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What you get:
The Motorola M1000 comes with a 32MB TransFlash card (microSD), a
US AC/DC adapter, a USB data cable, a stylus, a 1600 mAh Li-ion
battery, a desktop stand (cradle), a CD and a Japanese manual
(english manual here).
The phone runs the Symbian 7.0 OS and as its user interface on top
you can find UIQ 2.1. There is 48 MB of internal storage (23 MBs
available to the user), 32 MB DRAM (about 15 MBs of free RAM after a
clean boot) and a 32bit 168 Mhz ARM9 CPU. The phone weighs 168gr and
its dimensions are 117x59.5x21.5 mm (thiner than the HTC Wizard, but
a bit taller and wider). The device sports a 2.9" 65k 208x320 TFT
touchscreen, a 1.3 MP back camera (no flash) and a VGA front camera
for video-calls. The phone supports 802.11b WiFi (unsecured, WEP,
WPA, WPA-PSK, LEAP etc. networks are all supported), Bluetooth 1.1
(obex, HFP/HSP, serial profile support) and it operates at GSM
900/1800/1900 MHz and 2100 Mhz WCDMA.
Description:
The device feels pretty nice in the hand, it has a solid feel.
However, the stylus could be better. It feels like an elephant sat
on it or something, and so one of its sides is completely flat. It
is not very nice using it for extendend periods of time, but it will
get the job done.
Above the screen is a wrist strap hole and two buttons: one opens
the menu of an open application and the second one is a "joker"
button that each application can add its own special support for,
for example, the included Opera 7.50 browser uses it to alternate
between fullscreen and windowed mode. Especially for Japanese users
these two buttons also have an alternative meaning when pressed and
held: they activate/deactivate the "manner" and the "drive" mode.
These are modes that the phone goes into automatically when the user
is driving a car or when it's necessary to show good "manners"
towards other people in the same room as the user (e.g. at the
cinema, next to a person with a heart pacemaker, at a business
meeting etc). The user can indicate how these modes should be
carried out exactly (e.g. if there will be an active ringtone or
not, if there will be a vibration or not, if there will be sounds
when pressing the touchscreen or not etc).
Below the screen is a 5-way joystick that helps you navigate
through lists, the "answer" button, the "hang up" button, and also
an additional button below the joystick, the "Home" button, which
loads the "Summary Screen" of the device. In that screen there is
the month calendar displaying, the date and time, number of the
emails, voicemails, SMS, upcoming appointments and active tasks.
There are also 3 buttons that load the video, image and music
playback applications.
On the left side of the device you will find the button that
launches the camera application and a two-edged button that
increases and decreases the volume. On the right side there is a
"Voice Record" button and when used during a call it works as a
"speakerphone ON". Below that there is a slider button that has 3
states: Hold, Phone ON, Phone OFF. We should note that the phone
comes with extremely good stereo speakers, maybe the best ones I
have heard on any phone. This is a good thing given the fact that
(except for Bluetooth mono headsets) you won't be able to find and
purchase DoCoMo-specific wired headsets outside of Japan -- the
phone only accepts DoCoMo headsets. At the bottom of the device you
will find the charging port which also doubles as a USB data
exchange port. You can charge the device either by using its power
adapter directly, or by placing it in its cradle. The cradle has a
very funky design, so it might take a while to get used to it.
Phone functionality:
The phone application is pretty nice: it has large numbers,
allowing you to type a number with your thumbs. You can select if
you want to make a voice call or a video call. Unfortunately, I was
not able to test the video call camera because I don't think
Cingular supports WCDMA at 2100 Mhz (it works in Europe and Japan
though). Another problem was the fact that the phone wouldn't get
the information it expected from Cingular's towers regarding
voicemail and so I couldn't check my voicemail. Thankfully though,
the phone comes with a small utility that allows for speed dialing,
so you can specify the voicemail number (you can get that number by
directly calling your carrier and asking for it or by checking it
out on a SonyEricsson phone's voicemail settings). The phone
application also allows you to block some callers, enable/disable
the Caller ID, and it has roaming and call forwarding settings. In
the "History" window you will be able to see the Dialed, Missed and
Answered calls. When making a call you are presented with the
ability to Mute, put on Hold, enable the Speakerphone and lock the
screen avoiding to accidentally pressing on it with your face
against it. Finally, you can setup your own ringtomes, mp3 is
supported.
The phone supports alternative ways of communicating such as
email and SMS. On this business phone Motorola purposely removed
MMS/EMS support unfortunately (which would make useful the sending
of personal video messages of the user's face by using the front
camera). At least, the email application is pretty good and even
supports GMail and IMAP. However, there were a few discrepancies
with HTML email not rendering at all. You can have multiple email
accounts and you can apply filters on them.
The Contacts application is pretty good. It has lots of different
default fields and even allows introducing your own fields! The only
problem with the Contacts app is that there is no quick button
search (e.g. click a button named "A-C" to find all contacts that
their names start with A, B or C). To be more presice, there are
such buttons, but only available for Japanese characters.
Regarding Bluetooth, the phone maxed out at about 30 KB/sec of
transfer rate, while the GPRS connection was constantly between 7
and 10 KB/sec. Finally, the service line at the bottom of the screen
shows up the time, Bluetooth and WiFi status, profile chooser,
virtual keyboard launcher, network status (also allows to enable
Flight mode) and the battery status (which unfortunately only has
three readings: high, medium and low).
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