This hefty little creator is hefty for a reason. Not only can you play XBOX games but you can keep the gamerpoints! The phone is a little heavy for a medium sized phone, it weights 6.49 oz while the average is 4.5 oz. It has a slide out Qwerty board with a tilt screen which makes it easy to edit your Microsoft documents on the go. Talk and play time is limited with only 6 hours but that’s not to bad compared the average phone having 7 hours. The camera is okay, being 5 megapixels and having a LED light, but it does the job! The speakers seem too loud for the little sound holes given to them and it sounds like the speaker is about to break. You can’t quietly listen to music at work in your cubicle because the volume is loud, even on one.
My father wanted this phone but had to go to a Adriod because it support Quickbooks. He is not a very technical person with computers but he has cell phones down pat. He liked interface and that navigation was smooth and easy. He loved the Qwerty board and virtual keyboard with its “Predictive” text.
Being a gamer, I was unhappy that I had to have a Live e-mail account connected to my XBOX Live account in order to connect my player information. I put in my generic e-mail, which I had on XBOX Live and it gave me a random player number. I had to reset the phone which lost all my non-Facebook contacts. So be sure go to a desktop and create a Live e-mail then go to your XBOX and update your new e-mail in order for it to work correctly.
Playing games is fun on Arrive but those silly Back, Windows, and Search touch buttons are always in the way. If you accidentally touch one while gaming you will have to load the entire game again (not fun.) I have looked for cases that had a small bar to separate the screen from the touch buttons, but not luck so far.
There is no MicroSD slot but if you create a Live account you have plenty of place to load picture and music on the internet and the retrieve it from your desk top.
Zune is great! For $15.00 you get all you want music and stuff; you also get 10 free song downloads a month, making the monthly reoccurring cost disappear for an avid music buyer.
The only thing that I think I would change is the Navigation screen. It lacks customization. No background picture. You can change the color of the block and what position they are in, but that is it.
I give this phone 4.3 starts! It’s my baby!
