After a month of furiously shopping gifts for your friends and family, you might want to get a small gift to yourself, a cellphone on the budget. Hi-Mobile sent us in for a review two extremely affordable cellphones that don't lack features. The first one is the popular Motorola SLVR L7 (just $140) and the other one is the less popular --but with 3G and web capabilities-- LG U8500 (aka U880, just $180).
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:2005-06-28
The L7 syncs fine with iSync, don't forget that this is the second iTunes-capable phone released, so it didn't require extra thought to know this.
The LG phone doesn't work with iSync. It only works with the Address Book, Bluetoothing addresses one by one -- multiple addresses sent via Bluetooth results in one mashed-up address, so avoid.
Edited 2006-12-27 10:39
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2005-09-17
> You bought an NGage? I'm sorry 
You are kidding, right? S60 Symbian OS, with excellent sync features, full IMAP and POP E-mail support, and gazillions of apps compatible with it (among which there indeed happen to exist some useful ones, Opera, TomTom city maps, etc)., FM radio, MMC card slot, MP3 support, blah, blah TWO YEARS AGO for 100!? And that was when Nokia had already retired it
The fact that it is an utter crap for gaming (which would have disappointed if I was ignorant about that when I got it, which I was not) only reveals how Nokia was so wrong at marketing it as such. It was the ultimate cheap smart phone.
Edited 2006-12-29 16:50
Member since:
2005-09-17
Pardon the rudeness, but after becoming dependent on the synching feature of my two year old 100 N-Gage with almost all fields of Mac OS X's iCal & Address Book, a phone review that does not mention how the phone performs in that aspect, what it allows (or if it allows synching at all), has missed the point for me.