Eten G500 - user opinions and reviews
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7.5
- Features
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7.4
- Performance
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7.3
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- Anonymous
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its really a fun phone to have if you are looking for something that maybe older in technology, but still can compete with the big guys in the mobile realm, although lacking Wi-Fi hurts its chances. it could be remedied with a simple card but then that takes up space for an actial memory card to be inserted. bu it has GPS which is helpful. this is the cousin to the M600 (which is for business/productivity people who need wi fi acess more than GPS, the G500 is the Road Warrior with its GPS). it is a neat phone. i didnt care if it was older technology. i own it for about 6 months now and i still love it even though newer and better devices i drool over are coming out. i can't spend the $$ to go out and buy a new phone right now, so this was the only option (b/c ebay is awesome and something like this was cheap as hell although the actual device is not a "cheap" device). its my first PDA/Phone and tricking it out with a new UI and stuff like that really helps my productivity. i am connected to everything i need & want.
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- 2008-06-26 22:44
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- Joe
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i bought this phone off ebay for $60 b/c the microphone is broken (i use the bluetooth anyway). one thing i have to say about the phone is that i love it. i am in college and money is very precious to me. since i can't go buy a $500 phone, this was my next best bet. i can do everything and anything with this. so what if its a bit bulky (size & weight). i appreciate the GPS harware it has (i use TomTom 6.0 with the very latest maps). i pimped the phone out so probaly thats why i am truly in love with it. it keeps me connected to everything. even for a 2 year old phone (at this point in time) i think it can still compete with today's devices such as the HTC products. yes, n wifi, but i would sacrifice it for the GPS (i know the newer phones have both). i bought a wifi card for it anyway so now i do have both. i have no comlaints with this at all. plus i have a 4 GB card as well, so i can have as much storage as an iphone (1st gen models).
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- 2008-01-24 00:29
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- Adjetey
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The G500 is very exciting but no matter the settings it simply wont vibrate & with that so so low audio, i do miss quite a lot of calls and appointments... any clue to resolve this...
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- 2008-01-04 17:25
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- Hussain
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i'm using it since 2005 and i found the following:
ringtone-very low
battery-very poor
weight-very heavy
speed-very slow
price-very high
size-very big
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- 2007-09-22 09:36
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- Lou Australia
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Have had the Eten G500 for 6 months very good i am operating copilot Live 6, for australia and have been to UK & europe they all have worked great.
small complaint ,wish the phone audio was a bit louder.
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- 2007-05-12 23:41
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- Anonymous
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Hey, guys!!! Before I though that this phone like my Eten M600 has Wi-Fi. :( But it don't has it!!! That's no good for phone of this price. You Even can't use Skype on this!!!
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- 2007-03-16 19:23
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- simon
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does any 1 know how to get rom update and what does it add to phone plz help
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- 2006-11-18 12:04
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- pankaj jain
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I had purchased G500 about a month before, A great product over all. Surprising part with G500 is that product does not comes with any GPS utility and no prefered software or utility is mentioned on etencorp.com. I want to buy GPS utility or GPS software to make use of GPS in G500. Any body if can suggest about the software to be used on G500 with India Map.
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- 2006-10-16 16:42
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- newhere
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I have E-Ten G500
am having these problems
first , my fone swithed it self and i can't recall it tell i remove my batery and put back again and
the sound is very low , very low
th batery life is not long, it take may be one day and half , that i need to recharch again
i need your opinion, am thinking to sell it because of my phone goes off , when the batery is low.
any suggestion is welcome
thanks
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- 2006-10-09 21:29
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- Andy
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Hi. I am interested in the Eten g500. I would like to know if the eten has some sort of storage in built with the phone. i so an you load the maps on the phone so you can free up the slot to use it for a wifi can or something
Thanks
Andrew
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- 2006-09-18 08:19
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- Zop
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Does anyone know if you can update the flash memory from 128 to 256 which the new g500+ has.
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- 2006-08-03 13:27
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- Andrew
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I am interested in buying a g500. Does it come with GPS built in or do you need to buy a module for it.
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- 2006-07-28 15:15
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- SK
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This is a great phone with almost all the functionalities you want. I just have some problems. The reception is really bad. A signal strength is not an issue. I always get full bars but the sound quality of phone (not MP3) is horrible with a lot statics. It is actually worse on the other party than my side. It is not my service provider issue because I have had 3-4 phones with a same provider and I have not had any problem. The other problem is ringtone is not loud enough. This could be fixed with the hands-free earpiece but I can't have hands-free device all the time. I think that this is a great PDA with moderate GPS and with a below average phone. However, I can't say that I don't like this phone.
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- 2006-07-09 22:08
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- stef
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Does this phone have Skype phone calls?
Please Help ASAP!
From Stef
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- 2006-07-09 10:53
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- s0n0r
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:( As I said early about the belt holder it happend, result: a cracked touch screen matrix which need to be replaced. At least the LCD is ok, hopefully. Suggesting to check following link if U want more info about G500 and/or other ETEN devices. http://www.eten-users.net
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- 2006-07-09 00:17
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