Phones. phones? phones!

[Skv0ra]

http://www.google.com/products?q=hom...&hl=en&show=dd

I'll do a brief review of this guy since I couldn't believe my eyes after I got the balls to try an unknown product.

25-30$ headset that boasts 14 hours of talk/music time, is extremely portable, pretty comfortable and offer rather complete set of controls. Sounds a lil-too good to be true, right? Luckily it isnt!

I personally squeezed 10 hours of music straight and this lil fella wasn't even at low-battery, so the plain text on the packaging doesn't lie.

Lack of a solid connection pieces makes these extremely portable and hassle free and even includes a hard zipper case to carry them in.

The music sounds as good as any stereo BT out there- clear with enough range, but don't expect good headphone quality.

The right piece houses full controls: 2 volume buttons, a next/reverse/play-pause lever, and the main power/voice dial button. Everything is big enough and separated enough not to bump into while working one set of controls.

Phone conversations are heard clearly and the mic works fairly well from what I gathered, so its an overall decent headset.

I've tried Scala S-2 and liked these alot better in all aspects.

Lastly, my only gripe is that ear loops are designed with soft springs so the earphone never really touches your earholes too close causing some sound loss. When they're loud, that's not an issue, but you can forget about using them as noise-blockers.

[ruselli01]

my previous phones are all nokia brand as well my current, n73.

my next target is n85, the only reason im getting it: it's a new nokia phone model. lol

[impakt55]

SE w910i

Good phone but it's glitchy as fuck

[Invalice]

Nokia 6300 - Black edition

[Skv0ra]

Do check out the Homer streteo BT I reviewed at the top of this page. Great piece for everyone with decent battery life.

[dracule]

iPhone here.

It's hit and miss: I love the UI, like the 8GB, like the music playing capabilties, WiFi, mail, 3rd party applications, and everything you can do once unlocked.

The other hand is that the GUI is slow, VERY buggy, the touchscreen sucks, and it is hard to sync/transfer data to/from it.

If you don't want a smartphone though, get a Sony Ericsson. Had a W600i for three years and it looks and preforms the exact way it did out of the box.

the only thing i found bad about the touchscreen was the fact you cover up what you are trying to click.

other than that the OS itself is quite impressive.

[jdm0830]

what product is it that u are talking about?
i click the google link and u searched Hom...
Juan

[Skv0ra]

Lol sorry, copies over wrong: http://www.google.com/products?q=hom...&hl=en&show=dd

[nedthehead]

the only thing i found bad about the touchscreen was the fact you cover up what you are trying to click.

other than that the OS itself is quite impressive.

Touchscreen:

Is easily smudged... I guess this is par for all touchscreens, but annoys me.
Does not support a stylus... stupid Apple.
Not very intuitive... keyboard kinda sucks, even in landscape mode for example.
Not precise enough... I've clicked the wrong things TOO many times.
Isn't "finger friendly"... very often I will try to slide to scroll, but my finger creates too much friction with the screen... I don't even have to press down very hard.

And as for the OS, I like the design of it, but it is too buggy. I've had pretty much every application crash on me, it takes me way to long to load applications, read mail, listen to my music... It's just plain slow. Some things should be on toggle, such as the gimmicky animations, and the accelerometers (which haven't been optimized very well).

Overall I'd give the iPhone a 6.75/10. The idea is right, but the phone still seems very "In Development" right now. I feel Apple could have done a lot more to further along it's development before it was released

[Skv0ra]

Sounds to me like its time to step up from the iphone lol.