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NEC 525 First Impressions
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Posted by: kg4vth

Well I have had my phone for 24 hours, I have spent most of that time playing with it and getting to know the features and options. First when I was on my way home and made a phone call I thought the ear piece volume was low, even though I had it turned all the way up, but when I was home making calls I actually had to turn the volume down almost halfway, to me the earpiece volume, is only an issue in noisy enviroments. RIngtone volume was great nice and loud, depending on the tone. I thought the audio quality on my end was a little poor, but still acceptable, more importantly to me, was how the audio quality on the other end sounded, and that seems to be excellent, I had numerous people say the definatly noticed an improvement from my Samsung phone, I was using before, numerous friends commented a few times how clear I sounded and that they thought I was calling from my landline.

I thought I figured out all the menus and tricks from playing with the phone, but than I read through the manual and I found a few more menus and features I didnt know I had, I reccomend at least quickly going through the manual. One thing I found I liked a lot is chnaging the brightness of the backlight for the screen, it was set to low, I changed it to high, what a difference, the screen was so much easier to read and so much more crisp. I also found the green color theme worked best, for my not so good eyes.

Internet access was fast and worked really well, I was able to use all the features on mMode and also at mobile.msn.com including the MSN Messenger. I downloaded a ringtone from http://www.nechdm.com I had to manualy enter in the URL that was sent to me in a text message, there was no option to follow the link from the text message to the internet, like I had on some other phones, this was a pain in the neck.

Over all I love the phone and plan on keeping it for awhile, I am mainly impressed with the audio quality people I call are recieving on their end, the negatives are the low and not so good audio quality on my end, but for my use it is acceptabe, I also wish there was an option to follow links sent in sms messages to the internet, this can be a big pain when trying to download content from a website.

My firmware version is WDAC0020 which I believe is the most current version.
David

Posted by: colorsco

to goto the links you have to goto highlight mode and highlight the address and then copy and paste. its not to bad once you get use to it really. great phone overall.

Posted by: kg4vth

Sounds logical, can you give some more details on how to activate the highlight mode while reading text messages and than the commands to copy and paste? Thanks.

Posted by: NL5

While reading a text message, hit the right arrow key (the ones around the blue button) and it will highlight the sender, hit it again, and it will highlight the url. Then hit the blue button, and it opens that web page.

(If that's not how you are doing it already)

NL5

Posted by: shoman94

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Originally posted by NL5
While reading a text message, hit the right arrow key (the ones around the blue button) and it will highlight the sender, hit it again, and it will highlight the url. Then hit the blue button, and it opens that web page.

(If that's not how you are doing it already)

NL5

Exactly...nice is easy.....

I can tell you though that I had the so so sound quality on my first one...the RF wasn't as good as my t62u also....brought it back and everything is awesome on this one. Volume is pretty good but I do wish it was a touch louder. RF is awesome also.....

Posted by: kg4vth

I have had no problems with signal or dropped calls, although I dont reccomend holding the phone from the bottom that will decrease your signal.

I did have one weird anomaly today, I lost signal in a building, when I cam out the phone never re-aquired a signal i waited 2 minutes nothing, I than did a manual network search and it came back up, the phone was set to auto network search, but seem to to search at all for a network.