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looks can be deceiving

Apr 22, 2008

Rating: 6 out of 10 (Good)
Pros: great looks... big screen
Cons: less than impressive under the hood
Opinion:
Ive bought mine in Changi aiport and since I saw this initial reviews of this phone on cnetasia and youtube I have been waiting for a phone my treo 650 which Ive had for 2.5 years. And probably in my excitement of finding this phone on the market I took a leap of faith hoping that it would meet all my expectations.

Its certainly a head turner and if looks were your main criterion (plus touchcreen and querty keyboard) then this would be the phone for you. However, comming off a palm OS, I find the phone a bit lacking in the intuitive dept. While I could cut, paste, move and access information with ease on the palm, I find the the F-700 frustrating at first and just simply disapointing as I went along. Its just simply not user friendly enough to call itself a smart phone.

Call quality is okay, nothing fancy but Im very much missing the SMS conversation format in the Palm and despite the big screen viewing pictures on the F700 is not very clear. and yes, photo taking is certainly not its best assest. I havent started surfing on the phone on account Im not a 3G subscriber but I that will change soon. In anycase im not expecting high hopes in this dept either. On top of that, I cant transfer files directly into the SD card. The phone doesnt pick it up. I have to use samsung software to transfer stuff which takes bloody ages and kinda defeats the purpose of having the card.

Despite all this, it is trully a unique phone and I get lots of oohs and aahs from my mates. While it is certainly is not enough to overcome my frustrations with this phone, I can at least find solace that everybody who looks at this phone scertly wishes they had one... that is until they buy one themselves.

I would give this a 6.8 simply for the looks and uniqueness. but I would say to samsung... get a better OS for your next atempt at this phone.