Last update: 8th November 2007
Well I’m not a professional reviewer, just a casual user who wants to share his experience with his new HTC P3600i +built-in GPS bought from Organiser World ^^ I was replacing my mini O2, so most of the words I say will unfortunately compare my mini O2 with the HTC P3600i (besides the migration experience of moving from WM2003 to WM2006). This short review should be useful to those who want to purchase HTC P3600i.
The positives:
The Phone
- The HTC P3600i is sort of similar in weight and size with my mini O2; I can still put it in my pocket, even in my jeans pocket (I hate hanging my phone on the belt)
- It’s responsive (due to more processing power + I guess the stability of WM2006)
- It has more memory to install your programs to (No more headache of “install as many programs as possible in your storage card!”).
- Built in GPS! It may take some time to lock your position (depends on where you are). Have a look at my other blog entry here if you already have this phone and unsure if your GPS is working or not. The best way to try it, is to go outside of CBD area, open your GPS software (TomTom etc), and wait for the lock.
- The camera is not of bad quality but it doesn’t have a flash, so don’t expect to take good pictures under a low-light situation. Personally I think the new Nokias/Ericsson have better cameras. Well it’s a PDA, what do you expect? You can see some of my photo samples on the next page. There are options to zoom, tweak some camera effects, exposure and other settings.
- HTC P3600i can accept 4 Gb of memory card (I saw the sales assistant on Organizer World put a 4 Gb miniSD on it and the HTC P3600i can recognise it as a 4 Gb storage card). I only use 1 Gb though and it’s so much more than enough for me, but I guess some people want more.
- HTC P3600i really has a power off/shutdown feature (my mini O2 can only put the phone in “standby” mode if you press the power button). To really shutdown HTC P3600i, just press and hold the power button for a few seconds. It’s useful to save the battery when you are in a flight, for example.
- Doesn’t come with any miniSD when you buy this phone, but with $25 or even less for 1 Gb MiniSD, I think no one should complain here.
- Built-in Wi-Fi! Meaning, you can go online wherever you are (go and find free wireless/wi-fi hotspots near you) or you can even browse through your home wireless network.
WM2006 and its default applications
- Much much more intuitive than WM2003 in terms of interfaces and menu (for calling, sms notifications, etc)
- Built in Voice Commander Application to those who use it (voice recognition application)
- Comes with the latest .NET framework installed.
- WM2006 doesn’t suffer from WM2003’s “Non-wake up” bug (alarm’s not ringing)
The negatives:
The Phone
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- Fingerprint magnet. But I’ve put my phone in the pouch that I used for my mini O2, so no more finger magnet there.
- No built in radio (although I don’t hear radio much)
- Doesn’t come with a regular audio jack, so you may need to get a converter or a special headset if you want to listen to the music.
Go to next page for more and some photos taken by the camera
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hey,
nice review, im currently thinking of grabbing one under 3’s contract etc, is that who your with for this phone?
also, you mentioned you had quite a few apps running before it crashed.. how many are we talking. more than 10 or less than 5?
Thanks
Well I bought it outright from a shop (Organiser World), as I can save more with pre-paid than a 23-months contract!
Well I had like 5 apps (PhatNotes, BibleReader, umm can’t remember what else). But I’ve closed them all (I’ve checked no more running progrmas), and it still says memory left was 3 mb so I have to do a soft reset
Thanks for the review! I think the iPhone is too overyhped
I can confirm that my free memory is running constant now. An application seemed to cause memory leaks on my phone. After uninstalling it, I’ve never had any problem with the memory anymore!
Mike! Apa kabar!
Nice work Happy New Year my friend
Hi Michael,
Nice review. So is this the phone to go for when requirements like reading pdfs, browsing net and emailing and multimedia applications like watching movies and music come along will be great? Please help me out at this part cuz its been a while since i been searching for a pda and this one seems to fit my bill. (According to your review).
Thanks a lot.
Hi ATH007, thanks for dropping by.
Well I’m not sure if there are new ones that are better than HTC P3600i. I can say & confirm that this PDA can do what you list, but since I only use the phone for phone, taking notes, alarm, task/appointments, I can’t really give an honest opinion about it.
Watching movies + reading pdfs.. are you sure? The screen is quite small. Maybe try going to a shop first and have a feel about the phone
Hi Michael,
Thanks a lot for that reply.
Movies, as in the sense when u just roam around u mite spare a look or two… and reading pdf’s ..that i do a lot.. too much infact. actually i got a friends iPhone right now. Its a good phone but not great. No office apps, no video recorder but browsing net and reading pdfs are fantastic. I want something that works around the defects of iPhone and gives me what i want. And as again, P3600 seems to be decent enuff for the job. Btw, how much did it cost u?
Thanks.
I’d prefer to play games on it than watching movies on the tiny screen
But I guess it’s just a matter of preference heh heh.
iPhone wins because of its sexy look (my opinion). I’d rather get this phone which can do more than what iPhone does. Besides, if you install PointUI (free) or SPB Mobile Shell, you pretty much have a PDA what looks kinda like iPhone interface
I bought it around AUD $900-$1000 at that time I think.. it surely is cheaper now
Hi Mike,
thanks for the good review.
you said that the PDA comes with built in GPS, so that’s mean we just need to download for the GPS software..and it will ready to go?
How’s the quality of the music when you hear it using headphones?
thanks mate,
davy
Thanks Dave.
Well, the GPS software (like TomTom, Destinator, etc) unfortunately are not free.. technically yes you can download them, but I won’t go any further than that here
Once you have the GPS software and purchase the map, it’s good to go! And using it will be totally free. It’ll take some time to get the initial lock though, unlike the GPS that you see inside cars.
The quality of music is great with the headphone, but of course, it can’t beat my Logitech 5.1 speakers
Maybe you can give it a try on the shop, I’m sure the shop assistant will be happy to give you a try