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Release Date:
Q1 2005
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Released for Sprint (PPC-6601) and Verizon (XV6600), the Audiovox PPC6600 keeps business professionals connected while they're on-the-go and out of the office. The PPC6600 is supports high-speed data network, offering typical download speeds of 300-500 kbps. Customers looking for the latest in technology will appreciate the PPC6600's Bluetooth capabilities that allow customers to: exchange information, such as files, calendar items, tasks, contacts and business cards; synchronize with a PC via ActiveSync connection.
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Audiovox PPC6600 (PPC-6601 / XV6600) User Reviews |
| 1. Posted by misok |
Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:22 pm |
Misok LLC Smart Phone Integration Phase 1
I have in the past few months purchased several Audiovox PPC6600 for my Computer consulting business. We are committed to smart phone technology and feel Pocket PC is the platform for us. I like the look and feel of the PPC6600 phone and think it has much potential. I do however have several issues that keep comming up over and again.
Issue #1 Resetting to Factory Defaults - On occasion all phone users have reported, the phone will seemingly reset itself and begin to reboot. Problem is, the devise comes up as it did first time ever used. loosing all internal memory settings etc... It does usually retain the permanent PIM settings but we must restore from backup the rest. I have a few observations: The internal battery life seems to be at 75% even though the external battery may be at almost full power. It seemes to be less frequent if you remove the battery and clean the contacts between the phone and battery. It almost always happends while in the privided side pouch.
Issue #2 POP Email hangs phone service - We have all recognized if we setup the phone to check pop e-mail, the phone will occasionaly decide to stop receiving incomming calls. And does not allow you to make an outgoing call. Observations:If you put the phone into and out of Flight Mode it will wake back up. The phone usually stops working if you are sending / receiving and loose service or have interruption, but not always. It even happends when you setup the POP not to auto send/receive. Sometimes even though the phone won't work you can receive text messages..
Issue #3 Lack of Bettery Life - I utilize the phone to the max, I am likely to be checking my schedule or surfing the web while driving down the street utilizing Blue Tooth headset all the way. If I use the phone the way I want I get about Two Hours of Battery life per charge. To get by I use a car charger when driving and have recently purchased an Extended Life battery (Problem Solved) But I don't like the bulk of the Extended battery. All other issues have persisted since the beginning of my service would like to see a slimmer extended life battery.
Issue #4 Cut and Pasting - I think I should be able to highlight text in any place I might see it. Say Text Message, Note, E-mail or Web site (Like the Palm 650) and one of the menu options should be Dial this number and another should be Add to Contacts. Mostly a Windows CE issue but should be addressed to make for better phone utilization.
I for the most part like the phone but have been frustrated with the problem of it resetting to factory defaults the most. I backup to a 1G SD card and to my PC daily but have lost valuable contact information and phone call record information due to this problem. I believe the electrical contacts on the back of the phone between battery and phone especially the two lower square ones are suspect (Should be spring Loaded small and round). I'm not sure why it is happening but I have noticed that when in the pouch the battery tends to slide side to side a bit. This movement may be causing the electrical contacts to touch the wrong place on the back of the battery thus shorting something out temporarily causing the memory dump, the discharge of the internal battery to 75% and my worst frustration with the phone!
I'm not sure who might read this review with Audiovox or Siemens or whomever actually makes this phone but I would very much like to have a conversation with them about my issues and hope a resolution to #1 is at hand!
Robert A. Morris
rmorris@Misok.com 
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| 2. Posted by chance2002iu |
Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:17 am |
Background - I'm a college student. Before owning the 6600, I carried a Sanyo 8100, Palm m515 and Olympus Camedia D-380 (which later became the Sony DSC-T1, but that's not really relevant b/c no current picture-phone is 5MP). Seeing that the newer phones had the quality of my old olympus, I thought to consolidate my devices.
Size/Weight - It's a PDA phone, get over the size. If it was smaller, then it wouldn't be an effective PDA phone...now would it? I was surprised at the size, since the last time I checked out PDA phones was probably 2001 and *those* were clunky.
