Cingular 8125 Initial Review

Nice review...I love my K-Jam, which is essentially the same as your 8125.

 

Very nice review, thank you. PDA Phones are not for me and I have tried a few, including the Siemens SX66 just before I got the 6682 in September. I am glad to see that you are happy with it and it is working out for so well for you.

 

Wirelessly posted (Walkguru's: Nokia6682/2.0 (3.01.1) SymbianOS/8.0 Series60/2.6 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 UP.Link/6.3.0.0.0)

Sounds too complex for me. I guess ill stick with my 6682.

 

Nice review Steven.

The speakerphone on my PPC6700 isn't great though. I still like it more then my PPC6600.

What are you planning to use the miniSD card for?

I just bought (recieved today) a 1GB Sandisk card on eBay ($58 w/ shipping). I normailly put a few CDs worth of mp3s on it and I still have room for pics and a program or two.

 

512mb...I got it from work from the staples catalog...no idea on the brand...

 

You mention that the phone freezes and that the email program sucks...Is there something specific that it is doing/why it is so bad? I know most people have to reset thier phones about once a day or so with a WM phone, but I don't really ever have freezes. It's all about managing the memory of the unit...

 

I do love my phone! Too bad the Cingular versions don't work as well...

 

Glad I was able to help!

 

I have had this phone for a day now and things seam ok! I will keep you posted if things change. It is definately a cool phone. I can't decide which I like better this one or the Treo 700? The Treo is pretty awesome too.

 

Have you found an external antenna connector for it yet. That is the only thing hold me back from it... well that and no Fast Foward since I only get service at home when the wind blows the right way.

 

WOW! Sorry to hear hear about your problems with the 8125. I wish I would of been around here the past few days (moving). All HTC device are very customizable, to the point of making them unbranded. I would of directed you to xda-developers.com & pdaphonehome.com for some extended reading on how to make your 8125 sing. Good luck with you 6682, it to is a great phone.

 

i just got my 8125 today and i love it. sorry to hear about yours, but i guess cingular cant please everyone at once. thanks to xda-developers, in the first 3 hours of receiving the phone (while charging), i was able to unlock the device, change tons of registry stuff like enabling WLAN G mode, and installed a ton of software.

i must say this is the BEST phone ive owned, but it has only been about 12 hours so we'll see how it works out in a couple days

 

I also have a Cingular 8125 which has been working great for about 3 weeks now. Today I received a Holux GPS Slim 236 and installed Bluetooth Tools from http://www.bluetooth.jazztel.es

Unfortunately, the phone has no started to freeze with about 45 seconds of starting up. I went in and uninstalled Bluetooth Tools but that may have been a red herring. I have turned off Bluetooth entirely and tried a number of things but I can't restabilize the device.

Any suggestions?

Thank you!

 

I will second the idea of doing a hard reset, the only way to fix it now.

 

I love hard resets. They make the device feel like new again. You can then pick and choose the different apps that you want on the device, and can really tweak it to make it great!

 

Great minds AZ, I was just going to say that . It also gets rid of all the unneccesary files that are taking up memory but are not needed, and got downloaded over time with the various applications.

 

A hard reset is good if you havn't done it in a while and your device isn't quite the same. But it stinks when you just got you device working & performing great, when something happens like a bad downloaded program or a corrupted program make you do it. And for some one who is new to PPC it can be very discouraging.

 

Well I'm very sad to hear of the bad 8125 experience, I've had mine for 2 months now, and let me start off saying I haven't unlocked it or tweaked it any way. I have, however, installed a ton of apps and added a 1gb sandisk minisd card filled with music... I don't use the push email clients because I just don't have a need for the split second email notification, the builtin client checks every 15 minutes, good nuff for me. The form factor is nice, aside from the fact that the screen is already taking some wear and it's less than 2 months old and has been handled nicely (I use eye glass cleaning pads to clean the screen not brillo just fyi.) I don't like the fact that the phone is so much harder to use on this than say on my old razr, but it's a price I was willing to pay for the full featured internet browser, access to email, access to a full qwerty keyboard, and the plethora of applications. Plus the no nonsense look of this phone really goes good for your outward appearance if you're a business person (hey the w600i was cool but looked too much like a teen's phone at company meetings.) The headphones, in my honest opinion, suck compared to the ones I got from sony, they are way too large and well to put it lightly the microphone placement is right below the left ear bud which is a pain in the neck. I have had problems with the device dropping not only calls but the entire network mid call before, it's worked itself out so I think it may have had to do with an app I was trying out before the only hard reset I've ever done. Hmm what else can I say, in comparison to normal devices the sticker shock is kinda high and if you're looking for a sidekick this phone isn't for you, this is for those of us who stay on the go full time (I stay on the road 4 days a week at minnimum) and feel the need to utilize whatever technological knowledge you have.

 

Now I am completely confused!!!! I have been trying to decide on the 8125, but now I don't know. Can anyone help. I am in need of a device that allows for email, document retrieval/manipulation, calendaring, contacts, phone. I live in a small area where the only provider who owns towers here is Cellular One. I like the 8125 because of the slide out keyboard, but it also needs to be fairly durable because I travel a lot. I would also not like to spend an arm and a leg to get this device. I thought I had decided on the 8125, but I am afraid it will not work well or will tear up fast. I am cell phone/technology challenged, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Second question also, does it matter if I buy a locked or unlocked device if you can pay appx. $40 to have one unlocked? Thanks again. JL

 

Unlocking the 8125 is simple. See the directions here: http://www.htcwizardweb.net/node/170

 

I can stop you there, the 8125 is GSM only, US Cellular is CDMA. However, US Cellular has some decent blackberry's, check your area to see if Cingular or Tmobile roam in your area, if it's roaming only I suggest Tmobile who also has the 8125 (as the MDA.) There are CDMA phones that are the same as the 8125 (HTC Wizard) such as the HTC Apache (Sprint PPC 6700.)

 

nKrypteD1, the OP wrote Cellular One and not US Cellular, and as you know Cellular One is a GSM provider so an unlocked 8125 will work fine on it...

jamilowry, you either need to buy an unlocked 8125 or get one unlocked as previously mentioned. The other alternative would be to buy the QTEK 9100 which is the unlocked unbranded version of the 8125 but it would cost you more. I had the QTEK and was quite happy with it.

Hope this helps