POLL/r u happy with ur x?would u buy it again?

I would say im happy with my Sendo. Ive never had any mic problems, its has great sound thanks to the stero speakers, and it actually looks like a phone 😊

There are a couple things i dont understand though. How the phone has 16mb RAM, but after bootup, only 4.5mb is available. Also, how its takes so long for a vodafone firmware update to be made available.

no i would not buy this phone again, poor sound or no sound, and very poor after sales care from sendo, and you cant get accessories, now going to get another phone as this one is dead, and still waiting for cradle

😊 :icon14:
I love my X
It's got great functions & features.
Yes, it had a few little problems but most of these where resolved through last firmware update (now only a few minor problems exist on my phone).
The firmware updates - Great idea
The Sendo Support - Very comprehensive FAQ and very quick to respond with useful information.

It will be interesting to see Sendo's next smartphone!
😃

On the whole, yes - I think I made the right choice. I've had problems with mine, but I've learnt to live with them, although I still find myself switching back to the Now screen (using the hangup key) when I meant to move right. If only the edge of the circular control had been a millimetre or two thicker...

For me, the real question is would I have bought another phone, knowing what I know now? Well, I wouldn't be so keen to get it, and I'd have held on until the price drop, but I can't think of another phone which would have suited me better.

I know some people have had real difficulties, so perhaps I've just been lucky, but I would probably buy one again (after thinking very hard).

Since I started the 101 things to do... I thought I'd better respond!

The concept of the phone is great. It looks good, feels good and has the potential to be a great all-round phone for business and leisure users. The only grip I have is its reliability which should be fixed by the firmware update, but it seems there is no guarantee of this as people have reported on this forum.

The idea of firmware updates is good, but in this case it seems has been used as an excuse to release the phone early and resolve the problems later leaving the user with great expectations. With something that claims to be this good then it should live up to the expectations from the start. Anything added through a firmware update should just be extra - like features, cosmetics (themes!!!) etc. If you're playing with operating system's setup because of faults - perhaps it wasnt good enough to release in the first place.

Would I buy another one? Or would I make the same choice again? No - I dont think so. If everything worked and Sendo/Vodafone were quicker off the mark with the firmware update then I wouldnt hesitate to reccommend it to anyone. The X seems to be a white elephant as very few people have heard of it - even some of the big companies that we get our ringtones/software etc from. It seems Sendo arent in the Nokia, Samsung, Siemens arena yet so cant play with the big boys.

The fact is the phone was a late release (in the UK anyway) and since its arrival there are lots of phones just as good and probably more reliable on the market for the same price. I tried my sisters Samsung last week and it was great and I struggled to find the advantages in having the X.

Perhaps I experience all the problems with this phone because I use it to its full potential and want to test it to the max utilising every application - I want a phone with good leisure and business capabilities and I dont think this is quite there yet.

Sorry Sendo, I do like to buy British though where I can!!!!

If you would like to send me the next release of your phone then I will be more than happy to review it and give you a good unbiased user review... here's hoping!! 🙄

I definitely made the correct decission, and I'd definitely buy it again!

Yes, of course it has problems, and yes, some of them have been quite serious. But for me the big difference is that Sendo are actually willing to help, by releasing software updates, by being interested in how to reproduce bugs, by not ignoring their customers....

I came to this phone having read about it for months. I'd never owned a Sendo previously, and regarded them as "cheap cr*p for the PAYG market". I'd never owned a S60 handset before, but had played with some friends Nokias.

I was instantly impressed. Before getting the phone I was trying to find ways to turn off the Now! screen as I thought I'd hate it - within 5 minutes of turning the phone on, I couldn't live without it!

This is one of the VERY FEW phones I've ever owned which hasn't continually peed me off in use. There's none of the annoyances of my previous Nokias, SEs, NECs, Motorollas etc., the phone does what it says it will do, and it does it well!

I can't wait to see Sendo's next smartphone - I think they've learnt a lot from this one, and seeing as it wiped the floor with the rest of the market when it was announced, if Sendo can get the next one into release sooner after announcing it than this one, they'll wipe the floor again!

As a quick guess...I reckon the next Sendo smartphone will be...

