The Crown Jewel Of Nextel Phones
Written: Aug 21 '01
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Pros: Weight, Voice Notes, New Phone Book, Address Book, and JAVA!
Cons: none.
The Bottom Line: This is hands down the greatest phone Nextel/Motorola has ever marketed.
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| mrdowny13's Full Review: Nextel i85s |
Well I have been “connected” with Nextel for years and I have owned EVERY phone that they have placed on the market. I use my Nextel phone about 2,000-5,000 minutes every month, so I can give an honest review of its ups and downs.
Last week I had the opportunity to get one of these new high-tech phones. I being the “technology junkie” that I am, I jumped all over it. Well the first thing I noticed the i85 was its weight. This baby is nice and light in comparison to all previous Nextel models with the exception of the i2000.
Once I had the phone all charged up I was ready to see what it could do. I was amazed at the phones features. Let me start by talking about the address book feature. The address book is great in this phone because you can store multiple numbers with the same name, and an icon shows you what type of number it is. For example if I program my friend Tom in my phone I can use a icon to show his pager number, home number, direct connect id, ect. This is great because you find his name on the list and by pressing the right scroll you can cycle through the different icons, and simply press send. I also want to add that this phone has “Voice Dialing”. This feature is great if you are driving. When you program in the persons phone number you can add your voice to it, so when you want to dial that number you just say the name, the phone finds the number and dials. This allows you to keep an eye on the road and dial at the same time. Now that was just the address book! This phone is loaded with other goodies too such as an event calendar, so you can throw away that bulky palm pilot. This phone will keep all of your appointments and remind you when one is coming up. The last regular feature I will discuss (I can go on forever) is the “Voice Notes” feature. I love this feature soooooo much. I tend to think of things and never have a pen and paper to write them down, so I use this feature a lot. It records what you say like a tape recorder, so if you need to make a note of something just select the voice notes and record away.
Lastly I would like to talk about what makes this phone very special. It was the first phone in North America to have J2ME or Java technology built into it. This allows you to download programs from the Motorola website. The phone comes with different calculators built into it. There are calculators for figuring out such things as tips, converting length, weight, area, volume and more. Another program that the phone has that I find useful because I travel a lot is the Expense Pad. This feature rocks if you wish to keep track of what you are spending your money on. Then the phone will spit out reports as to when and where you spent your money. Great for business trips. Lastly what would a Java phone be without games. The phone comes with a game called “Borkov”, which is an addictive block game that can entertain you while riding a plane, bus, or long car ride.
Now that I have discussed several of the features that the phone has let me take a moment to talk about the clarity and reception. I have never owned a phone that provided such clarity. I feel sometimes that I am on a landline phone because it is so clear. The reception on this phone is great, and probably the best in the Nextel family of phones. This is due to the software in the phone that makes “hand-off’s” to cell towers smoother and you will experience fewer dropped calls with this baby.
I hope that I have shed some light on this new phone. I would recommend to everyone who is considering a new Nextel phone to get this one. I don’t think I will ever give this one up!
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): 199.00
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Member: Jeffrey Molnar
Location: Pompton Lakes, NJ
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