MESEDILLA STUDIOS v9.0

Howie Ticzon Sun Cellular’s handsets expert gave me another phone to play with. Motorola MPx220.

The phone looks and feels like any other phone. BUT it still doesn’t compare to a Sony Ericsson K700i or the K750i. It has solitaire and other windows games to take most of your time. The menu system is similar to a windows computer. By the way, it looks like Windows XP.

Oh crap! the phone hanged as I’m doing this review. “Bootloader blah blah blah!” Time to take out the battery and restart the phone.

One thing that makes me wonder… how come the battery of MPx220 only lasts half a day? I have my SE K700i paired with my SE bluetooth headset and yet they both last 2 or more days.

If you have the extra moolah and don’t mind the constant restarting of the phone — Hehehe! — then you might want to check this out yourself. Otherwise, don’t even bother with this phone.

Oh man! I’m not kidding but it hanged on me again.

Let’s see what Motorola has to say:

• Windows Mobile software allows compatibility with Windows Mobile applications such as Pocket Outlook® and Pocket Internet Explorer and is designed to match and transpose the Outlook desktop experience
• Global Quad Band Performance (850/900/1800/1900)
• Integrated 1.2 megapixel camera, multi-step zoom, flash and self-portrait capabilities make it possible to capture your business and personal encounters with ease
• Bluetooth® wireless technology and speaker phone allow hands free conversations
• 64MB Flash ROM and mini-SD removable memory for extra storage
• MMS messaging features for sending pictures, animations, wallpaper, icons and more
• Downloading capabilities for adding on new games, musical ringtones, business applications and more at any whim
• A wide array of companion products are available to enhance the wireless experience

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My company gave me another phone to test, Siemens S65. According to Howie Ticzon, our Handsets and Sims Expert, this is one of the first phone to have an integrated 1.3 Mega pixel digital camera. He gave this phone to me so I can test the camera features and its usability.

It is quite big compared to the other phones I’ve been testing. However, it does fit in my palm. And it looks quite impressive. More like a yuppie type of phone.

I am not impressed with the phone’s large 65,000 color display. The images are distorted. Okay, the images are sharp and you won’t probably notice the distortion much. But what made me notice was one photo I had with Katrina Halili, my left eye looked half the size of my right eye. And I know my eyes are of the same size.

The 1.3 Mega pixel digital camera is VERY DISAPPOINTING! Nokia 7650 captures better photos than this. The Nokia 7650 may not sport a 1.3 Mega pixel camera and it might be a little blurry, at least the photo is smoother. The Siemens S65 captures photos full of dots. I wouldn’t take photos with it including take videos.

Games, now this is THE ONLY phone that has a built-in game that I truly love… WORMS! I have always spent a lot of my college time just playing this simple game. It is very addicting. Now that I can play it in a mobile phone means I can relive my past gaming addictions. Oh yeah, Siemens also added 2 built-in games, Battleship and Siemends 3D Rally. Both are equally good.

The Siemens S65 can also be fitted with the packaged 32MB external memory card. Now that’s plenty of space to put data into.

Messaging is quite acceptable. You can even send to multiple recipients in one sending. It just doesn’t have an outbox. There is an unsent folder but it doesn’t use it the way I hoped it would. So if sending a message fails you have to manually send it again.

It has the basic organizer feature set like calendar, tasks, notes, calculator, world time, voice recorder, and appointments.

Overall, the phone is acceptable. It has a lot of good functionalities that balances the bad ones. But if these good functionalities can be found in other phones with exceptional features, then why buy the Siemens S65? Well, it’s probably because you want to look great like Brad Pitt who used it in his latest movie, Ocean’s Twelve. Hehehe! But that’s another story.

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