I just got one. I like it’s construction but the sound is terrible. It’s all crackly and distorted like a drivethru speaker. I’m not sure if it’s all of them, but I have read about others with the same problem. Personally I would get something else. I will be returning mine.
azdavy on
August 7th, 2008
I’ve had mine for three days now and I’m fine with it. I didn’t get it to test all the features like waterproof and toughness. I’m sure I’ll find out soon enough anyway, but that is why I bought it. There is a video on the web where a boulder is frozen in ice, pulled out and immediately used to place a call. The vid actually does sound distorted because of the frozen speaker. I would say there is no significant increase in sound quality over my 2 year old LG phone, but it is comparable. It might be degraded over some other phones sound quality due to the dustproof, and waterproof stuff. I don’t get the crackling sound the previous reviewer noted.
If I had a gripe or two it would be that for such a feature rich phone and carrying the price it does, I expected more ‘in the box’ stuff. I REALLY would have liked a USB cable, and if you’re listening Casio, the charger plugs into the dock or into the phone with the same plug. Make the dock usb, which should charge and allow data transfer, and then the charger could be used without the dock. I could do without the hard of hearing adapter. Is the ADA that misguided?
The exterior buttons are too sensitive to carry the phone in my pocket without constant beeps, which is strange, given that the phone is aimed at the active demographic. No clip or case are included.
The phone is not small, nor did I think it’s too large. But if you give this to your princess she’ll think it’s a boulder. On the upside it is much lighter than I had expected.
None of the places that I had reviewed really mentioned that it’s a still camera as well as a video camera.
These are first impressions, I haven’t tried push to talk, which I didn’t understand until now, or the GPS.
I just got one. I like it’s construction but the sound is terrible. It’s all crackly and distorted like a drivethru speaker. I’m not sure if it’s all of them, but I have read about others with the same problem. Personally I would get something else. I will be returning mine.
I’ve had mine for three days now and I’m fine with it. I didn’t get it to test all the features like waterproof and toughness. I’m sure I’ll find out soon enough anyway, but that is why I bought it. There is a video on the web where a boulder is frozen in ice, pulled out and immediately used to place a call. The vid actually does sound distorted because of the frozen speaker. I would say there is no significant increase in sound quality over my 2 year old LG phone, but it is comparable. It might be degraded over some other phones sound quality due to the dustproof, and waterproof stuff. I don’t get the crackling sound the previous reviewer noted.
If I had a gripe or two it would be that for such a feature rich phone and carrying the price it does, I expected more ‘in the box’ stuff. I REALLY would have liked a USB cable, and if you’re listening Casio, the charger plugs into the dock or into the phone with the same plug. Make the dock usb, which should charge and allow data transfer, and then the charger could be used without the dock. I could do without the hard of hearing adapter. Is the ADA that misguided?
The exterior buttons are too sensitive to carry the phone in my pocket without constant beeps, which is strange, given that the phone is aimed at the active demographic. No clip or case are included.
The phone is not small, nor did I think it’s too large. But if you give this to your princess she’ll think it’s a boulder. On the upside it is much lighter than I had expected.
None of the places that I had reviewed really mentioned that it’s a still camera as well as a video camera.
These are first impressions, I haven’t tried push to talk, which I didn’t understand until now, or the GPS.