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Unique opportunity to choose--advice?
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Posted by: curmudgeon

Last Dec. I signed up my wife and myself w/Cingular, and bought us both Moto Mpx220's. Last week, hers died on her (mine is fine). Cingular said they would replace it, but they no longer have the Mpx220, so would she take the Audiovox SMT5600? She really doesn't care too much about what phone she has, as long as it gets good reception, so I said sure. We got it yesterday.

Now, she told me I could choose which phone I wanted to use (since I'm way more into it than she is!). So guys and gals, help me decide: should I keep using my Mpx220 (which I quite like), or should I give her the Moto and start using the Audiovox?

I haven't had a chance yet to play w/the Audiovox, but noticed that it doesn't seem to have a flash for the camera, nor does it seem to have the killer voice recognition that the Moto has--tho I could be wrong... I still have to RTFM.

Anyway, what do you think?

Posted by: ASimpleFarmer

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Originally Posted by curmudgeon

Last Dec. I signed up my wife and myself w/Cingular, and bought us both Moto Mpx220's. Last week, hers died on her (mine is fine). Cingular said they would replace it, but they no longer have the Mpx220, so would she take the Audiovox SMT5600? She really doesn't care too much about what phone she has, as long as it gets good reception, so I said sure. We got it yesterday.

Now, she told me I could choose which phone I wanted to use (since I'm way more into it than she is!). So guys and gals, help me decide: should I keep using my Mpx220 (which I quite like), or should I give her the Moto and start using the Audiovox?

I haven't had a chance yet to play w/the Audiovox, but noticed that it doesn't seem to have a flash for the camera, nor does it seem to have the killer voice recognition that the Moto has--tho I could be wrong... I still have to RTFM.

Anyway, what do you think?

why learn a new phone? just keep the one you have

although, everyone says that the smt-5600 is an awesomephone.

Posted by: curmudgeon

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Originally Posted by ASimpleFarmer

why learn a new phone? just keep the one you have

although, everyone says that the smt-5600 is an awesomephone.

Well, one of the nice things about a Windows Smartphone is that I already know 90% of it.

I know PC Mag gave the SMT-5600 their "Editor's Choice", but at the time they reviewed it and the Moto MPx 220, the 220 was still having those audio prolems. PC Mag did not re-review the 220 after the problems were resolved. I did get one of the good 220's. PC Mag did say that the voice recognition on the 220 was quite amazing, and I'd have to agree.

It's just that my wife prefers a flip-phone, to the candy-bar form factor. I also kind of like flip-phones better--mainly because I never remember to lock off the keys on the candy-bar ones.

And I've really liked the 220. But when that shiny new SMT-5600 came, all pretty and w/way more stuff in the box than the 220... Well, a geek like me has a hard time resisting ("resistance is futile").

Anyway, back to my original question: anyone else want to comment?

Posted by: ASimpleFarmer

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Originally Posted by curmudgeon

Well, one of the nice things about a Windows Smartphone is that I already know 90% of it.

well with what I have heard that the smt-5600 has a dumpy vga camera. I used to own the mpx220 and that was a glorious phone. indeed.

maybe the best advice is to ask your wife, what would she like?

Posted by: curmudgeon

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Originally Posted by ASimpleFarmer

well with what I have heard that the smt-5600 has a dumpy vga camera. I used to own the mpx220 and that was a glorious phone. indeed.

maybe the best advice is to ask your wife, what would she like?

Why do you say "used to own"? What happened? Did it break, or did you just upgrade?

It's true, the SMT-5600 camera may not be great (what cellphone is?), but what I noticed is that it doesn't have a flash. Now, I've barely used the camera on my MPx 220, but when I did, I used (and needed) the flash. Bottom line tho on cameras--it really isn't the part of the phone I care about, nor my wife either. We're both older, and use the phone pretty much just to make calls--no SMS, no camera, etc. (I know, it's sacrilege!)

As far as asking my wife which one she wants, she said she really doesn't care.

Since my last message, I had a chance to play w/the SMT-5600 a bit, and notice that it has a nice bright screen that looks to be a touch bigger than my MPx 220. On the downside, I verified that it does not have the voice recognition like the MPx 220 (which I'm sure all of you already knew), tho it does do voice tags. I think I like the MPx 220's approach better--I've spoken some pretty difficult names into the voice-dial feature, and it has never once made a mistake.

I don't understand why Cingular stopped selling it--unless the failure of my wife's 220 has been common for other people as well--is that the case? I don't use my phone nearly as hard as my wife does, so maybe mine will last longer than 7 months! All in all, tho, I've been pretty impressed w/my 220--of all the phones I've owned, it has been my favorite. (And I just upgraded the f/w tonite--we'll see what that does to it!)

Anyway, if anyone has any additional comments on this issue, I'm very glad to read them.

Posted by: vawireless

i've tried both phones and i really liked the smt5600 from the size factor, but i do a lot of text messaging and i found the keys to be too close to each other for texting.

if you don't text that much, i would vote for the smt5600. i always had a flip phone but the key lock feature on the smt5600 is easy to use, and the size again was nice and tiny to fit into my pants pocket.

Posted by: Omega2008

I perfer the MPx 220....I had a SMT 5600 and IMO it was slower and the keys stuck, not only that but it lagged really bad...but that was when it first came out to AT&T and firmware changes could of fixed this. However, what killed the device for me is its non-hotswapable miniSD card slot and the amazing amount of dust under the screen and in the device itself. I had to take it apart and clean it often...so I just got rid of it and used my MPx 220 engineering sample unitl Cingular released it then I got a Cingular branded one....The new 1.430 Cingular or AT&T branded ROM's are great! A big improvement over the previous ROM's. I use the Asian 3.45 ROM with WMP10 and its awesome. Just my 2 cents.

EDIT: Cingular will start selling the MPx 220 with the upgraded firmware (1.430) sometime in July, around the same time the new Black Razr is supposed to be released.

Posted by: ASimpleFarmer

I returned mine for the very reason that it was having problems with my bt headset hbh-660. it would not keep connected with i receive a call. i could hear people, but they could never hear me. other than that, the MPx220 phone was wonderful