LimpyNuts
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^ I was going to post a link to the reviews on Sprint's website, but they've been deleted. It was the lowest rated phone on the site.
I've had 2 (complete) touch screen failures in the year I've had mine and my brother has had one.
The music player is absolutely useless (have to copy music to it, delete it, re-copy it over and over again to get it to show up, i have a playlist on my 'favorites' ... I once timed how long the delay was between hitting the link and the music playback beginning... 2 minutes, 53 seconds).
The web browser is shit... install Opera Mini or Bolt.
The GPS application will stop updating your position if you even temporarily lose cell reception (if you're on a long trip and you're not looking at it every couple minutes you may not notice and drive right past your next interchange). It also fails to resolve many intersections properly (won't go straight through an intersection, or won't turn left or right) so it frequently gives you routes that circle around intersections, or right turn, U-turn, right turn.
The contact list doesn't support groups (every cell I ever had before it did), so if you have a lot of contacts it takes forever to scroll through them all.
The web applications for getting news, sports, movie showtimes, etc. fail all the time (sometimes they won't work for weeks), but that's more Handmark's fault since they make that software.
One of the software updates broke Pandora (which is a paid subscription application) and they didn't fix it for a year.
SprintTV is useless.
Outlook Web Access ("Work") email has never worked. They promise to fix it every firmware revision (and I have used every one of them) and I have never been able to use OWA.
"# Phone as Modem connects the phone with a computer for Internet and email access" This feature from the posted link is disabled by Sprint and to use it is a violation of the contracts on which the M800 is allowed.
The touch screen is very unresponsive. To type a text message, type a few letters, then wait 5 seconds for it to catch up, type a few more, wait. It chokes if you type faster than 1 character per second or so.
Oops... almost forgot. The alarms (you can set as many as you like) frequently don't don't go off at the right time. Once my 5:45am alarm didn't go off until 8:30PM!
The video player is actually not that bad if you take the time to convert a bunch of videos... never had any problems with it. About 5 hours of video playback on a charge.
These work ok too:
# Live Search for Sprint, powered by Microsoft, provides easy access (search via speech) to directory information, integrated GPS-enabled directions, interactive maps and one-touch click to call access
# Voice to Action button providing many functions using voice activation including call, text, picture messaging, traffic, movie, sports, news and search
# Visual Voicemail allowing users to listen to messages in their order of preference and manage them with a tap of the screen
# Threaded text messaging provides a view of the full conversation
# Mobile Sync to restore contact information if the device is lost, stolen or damaged
On a scale of 1 to 10, the M800 is a solid 2.
[Edited on January 29, 2010 at 8:15 PM. Reason : .]  1/29/2010 8:05:39 PM
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LimpyNuts
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On the flipside, Sprint phone plans are unbelievably great:
Free roaming for voice and data, free calls to any mobile network, nights start at 7pm instead of 9, "unlimited" internet (here unlimited means <5GB/month, but that's essentially impossible to do unless you hack the phone to enable phone-as-modem, which violates the terms of the plan anyway), SprintTV*, etc.
I love my plan and service, I just hate this god forsaken phone.
* Mostly a gimmick. Only actual TV channel included is the Disney Channel. They have some on-demand webisodes and clips from TV shows. Not good for much unless you're standing in line at the DMV or something. 1/29/2010 10:33:40 PM |
