VK Mobile VK2020 - user opinions and reviews
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8.0
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7.0
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7.1
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- Ergin Guney
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Here's my best expression of battery life so far:
The last time I charged the phone was Monday morning. Right now it's Thursday morning, and the battery indicator is still at 2/3 charged. Keep in mind a few things, though:
1) I keep my cell phone turned off at home. So the phone only got about eight to nine hours of stand-by time since Monday, with Monday itself being a shorter than usual day for me, at about six hours. So, my cumulative stand-by time since last charge is currently only about 26 hours as I write this. This period also included five to six brief calls and several minutes of fiddling with menus. The phone's battery indicator went below 100% for the first time only this morning, after 24 hours of stand-by and the activity I just mentioned.
2) I don't expect the battery indicator to be very linear. In other words, I don't expect to get another 48 hours of similar use out of the phone, now that the indicator is at two thirds. I wouldn't be surprised if my battery ran out some time tomorrow.
3) Your mileage may vary. These things change based on how far you are from the nearest cell tower where you spend most of your time with your cell phone on stand-by. I spent almost all of this stand-by time in my office. My office may be closer to the nearest cell tower than your typical cell phone use location, or it may be farther. I'm not sure what the distance to the nearest cell tower is from my office. I do know that there are no cell towers in the directly visible vicinty of my office. So, at least I couldn't really be next door to one.
It's not easy to say this for certain before I complete a full battery charge cycle even with my typical (light) usage but, my impressions so far is that, if you are a heavy cell phone user, then it's probably safe to say you should be prepared to need daily recharging when you use the VK2020...
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- 2006-03-30 20:43
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- david
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I think the 1Gb NAND flash is the most mis-understood. The only conclusion I can come up with is the it's 1Giga-bits... which means... divide it by 8 to get Gig-Bytes...
thus making it around 125MegaBytes... Rather deceving, NO ?
But I believe the WapZon site lists it as 1Gb=125MB or something...
I am really interested in this phone. But really need a good feel of the battery life. My Razar V3 Black only lasts 2-3days... But charging the VK2020 every day would be ok. I'm a heavy phone user who would like to use my BT headset.
Anybody who owns a VK2020 can advise ?
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- 2006-03-30 08:07
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- Ergin Guney
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To clarify the charger issue: The phone (when purchased through Wapzon.com) came with a "travel charger" to be used with mains power only. It is a "100-240V" charger (50 and 60 Hz), which means it will not require a voltage transformer in the US, but just a plug adapter that will convert its round-pronged European style plug to a flat-pronged US style plug.
It did NOT come with a car charger.
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- 2006-03-30 01:18
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- Anonymous
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The phone comes with a european charger (you can buy an adapter), but it also comes with a usb cable which will charge it as well. You can buy one of those AC/car USB combo chargers and it will work fine.
Battery life is considerably better than the VK2000 by the way. Phone is a definite improvement over the VK2000.
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- 2006-03-29 23:20
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- Lisa
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For those USA users that purchased this from www.wapzon.com, did it come with a car charger? I understand that I'll have to get a power converter to charge it at home.
Also, has anyone found a nice case or cover for it yet?
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- 2006-03-29 21:23
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- skillzlikewhoa
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The motorola l7 is garbage not to say the vk2020 is the best out there but its better then the l7 size wise weight and even features it wins it sure beats the hell out of the l7 the only benefit of the l7 is a vga camera and we all know those are horrible anyway my advice 2 all is stop comparing it to the l7 just cause a key pad is laser etched doesent make it a copy of motorola and to anwser the the battery question i would stick with the decision i made buying the vk2020 even if the battery is not great if you use it it will die u can get a good day out of it as long as you set the settings to conserve power so the screen is off when not in use but its not that bad i hat the nec l1 its a goot thin phone 2 but the battery sucked its about the same as the vk2020 my opinion except for extreme excesive use and trust me i use it you can get 1 good day so charge it at night if you need more battery buy a car charger get a extra battery or bring your charger to work or where ever it is that you go its not great but its made for its size not its battery life if your looking for a battery life phone i suggest the treo i olmost never charged mine but its huge to each is own just stop bad mouthing things this site is for useful opinions not to make fun of phones and say there copys who is that helping honestly so all in all its a great phone has its problems but what phone doesent i like it thats my helpful opinion
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- 2006-03-29 19:33
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- AcuraTLSFan
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My main concern is BATTERY LIFE. For those of you have it, if you would do it again, would you still have bought the VK2020? I was considering the VK2020 or the BenQ-Siemens S68. Small and Simple
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- 2006-03-29 05:34
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- Ergin Guney
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Why buy this one? In my case the reason was "three millimeters thinner, almost half the size (volumetrically), and almost half the weight".
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- 2006-03-28 23:04
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- Anonymous
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what in the world???????? this is like a cheap imitation of the Motorola L7? what in the world? why buy this one and not the other one? is this free or something?
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- 2006-03-28 21:10
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- naw
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1) Battery life is okay for me. I can have one n half day of standby time without using bluetooth. If using bluetooth than will less than that.
2) Bluetooth connection will depend on brands of bluetooth handsfree. Like I'm using HBH-600 (SonyEricsson) with VK2020, it still connect to HBH-600 at 6 meter with 2 wall blocking. Connection lost when reach 8 meter with 3 wall blocking.
But all the above comment will be different to each user.
