Eten glofiish M800 - user opinions and reviews

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Have used this phone for nearly 2 years, and I'm still liking the use of it.

It's a good phone for someone that wants to be able to do everything. As with most all-in-one solutions, it does a lot, but not everything well. It tends to be slow, and there are probably a lot more optimized phones for wifi but they'd lack gps. Or they'd have gps but no bluetooth and a low res screen. Or a nice screen but no keyboard. Etcetera.

It has all the connectivity you can have (gsm/2g/3g/wifi/bluetooth/gprs/edge/sms/mms/emai­l/im(comes with MSN messenger standard)/FM radio) which is the most complete of any phone I have seen so far.
256 Mb of storage but can easily be expanded with microSD cards(which have the benefit of easily swapping out).

Yes the phone is a bit slow sometimes but thats largely because of the superb screen. It comes at a price.Most people probably forget this: the screen is 640x480 whereas most competition is 320x240. This means the screen has 4 times as many pixels, which of course takes up more processing power.
There's the issue of RAM, and to be honest I don't understand why there's not 128 or even more RAM in the phone.

The camera I have tested against a bunch of other phone camera's like the LG viewty and I've come to the conclusion that the image quality is actually better (even though it's only 3MP instead of viewty's 5MP. Mega-pixels isn't everything.)

Though looks aren't the most important for me, I don't find the m800 ugly, nor very attractive. It's got a business-like functionality-based appearance, not too flashy or hip, but not just a rectangle either. I like the symmetry of the front, and most of the colorscheme though i have no idea why they put a bronze plate in the middle.

Usability for the phone is good. In my right hand I've got access to all the buttons, though the volume controls are hard to reach (I usually flip the screen to my palm to use the volume controls).
The touch keys on the front (next to the joystick) are a bit fiddly, so I have them turned off, but others might like them.

Best keyboard out there imo, has buttons that are about 20% larger then competitors with good tactile feedback and backlighting for typing in the dark.
Having a slide out qwerty is not useful for one handed texting though it's amazingly fast with 2 hands (I can type blindly and while IMing people didn't even notice I wasn't on my pc. It's that fast.)

The only problem I have is the build quality. Several people here have replied about it dying. Mine too is currently at the end of it's life cycle. Paint is peeling off on some places, the sliding mechanism feels a bit crooked and it's been turning itself off lately (started happening after the last time it fell). Though to be honest I haven't taken the best care of it and it's had a few drops to the floor.

The M800 offers everything there's currently out there, in a small package that's not ugly, at an affordable price. I can definitely recommend it.

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  • 2010-01-19 10:00
  • ncd7
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> In reply to hussein @ 2009-05-10 13:11 from M{3PYes it has, it's tucked away in the bottomright corner of the phone

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  • 2010-01-19 09:26
  • ncd7
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I got this phone a little while ago and i loved it ti bits but the only downside is that it is really complicated to work an di spilled orange juice over it and nowhere is able to fix it

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  • 2009-07-12 14:11
  • myxx
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Ok, forget my previous posts, this being my second M800, I thought it was fine until for no reason after a few days it just went haywire. It kept flicking from the voice dialer to home screen !!! WTF !!! A hard reset sorted nothing :(

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  • 2009-06-25 02:17
  • 3aC7
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Sadly this only has a pitifull 64MB of RAM, then only about 20-30 after a boot up :(
Other than this, the handset is good apart from the slow response when opening certain apps.

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  • 2009-05-19 19:37
  • nHU5
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This handset takes my 8GB sandisk micro SD card no probs. Screen resolution is fantastic. Be aware that installing all the extra programs at boot up will eat up a lot of memory so only choose one or two that you really need.

The qwerty keyboard feels nice and solid. (I'm using it to type this). Dont forget to install Opera web browser. Be aware that there is slight delay when opening certain programs.

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  • 2009-05-19 01:00
  • 0FqK
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i what t know if this phone has a pen
thanks

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  • 2009-05-10 13:11
  • M{3P
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> In reply to bas @ 2009-04-20 10:27 from n%$UThankyou for the tip-will give this a go and hopefully problem solved-once again many thanks

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  • 2009-04-21 01:22
  • iLSQ
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> In reply to bling @ 2009-04-05 12:58 from iLSQWhen you take off the back cover you'll notice the phone turns off. This is because of a small switch under the cover (on the top left). In my case the cover didn't press strongly enough on the switch and that's why it kept rebooting.
I pushed a LITTLE BIT of cotton in the hole of the switch to make sure it stays firmly pressed when the cover is closed.
Now remember to take out the battery when u change the SIM because the cotton will probably keep the button pressed, even when you remove the cover.

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  • 2009-04-20 10:27
  • n%$U
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my husband and I both have the Glofish E-ten M800 and we both experience the same problem as in the phone will frequently restart (shut down), does anyone else have this problem,if so is there an answer to it.

