thede's Full Review: Motorola H3 Bluetooth Headset
I'm quite pleased with Nokia phones in general, but this phone has been a disappointment. It is possible that the difficulties I've experienced are due to be fixed in a firmware update, but it's now November 2006, and the latest firmware revision was updated back in July 2006. Still waiting (I have firmware revision: 6.27.1.0)
Here are the problems:
1) About every 20 minutes or so of call time, the phone spontaneously reboots itself during a call. Sometimes it reboots without warning, other times there is a medium pitch buzzing for a few seconds first. The warning doesn't give you an advantage though...
The rebooting is 'equal probability' over time - it does not seem to matter whether I've been on a call for 2 minutes or 40, or if it rebooted only a minute before.
It's particularly frustrating (and embarassing) when on conference calls, as the long reboot time means wasted time for everyone involved.
2) A bug prevents the phone from being able to send email using SSL/SASL to port 587 (despite being able to accept the required options in configuration). This port is the standard submission port for authenticated and encrypted email submissions. As a result, I cannot send email from my phone, but only read it.
In the phone's favor, I was able to add my company's SSL certificate to the phone so that it would recognize our IMAP server when using SSL. Pretty cool.
3) The user interface is extremely sluggish, to the point where it's annoying. This is not a 'bug' as the other two problems above, but slow UI behavior has no place in a business phone if in any phone. Where I really notice is when bringing up the list of contacts or scanning through them to make a call, or when firing up the calendar to make an entry. These are common tasks for me and probably many people who use a phone for business. My 6200, several years old and with a passive matrix screen, was more usable.
Other observations:
The camera has OK resolution, but the image compression quality is just awful, even on the highest quality setting. Since there's 70 MB of memory in the phone (and more with a micro SD card), there's really no reason to have it save at such a lossy level.
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