Screen - The screen is excellent. The brightness and resolution are perfect. You can even snip the default plastic to work as a protector (college student here, spending money to get this phone was a lot so any bit of savings helps even if it's like $15 or whatever protectors cost. I've bought them before and only used 1 of the eleventy billion)
Speed - Here's the blanked up thing, the stylus response time is good, most program load without much lag as well as file browsing, but every once in a while, I get a major slow down to the point I have to soft reset and can't figure out why. Scanned for viruses (Norton for Handhelds was part of my PDA phone budget and more essential than the screen protectors), none came up (though that doesn't mean much even though i check twice a week for updates).
Phone - Sound quality is excellent when used next to the ear and via the supplied wired headset. I've made countless calls and haven't had a problem on either end. keep forgetting about the speakerphone option so can't vouch for that.Getting use to LCD dialing is interesting though.
Web - Very reasonable speed for web surfing with pocket IE and 1xRTT. The options in Windows Mobile 2003 for adjusting font size, screen layout and column format definitely help. I wish it came with built in WiFi (any 802.11 standard), but it doesn't so i'll have to hope that sandisk or some other company comes up with something larger than a 256MB storage/wi-fi combo card because I love my gig card.
Email - I use imap/smtp servers for sending/receiving email. The default "messaging" program (part of Pocket Outlook I believe) works great for downloading my mail. I rarely use the actual email part of the phone, though I suspect that will change when i graduate. As for now, the ability to check imap/smtp has been a livesaver on a couple occasions.
I've heard that WebIS Mail 2.06 as an alternate client is good and has considerably more functionality. I may try to test it out sometime, who knows.
Calendar - What can you say, it's Outlook on a PDA. The PPC-6600 syncs seamlessly with MS Outlook via activsync, providing all of your contacts and appointments. Excellent. Though I have reservations about using Outlook for all my information, I have yet to find the time to see if there's an alternative. I'm still skeptical about Outlook and loathe having to use it. Other than get a new phone OS or another option that I have yet to find, I'll have to stick it out. I could go on forever about this but I'll stop.
Keyboard - Excellent. Good tactile feedback. I was able to type faster on the slide-out keyboard than I thought but still not faster than the keyboard accessory on my m515. It has, however, caused my text messaging to jump from like 30 msg to 150+ but I got the vision plan back when there was unlimited text so no worries for me about that. =)
I also played with the transcriber option in Windows Mobile 2003, and it works quite well. The 'grafitti' is much like palms, so no annoying transition. I like the transcriber for a variety of reasons, but mostly because I like to see what the 'recognize' function will translate any japanese kanji I write into. I'm meaning to check for a Japanese IME sometime.
Battery - I can go an entire day w/o charging. That's really all I need, since each evening I sync it with my home computer to charge. I also try to charge in the car when I can or when I expect to be home later than usual or can't put it on the charger at home for that long.
Annoyances/Rantings
1) See comments about Outlook in the Calendar section.
2) The ring tones that come with the device are not loud enough. At first I thought that this was a limitation of the device speaker, but after reading some posts it became clear that some new .wav files were needed.
3) No way to set individual ringtones for my contacts until I found (after countless hours of meticulous searching on forums and the web): http://anything.leitches.com/PhotoContacts%20v1.20.CAB
4) http://anything.leitches.com/PhotoContacts%20v1.20.CAB or the phone (there is a cab file to correct this for the phone but again, you are stuck with 1 ringtone and what fun is that?) don't support mp3 ringtones, par se. I had to convert all the mp3s I wanted to wma (which do take up a few kb more space and that does add up...i'm frugal about the weirdest things if you haven't noticed)
5) RAM. Don't get me wrong, 128 MB internal is nothing to laugh at and that isn't my complaint. My complaint is that if you lose power, you can only get back what you have sync'd up last. I hope the next PDA phone I can afford (probably in 3-5 yrs) has a small bit of internal HD space to store things such as contacts, contact photos, text msgs, call history and calendar.
6) Outlook/ActiveSync. I know I ranted about it before but it's really blanking annoying. I've had 2 'crashes' and 1 finding out 'that everything erases if you leave the battery out too long (think I read more than 20 min somewhere)' the hard way. So I had to restore *everything* which took hours. Not to mention that blanking ActiveSync has no way to manage the BLANKING profiles so I basically had to create a new profile and move the documents from the old one to the new one. Not to mention that it's blanking annoying to have your device named originalID# and not originalID. At least it doesn't keep you from getting your contacts like palm did (but i found a way around that 'profile already exists' error).