Megapixel camera (probably at least 2MP)
3G / UTMS / GSM / GPRS / EDGE
Dual camera
candy bar design
MMC / SD support (maybe SDIO)
bigger screen resolution
Symbian 7 or 8 (depends if they stick S60 or not)
SoniX stereo sound
MP3 / 3GPP / WAV / AMR / MPG support
Bluetooth / IRDA
Wireless LAN (802.11b/g)
128MB user RAM
thinner, lighter than this one
USB2 interface

...and much, much more...

i think i have made the right choice for chosen x...however,i just don't like those filmware problem..like can't pick up call when mp3 r playing..overall,i'll give a 75/100 for sendo x :icon14:

I think Stuclark is on commission!! No we're not going to give you our X's (as posted in the 101 things to do with you unwanted X).

You're very fortunate that you have a perfect phone. Maybe you have a special release model? OR maybe you work for Sendo?!!

On the whole the experience I have had with Sendo's support team is good, but it would be so much better if they just released this damm firmware and kept us all quiet. They didnt seem to know about setting up the email service on the phone - that took me weeks of agony and was eventually sorted by a kind man from Vodafone (Bluewater store - thankyou!!!)

Mind you this forum is interesting and passes a few minutes a day at work!!

what i think is wrong is the sometimes bad working applications.

GPRS stops, programs give errors for no reason
no receiving calls in mp3
sometimes in GPRS my phone just stops. Black screen and off :con?
now i have the microphone problem.
i ordered a T6 screwdriver, i hope it helps my problems with the mic.

to bad i have to play the technician to make it work.

to end this: i'd never buy it again and would buy a more efficient phone with less bugs.

sry to say this... :frown:

well just evaluating mine against my P910, not sure yet. The feel of the phone isnt upto the SE standard BUT I do really like the interface, its slick and well thought out.....difficult one! Could always have both buts that no good :tongue:

SPEEDMAN wrote:what i think is wrong is the sometimes bad working applications.

GPRS stops, programs give errors for no reason
no receiving calls in mp3
sometimes in GPRS my phone just stops. Black screen and off :con?
now i have the microphone problem.
i ordered a T6 screwdriver, i hope it helps my problems with the mic.

to bad i have to play the technician to make it work.

to end this: i'd never buy it again and would buy a more efficient phone with less bugs.

sry to say this... :frown:

I've had more problems with my 50 firmware compared to 60. I still have infrequent program crashes and the bettery meter now seems to not be accurate at all. Other than that the 60 firmware seemed to fix many of the problems. If I had a chance to buy again I'd probably go for either the nokia 6260 (flip symbian), moto razr (not smartphone but sweet device), or other phone i can't think of thats cool ... lol as long as it isn't riddled with bugs

MAJ25 wrote:I think Stuclark is on commission!! No we're not going to give you our X's (as posted in the 101 things to do with you unwanted X).

You're very fortunate that you have a perfect phone. Maybe you have a special release model? OR maybe you work for Sendo?!!

No, I'm not on commission. No, I don't work for Sendo. No, my phones haven't been perfect or special release models, I've had just as many problems as some others. However, I am lucky in that Sendo have been able to help me out, and I now have a *touch wood* very stable, functioning phone which I love!

Well, I got a serious boll***ing from my fiancee yesterday for ignoring "hundreds" of her calls....Now, I always knew that the X struggled a bit with Oggplay because with my SX1 I used to being able to read a mobipocket book, write messages, pick up e-mail etc. whilst still listening to music. I've never been able to multitask on the X, and I've sort of gotten used to that. However, it turns out that when I'm using Oggplay, the rest of the phone just shuts down completely. I had no missed call logs, but after closing Oggplay I did get a voicemail notification (and it wasn't a particularly friendly message I had to listen to, either!).

Secondly, it's also utterly pointless trying to watch videos. I have loads of smartmovie and .3gp files which I can use on my SX1 without any problem, but both types of video stutter badly when viewed on my X, so I've given up with that idea.

