VK Mobile VK2020 - user opinions and reviews
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8.0
- Features
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7.0
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7.1
- 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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- PeTa
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This is the biggest rip off of the Motorola's SLVER phone gosh did VK Mobile run out of ideas so they take one already and think no one would notice.
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- 2006-03-22 09:04
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- Pedro Santos
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Just got my VK2020 from www.lojadotelemovel.com. Well it is really GREAT. What's next? Implant a SIM chip in the brain?
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- 2006-03-21 23:23
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- wee
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i like its looks...small...mp3, blue tooth, nice screen...just what i want...it has been created follow whatever i dream off...
the only concern now....from all the past bad records about this thin VK series...please read the comment given for VK2000...it make me think twice...any USER can tell me more bout the actual battery life spam?
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- 2006-03-20 06:14
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- eric
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Hi,
a question for those who have this phone:
Is there really a voice memo feature?
because some sites say that it has memo vocal, and for some it doesn't...
so please, answer only if you have tested yourself.
thank you
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- 2006-03-19 12:33
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- irene
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ideal for a chocolate freak. looks like a bar of chocolate. really stylish.
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- 2006-03-17 15:05
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- justin
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Just ordered from wapzon.com. I dl the french manual from VK site and can confirm its both 850/1900 and 900/1800. I'll post more in a week or so when i get it.
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- 2006-03-16 20:10
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- Anonymous
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In my personal opinion, it look similar to motorola SLVR series and not Razr series. But it look more slimmer compare to motorola. And this enhancement is really superb....
For those who wanted to compare this phone,,, please make sure you compare to right series instead of giving nonsense own opinion.
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- 2006-03-14 02:42
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- Mit
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at last another brand beside S, is package with the bluetooth technology...i read the spec, and i found that the phone just nice to me, i was wondering why other call this is a copy of Moto??? i was thinking that what else u can design if u want to be slim and light in this case, who those that unlike this design, i recommend ur guy to summit ur ' good ideal' to VK Mobile, and pls goto VK Mobile official website to read the company profile, u will have confident with this company. tata
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- 2006-03-10 03:49
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- theo
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the battery is 790 mah.U can tolk about 2,5 to 3 hrs.the battery is a lot better then on the vk 2000.i got mine from a friend.he is from france.in france u can get this phone for 200 euro.see the vk homepage,then go from there to the france link.there are also some france companys,selling it on the net.hope that helps.
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- 2006-03-05 23:09
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- anthony
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Where can you get this phone? Where did you get yours? Oh, and "bump" on the battery life question..Thx
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- 2006-03-05 21:55
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