You thought you'd seen it all, but no. Here's the MTV phone: the Motorola e398 ("as seen on MTV" says the sticker on the box). This is a GSM music and video playback phone that was originally targetted at the T-Mobile lineup in Europe but is now sold in the US through Geeks.com. We take a quick look of what to expect of this good-looking device.
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This phone doesn't seem to bring much new to the market. There's so many nice phones out, so why does this one deserve attention? Have Motorola done anything right (with the exeption of the Razor phones, design wise) lately? Nokia and SonyEricsson have phones out already which is light years ahead of e398. And at the same price point.
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My ipod can run for 18 hours without charge.
Most phones are good if you get 300 minutes of talk time.
Play tunes = your phone is probably off or your tunes are interrupted by each call and sms message.
There is not convergence here just a conflict of inerests. Adding camera and videophone actually work but I believe a mp3 player conflicts with the overall use of the phone.
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Yes, it's a really nice phone, but too expensive. Check Russell's application recommendations for his 6680.
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008503.html
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I didn't expect this phone cause many many problems. 1st time i get it from shop and it has internal problems. Next, after fix around 10 days by Motorola, the phone still has same problem + new problems. It is incredible fantastic in having such redicilious phone and the 2nd repair took around 3.5 months. So in total, i have to wait almost 1/2 years to use this phone properly. >.<
I am happy with Sony Ericsson phone, like T610. It did such a good job for me. The bluetooth integration is smoothly in my mac.
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I'm guessing those are 3/8" jack headphones that you had. Did you try a regular wired headset for a cell phone, even a mono one? Those use the smaller jack.
These are the Plantronics set that I was referring to. They're not the only game in town for stereo earbuds with a smaller connector, either. I know BoxWave also make one.
http://www.plantronics.com/north_america/en_US/productName/MX100s
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For the most part all cellphones and even a large number of MP3 players are incapable of driving professional headphones well.
If you wish the best audio quality, you need a headphone amp. And even that will be limited by the quality of the output section in your cellphone or portable audio player. For a cellphone, the circuitry is usually cheap and does not perform well.
An example of a quality headphone amp:
http://www.headphone.com/products/headphone-amps/headroom-amps/the-...
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I've had one for 10 months now and it's bad. The software's a kludge.
The speed of the bluetooth link to a PC is appalling(ie the same as the serial link).
The charger connection is a disgrace and I know of several (including my own) that have gotten progressively worse until the phone is useless because you can't charge it.
Mine's in for repair now and I've only had it working for 5 of the 10 months I've had it.
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Using Sony Ericsson k750i for a couple of weeks. It has memory stick slot with upto 2GB storage (64 mb free card), 2MP autofocus camera, fm radio. The media player can play mpeg4, mp3, aac and some other formats and has graphic sound equalizers. The phone comes with headphones and sounds very good. It also comes with USB cable that makes the memory stick card appear as flash disk and also charges the phone (at a slower rate).
With 9 hours of talk time and all the above features in a neat little form factor, this phone is probably the best out there at the moment.
Downside is that this phone is not sold through mobile carriers is the US and so you have to get it through online retailers.
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http://motocoder.com/motorola/template.jsp?filename=center_E398.htm...
Also, Eugenia, time to cleanup the mess on your desk, no!?
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The e398... is very a good phone if we think in price... yeah if have more many go for a nokia k750.
I have a e398 now i398.... and is fast yo can install some applications and games in the transflash memory some others dont work... capture video... is really a good phone... yo find a lot of games in the internet...
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RE: These phones are a joke
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I would go with Cingular's pay-as-you-go, the one that has a free phone-to-phone service. It's the cheapest plan if you are not calling too much and it only has a $35 activation fee if you already have a phone device you want to use it with. After that, it's $1 per day for the first time you use the phone in that day and 0.25 per minute for a call other to the phone number registered as phone-to-phone. So, if you only call the same person every day, you will only pay $1 per day and no other fees. If you are calling, let's say, 5 people per day for 1 minute each, that would be $1 for the connection of the day, plus the call costs at 5*0.25=1.25. Overall, that would be $2.25.
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