The Cingular 8125 with all the features you’d ever want??
Well, it should have all the features you’d want! Here’s a list of the features found on this sophomore venture from Cingular, which is actually a rebranded HTC Wizard Pocket PC - Cingular 8125 Pocket PC
Now, when the time came for me to upgrade, I bought the 8125. It has all the great features that you would want, and upon first use, it was quite an amazing machine. The only downside is the processor, which seemed a little sluggish when trying to navigate certain features. The Comm Manager was a nice feature, which included WiFi, Beam, Bluetooth, Data Connect, and Email Push. All these features could be turned on/off via touchscreen, or set up to be used with shortcuts. The WiFi was a really nice feature, although in Texarkana, we have very few hotspots that would really accommodate such a feature. These places include: Baker Bros., Valor Parking Lot, and a few hotels that I picked up while passing by them. Now, I’m sure if you were in Dallas, this feature would be off the chizzain. Anyway, onto some other features.
The camera, a 1.3mp, was quite good, although the flash feature always whited out picture subjects. The slide-out keyboard was very nice, and closed securely when not needed. The call quality was a little less than desirable, and always seemed like it should be a little louder. Now, I used to use a Palm Treo 650, into which, I downloaded a program called VolumCare. This program would amplify the earpiece, speakerphone, and general function alerts. This program would have made the 8125 much nicer, when traveling through areas with low signal strength. Of course, the phone has all the sync’ing software to be able to hack/navigate your way into it’s deepest darkest regions, or to upload pictures, Mp3 ringers, videos, etc.
Now, the bad part, cause we all know everything isn’t perfect! After a couple weeks, my phone started acting up a little. Mainly, the touchscreen began glitch, for lack of a better word. I believe it’s mainly due to some of the features being to close to the corners of the screen. So if you have bigger thumbs, you push more on the touchscreen than you need to. Now, it didn’t do that all of the time, but seemed to when trying to run too many programs at once. I think this is the reason it began doing strange things, i.e. closing the Text Message feature and it would go to Calendar, when it should have gone to home screen.
In conclusion, I may have just gotten a bad phone or may have had software problems due to the infancy of Cingular’s software for smartphones. I took mine back, and acquired the new Cingular 3125, the first smart flip phone. It has all the same features, sans WiFi. Just go check out the 8125, because we all know software can be fixed. The actual phone and hardware itself was very well built and could last long enough, until Cingular drops the Palm 700 for GSM. Right Jeff??
jason