Philips AZ1103 CD Radio Cassette Recorder

Philips AZ1103 CD Radio Cassette Recorder

Philips AZ1103 CD Radio Cassette Recorder
Manufacturer: Philips
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
Need a great-sounding AM/FM CD Cassette boombox that can fit in any room in the house? The Philips AZ1103 can go in virtually anywhere. Wherever you decide to put this sound machine, you can be assured you will hear awesome sound. Two 3" full-range speakers with metal grills enhance stereo quality for all music while the Dynamic Bass Boost provides you with rich, full bass sounds. The Philips AZ1103 is a great addition to any room, anywhere, for any music lover.

Average customer rating: 4.0

I heart this phone
Great phone for Outlook users but with one (fixable) flaw
Best phone I've ever had
Cracked External LCD screen
There are problems

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Cingular 3125 Smartphone (AT&T)

Manufacturer: Cingular
Product Group: Wireless
Binding: Wireless Phone
ASIN: B000J0X7BU

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Amazon.com Product Description

Introducing the first Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone flip in the U.S., The Cingular 3125. With the 3125 smartphone, you get EDGE data speeds, and GSM quad-band support, while the Windows Mobile 5.0 (non-touch screen version) operating system lets you quickly access your real time corporate and personal email accounts. Other features include Windows Media Player 10, Bluetooth connectivity, 64 MB RAM, 128 MB flash ROM, a 1.3-megapixel camera with video recorder, direct push for email, and more. Packaged in a stylish black clamshell design, the super slim 3125 is the ultimate mobile workhorse, and the perfect complement to Cingular wireless service.

<B>Design</B>
The 3125 design takes the standard clamshell form factor to the next level with its impressive smartphone and data capabilities while maintaining a stylish and cool exterior. A large 240 x 320 color display with over 65,000 colors dominates the inside of the top cover. The outside cover of the handset sports a supplementary 128 x 128 full-color display that can display pictures, time, call information, battery and signal strength, and more. There's even a feature that allows you to display a large analog clock on the external display. Convenient music player control buttons reside just below the external screen, and the 1.3-megapixel camera lens is housed above this display while most of the phone's features and on-screen menus are controlled by a five-way center button on the handset's backlit control pad. A USB data port is provided, as is a microSD/TransFlash memory card slot. Lastly, the internal antenna is safely tucked away, keeping the phone's design compact and portable.

<B>Calling Features</B>
The 3125 has all the latest calling features folks have come to expect from a high-end handset. The built-in speakerphone makes it easy to talk without having the phone to your ear. Speaker independent voice activated dialing makes calling your friends, family, and associates as easy as saying their names, while the phone's Bluetooth connectivity means that your favorite Bluetooth headset is fully compatible. A ringer and picture ID system makes it easy to identify your most common callers. Lastly, the phonebook capacity is only limited to available memory.

<B>Messaging, Internet, and Tools</B>
Meet both your global business and personal communications and productivity needs with the 3125's superior, high-speed email and Web browsing experience all wrapped in a slim and stylish package. Quickly access your corporate and personal email in real-time with built-in applications like Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile and Microsoft Direct Push, Good Mobile Messaging from Good Technology, Cingular Xpress Mail, and Internet email (including MSN Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL, etc.) at your fingertips. Outlook Mobile features integrated calendar and email functions, as well as a contacts list that is cleverly integrated with the phone's dialing functions. Robust SMS and MMS functionality is built into the Windows Mobile interface, too. Lastly, rich Internet browsing is available with the included Internet Explorer browser.

Microsoft's ActiveSync software keeps the device synced with all of your PC's Outlook information (via Bluetooth or USB).

A number of handy software tools are bundled with the 3125, including a voice memo recorder, a calculator, a to-do list, and an alarm clock. T9 text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built into the unit--a plus for mobile text messaging users.

<B>Imaging and Entertainment</B>
In addition to the 1.3-megapixel still camera, the 3125 is capable of recording video clips to its built-in memory, or to a memory expansion card. The inclusion of Windows Media Player on the 3125 opens up a whole range of possibilities for this phone. Use it as a digital music player, or sync the device with Windows Media Player on your PC to download last night's TV shows so you can watch them whenever you want, or watch streaming content from the Web.

With EDGE support built right into the 3125, you'll be downloading at speeds so fast your head will spin. And because the phone is media capable, i.e., fully compatible with Cingular music, MEdia Net, and Cingular mail, you'll never be at a loss for something fun to do.

With features like stereo Bluetooth headphone capability, and support for Java based applications and games, the 3125 shines in the entertainment department. When the feeling strikes you, jam out to your favorite music on the unit's advanced music player, and because the 3125 sports a microSD/TransFlash memory card slot, you can load up all your favorite music and bring it with you (memory cards sold separately).

<B>Vital Statistics</B>
The Cingular 3125 weighs 3.49 ounces and measures 3.88 x 2.02 x 0.62 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5.0 hours of digital talk time, and up to 150 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.

Customer Reviews:

I heart this phone.......2007-04-04

This phone works amazingly well in most aspects. The call clarity is great and the menu system works very well. I especially find the hot bar menu system on the start screen very convienent. The mp3 player function workds remarkably well and with a 2 gb smartchip, this think becomes a monster media device. My one grievance is the camara on it. It lags horribly when you try and take a piture that is not staying perfectly still. In all, I highly recommend this phone.

