A little Powerhouse, Super PDA, decent phone
Pros:
Big, bright screen--visible in all but the brightest light
Cons:
Battery life dwindles rapidly when Speakerphone is in use
The Bottom Line:
Great synchronization with Outlook, thanks to Microsoft ActiveSync.A joy for plane rides; respond to queued email and SMS's with the Flight Mode on.Overall a great pda/phone.
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Author's Review
have used and loved this Converged Phone/PDA for over a year. I bought mine second hand replacing a Simens SX-56. Even now you can pick up this little powerhouse with the Intel 400Mhz Xscale processor, for under $150 used. I will approach my review from the PPC point of view.
I have used mine in tandem with a 2G SD card. I can rip 8 movies from DVD to watch, or about 16 one hour TV shows. I have used this on trips with an adapter to play in stereo sound in the car. For music I can store plenty of music. With the on-board speaker it is nice for excellent portable sound or with speakers. There is even an headset adapter for changing tracks (sound, vol, pause, kind of like some MP3 players)
I can also store and play photos and videos from our Digital camera, it nice to have as a little digital photo album.
With MS 2003SE it has MS outlook, excel, Word WM9. You can even open PDF's.
A little known fact about this phone is that it is Blue tooth ready. You can use Bluetooth with this phone. Yes.
Also available 802.11G/B SDIO cards. ( I have used quite successfully, can even run Skype on it for portable VOIP).
There is also an available Tengo integrated and swap-able Qwerty keyboard, You can Dock/Charge/sync with the keyboard in place. ( Detachable is nice for when I don't have to do heavy note taking.) Otherwise it is nice to enjoy the small form factor, This is a definite pro.
While it is only a Tri-band phone it has a great radio stack. I have Traveled with it world wide, and I have had signal when others with a quad band phone had none.
(missing 900 band)
The screen is nice and bright, speaker phone is great, the small size is nice when you have to put it up to your ear (compared to other pda phones)
If your just looking at a PDA show me one that has all the bells and whistles that has a 400Mhz Processor, 64M/64M. 64K TFT VGA screen. For about $150 ? Then throw in the Phone as a bonus.