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  • 2009-04-05 12:58
  • iLSQ
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> In reply to Shane @ 2008-05-01 01:07 from xTJHHas anyone found a fix for the freezing up problem? I have sent Eten a email but they have never got back to me. Please email me if you have a fix, info@bayviewtowing.com

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  • 2009-01-27 10:31
  • 4AwE
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I have too problems with this one, I have buy it from Italy, Mediaworld, from the first day the GSM do not work, battery work maxim 1 hour, and when I try to reinstall or torn to default it doesn't restart, at the Mediaworld they told me that I need to go to one at the official GlowFiish support technician, i find one and after 3 mounts they tell me that can be repair only at the producer country or to pay 300 euro for be repair in Milan... wtf ... soo... I have payed 600 euro, at the moment I have buy an phone that is now 280euro in offer at the same place that refuse my warranty first but now they accept to try to repair or change may phone. At the moment passed more than 4 mouth and I have an phone that i have no more than 1 day.... It's a good phone but the Eten must do something with the warranty at list in Italy.....be careful if you buy!!!!!

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  • 2008-11-13 11:29
  • 0Un{
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> In reply to Pride @ 2008-04-27 11:22 from pKxRhow long did u ave this phone because y probably did nt know how to work it.

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  • 2008-09-12 14:18
  • 4S86
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i love this phone and their nothing wrong with it. people just dont know how to kep up with cellphones .They just what to break them. so please kkep up withthe phone stop saying it bad i know ow to work the phoe yeah dont.

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  • 2008-09-12 14:15
  • 4S86
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do not buy it!! read here:
http://www.mobiphil.com/?p=20

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  • 2008-08-27 19:33
  • Cp61
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My phone came with Windows 6.1, it has a FM radio.

I had an Asus P535 before. Compared to it the screen is very bright with nice solid colors, higher resolution. Sometimes when you scroll though you can see how parts of the screen are updated one after another.

My device reports 49MB RAM which is less than the Asus (which was Windows 6.0, not sure if it matters). Overall if you start a few apps at the same time it becomes sluggish. I highly recommend buying a phone which has 128MB RAM in the spec.

I press random soft keys while I hold the phone. They're almost unusable because of that and it's annoying that it will always alert me if I disable soft keys.

Some applications will display very small icons in 640x480, eg. QIP.

My battery seems to be worn out even though it should be new :-( Not sure if that's Eten or Windows 6.1 or battery type (reported as Li-Ion Polymer) - phone doesn't display battery level while charging.

GPS seems faster than P535 even though specs say they're both Sirf Star III.

I was wondering between HTC TyTN II and this phone and chose this one because of the higher resolution. The HTC handles better with a few apps running though because it's 128MB RAM.

AGPS says it can't connect. Never used anything like that before so not sure if it needs any configuration - it didn't show options for that.

Power button is hard to press with one hand. You have to hold the phone with the other hand otherwise you slide out the keyboard. The volume buttons are exactly on the opposite side so you have to watch out not to press them too.

Stylus is placed near the mini USB port so it's hard to pull it out when the phone is connected.

I found no way to turn off the phone. Pressing and holding power does not power off the phone, the manual says to TURN OFF in wireless manager and then just pull out battery.

Battery cover is hard to open, I used an old SIM card to open it.

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  • 2008-06-14 16:30
  • m{jy
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please read here about my bad experience
http://www.mobiphil.com/?p=20

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  • 2008-06-11 18:32
  • Cp61
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I have a good experience. Indeed it is a bit slow out of the box, but after some tweaks its behavior is as good or better than any HTC. Fast GPS. Besides it will offer a VGA screen etc etc really satisfied.

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  • 2008-05-23 00:47
  • P4sm
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Has anybody had the same poor experience with the M800 as me? Took mine back after 2 days because phone would not work. Was told I had destroyed the phone software but was given a replacement.After one week the new appliance began to work intermittently then failed to charge. Went back for repair and took two weeks to return. Within two days again failed to charge. Back to Eten again who tell me there was nothing wrong, it just needed to be charged!
I have it back for 4 days during which time the locking mechanism has only worked part time and on one occasion the battery went from 95% charged to 10% charged in 5 minutes.
Either I am very unlucky or the product is rubbish.

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  • 2008-05-03 12:55
  • n58Q
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Just sent mine back. I had it for about a month. It continually would lock up the phone portion and would be unable to make a call. Randomly I would get voicemails from friends asking why my phone was off ... when I had full bars and the phone was on. Additionally, it would refuse to power on until the battery was removed/replaced.

All of that aside, the 64 megs of ram left the device very sluggish feeling, even after doing a clean install without all of the addons. The keyboard uses flexible material that seemed... cheap... to cover the keys. What this means is you need to push on the center of a key to get it to actually register.

Above all, the softkeys were unbearable. When they were on, they were way too sensitive, and would register the wrong command all the time (try to hit the right softkey and get the Home page to launch). Turning off the softkeys was easy, but needed to be done every time the device was reset (which needed to happen frequently with all the lock-ups) and turning off the softkeys leaves you with only 1 way to navigate the phone - making it hard to use 1 handed. On top of that, once the softkeys are turned off the software will keep letting you know via a reminder that you need to turn them back on. Very annoying.
Finally, the GPS seemed to take about 10-15 minutes to get a lock, even from a warm start.

In short, I would not recommend buying this phone.

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  • 2008-05-01 01:07
  • xTJH
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