7) Outlook/ActiveSync. sorry, it's still blanking pissing me off.
 You can't wear tight pants, especially leather let alone jeans, without having to use the holster which is a major turn off when you're looking for some action. Why does this matter so much? I'm a blanking college student. I like the efficiency of having everything on this phone but am severly annoyed that it isn't functional when partying. Putting in the lady of the night's number so you can pretend you'll call her is tough with the PDA phone, especially when it's a few hours into the night out.
--Solution 1: get a man purse. Very metrosexual, which a lot of ladies love, think dave chappelle said it best in a skit, chicks dig guys who look like chicks. However, if/when the metrosexual fad wears out, you'll have to go with solution 2 or 3 anyways. Plus, some outfits don't look good with a man purse.
--Solution 2: use it as a PDA only and get a cellphone. Sure you lose out on a lot this way, like the great keyboard text messages and the...whole reason you got the damn phone to begin with...so screw it, go with Solution 3 (which may require selling your roommate(s) organs, but not like they were really using them anyways, right?)
--Solution 3: pay the $10/month to get a second line. You can put your old phone on it or if you want, a new one. Either way, you get a phone that's a phone and suits your partying needs. I ended up getting the LG MM-535 which once I've tried it out for a bit, I'll review later.
and of course there is solution 4&5
--Solution 4: not getting this phone to begin with and buying a PDA/mp3 player and camera-phone/mp3 player seperately. which may or may not cost more in the long run
--Solution 5: not be single or care less about getting laid. If you got good enough game, you can spin your use of this phone versus something 'small and cute' (don't get me started on the irony of girls liking small, cute electronics and yeah, moving on). OK, so this is the worst option since that one trial a few millenia back with that cult leader and the criminal...alternatively, you could hire a hooker/sorostitute.
Summary -
The Sprint PPC-6600 is a high quality device that does nearly everything well. On the "poor-fair-good-very good-excellent scale:
Excellent PDA
Excellent for email and web surfing
Very Good cell phone
Fair-Good battery life
I hope you enjoyed my review and found it useful even though I've started to go on ranting tangents towards the end. If I think of any more comments on this phone, I'll try to add.
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| 3. Posted by ronboykin |
Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:06 am |
First and foremost I like the Audiovox PPC-6600 phone over the Treo 650 because of it's larger screen. Don't get me wrong, the Treo is great little smart phone but I think I was suffering from some eye strain. The Treo 650 is very popular. In fact I sold it within a few hours of placing an add on Craig's List Web Site! The Audiovox PPC-6600 is much more "my phone" because the larger screen. The slide out keyboard is larger than the Treo (the keys are spread out more) but not too effective without nails on your thumbs. I never was too crazy about the keyboard thing and opted for graffiti writing. When I had my Treo I use the Tealscript program from Tealpoint.com to write with graffiti. The pocket Windows 2003 OS on the Audiovox has graffiti writing built in. The size of keyboard does make it easier to hold the phone. I was always afraid of dropping my Treo when using the keyboard. There's a dictionary built in that predicts words that you might write. You get a spell checker also. These writing tidbits would be extra third party add-on programs on Palm systems that run on the Treo. Did I mention that this phone will function as a wireless modem with a laptop or desktop computer over it's bluetooth radio right out of the box? I couldn't get it get it function as modem over its sync cable. Battery life is good but groundbreaking and sound quality when talking on the phone better than average.There's so many likable features on this phone (Oh! did I say phone? I should say computer with a phone built in) that it would take a small book bigger than its own manual to describe it. Well, I'm not going attempt that here! To summarize: I'm not sorry that I sold my Treo 650.
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| 4. Posted by thejonio |
Mon Nov 14, 2005 2:13 am |
When I got my first phone which was a motorola v300 I wasnt satisfied. I hated the fact that you had to text with the key pad. I then started to hate iTap. After a year of using iTap I purchased an LG 9100. the sliding qwerty keyboard was an awesome feature to have on a phone but it was lacking in applications...hard. I knew that after having texting with a keyboard rather than a keypad, my next phone would also have a full qwerty keyboard. After a few months of having the LG my friend bought a 6600. I fell in love with it. Everytime we would hang out I would ask to see his phone. I ended cancelling my Rogers service and went to Telus (Canadian wireless carriers) to get the PPC. He told me to be careful with it because his tends to freeze up a lot. I have not noticed anything like that yet (I've only had for 2 days) but it seems to running perfect. The sliding qwerty keyboard makes for a bigger screen. My only complaints so far are the poor battery life and the very low ringer volume. I have been told by my friend that there is 3rd party software that will enhance ringtone volume. So the only thing that i see wrong with the phone, rather the battery, is the battery life.
