2.- the word assist program is ridiculous. It seems tacked on due to the horrible touchscreen keypad. (see #3). Texting is faster without it. Rarely does it supply me with the word I’m about to type, and if what I’m typing isn’t in the dictionary, I get the closest matching word which is never correct. I usually turn this “T9″ feature off half way through a text out of frustration.

(by the way, I am not a word-smith nor am I writing poetry on this thing. why does it come up with the longest and most underused words in the English language?

3.- touch screen qwerty keypad is horrible. my fingers aren’t that big and I still can’t type a short text without glaring typos. Unfortunately the “O” and the “I” are close enough and the T9 spelling feature allows for a capital O’s when my finger tip misses the tiny letters. If I’m not careful, my text ends up reading like an Irish folk song. Why?

4.- why wouldn’t the texting feature assume that when you hold down the n key that you want a capital n… “N”? not a stream of nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn…? Why? instead, you have to cycle through a shift key twice as it is a Caps Lock key and not a single use shift key. Just ridiculous.

5.- there is a “done” button when you are finished typing a message that is exactly where the “send” button is on the following screen that pops up. If you are too gentle or accidentally press it twice in a row, it tries to send the text- ready or not… really lame.

6.- the “back” button is sunk inside the other buttons and you almost always end up hitting the “call” or “hang up” button instead, or in conjunction with the “back” button. Poor design.

7.+ the camera takes decent pictures

8.- my wife and I got the same phone (at the same time) and it picks up a lot of background noise and seems to amplify it. It only seems to happen between the two “Behold” phones… all my other calls don’t generate so much of the street traffic, music, tv sounds etc.

Unfortunately all of these things were not really tested to the extent that normal use would expose.

do not buy this phone unless you have never had a phone before or you have no expectations about what a cell phone should do.

or you can buy my phone off me and I’ll go get a blackberry.

seriously.
Rating: 1 / 5