Phone is holding its own
Written: Nov 07 '00
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Pros: Auto hands free is great, price is right
Cons: Talk time not as long as advertised
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| DaveDolch's Full Review: Qualcomm QPC-860 Cell Phone |
This is the current "stock" phone that we are issuing at my job. The cell phone account that I manage runs between $20,000 to $30,000 per month and our phones get a lot of usage by our field forces, so they are "torture tested".
Our old "stock" phone was the QCP 820, the model below this one. That phone had a selector dial on the side, where the 860 has two buttons. The dial on the 820 used to be a constant source of trouble. I would get about 2 or 3 calls a week from our field personnel requesting new 820's because the side wheels had failed. We started phasing in the 860 about 6 months ago and I have yet to have one go bad on me due to the new side button design.
Battery time on the 860 is a bit on the low side, running about 1.5 hours talk time, max. Speaking of the battery, it is attached to the phone with a screw, it can be removed, but not without a screwdriver. There is an extra battery that will piggyback onto the phone over the built in battery, but that defeats the thinness of the phone.
There is a wealth of features on this phone (phone book, timers, ringers, sounds, etc.), but nothing that is not standard on almost every cell phone out there.
The phone itself is easy to carry, not a small as say a Star-Tac (our "non-stock" phone) but it is still easy to carry in a shirt or jacket pocket.
One item that stands out with this phone is the hard wired auto hands free kit. This kit comes with built-in voice recognition. We use this in a number of our field vehicles and it never fails to impress the user when they have it installed. The phone is brought to dial mode by simply saying "Wake up" twice. You then either ask it to dial a pre-programmed number by speaking the name or you can manually talk the number into the phone. The only time that you must touch the phone is to end the call.
With the bulk of our phones deployed in the New York / New Jersey area, we rarely have a problem with signal strength. The phone does seem to work well while in buildings though.
Overall this phone is a good performer, especially when I have seen stores giving it away cheap with new activation.
Recommended:
Yes
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DaveDolch
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Work in telecommunications. Hobbies: Home repair, video games, computers, homebrewing.
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