By DarkXPSX “-Dark”, on October 2, 2006
Before I bought this phone, I had the V3 that I got from Cingular. I was really unpleased with it, it wasn’t what Motorola made it out to be. Then I got the V3x, which I wouldn’t have done if I knew that it didn’t support the 850 GSM Band. It was a lot better than the V3, had an MP3 player, but it didn’t support 320kbps MP3’s. I had problems getting a signal with it, cause of the 850 GSM band Cingular uses. Then I saw the Motorola MING (A1200). I’ve had this phone for a month, and I haven’t had any problems with it yet. It plays all my MP3’s and it even comes with Real Player, so if you wanna play Video’s, you can, but you have to convert them first. It sucks, but the phone does come with some converstion software. I’ve also tested the phone with some software that I found off GetJar. I only had a problem with one of the programs, it was an Internet radio. But the Messengers worked fine. The Hong Kong site says that the phone comes with MSN Messenger, but I haven’t found it. It supports 1GB MicroSD and can record videos up to 2 hours. The only downfall of the phone is the fact that it doesn’t have any 3G capabilities. I, myself, don’t use 3G since it my provider doesn’t have Video Calling yet and I’m sure that when it becomes available, it’ll be expensive and no one that I talk with will get it for years to come. The phone uses Linux as it’s OS. That kind of scared me at first cause I don’t know how to use Linux that well….heh, but it’s pretty easy to use. The OS is also Open Source, you can get it from the Motorola Open Source site (https://opensource.motorola.com). The phone has a virtual keyboard on the screen that you use to type. There is also a virtual keypad that is used when dialing a number or when entering info that requires only numbers.

Here is the short version…if you want a great phone that doesn’t support 3G technology, that supports J2ME applications/games, and you can see small letters close up, then get this phone. If you have to have 3G, then get something else.

Hope this helped ^_^.

By Haibing Zhang - Mumbai, On April 29, 2006
I bought this phone in China early March 2006. It was just on market for a week or so. I intended to buy a Microsoft Smartphone kind of device, but came upon this phone. The things that attracted me was the near perfect finish (black version only, feel like the early IBM Thinkpad T23 skin-like touch), the fast response, large screen, transparent screen cover and a unique feature: Business Card Reader(BCR).

The BCR take a snapshot of a business card, automatically recognize the information and input into contact list. The character recognition is not 100% if the business card design is too fancy. If the card is standard, with regular characters, the recognition result will be very accurate. It saves lots of time when you finish the job in a long day and rest in hotel room. Remember, you have to set the lens switch to Macro position, otherwise the card photo it takes will be blury and recognition is impossible. The switch is above the lens, very easy to miss.

Other features include the radio, recorder, bluetooth, Real Player, voice command, notes, 2.0 MP camera and camcorder.

Writing recognition is also very accurate. I write in Chinese and English. Both are very easy to use. Overall, the software are great.

It comes with other features such as getting online but I don’t use them. You can add Transflash card inside. As of May 2006, the largest card size is 512MB for $70.

I don’t think I digged all the goodies out, still in the fun process learning how to use it more wisely. Overall, it is a great phone, better than any other phone I ever used.

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The Motorola A1200 Linux PDA-phone features a touch screen as an input device and is capable of recognizing normal English or Chinese handwriting. With a 2.4 inch 240×320-pixel QVGA TFT screen it weighs just 95 grams. It also has a 2 mega pixel camera, a built-in music player that plays your favorite audio files. You can easily increase the cell phones’ storage capacity via a T-Flash up to 512MB to store all those extra image, video and audio files.

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With the 500V, the company’s ongoing relationship with Microsoft is seen to continue with the Windows Mobile 6.0 operating system.

SiliconRepublic Reviewed Palm Treo 500v and gave out “PROS: Good screen and snazzy operating system—CONS: Could do with more killer applications”
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The phone manages to hang on to a good signal even in areas where reception isn’t the best and the call quality is also excellent. The speakerphone mode also works particularly well and the battery life is good, as you’ll get around four hours of talk time out of it.

Cnet UK Reviewed Nokia 3110 Classic and gave out “There’s very little to get excited about with the 3110 Classic. At around � it’s designed to appeal to those people who find all the bells and whistles on the latest handsets annoying rather than tempting and on that front it does the job nicely.
The large buttons and clearly laid out menus make it very easy to use and it also has a strong battery life. It’s just a shame Nokia hasn’t included stereo headphones to let users make the most of its surprisingly good music features.”

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Battery life was very impressive and beats the Nokia 6300 hands down. That phone gave me eight hours 54 minutes of music from a full charge; the 3110 classic managed ten and a half hours.

TrustedReviews Reviewed Nokia 3110 Classic and gave out “The camera isn’t as good as that of the 6300. Its maximum resolution of 1.3 megapixels (1,280 x 1,024 pixels) won’t charm the birds from the trees, and it has trouble with exposure. Colour reproduction in the photo of the coloured dish, shot indoors under normal household lights is pretty good, but the background should be white and its bluish and pinkish tints are aberrations introduced by the phone.”

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By Siddhu - Delhi, on Oct 19, 2007
It’s a good phone & providing maximum facilities. During purchasing the phone USB cable must be provided with the kit by the company. At present GPRS is activated in my phone I would like to know that why the symbol E is reflecting on the screen instead of symbol G.

By Nimish - Mumbai, on Oct 19, 2007
I am using this phone for last 6 months, I find no problem it’s a true value for money phone. Camera photos look good once they come to PC, video is OK. Its player is fantastic, I have compared with N70 its loudspeaker can surely compared at max volume.
Networks fine just get 32k sim or 64k sim card (issued free of cost at least by hutch-Vodafone) & see difference in speed. It works well for document viewer & pdf viewer I am using it regularly.

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The 3110 Classic comes in a well designed casing which measures 108.5 in height, 45.7 in width & 15.6 in depth, which feels good to hold in the users hand. The keypad is well spaced out which allows the user to input their telephone numbers & text easily.

The phone comes with bright screen which provides up to 262k colours on a TFT screen with a 128 x 160 pixel screen resolution. The handset weights eighty seven grams which is light but still provides the user with a solid & sturdy feeling handset.

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There’s no doubt that the camera on the K810i is good, as it has the same spec camera as the K800i. There’s a 3.2-megapixel sensor, auto-focus and a xenon flash, which left us puzzled since we frankly expected a little bit more from the K800i’s successor.

Cnet Reviewed Sony Ericsson K810i and gave out “Aside from the awkward keypad, which might not suit everyone’s texting tastes, this is a good camera phone — but there’s something missing. Yes, it has a better camera cover than the K800i, some fancy blue lights and a glossy makeover, but that’s the problem — it’s only a makeover and nothing has really changed.We rated the K800i as being one of the best camera phones we had seen so far — and gave it an Editor’s Choice award — and we expected its successor to blow it out of the water with some new fancy features, which the K810i hasn’t produced. Basically, if you own a K800i then you might as well keep it.”

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The screen is bright and clear. Its 262 thousand colours are ample and it measures 2 inches from corner-to-corner across the diagonal. It works well both for framing and shooting photos as well as for viewing information more generally.

TrustedReviews Reviewed Sony Ericsson K810i and gave out “The K810i is a comfortable mobile phone to use. A cliché, I know, but it really is very ‘user-friendly’. And it is ideal for those who want a competent cameraphone.”

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Battery life is the other important component of a music playing mobile and my own battery rundown test, asking the phone to play music non stop from a full charge resulted in just a few minutes over nine hours of solid music, which is right up there with the best performing S60 handsets I have tested.

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