Archive for June, 2007

Sprint PPC6700

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Review:

A cool phone.  So far, it does everything I want it to, including handwriting recognition.  The keyboard is less useful than I had hoped, but it is functional.  I can’t imagine writing anything of length on it, though.  Mostly, I use the handwriting recognition tool for scribbling notes to myself along the lines of “milk, bread, cheese,” etc.  Two things that I wish were different:

Use of SD card instead of miniSD.  MiniSDs, while smaller, are presently limited to 2 GB and less common and (therefore) are more expensive than SDs.  It’s a poor trade-off and I would have accepted the tiny increase in size for the better format.

Use of the 2.5 phone jack.  Yes I know, the 2.5 is the standard, but the 3.5 mm headphone jack is far more convenient for a multimedia phone.  Again, the smaller size is inconvenient and more expensive.

I didn’t expect the camera to be anything more than a toy and the external speaker isn’t generally useful for much.

Other than that, I’m happy.   I love having everything on one small device.

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