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O2 Xphone llm

Wednesday September 07, 2005
Written by Nick Ross
Tags: Camera | Phones | O2
AUD
$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.
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.
Products also reviewed in this Group Test
Sony Ericsson K750i
Motorola V635
This article appeared in the October, 2005 issue of PC Authority.
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