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- 2006-03-28 08:16
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- skillz
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great phone as far as i can tell it doesent have a gb of nand flash if it does some 1 please tell me how 2 access it i fount 128 mb of storage and only 96mb of it was avabiable calls sound fine but alot more calls then usual have been droped itll go from full service to no service when im sitting still and the screen looks great but 2 hours after i got it white lines are down the middle alittle its kinda grainy if thats a defect i hope the warintee will cover it but despite my complasints it is a cool phone atleast look wise depends what you want out of a phone no camera but its so tiny where would you put it anyways
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- 2006-03-28 04:56
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- Ergin Guney
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I haven't been able to get a precise sense of the battery life yet. But it's way shorter than my Ericsson T616, and I can guarantee you that it will last nowhere near a week on one charge. I'll post it when I have a better sense of the battery life.
I can't answer the headset detection distance question; I don't have a Bluetooth headset.
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- 2006-03-27 04:49
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- wiz
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the phone is slim and packed with mp3, bluetooth and the usual stuff. i use it as a backup phone since i travel often. best part is that it's so unnoticable and light that i can finally stuff a phone in my shirt pocket without the feeling that i have a breast implant. heh heh
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- 2006-03-26 18:00
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- tesco vk
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and can anyone tell me how far the phone can detect the blutooth hedset????is it true it can only reach 1 metre??can anyone who own the vk plizz try check it?
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- 2006-03-26 02:51
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- tesco vk
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hey naw...hows your vk mobile been doin?so how long the battery of yours can last??is it as bad as vk2010..i heard a lot of complaint about the battery of vk2010..pliz tell us ok..i want to buy if the battery can last a week..
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- 2006-03-26 02:42
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- Ergin Guney
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I just received this phone yesterday. I got it from Wapzon.com, too. Thanks to whoever posted that information here. I had to pay them through PayPal, but the shipment was unbelievably quick. (Three days from placing my order until the phone reached my hands.) Here are my initial impressions and unpleasant surprises:
I'm a US-based user, so I was expecting a few headaches when switching my existing Cingular cell phone account to this phone. Thanks to the modular magic of SIM cards, it didn't turn out that way. All I needed to do was switch the phone from its default 900/1800/1900 network band setting to the 850/1800/1900 setting. Took about 10 seconds. Getting the data functions to work was a little trickier. Doing some detective work on the data settings on my existing phone, I was able to replicate them on the VK2020 after some trial and error. Now that works fine, too (other than the unpleasant surprises below).
Now the phone works perfectly with my existing Cingular account including the voice mail indicator, the dedicated voice mail button, etc. (All things on which I was expecting incompatibility glitches, since the phone is not officially sold for the US.)
Let's talk about the unpleasant surprises:
* The Bluetooth feature on the phone does not allow me to use it to connect my PDA to the Internet. It seems that the "dial-up networking" service is not among the supported profiles in the Bluetooth functionality implemented on this phone. That was my most unpleasant shock. It's a big deal for me.
* The WAP browser of the phone is quite buggy. (See the next two bullet points.)
* The "Go To URL" feature simply doesn't work. It consistently locks up either the WAP browser or the entire phone every time you attempt it. There are limited ways of working around this. But it's a big and embarrassing error.
* The phone seems to fail any time what seems to be a "secure WAP page" is attempted to be accessed. I've been able to lock the phone up, crash the browser, and even reboot the whole phone in my attempts at doing this. This means "no Gmail through WAP". I haven't been able to find a workaround for this yet.
* The "PC Sync" software that comes with the phone did not work. It simply does not seem to see the phone. Even when I got a "phone detected" message and saw the beginnings of some initialization process, it still eventually came back and said "phone not connected".
To be fair, I should mention the pleasant surprises, too:
* The phone is tiny. I mean, unbelievably tiny. You initially find it hard to believe that it could really work. But it does! The pictures and dimension specs don't do it justice. It looks much smaller when you have it in your hand. If you had shown me the phone before I saw its specs and asked me to guess its thickness, I would have guessed 5 or 6 mm. In a shirt pocket or a jeans pocket, you simply cannot feel that it's there. Because, in addition to being so small, it's also extremely light, of course.
* The screen legibility under bright conditions is better than I expected. At least it's better than my two-year-old Ericsson T616.
* The battery is a lithium-polymer type. I've been noticing so many new cell phone models, even advanced ones, still using lithium ion. It may not be a big deal, but I think lithium polymer is still preferable.
* The sound quality and volume level of its speaker is impressive for its size. The audio quality of the voice calls is nothing to complain about either. Astounding for this size!
In the end, I had already given up a few features available to me in order to own this phone; namely, voice dialing and a camera. I've also had to give up my desire for a speakerphone feature. On top of those, when I realized I'll have to give up the use of my PDA to access the Internet over Bluetooth, it was an discouraging shock to me. I'll have to decide if I can live with that.
The striking thing is, the size of the phone given its existing features is so impressive that I'm seriously thinking of keeping it even without the Internet access through PDA capability. If the size of a cell phone is important to you, beware of this phone. It's tiny size is addictive! Once you experience it, it forces you to compromise on your requirements, because every other phone starts looking like a ridiculous brick.
I don't have any feedback on the battery life yet, since the phone is so new. More on that later...
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- 2006-03-26 02:39
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- justin
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Got my vk2020 from www.wapzon.com a few days ago. Cheapest price and it got to nyc from malasia in only 3 business days. The phone and manual is in english. However, the charger needs a converter (a few bucks at radioshack). The phone is awesome. My biggest complaint is that the rumored 1 gig memory is really 100mb. YEA THAT SUCKS. I kinda feel ripped off. I am not goin to return this phone as it is still is cool as hell.
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- 2006-03-23 15:16
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- naw
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I just got myself a unit of VK2020. The phone is great in term of the slim size. About the Voice memo...
Is wrong info from website.
VK2020 support only text memo.
The battery capacity is 740mAh....
As for a normal usage... battery can last for 1-2 days. But if you listen to MP3, than the battery will not last that long.
After using for 1 week, I can't see myself changing back to my old bulky phone.
Keep you all update....
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- 2006-03-23 02:31
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