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Amazing phone, much better than reviews indicate

Jan 15, 2008

Rating: 10 out of 10 (Perfect)
Pros: Fast, Reliable, Amazing
Cons: Not pretty like O2
Opinion:
This is an amazing phone.
I have had an O2 XDAII mini for 2 years and finally needed an upgrade. I hate the qwerty keyboards and wanted a PDA/phone combo that was similar to the O2 XDAII mini that i had. The requirements were:
- small and light
- no qwerty keyboard or phone pad
- RELIABLE
- good features: 3G if i need, WIFI if i need, etc

So i was looking at this asus p735 and the O2 atom life. i really liked the atom life as it looked fantastic and had a heap of feautres. but, unfortunately i found reviews that absolutely canned it for a lack of reliability. this is a big issue for me, as my XDAII mini was waht i would consider reliable yet was in the service centre for a month for a buzzing speaker and because the microphone stopped working. Not going to go down that road again.

I came across many reviews of hte P535 but not many of the P735 as its a relatively new phone. This (P735) is the only P-series ASUS phone available to the australian market.

So how do i rate it?
fantastic! its fast as hell and all the mentioned features work amazing. no hang-ups, no issues whatsoever. exactly what i wanted from a phone. if it had GPS then it would be fulyl feature-packed, but as i already have GPS hardwired into my car i don't need it.

the only thing that i first noticed on day1 was that the battery drained fairly quickly. so, i turned off WIFI, bluetooth, put the CPU into power-saving mode, and switched the phone to 2G mode (regular mode) and suddenly the battery lasts 4+ days :)

I have never written a review before, but i felt that i had to share this positive experience as the reviews i had previously read helped me to decide on this particuler phone.

I got it for $649 from Organiser World (in melbourne ww.ow.com.au) and it came in the box with 2 batteries, a leather case, and all the usual goodies. plus a 2yr factory warranty.