Dopod 838 Pro

A difficult phone to use... but fun it drops out quite a bit battery life is average features are good though

Pros: Uses micro sd card like it should, big screen support for every network

Cons: Camera is a piece of junk, wifi can make a slight interfierence with phone calls, a little laggy

For some reason the speaker cuts in and out but could be a settings problem.

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Impossible to get it internet enabled, great keyboard, windows a plus. Board failed took 2 months to repair, then repairer replaced Windows operating system with HTC. Lack of after sales service.

Pros: Keyboard, large screen, windows.

Cons: Can't pick up calls, call drop outs, Windows op freezes, poor mother board,

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hye all,
i wanna ask u guys where can i repair my dopod 838 pro in malaysia?
the speaker(ringing & loud speaker)malfunction

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A very good phone

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how do i get my phone to vibrate?

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This is a really good pda phone, its my first phone and i love it

Pros: keyboard, infrared, mirror

Cons: the manual is like 450 pages, sometimes freezes

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Overall a great phone. With so many great features like wifi adapter, fast cpu, bluetooth 2.0, it easily handles all tasks you can imagine to be done with a mobile phone. But after all, you have to upgrade it to WM 6.0 first, which is faster and more reliable. A official version of wm6 has been released by dopod months ago.

Pros: - Wide choice of applications on WM6 platform.

- Great battery life in its level

- 2m pixels camera with led light

- qwerty keyboard.

Cons: - bulky

- no build-in gps

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Probably the best PDA smartphone around. Would take a lot of effort to beat.

Pros: Where do i start from? Loaded with lots of helpful applications, internet, outlook email etc. Easy to use, and the PDA capabilities are the best i have seen yet.

Cons: Chunky, no in-built GPS.

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Had it for over a year and found it to be pretty robust. Once needed repair though (ROM Update failed midway) and it took over a MONTH and a HALF to get repaired - WOEFUL aftersales with lies no end and no alternate repairers to go to.

Windows interface is great with no end of software available, and even though there is no radio you can pick it up of the net and listen live via IP - if you have internet package hooked up.

Screen is hard to see in sunlight and running too many applications at once can cause it to bog down like a slow computer.

The camera is very average and does not compare to my mates Nokia.

Battery life is poor but you can charge the thing using a standard mini USB cable to yours (or anyone elses) computer if need be.

Accidently dropped it and the scroll wheel broke - not game to take it in for repair for fear of huge cost and up to 2 month delay in repair.

Keyboard has always worked well and really speeds up the typing of txt messages etc.

WiFi works reasonably well but only reasonably.

Pros: Windows based for heaps of applications

Internet capable -

PDA and Phone in one -

Letter recogniser if hand writing on the screen

Can sync with your outlook express

Cons: REPAIR OPTIONS - For Melbourne users simply google it - look at PHONETEC (a repairer of HTC products) and my repair experience of nearly 2 month turnaround - with exactly same problem experienced by others.

Screen in sunlight cant be seen

button positioning on both sides makes u push more than one button by mistake.

Needs GPS (I currently use a standalone blootooth GPS) for navagation program

Battery life

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I do not like this phone at all, I am on my way down to Optus to tell them that they can go put this phone where the sun doesn't shine. Had this phone in for repairs in November, took nearly 5 weeks to get back, I really heavily on my phone for my business.

Pros: The keyboard.

Cons: 1) Rarely can use buttons at base to answer or hang up.
2) Battery doesn't hold a charge for long, no phone calls made yesterday as left on charge all day, battery flat this morning, and unable to be used.
3) Will hang up on me in middle of call with client, not happy.
4) Hit the answer button, when it decides to work, and it will hang up instead.
5) Can't hook up to wirless internet unless on top of it, and at other times will hook up when I don't want it to.
6) Screen freezes.
7) If you get a notification message, you can't do anything as screen locks up, and you have to reset`phone.
I am sure there are more, but that is my whinge over.

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