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| 5. Posted by dgardner |
Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:02 am |
This will be my last review on this phone.
Pros: Once you get the Voice command its great. The phone is a little awkward at first, but I got use to it. I also drop it on the 3rd I had it. I also took it back right then for a tre600. I hate the Palm OS. I have several 3rd party apps to include voice command, pocket informant and a few games works great. I use the speakerphone and today in the truck for about 15-20min call it was nice.
Cons: Battery is used up quickly talking, I charge mine everyday. The ring volume is not great; I use a combination of ring+vibrate and my ring-tone is a song so I really can hear it. The keyboard takes 2 hands to use well. If you on a call and you hit the power button to end the call the phone won’t hang up. You must hit the end button.
PS: Some advice, if you get the phone make sure it’s the one you want.
1. Under button lock, its best too lock the buttons when the phone is off.
2. Add new ring-tones
3. Get the insurance
4. The Verizon staff doesn’t know much about this phone.
After 7 days with the phone I’m going to keep it and get the insurance tomorrow.
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| 6. Posted by dgardner |
Wed Feb 23, 2005 1:22 am |
Iv'e had my XV for 2 days. It does a speaker phone built in. The phone will stay on unless you put it in flight mode. Also, you can lock the buttons so it won't come on unless someone is calling you. The PDA functions are pretty good. I have dell Axim X5 the big one. Currently I'm not using the EVDO features. So far no need to reset, Yet. The ring tones are garbage. The Verizon reps that I dealt with knew very little about the phone. I figured out more in 30mins than they did in 3 weeks. I'm to work out bugs over the next week and give more info. I may get a Treo 600 if I don't like this. I really enjoy the PPC OS. Finally, my 3rd party apps are working, so far.
After four days of use the xv6600 is okay.
PROS: The PDA side is great. The jog dial is 5-way so it can activate most of teh apps. It also is great with teh phone functions.
CONS: The ringer volume needs to be louder. The Switch Bar app is have issues, but it came from my dell axim x5. No wifi.
Summary: I haven't really used the keyboard so I can't report on it yet.
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Audiovox PPC6600 (PPC-6601 / XV6600) Specs |
Technical Specifications |
| Network: |
CDMA 800 / 1900 |
| Form Factor: |
PDA / Windows Mobile 2003 SE |
| Dimensions: |
124 x 70 x 19 mm |
| Weight: |
208 g |
| Antenna: |
Internal |
| Navigation: |
Touch Screen / QWERTY Keypad / 4-Way Keypad |
| Battery Type: |
1490 mAh Li-Ion |
| Talk Time: |
3.60 |
| Standby Time: |
144 |
| Memory: |
128.0 MB |
| Expandable Memory: |
SD / MMC |
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Safety |
| Radiation (SAR): |
(0.12 W/kg) |
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Imaging |
| Main Screen: |
65000 colors (TFT)
240 x 320 px |
| External Screen: |
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| Camera: |
0.3 MP / 640 x 480 px / Video Recorder |
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Audio |
| MP3 Player: |
Windows Media Player |
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| Speakerphone: |
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Multimedia |
| Wallpapers: |
240 x 320 px |
| Screen Savers: |
240 x 320 px |
| Ring Tones: |
MP3 |
| Themes: |
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| Games: |
J2ME |
| Streaming Multimedia: |
Windows Media Player |
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Messaging |
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| Email: |
POP3 / IMAP4 / SMTP |
| Chat: |
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| Predictive Text: |
T9 |
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Applications |
| Phonebook Capacity: |
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| Calendar: |
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| WAP: |
Pocket Internet Explorer |
| Voice Commands: |
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Connectivity |
| Bluetooth: |
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| Infrared Port: |
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| High-Speed Data: |
1xEV-DO |
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| PC Sync: |
Microsoft ActiveSync |
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More Information |
| Website: |
Product Website |
| Discussion: |
Manufacturers Forum |
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