However, I want to mention anything about the robustness of the phone at this point, there are plenty of reviews, tests, Youtube videos and postings on the Internet to prove it, this phone is hard-kaputbar. What is, however, very little place is the service and unfortunately, here you get some problems:
-> Problems with Vodafone 3G network
as Sonim told me Vodafone differs slightly from the transmitting frequencies, resulting in the terms of the mobile phone while the 3G short, tried to dial and then restarts immediately. This is repeated until you insert a different SIM card or in an area where it has garkeinen reception and then turns off the 3G. However, it has the possibility that cell phone (at their own expense) to Osnabrück to send to Sonim where then a patch is added which remedies this problem, supposedly lasts 1-2 weeks, according to Sonim.
-> T9
knows the phone a word not you can not just press a button to get the word to enter Manuel but writing must either without T9 or long pointless any letter keys key until the T9 no proposal has more, only then you can enter the word manually (partly I press proposes "spell" 10 keys to). Possibly goes the other way, but I have not found anything yet.
-> Camera
first I have long wanted, until I came out that "highlighting an" "Flash ON" means. However, the flash for still images is not to be used almost since it only concerns when you press the shutter button, which in turn leads to the sensor, the photos just have a white spot in the middle because the brightness adjusts not fast enough.
-> File Management
The software available for download at Sonim is to Windows contacts, media, etc. to play on the mobile phone is not just functional or bulky, awkward and reminds me of software Windows2000 times. I recommend to dub files to your phone, this easy to use as a mass storage.
-> Playlists
... Create on the phone is a nightmare. It creates a new playlist and now wants to add individual songs from his folders on the memory card, I describe times short menu: Playlist is opened -> "Options" -> (5x down) "Add" -> (1x down) "Memory Card" -> "Open" -> 1x down "Audio" -> "Open" -> "MeinMusikOrdner1" -> "Open" -> Select (song) -> "ok "
now you have added a song to the next add repeats to the whole process ...
-> USB data exchange
tried it on 2 PCs and come with both a data rate from 0.5 to 0.8 megabytes per second, not really fast ... better the memory card out and connect directly to the PC.
-> Voice quality
if I have good reception quality is ok, not great but ok. I have, however, not so good reception I do me really hard to understand the other, especially if one makes the handset very noisy the quality is poor.
-> Menu
is getting used to! The German translation is sometimes very funny and since the German words are often longer, it moves the text on the side of the screen and the text "run" then virtually across the screen. However slowly, that's really incredible.
What I like:
-The Volume is really very loud, at least I've still no cell phone as "scream" belongs !!
-The Display is pretty good, the backlight is very bright.
-The Battery lasts a long time: I phone about 2.5 hours a day with mediocre reception, hear about 1h music via mobile phone and maybe write 3 SMS, here the battery lasts about 10 days.
-Helle Flashlight
All in all, I would buy it again.
