Windows Phone Thoughts: E-TEN Goes QWERTY: Glofiish M700 Reviewed

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Thursday, March 22, 2007

E-TEN Goes QWERTY: Glofiish M700 Reviewed

Posted by Darius Wey in "HARDWARE" @ 08:30 AM



Figure 28: Taken with the M700's 2.0-megapixel camera. Click the image above for a larger version (1200 x 1600; 257.7KB).


Figure 29: Taken with the M700's 2.0-megapixel camera. Click the image above for a larger version (1200 x 1600; 183.4KB).


Figure 30: Taken with the M700's 2.0-megapixel camera. Click the image above for a larger version (1200 x 1600; 342.9KB).

After seeing the X500's camera in action, I had high expectations while sampling the M700's, but I was left disappointed. With or without the flash, many of the images seemed washed out and contained a great number of streaks, while the colours often failed to match the source. E-TEN's camera application offers a plethora of options from frames, effects, and resolution to orientation, flash, date stamps, and capture modes. It also supports the capturing of video, but it really bogs down the device when subject to fast motion or varying degrees of light.

Previously, I mentioned that the battery life of the M700 wasn't stellar. E-TEN rates the device with a talk time of 5-7 hours, standby time of 150-200 hours, Pocket PC usage time of 10-15 hours, and GPS usage time of 5-7 hours, but in a real-world setting, these figures are far from the truth. Where I'd typically attain two to three days off a single charge with the X500, I'd attain one to two days with the M700. All that takes a wide range of factors into consideration: half an hour of talk time, one or two SMS messages being sent or received, an hour or two of Wi-Fi, an hour of general application usage, and a Bluetooth headset connected for half a day. If you follow a charging pattern of once a day or two days, you'll rarely have to worry about a dry M700. Just don't expect a single charge to last for long bursts.

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