Guest: Pete
Reviewed on: 14/Feb/2005
50%
Purchased From:
Singlepoint4u
Price Paid:
Free
Introduction
When I first got this mobile I was very excited about it, the specs I'd been told by Singlepoint made it sound amazing. Unfortunately, it's turned out to be a let-down.
Good Points
The only thing that makes this mobile worth buying is the camera & screen quality. Photos taken (especially in bright light) with the camera come out beautifully not only on the mobile's screen but also when transferred to my PC and then printed out. And the main screen is amazing; 262,000 colours and huge, though even the little screen on the outside has 65,000 and is as good as most Nokia's main screens. The easily removeable memory card is a bonus too.
Bad Points
Unfortunately the bad points of this phone out-weigh the good ones. Though the removeable memory card is useful, it takes FAR too long to access and save to it, even loading the small photo previews takes forever. The Bluetooth function (improved, in fairness, on the GX30i) isn't very functional at all, handsfree kits only. One one of the most annoying things for me as a regular and constant text-messager is the SMS predictive system. Before this, I thought the T9 dictionary worked the same on all mobiles and the only differences were little things like where the 'space' button was and how to change between word suggestions. However, the GX30's use of the dictionary is appalling. When you teach it words, it forgets them ON PURPOSE if at any point you haven't used them in 72 hours, so you constantly have to re-teach it words over and over and over again. Slowly. Because the other major problem with the message composer is the speed it can keep up with. If you type at any sort of speed at all it loses track of you, fails to register key-presses, and generally makes a mincemeat of your message.
The Verdict
Overall, for the size of the mobile it seems to be able to do very little, and certainly not so much as it's Nokia & SonyEricsson equivalents. It is only the camera and screen that make it worth anything at all, and now that they have both been surpassed I wouldn't recommend this phone to anyone.
