Sendo X review

AWVC wrote:Hi,

I've posted a Sendo X review up on my blog if anyone's interested - it's a bit too long to post here! It's a pretty personal viewpoint like all reviews I guess...

Cheers,
Oliver.

Cool review, great to hear of another happy user. I thought everyone hated this phone. Like you say, there are some expectations it doesnt live up to, but its still a pretty cool phone

Roll on the linux phones......

Simon

Sorry,

but this review is not very extensive I must say!!!

There are so many things that need to be discussed for a "smartphone"
which is not in this review..

If the only negative thing this review can discover with the X is
battery life, then it is obvious that the author needs more time
with the phone..

Battery life is in my opinion not a problem with this phone. If you buy
a phone which you use to play Mp3's, I think you should be prepared
to charge the battery on a daily basis..

But the review states that the user is happy with it. Happyness is subjective.

If it doesnt do something you want that has no bearing on my happiness at all 😊

It needs to work for *me*

Simon

Some people on this forum really need to stop trying to rubish every statement or opinion which doesn't agree whole-heartedly with their [bad] opinion of this phone! :icon13:

Yup. I'm not trying to present a review of all the phones functions in all possible situations, just a synopsis of how well it's fitted into my (gadget-filled) life. Hence the warning that it was just my opinion! It's the review I would have wanted to read before I bought it - how it would fit into my life and current setup. It's out on the web in the hope that somebody with the same situation and needs will find it useful. If you're looking for a review that looks at mp3 playback, find somebody who's used the phone and to whom that functionality is important.

After thinking about it, I don't think that there's a phone out there that's as good an mp3 player as the iPod, as good a games machine as the gameboy advance (never mind the DS or PSP), as good a camera as a dedicated camera (though they do seem to be getting close), as good an organiser as a Psion Revo, or as good a document viewer and development environment as a desktop pc.

If such a phone existed, I'd fall over myself fishing out my credit card to buy one! But it's going to be at least two years before the mp3 and camera functionality are integrated well enough to make owning an iPod redundant. I'm not prepared to wait that long, so it's my humble opinion that the X is the best smartphone currently available at a reasonable price. Especially considering that it can play mp3s, games and whatever else if you really want it to. But don't expect it (or any other currently available phone) to allow you to chuck your iPod, camera and portable games system.

Battery life is important to me as (with current battery tech) the number of recharges isn't infinite; every recharge reduces the battery capacity slightly. If you have to recharge it every night, you could find you need to recharge it twice a day in two years time. That's not good battery performance in my book. I expect at least two years of usage from a phone before I need to recharge it every day. I hate having to drag a recharger around with me wherever I go (not to mention two or three). Being able to charge the phone and know it'll be fine for three days is very important to me.

I liked your review.
Similar to yourself I was looking at a replacement for an old PDA (Palm c3), when I found out about Smartphones.
There seems to be two main audiences for Smartphones I can see at the moment - the "I've got to have the best gadget phone that plays MP3, video and takes pictures" brigade, and the "I've got a PDA, and a phone, can I get away with just a phone" brigade, which I class myself into.

So for me the important things were; synchronisation with Lotus Notes (Excellent, worked brilliantly right out of the box) for all calender, contacts etc. The ability to run additional apps for things like better task management etc, link to the internet, and availability of GPS software.

For me the Now! screen is great - all the info I need right up front.

I've also found the camera a lot of fun, and I've played with the MP3 player.

My disappointments so far are:
Some of the applications are not as stable as I would like, e.g Psiloc List Manager.
Tom Tom looks like it won't run, but not too bothered as Route 66 will.
No good quality database - like Handbase on the Palm.

As a first foray into this type of "gadget" I'm impressed so far. I'd be very interested how far this platform can go.

Dave

Dave,

I'm in the same boat as you, I had hoped to replace my PDA, but I just cant get away from using it. Now I have 2 cool gadgets 😊 I'm really looking forward to these "smartphones" being better than we imagine, rather than things not working.....

Simon