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Messaging capabilities are standard at best. Create, edit, and view all
your text and voice messages here. One interesting offering is the "Quick
Notes" which provides message templates to help save you time if a lot of
what you have to say is pretty standardized.
The much anticipated multimedia messaging (MMS) has arrived. With MMS
you can send color pictures, animations, and sounds. Not to mention tons
more text. They range in size from 4 to 10 thousand characters, compared
to the 160 characters allowed by SMS. The T68i comes with 5 preinstalled
samples already in the MMS-Inbox. One shows an animated Sony Ericsson logo,
another plays a song with pictures, and yet another sends an animated greeting.
Sound Quality
The GSM model didn't seem to have the "noise" problem that have shown
up in some other models of GSM phones or at the very least it was not noticeable
when making calls.
Also, as expected, the CDMA phone had slightly better reception than
the GSM phones. This is mostly likely that CDMA technology has better noise
resistance properties within the multiplexing encoding than GSM. The result,
cleaner, clearer voices.
The speaker was also very respectable and sufficiently loud when it had
to be. The usage of headsets demonstrated no decrease in sound quality.
The FM radio headset even performed pretty well.
RF Performance
Overall, the reception on this phone was very good for both outgoing
and incoming calls. Of course service does vary from location to location,
service to service, but the phone itself is a solid performer, independent
of the network it's on.
The external antenna makes a difference. Smaller signals were able to
be held, and signals were held more consistently, and longer.
The T720 held onto its calls very well and although data transfer rates
were a bit sluggish, they were stable. The static, garbled speech, and other
random noises that seem to be common in all cell phones nowadays is still
present but was not horribly distracting. It performs better than the average
phone out there nowadays and thus, receives a rating of:
Above Average
Your phone performance can very significantly, especially when considering
how well your service provider's coverage area is, landscape, multiplexing
technology, or other varying conditions. The phone with the worst reception
can still work well if you live under a tower. These results are just a
measure of the raw RF capabilities. Factoring everything else would just
be impossible to compare phones.
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