Great phone for Outlook users but with one (fixable) flaw.......2007-03-12

Summary: If you do not need a full-on Blackberry and want to have wireless access to Outlook this is a great phone.

First my goals from this product: I'm definitely not a 'road warrior' and do not plan on having a Blackberry grafted permanently to my hand, but I do work away from the office one day a week or so and I wanted to keep an eye on emails, have access to my Outlook contacts whenever I need it, be reminded of upcoming Outlook appointments without having to log onto email from a PC. I wanted to be able to do this automatically, not syncing from a PC with a cable. I also wanted a fairly normal-looking flip phone and one that was not too bulky. I did not need a keyboard - I planned to be more of a reader than a writer of emails etc.

This phone meets those needs perfectly, though with one flaw outlined below. I have the unlimited data plan ($20/month) and it syncs very nicely with Outlook. It will download as many messages as the memory allows, starting with the most recent. Without any add on card this means about 20+ depending on what else you have loaded (e.g. music, photos etc). If you need more you can buy cards starting at around $30 to up this capacity. When you open the phone you get a well designed summary screen which shows how many messages are waiting (all types) and shows the next appointment today and tomorrow. Contacts come over well from Outlook, and you can dial directly from contacts. There is a good and simple search system for finding contacts. Sound quality is fine, as are connections - typical for Cingular, as good as previous Nokia phones, much better than with the Motorola phone I used to have. The screen is high quality though small, and web browsing is as easy as is probably feasible given the lack of keyboard and small size of the screen.

The only real problem is that this phone accidentally reboots ALL THE TIME. It reboots about 5-10 times a day, typically when put in a pocket or dashboard, when picked up for answering etc. The reboot procedure lasts the best part of a minute and is jarringly noisy so this is a major flaw. The apparent cause is an over sensitive safety switch on the battery/SIMM card cover designed to cause the phone to turn off to protect the card when you open the back. There is a simple fix (involving putting a piece of folded paper over the switch) which apparently works (tried it today, so far no reboots). The web site discussing this is here (solution towards the end)
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Apparently newer phones don't have this problem so Cingular's maker may have fixed this by now.

Assuming this is the case this is a highly recommended phone for people who don't want a full on Blackberry but want some of the functionality.

Best phone I've ever had.......2007-03-09

This little phone does everything I've ever wanted in a phone. It's running Windows Mobile, so it interoperates nicely with Office products, and it is easy (like a pocketpc) to add new software and sync with outlook - unlike many other phones, it actually includes a sync cable. No need to purchase music or ringtones, you can simply copy an mp3 or other sound file directly from your computer, and it just works. Makes a great little mp3 player too, and includes headphones. If you're familiar with Visual Studio, you can easily write your own software. Oh yes, I highly recommend finding the Star Trek communicator ringtone mp3 and installing it... this phone is just not complete without it; not only is this phone otherwise referred to as the Star Trek phone, it also has much the same form factor as the old trek communicator, but is much more high-tech, and it is just really nifty (and unobtrusive) to have that classic tone go off. A couple of minor caveats: unless you can find some bluetooth headphones you're stuck with the ones that come with the phone, which have pretty good sound but I find the wires get tangled a lot, plus they could use an audio suppression filter to cancel-out the external world. Then there's Window Mobile (and PocketPC's in general) issue of not having a means of cleanly exiting the programs; periodically you'll need to pull-up the Task Manager and shut-down the various apps that are running. I recently was in the midst of loading a cart of fertilizer at Lowes and inadvertently bumped a button (phone was in my pocket), and suddenly had music playing, and it took a minute to figure-out how to shut it off. Awkward. Still, I love this phone. And once you get it be sure to grab some free apps like those provided by Google Mobile (search plus google maps with traffic, and even gmail) and then of course you can get weather from the Weather Underground. It even comes with a pretty-decent Solitaire game.

Cracked External LCD screen.......2007-03-03

The external LCD screen on the phone cracked mysteriously. This seems to be a design flaw. Do a web search ( "Cingular 3125 cracked LCD" ) and you will find a number of owners who have had this problem. The descriptions are all the same - no one dropped the phone, they just generally pulled it out of their pocket and it was cracked. The crack appears on the *inside* (internal side) of the screen so it is not the result of physical damage by the user (no external facing dents/marks etc) .

Users posting in web forums report that the damage is not covered by Cingular. They also report that the phone is not insurable.

Phone screen broke for me 2 days ago - rendering the external screen useless. I will go to cingular this weekend and see if I can get a replacement.

There are problems.......2007-03-02

As soon as I got this phone, people told me my voice was breaking up, sounded like static, noisey, etc. So I took it into a Cingular store they said 'Oh yeah this phone is bad', and exchanged it for another unit. So I am on my 2nd 3125 now. I called a couple people and asked if my voice sounded clear now, and they all said it was still messed up. Now what? The MS ActiveSync is a well known nightmare to get to work. I love the looks of this phone, but frankly I am very unhappy with several aspects. I guess I'll go back to the store again and get a 3rd unit. Maybe one of these will work right.

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