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Hi all, I sold my Omnia i900 and now I only have the C902, I'm looking for a replacement phone and came across ELM and it it around US$230 in my country. Here are my questions
1) is it a good deal ?
2) What about signal reception issues ? are they fixed with the latest firmware?
3) Screen quality is better than C902 or or worse ?
4) found a slightly used X10 mini for US$280.
** What is the phone I should go with? ELM or the X10 mini
Thank you
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Posted: 2010-08-07 16:38:07
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SE's higher end smart phones seem more like "smart misery", after all I've read on SE's official support forums. I'd go for the Elm.
Reception on Elm is fine, for normal 'GSM' networks at least. I don't know about 3G reception, some say its 3G reception is low, but that might also just be a measurement error of the phone's software... I don't know.
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Posted: 2010-08-07 17:21:27
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When I had the Elm great phone but for me even where I live in high coverage area the reception was terrible at times. Why? Cos the antenna inside is down the bottom of the phone where you put your hand when holding it. When placed down a surface it was ok but as soon as you pick it up it drops to nearly one to 2 bars constantly. It was terrible.
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Posted: 2010-08-08 00:22:16
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On 2010-08-08 00:22:16, Bonovox wrote:
When I had the Elm great phone but for me even where I live in high coverage area the reception was terrible at times. Why? Cos the antenna inside is down the bottom of the phone where you put your hand when holding it. When placed down a surface it was ok but as soon as you pick it up it drops to nearly one to 2 bars constantly. It was terrible.
Hey Bono
So it is a hardware fault like iPhone4 ?
Firmware updates can't solve it ?
[ This Message was edited by: gayannr on 2010-08-08 03:38 ]
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Posted: 2010-08-08 04:37:18
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I guess I hold mine differently. I have no reception problems on 3G at all. It's a great phone as long as you're not a "death-gripper", I guess.
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Posted: 2010-08-08 07:05:27
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On 2010-08-08 00:22:16, Bonovox wrote:
Cos the antenna inside is down the bottom of the phone
Isn't the antenna in the small hole next to the Micro SD slot? If not, then what is that thing?
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Posted: 2010-08-08 12:12:39
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On 2010-08-07 16:38:07, gayannr wrote:
Hi all, I sold my Omnia i900 and now I only have the C902, I'm looking for a replacement phone and came across ELM and it it around US$230 in my country. Here are my questions
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3) Screen quality is better than C902 or or worse ?
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See here:
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Posted: 2010-08-08 12:34:46
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C902 wins. The colors are much better. But the screen size is a down side
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Posted: 2010-08-08 12:38:39
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On 2010-08-08 12:38:39, tranced wrote:
C902 wins. The colors are much better. But the screen size is a down side
damn! Elm display is kinda horrible compared to the C902 screen, I think I would be better off with Hazel,
Do you think Elm and Hazel produces different quality pictures despite having same camera modules ?
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Posted: 2010-08-08 12:57:57
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Hazel's screen supports 16,777,216 colors. That's good I guess. But the camera still being the same. I think we won't see difference.
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Posted: 2010-08-08 13:02:05
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