stumbler to find hot spots for my laptop, and that's all good
it connects to my laptop with either usb or blue tooth, I had to get a blue tooth thingy on my laptop to receive though...pretty cheap, about 40 bucks
this is worth it just for the extra bandwidth...I always had sprint wireless access to the internet, at about 190 kbs, which was a blessing since I can go on line anywhere I have a phone signal...this is just unbelievable with the extra bandwidth.
anyway, I might add to this when I get to know the phone, but this is a must buy for anyone that has access to the sprint service.
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