This is a continuation of part 1, after using the phone for the past week. And of course, it has been a fun one week without any problems so far. Apart from the minor issue which I will elaborate later here.
Battery life on this phone is quite similar to most of the smart phones that I previously used in the past. Of course for heavy usage such as playing games, sending messages, 3G connection all the time and making phone calls. From a fully charged battery, it would pretty much end by the end of the day. So may need to charge it again, for about 1.5-2 hours which I think it’s quite all right. But when I switched to 2G mode, and was pretty much on standby mode. I managed to get about 3 days without charging. So I think it’s quite a decent result.
Application wise, there is a minor issue whereby it actually tilted the display to portrait mode. As the current display is being in landscape mode, you may need to tilt your phone 90 degrees for you to view the application properly. Which I don’t really find it a problem, but something which is needed to mention. You can view more from the video that will be shown later.
Well, as for the camera quality, all I can say is that as long as you have enough lighting. This phone can take a decent picture. But don’t expect to do wonders in low light settings. Despite being able to sort of take HD quality videos, it didn’t really turned out the way I thought it would be. As I’m currently uploading the video right now, you can see it for yourself on how the quality is like.
Another issue is that, when installing applications it will automatically install it to the phone rather than to the SD card. So I had low memory issues, for the first few days. As I thought the apps will be automatically installed to the SD Card. You may need to move the applications to the SD Card manually, to prevent low space on your phone. When your phone has low disk space, you won’t be able to receive any more text messages until you free up the space. So after moving the apps to the SD card, and trying not to install too many apps on the phone (as some apps does not support moving to SD Cards). The phone turns out as good as it was suppose to be. Installing a task manager is also a bonus, as it will hep clear up memory on the phone to prevent any lag issues.
Web browsing again, may be a pain for those who may not like small letters. And it doesn’t support pinch and zoom. You may find yourself having a hard time trying to read the website. But good thing about this phone is that, it would be able to do word wrap so you can see the text clearly which will also be shown in the video. Again it doesn’t support flash, but once it detects a video it will either open up the default video player or youtube application to view the video.
But at the end of the day, it’s still a decent phone. And so far I didn’t have any problems with phone calls, and no line drop. As the receiver could also hear me clearly without any problems. So if you’re looking for a phone that requires you to message a lot that is using Android. This would be just nice for you, and you can play some decent games on it. But again, with 600mhz processing power you can’t really expect much from it. But as for me, I think it’s the perfect answer for my tablet problem whereby it doesn’t have 3G module on it. So all I need to do is just turn this phone into a wireless hotspot and I am able to surf the internet or do stuff on my tab easier.
So I do hope with these 2 review on the phone, it will help you to decide if you would like to get this phone or not. So don’t put too much high expectation on it as I did. And I’m pretty amazed, on how this phone really made a lot of difference compared to my previous phone which was running on 400mhz. But if you have extra budget and want a keyboard android phone, again the Desire Z would be the next perfect solution for you.
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