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Originally Posted by swain69
Hi Hagow,
1) I live in New Zealand and we have a similiar GSM, I have no problems with reception.
2) I am very happy with the Flame, wish we had an WM6 upgrade though so that bluetooth can get sorted out and push email for hotmail. I've had the Atom before...what a piece of crap.
3) Phone quality is ok, although callers complain that the Flame rings (on their side) for while before I hear it.
4) Battery life is ok, I have it charged it all the time, like I had with my previous Dell.
For me the biggest problem with all my other Pocket PC's and Pocket PC phones was RAM, I always seem to run out of it. Not with the Flame
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1)We got the answer
2)I am happy with flame. Everybody wants WM6. But why??? I owned QTEK9000 before the Flame. I tried WM5 and WM6 on it. WM6 is almost the same than WM5 with that new look and icons, and that great dialler application. While we have a very strong hardware (double RAM) now I don't care the look of WM6, I use Wisbar Advance and Wisbar Advance Desktop to create a lot more beautiful look than WM6. (I attached screenshots about my Flame's today-screen with two conditions) About the dialler I don't care again since O2 gave us their O2 Phone Plus which has a smart dialler also.
3) Phone-quality is weaker than any of my previous PDA-phones in sound quality (with any speaker), because the high frequencies are poorer, that's why You can hear harder the consonants, they are not very clear. Speakers have a poor sound quality also, that SRS-effect is almost than nothing useful (I know what is SRS in real, I'm using it in my work, but it is a hanky-panky). I say it as I'm a sound engineer, musician, composer and music producer, so what I know about something surely is sound.
So, what You can hear from the Flame is not the best from any speakers. Phone-line quality is the best from my previous PDA-phones in my country (Hungary). (I have a lot of PDA-phones) Almost never breaks the line.
4) Battery - here is the worst parameter of Flame. Although it has bigger battery than usual (1620mAh), it can NOT usable for a whole day, just if You don't use it. I usually use it for calling from 1 to 2 hours, some web surfing, some application using, some navigation software, and after 8-9 hours (with a lot of standby condition certainly) it turns off because battery level is less than 5%. My QTEK9000 with the same battery was better. But we have a chance to wait for the usual extended batteries which are normally the double size (in capacity and in dimensions also) of the original battery with a new back cover. Also we have an option to buy a charger for XDA Flame (for example here:
http://www.gpsforless.co.uk/product_details.php?id=8248
due soon...) with a second battery.
Another opion: we can buy external batteries:
http://www.gpsforless.co.uk/product_details.php?id=8244 with3600mAh or
http://www.gpsforless.co.uk/product_details.php?id=8239 with5600mAh
I hope it helped.