PCMag.com says.
(Click here for larger image)PCMag.com's Sascha Segan writes that the SDA makes a great music phone, with a set of buttons dedicated to music functions that can activate music mode no matter what else the phone is doing. The device also boasts a "beautiful 320-by-240 VGA screen filled with bold icons," according to Segan.
Bluetooth works well with a number of wireless headsets, although the phone's Bluetooth stack doesn't support playing music, he adds.
Segan also finds the SDA's battery life "good, with more than 9.5 hours of talk time and more than 7 hours of PDA usage time." However, "heavy Wi-Fi use will cut battery life," he cautions.
PCMag also tested WiFi on the device, hooking it up to "our own WEP-protected network and a T-Mobile hot spot without problems."
On the downside, the quad band GSM/GPRS SDA is built around a 195 MHz processor, making its performance inadequate to support Skype. Additionally, the built-in camera isn't very good, according to Segan. "But we'll let that slide, given the SDA's other standout features," Segan writes.
On balance, the SDA impressed
PCMag.com enough to become the publication's new Editors' Choice among "keyboardless smartphones," displacing Cingular's Nokia 6682.
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