Got a new phone last night.
I looked at the various phones that T-Mobile offered, read various reviews, and finally decided on the Samsung e715. I had considered a Sidekick II for a while but decided it was too big and bulky for my tastes. And I decided that I didn’t need all of its features and wanted a better camera than the Sidekick II offers. The e715 is about perfect for me. I’ve got all the browsing and messaging I could possibly need in a month. The sound quality and reception on the phone is excellent. The appearance of the phone is slick and somewhat star treky. And while the VGA camera isn’t a replacement for my real digital camera, it’s handy for those moments when I don’t have a real camera with me. The pictures are of a decent quality for a VGA camera phone.
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Tags: Personal
October 7th, 2004 at 4:11 pm
Bah!
The Sidekick II is developed by GNOME hackers! (Well, largely former GNOME hackers - Robey, Ramiro, Mike, Eric and myself from Eazel are here) And the lead UI designer Matias is the co-author of xbill.
Oh, and its free with rebates from Amazon.
One of these days I’ll get around to implementing evolution sync for the hiptop too…
October 7th, 2004 at 4:19 pm
Well that certainly makes it more tempting.
Ultimately I decided I just wanted a phone. You know…something small that fits nicely in my jeans pocket. But the Sidekick II is definitely impressive. I looked at it longingly at the store fore a while before I walked away.
October 7th, 2004 at 8:06 pm
But you didn’t walk away we were stuck there for an hour, and you got it. It seems pretty sweet, adn the pics aren’t bad. I wonder what they are like in darker areas though.
October 7th, 2004 at 11:09 pm
Obviously the darker the room, the worse the pictures will be, but the camera does have a “flash” which works fairly well.
October 8th, 2004 at 12:55 pm
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