July 5, 2005
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After many many years, I finally got myself a new cellphone and a new number. My new cell phone is the just released Motorola E815. This baby is so new, that I got it on the day the Verizon store I went to received it. It's so new that the official motorola
site doesn't even have it listed. In fact, the funny thing was that I
was originally going to get the model preceeding the E815, but was
persuaded to check it out instead. Despite my humoring him at
first, I found out that it's cheaper than the older model, so I was
immediately sold on it.
I now have a phone that has features that I've denied myself for many years.
Camera phone? yup, 1.3 megapixels (that's 640 x 480). Plus it comes
with a flash, and has 4x digital zoom (it's not optical, but what the
hey). It's even got video camera capabilities.MP3 player? yup. At first I wasn't even sure how to get MP3 files
into my phone, and I even called up customer service, but they didn't
know the answer themselves. Fortunately, googling
the subject got me the information I was looking for. One of them
is to e-mail the mp3 file to my phone, but it has to be less than 150k
in size. So I had to do some audio editing on my part to meet
that. At the end, I now have my own personal ringtones just the
way I like them. The other option would be to purchase a Transflash memory card for the phone. I'll consider getting something like that in the future.Another cool thing is that unlike my previous phone where I have to
manually give the people in my contact list a designated voice command,
this time around I don't have to do that. My phone recognizes the
text of the name of the contact.Besides my fiddling around with the mp3 functionality, there were some
negatives that needs to be pointed out. First off, Verizon doesn't
include the clip belt for the phone, as it only came with the AC
adapter in the box. Secondly, whenever I plug in my earpiece to
it's mic jack, my voice recording functions comes on
accidentally. Thirdly, I actually experienced a "not enough
memory to do that action right now" message, but it was easily remedied
by rebooting the phone.There's many other functions
that I'm still just now finding out (like I actually have speaker phone
capabilities for once), and eventually I'll be a pro with using my
phone. So far though, it's all good and gravy for me.
Comments (2)
It's on their webpage as promo. http://promo.motorola.com/ProductPreviews/e815.html But cell phones are so behind in the states.
Ofcourse, there's no competing with Asian countries and the cellphones there. Actually I'm curious, how far are Japan / Korea / Taiwan in their cellphone technology? I'm happy with mine for the next six years like I did with my previous cellphone, so it'll be like a taste of what I'll be picking up then.
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