The camera was of fairly good quality, it has a 3.2 mega pixel camera, there was no flash which sometimes left some of the pictures dark.  


The phone has 100Mb internal memory, but you could also increase the available memory, using a micro SD card up to 8Gb capacity.


The phone had the ability to run some fairly useful widgets on the home screen, I for one had the weather widget which was set in my location, and also had twitter feed running as a widget, which scrolled through your recent tweets that have arrived on your feed


I was very impressed with how the box was packed, every thing was easily identifiable, there was not lots of different cables, booklets notes all over the place.  What I did like was the very easy to use flash instruction/information cards, a great simple way to find out how to use the features on the phone.  


As each section had it own little boxes that was individually numbered it made it very simple to pack items back away when required, rather than always try and get everything back into the box.  This will help with any OCD that you may have as they all have their own sections and it is very neat.


The reason I compared it to a cool kids blackberry, is that it looks like a blackberry and it comes with a full QWERTY keyboard, although my first impression was that it may be fiddly to use I actually found this an easy device to handle, I had no issues with the keyboard.


This would be a very good phone for teenagers as well with many different ages,  there are so many "social networking" uses.  It has many apps integrated such as Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Windows Messenger, along with Planet 3 and a nice internet browser, it also has push email services.

I have seen some reports of people having some slight performance issues when having many applications running at the same time, I did not encounter this at any time, the device always performed for me.


I really liked the GPS that you get from the phone, it had Google Maps already installed so you could use this to get directions to where ever you need to go.  When tested at a location in London, it was fairly accurate, it had me across the courtyard from where I was standing.


There was also a nice feature of all the contacts from facebook (a test account) are automatically imported into the phones address book.


One of the things I did not like was when I had to give the phone back I had factory reset the device, which reset all the settings, although my twitter details were still left in the phone, you may want to remember this if you ever get one and have to sell it on.  I entered some fake details then from there it kept those login details, also I received this tip from @stephenwing from the UK Gadgeteer.


I found that the battery life was very good indeed, it would easily last the day, which I think is the sort of measure you get from smart phones currently.


I liked the on screen displays that shows the 3G strength, you could easily identify how strong a 3G signal you are currently receiving, it was very clear.


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