O2 XDA Orbit - user opinions and reviews
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- Design
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8.2
- Features
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8.2
- Performance
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8.1
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- Dan
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Great phone, just a shame its not 3G, would have made it one of those all rounders!
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- 2006-11-25 18:24
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- Anonymous
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Arriving with O2 stores end of this week, I've seen my delivery sheet, said it was dispatched on the 22nd Nov!
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- 2006-11-23 18:30
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- Zak
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Hi Khalid I'm looing to get the XDA Exec, would you recommend it? And do you use it with any SatNav software and if so how well does it work? Any advice would be greatly appreciated it. Thanks.
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- 2006-11-22 16:16
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- Khalid
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I have the XDA exec and not sure if I should upgrade to the orbit. The XDA Zinc is ot in January and I like the look of that. The lack of procesessor power puts me off the orbit, considering my exec has a 520 mhz engine.
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- 2006-11-21 15:50
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- UPDAQuest
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Think long and hard about choosing O2 over Eten X500 or the Asus P535! Some will tell you this O2 is pretty nice and perhaps that O2 fan can be satisfied with its adequate hardware meeting their current average use.
However, as someone else had reviewed and was honest enough to allude to the HTC's poor battery selection for things like wi-fi and its mediocre 200Mhz not being suited for multitasking apps, the rest of us who will need more power can look over to other choices like the mentioned Eten Glofish X500 with a better 400Mhz processor (without overclocking) and 1530mAh battery or the Gigabyte g-Smart i300 with a 520Mhz processor, 256MB memory (double the amount of its competitors Orbit and X500) and supposedly has a spare battery included. Though specs are specs, will wait for head to head comparisons like that benchmark on http://babelfish.altavista.com...ish_x500.htm and then can decide.
Oh yeah, you might at first be attracted to that cute glowing RollR (TM) trackball that O2 and HTC are marketing but again over time will you really be up to maintaining its cuteness.
Now if only the Eten Glofish M700 (X500 with qwerty keyboard) rumours were true and available now for review ...
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- 2006-11-21 13:59
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- Mant
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Over the months i've swung from BENQ P51 > HTC P3600 then finally settling on the ETEN X500, then just as the handset comes available at Expansys I stumble across this gem!
After a few mins surfing I found a great comprehensive review on the Orbit for anyone interested in reading up on this device and its performance. Link> http://www.4winmobile.com/view....php?p=42938 Overall a great review with pics and hardly any mention to its lack of performance, it seemed to handle GPS tasks very well, expected bad camera performance and great battery life. Sadly the 200mhz puts me off a little (is that 200mhz 3 core CPU post on page 3 a joke or fact?)and the review doesn't cover Skype usage, no mention of it in the applications screenshot in the ;inked review either so it might not be an embedded application. Again im torn between phones, what with the new Orange M700 also 'coming soon' and Orange France claiming it has GPS enabled. If this is true I could be swinging again over to the M700, else I'll live without Skype and go with the Orbit.
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- 2006-11-19 12:59
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- Anonymous
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Is it worth to buy Orbit. Please give me feedback on the performance. please
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- 2006-11-16 07:41
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- PDA Phone Shopper
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Don't judge the processor speed too soon!! Intel PXA 270 @ 520Mhz not necessarily faster than TI OMAP 850 @ 200Mhz
(higher clock speed = shorter battery life)
We will have to see the working phone to know, but having lived with the unltra-slow Nokia N73 I would have preferred more spped and less battery life myself.
Certaily looks better than the HTC P3300
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- 2006-11-13 17:55
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- Sovann
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Tnks UPDAQuest, I think E-Ten X500 run on 400MHz while Autom Exec is running on 520MHz! that was my question on this Orbit. However, Alan is right, why didn't PDA companies produce what the user like us want?? like 256K colors, 3. Mpixel cam, 1.3 GHz speed, 4GB external mem extendable and the internal mem should at least 1GB and above!!!
I know some time we go no choice but take all these scraps use for tem..
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- 2006-11-13 02:43
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- jon
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This looks like a great phone and im looking forward to getting mine. Be good to see how good the tomtom 6 is.
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- 2006-11-11 16:35
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- Anonymous
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If you want to watch videos buy a dvd player. Its a phone and i cant remember one like it. Ive the mini s and its got to be the next step
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- 2006-11-11 14:40
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- Anonymous
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I've got into reading ebooks on my XDAII. Has anyone tried using these smaller screens for this - is it useable?
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- 2006-11-09 14:32
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- Ian
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Anyone know what type of GPS receiver it has ? sirf star iii I hope !
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- 2006-11-07 16:43
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- bek2basic
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is there a large difference between intel and texas chipset? is it like comparing intel to amd...?
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- 2006-11-07 05:47
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- alan
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why o2 cant be creative?too stupid comes out with same features of the previous one...?let me tell u guys wats ppl really want for a pda phone,basic things you should hav atleast 256k pixel color...so you can hav a nice watching movies on it...cameras should be atleast 3.0pixel above...as nowaday normal hp also have atleast 3.0 pixel cameras,such like nokia n80,sony ericsson k800i...etc
the ram and the rom should be more expended as we might need to download some other software which need huge processor to run it smooth..
3g is also a basic tool for a pda phones,you cant jsut ignore it b'cos less ppl use video's calling....
radio and mp3 feature is also the basic 1 that you have to be...as you did have in the handset,it's a good start...brabo....
last but not least,the handset should able to support more than 4gb external memory expend....even internal memory shouldnt be less than 2gb....
above the basic requirement is based on the demand of true pda user...who is really fully use of a real pda handset...and i'm the one of the real pda user...until now...non of the o2 pda suit me...dont misunderstanding...i did used o2 pda b4...but just not satisfied...
i hope o2 company shoulddo some research on wat really a pda should need and wat satisfies customer...
finally,i would like to say,o2 pda phones is very popular among other pda company,i b'lif it will be the most famous 1 if they can archieve the basic requirement,atleast...as i mentioned above....
thank you
(a guy whose change 4 handphones every years)
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- 2006-11-04 19:34
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- Phil
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I just wondered for those of you using handset for VOIP services , Do you not find the data charges really heavy for streaming voice calls, and allot of networks restrict the use of their data bundles so your unable to use skype etc , anyone had any problems with this
??????????
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- 2006-11-02 16:56
- S35r
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