Doesn't look fancy but does the job
Written: Oct 28 '01
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Pros: Easy navigation, speakerphone, large display, battery life
Cons: Size
The Bottom Line: The best phone that I could find for use with Sprint PCS.
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| anoop's Full Review: Sprint TouchPoint 2200 Cell Phone |
I previously owned a Samsung 8500, but that got lost. I think it fell out of my pocket in a cab, and I couldn't find it despite trying to call the phone and call the cab company. So I was on the market for a new phone. I had to stick with Sprint PCS because I was still within the one year service contract that I had signed with them. I ended up buying the Denso Touchpoint 2200 and have owned it for over 7 months now.
Some of the things I looked for in a phone:
- Easy to store phone numbers. This means storing multiple phone numbers under the same name and marking them as "mobile", "home", "work", etc.
- Easy to navigate menus and go to things like call logs, the keyguard, etc.
- Reasonable battery life so that I don't have to carry a charger with me when going away for a weekend.
- Clarity of reception. This depends not only on the phone but also on the service. Sprint PCS is acceptable most of the time, but sometimes the signal strength is really bad. For example, the phone is unusable at home because I have zero signal strength. But if there is a signal, the phone works fine.
- Reasonably portable so that it fits in a pocket if I need to carry it on my person.
I could have gone with the Samsung 8500 once again (I was fairly happy with that), but decided to get the Denso Touchpoint 2200 because it had a speakerphone. The speakerphone is of reasonable quality, it is half-duplex which means that you can either be talking or listening but not both simultaneously. It is hard to use the speaker phone while driving on the freeway because of the road noise. (Maybe I need a better car!). The battery life was also reported to be better and I have found that to be true. The downside is its size. Because it doesn't fold like the Samsung 8500, it is quite a bit bigger but only slightly heavier.
The menus on this phone are intuitive and very easy to navigate because it has a mouse-like button. It has a "keyguard" feature which disables the keypad for times when the phone is in your pocket and you'd rather not be pressing buttons and making accidental calls which can sometimes get embarrassing! The phone also sets the time to the local time automatically. The Samsung 8500 had that feature as well.
When I bought it, Denso also gave me a hands-free car kit and car lighter adapter for charging the phone. My phone sits in the car pretty much all of the time.
Overall it is a great phone. I'd have given it 5 stars if it were smaller and lighter. Portability is not one of the greatest virtues of this phone, but since I tend to leave it in the car most of the time, this is not a big deal for me.
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Amount Paid (US$): 150.00
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anoop
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Location: Rocklin, CA
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