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O2 Xphone llm

Wednesday September 07, 2005

O2 Online | http://www.O2.com.au

$649

Price at time of review.

O2’s phone is the smartest of the lot
without being a full-on smart phone.
It runs Windows Mobile making it
feel more like a PDA, but accessing the key
functions soon becomes intuitive. It’s the only
phone without a flash, but even this would not
rescue the poor picture quality.

A valiant effort, although this one is firmly in the phone not the camera category.

User Rating:

Our outdoor scenes sported distracting vignetting in the corners. Colours were washed out and suffered from colour casts, while detail capture was incredibly poor.

On top of this, no matter what environment we took photos in, the results came out blurred when we viewed them on our PC’s monitor.

As a final nail in the coffin, moving the pictures around via BlueTooth proved an arduous task, as every picture required a full search for compatible devices without remembering what was there. Not a camera replacement at all.

Written by Nick Ross

Tags: Camera | Phones | O2

This article appeared in the October, 2005 issue of PC Authority.

Products also reviewed in the Group Test Camera Phones roundup:

Sony Ericsson K750i

Motorola V635

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