It's a shame, because I've found the X really nice to use, and I prefer the look and feel of it to the SX1. It has a few nifty little features like themes, flash, Now! screen, etc. It also has plenty of internal memory for storage and a well thought out selection of software. I've also found the customer support excellent.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to go back to my SX1 for now. Being able to listen to music or watch movie clips on my phone is essential to me, and as I can no longer do either reliably, my X has been relegated to an 'occasional use' phone at best. I'll would be more than happy to come back to the X if this could be fixed, but I'm doubtful...

Next 'phone' I'm getting is the i-Mate Jam. Hopefully that should be able to handle more than one application at a time!

I really like my X 😊 :icon14:

lol nutzu, i guess you were waiting for that for a long time.

I have yet to receive my T6 screwdriver, but when i do, i will do the screw test. lately i've been having some problems like programs that quit just like that...
very strange :con?
and then the mp3 problem. that for me is the biggest problem... :frown:

althoug i experience these problems, i hope that they can be resolved.

SPEEDMAN wrote:lol nutzu, i guess you were waiting for that for a long time.

I have yet to receive my T6 screwdriver, but when i do, i will do the screw test. lately i've been having some problems like programs that quit just like that...
very strange :con?
and then the mp3 problem. that for me is the biggest problem... :frown:

althoug i experience these problems, i hope that they can be resolved.

I like my X but do have a few issues with it, the main one is that it cannot multitask at all.

Would I buy it again? Hmm, not sure really. Sort of an unfair question coz there is better stuff out now.

mart_is_good wrote:I like my X but do have a few issues with it, the main one is that it cannot multitask at all.

Would I buy it again? Hmm, not sure really. Sort of an unfair question coz there is better stuff out now.

the screw test resolved my problem.people can hear me correctly now.

just buy a TORAX6 also known as T6 screwdriver, make all the screws loose, and tighten them again. (not too hard, but firm enough) 😊

Best thing ive done this year.. For the price of �43 i would give it 100/100 easy, and i would thank people that give this bad reviews because thats probably why i got it so cheap!!! also thanks because i have not seen a Sendo X jet... apart from mine!

I've used the Sendo for about 3 months now. As all of us experienced, there are lots of bugs, sadly enough... Being unreachable when using the MP3-Player and the bad quality of the mic are the worst things of the X, but I feel that those bugs are mere small inconvinience to all the great aspects of the phone! I hope the next firmware update will bring even more joy :P

A small note about the screwdriver trick to fix the bad mic quality: it only fixes this problem for a period of time. About a month ago I loosened and tightened the screws, and slowly but surely, the problem is reappering. After applying the trick again, the mic is perfect again!

I just bought an X and like many, am disappointed by the software quality. The phone itself looks and sounds great. I wish Sendo hadn't bothered to gymmy around with the software so much as there is nothing wrong with Vanilla Series 60. Many of the changes they made have just made a lot of Series 60 software incompatible with the phone and the installed base is not large enough to get developers to ammend it for the X.

So I would buy one again but only if cheap. Say, 120 quid or less new. Avoid the Vodafone firmware unless they release the update soon at Sendo and you get +ve feedback from this forum.

stuclark wrote:
As a quick guess...I reckon the next Sendo smartphone will be...

Megapixel camera (probably at least 2MP)
3G / UTMS / GSM / GPRS / EDGE
Dual camera
candy bar design
MMC / SD support (maybe SDIO)
bigger screen resolution
Symbian 7 or 8 (depends if they stick S60 or not)
SoniX stereo sound
MP3 / 3GPP / WAV / AMR / MPG support
Bluetooth / IRDA
Wireless LAN (802.11b/g)
128MB user RAM
thinner, lighter than this one
USB2 interface

...and much, much more...

That's a nice 'guess' Stu - I'd say you've been having informal chats with the Sendo people 😉

That's a good spec though either way. I reckon a bigger screen that's touch sensitive also would be good. And SDIO is essential I think. GPS would be a sensible move but not essential so could be optional on an SDIO card.

ajck wrote:That's a nice 'guess' Stu - I'd say you've been having informal chats with the Sendo people 😉

That's a good spec though either way. I reckon a bigger screen that's touch sensitive also would be good. And SDIO is essential I think. GPS would be a sensible move but not essential so could be optional on an SDIO card.