Over Featured, Under Powered
Written: Nov 13 '00 (Updated Nov 13 '00)
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Pros: Tons of great features!
Cons: Not as powerful as other SprintPCS phones
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| Maytwa's Full Review: Sprint TouchPoint 2200 Cell Phone |
This is one of the newest and most fully featured products in the SprintPCS lineup. The cool, and sometimes very useful goodies that this phone comes equipped with make this a fun phone to own.
My now ex-manager, who is definitely a gadget lover, bought this phone about two months ago (just for the personalized ringer option I think). Now, every time the district manager calls him for a gripe session, the phone proudly announces a ten second excerpt from the song "take this job and shove it!" This gives him, and all of us a welcomed but brief moment of hilarious distraction from our daily grind.
Sadly enough the features of this phone, granted they are many (though I won't bore you with a complete run down of what is already said in the product description) don't out weigh the simple fact that it doesn't get the greatest reception. Standing side by side with him my phone will get 1-2 bars of signal where his flashes the insanely annoying Now Roaming indicator. If you happen to be wondering why roaming lights are so bad, imagine your normal per minute rate on steroids and pumped up to about $.69/minute.
You may or may not agree with me about my rating of this phone, but I base many of my opinions on the utility of the product. A phone that fails to accomplish its most basic function where similar phones succeed is, in my book, not a good buy.
Just in case you are curious, my phone is a dual band phone (as is this one) made by Motorola (the StarTAC 7867). If you are interested, I have a review on it that you should be able to reach either by the following address, or by checking in my list of epinions.
http://maytwa.epinions.com/elec-review-11C3-2D868A49-399F7C0E-prod5
Recommended:
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Maytwa
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Member: Matthew Merritt
Location: Dothan, AL
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