jschurawlow
12-21-2006, 11:50 PM
Going to simply doing a quick 1-10 of different functionality I've used over time on this phone, including some additional notes:
Performance: 9/10 - The phone works overall fairly well, the media player plays quite good off microSD as well (granted doesn't have stereo like the A920 however).
Streaming music/radio 10/10 - When I used to subscribe to sirus/sprint radio the streaming quality was fairly good, however giving a 10 as it never skipped unless i was in a low signal area (keep in mind this is in an area fairly well covered with evdo signal, your milage may vary).
PAM (Phone as Modem) 9/10 - Awhile ago before having an aircard had used this for PAM tethering as well. On evdo it'd yield nearly always a steady 1.2MBit downlink speed, not bad for cell tethering.
Bluetooth 8/10 - This is where this phone definitely falls short, the bluetooth works quite good for headset use, however using it to tether is a whole other story (also if you intend to ever think of bothering to tether a pda through this phone think again).
Display 9/10 - Almost always the display will load up everything quite snappy and it typially won't freeze up (least mine hasn't once yet on v9 or v12 firmware).
Design/footprint 9/10 - I'd say this one has a fairly good design while remaining functional. It's not quite as small a footprint as the blade (A900) however it's not as high a footprint as the A920 (from what I can recall comparing them previously).
----Additional notes----
While there are many FAQ's and other tutorials around, guys one thing you will have trouble finding is anything regarding the NAI and this phone. If you intend to try having this as a backup PAM (eg not using it often but wanting tethering capability it's a no go unless you buy the PAM plan from sprint).
Data Roaming, one thing I have also noticed as of v12 (I don't believe I saw this on v9 firmware), data roaming should work on this handset, they've also added in a data roaming guard function under the power vision settings. (Just be sure you have the newest prl if you intend to travel alot).
For those who are sick of updating prl via *2, QPST does work to access the programming on this handset as well as updating PRL (did mine manually, quite frankly sick of having to *2 over such simple tasks).
Hope this review helps some of you who might be wondering which handset route to go.
Performance: 9/10 - The phone works overall fairly well, the media player plays quite good off microSD as well (granted doesn't have stereo like the A920 however).
Streaming music/radio 10/10 - When I used to subscribe to sirus/sprint radio the streaming quality was fairly good, however giving a 10 as it never skipped unless i was in a low signal area (keep in mind this is in an area fairly well covered with evdo signal, your milage may vary).
PAM (Phone as Modem) 9/10 - Awhile ago before having an aircard had used this for PAM tethering as well. On evdo it'd yield nearly always a steady 1.2MBit downlink speed, not bad for cell tethering.
Bluetooth 8/10 - This is where this phone definitely falls short, the bluetooth works quite good for headset use, however using it to tether is a whole other story (also if you intend to ever think of bothering to tether a pda through this phone think again).
Display 9/10 - Almost always the display will load up everything quite snappy and it typially won't freeze up (least mine hasn't once yet on v9 or v12 firmware).
Design/footprint 9/10 - I'd say this one has a fairly good design while remaining functional. It's not quite as small a footprint as the blade (A900) however it's not as high a footprint as the A920 (from what I can recall comparing them previously).
----Additional notes----
While there are many FAQ's and other tutorials around, guys one thing you will have trouble finding is anything regarding the NAI and this phone. If you intend to try having this as a backup PAM (eg not using it often but wanting tethering capability it's a no go unless you buy the PAM plan from sprint).
Data Roaming, one thing I have also noticed as of v12 (I don't believe I saw this on v9 firmware), data roaming should work on this handset, they've also added in a data roaming guard function under the power vision settings. (Just be sure you have the newest prl if you intend to travel alot).
For those who are sick of updating prl via *2, QPST does work to access the programming on this handset as well as updating PRL (did mine manually, quite frankly sick of having to *2 over such simple tasks).
Hope this review helps some of you who might be wondering which handset route to go.