| Review: Sendo X2 - the good, bad and ugly! |
| Written by Stuart Clark | |
| Saturday, 10 September 2005 | |
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Page 3 of 3 "Compared to some of the latest offerings from Nokia, the Sendo X2 sometimes seems a little slow, undoubtedly because it is based on the same hardware platform as it's predecessor. However, there are some things which the X2 still does better than the best of the Nokia handsets - notably it has a generous 32MB internal RAM, which, having allowed for the operating system, leaves around 27MB free for user files - much more generous than the 5MB available on some Nokia handsets. One of the X2's big advances over the Sendo X is the amount of free RAM which it has available for applications - the X had a measly 4MB available, but on the X2 this has been doubled to a far more usable 8MB, enough for even the most power hungry of applications. "
"The X2 comes with three highly addictive games - the familiar Funny Farmer and Pinball games from the X, and the new, incredibly fun Zombies game. In Zombies you have to shoot and kill some very ugly blue skulls which, if left to their own devices, will happily murder you. Where Zombies gets really fun though is that you move around (to shoot the zombies) by turning the phone left, right, up, down etc. You actually look through the camera while shooting those pesky zombies, and the best way to play the game is on a wheelie chair in the middle of the office. You'll have great fun "shooting" all your colleagues, and they'll have great fun thinking how much of an idiot you look!" "The Sendo X2 has only two external sockets on the bottom of the phone. One is the headphone and handsfree socket, and the other one a mini-USB socket which is used to transfer data to the phone and also charges the handset, either directly from a PC or from a wall socket, via the suplied converter. While this is a much more elegent solution to the charging / data transfer issue, it does mean that the X2 is not compatible with some X accessories, such as Sendo's excellent folding keyboard or their desktop sync station. (although it is still possible to charge an X2 battery in the sync station)" On the plus side, bluetooth keyboards work excellently with the X2."
The Ugly: Conclusion: Our only hope now is that Motorola pick up on some of the technologies in the X2 and put them to use in future handsets. Motorola bought all the intelectual property and patents for the X2 and also bought up the entire team who created the X2. With this in mind, let's hope that "Team Sendo", now working with the backing of the mighty Motorola, can produce a handset which includes all the great features of the X2, along with Motorola's design and build technologies. How would you like a handset, based on UIQ3, with a decent camera, in a case the size of a RAZR V3, with the excellent Now! screen? - you would? - get in line behind me! Having just launched the "ROKR" iTunes phone, Motorola have tried to
make it out to be the first music mobile designed for downloadable
music - SORRY Motorola, but on this one, Sendo beat you there with the
X2!
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