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Bewlay Brother · 26-07-2007, 12:40 AM

...as I have previously mentioned, O2 UK are looking to acquire this product around August/September. Nice review. I am tempted to throw all cares to the wind and just sign up for one but the sensible/cynical side of me tells me different... I am concerned regarding this new player on the market called Arima who make the product... they are a totally unknown quantity from my perspective and my worry is that this device, with the exception of the graphics chip, could be just another cobbled-together hotch potch of generic components that is a jack of all trades but master of none. Where will we stand regards hardware support/warranty repairs in the long term? My cherished HTC Alpine (XDA IIi) was "obsolete" over a year ago from O2's perspective and should I damage it, O2 cannot offer any repair - this is despite HTC's much bigger presence in the market than this new kid on the block Arima.
I hope to see more in depth feedback regards the telephone quality of the device as, after all, the device I need must first and foremost be "state of the art" as far as signal reception/transmission is concerned and transmitted/received speech quality. I am not asking too much, the industry has had plenty of time to "get it right" in this regard. Sadly no PDA phone has ever come close to my benchmark for cellular phone call quality performance - the Ericsson S and R series phones. Only Ericsson truly pushed the boundaries in terms of exotic componentry and chassis/build quality(in my previous life working at a cellular service centre I saw the insides of many machines) - I was deeply saddened when the Swedish company relinquished their Scandinavian production to the Far East when they sold out to Sony - that unique Ericsson quality was lost. If Carlsberg made a phone PDA in my view it would combine the phone quality of the S888 or S868 with the form factor of the R380 and a WM6 operating system (the Symbian OS on the R380 was let down badly by a memory leakage problem which made synchronising very unreliable and problematic and was never fixed before the Sony buy out).
So although this post sounds negative, I am keeping fingers crossed that the Flame will win through and will meet our requirements - but I need a bit more convincing.

26-07-2007, 12:40 AM	#6 (permalink)
Bewlay Brother Donor Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 146 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: O2 XDA Flame user review ...as I have previously mentioned, O2 UK are looking to acquire this product around August/September. Nice review. I am tempted to throw all cares to the wind and just sign up for one but the sensible/cynical side of me tells me different... I am concerned regarding this new player on the market called Arima who make the product... they are a totally unknown quantity from my perspective and my worry is that this device, with the exception of the graphics chip, could be just another cobbled-together hotch potch of generic components that is a jack of all trades but master of none. Where will we stand regards hardware support/warranty repairs in the long term? My cherished HTC Alpine (XDA IIi) was "obsolete" over a year ago from O2's perspective and should I damage it, O2 cannot offer any repair - this is despite HTC's much bigger presence in the market than this new kid on the block Arima. I hope to see more in depth feedback regards the telephone quality of the device as, after all, the device I need must first and foremost be "state of the art" as far as signal reception/transmission is concerned and transmitted/received speech quality. I am not asking too much, the industry has had plenty of time to "get it right" in this regard. Sadly no PDA phone has ever come close to my benchmark for cellular phone call quality performance - the Ericsson S and R series phones. Only Ericsson truly pushed the boundaries in terms of exotic componentry and chassis/build quality(in my previous life working at a cellular service centre I saw the insides of many machines) - I was deeply saddened when the Swedish company relinquished their Scandinavian production to the Far East when they sold out to Sony - that unique Ericsson quality was lost. If Carlsberg made a phone PDA in my view it would combine the phone quality of the S888 or S868 with the form factor of the R380 and a WM6 operating system (the Symbian OS on the R380 was let down badly by a memory leakage problem which made synchronising very unreliable and problematic and was never fixed before the Sony buy out). So although this post sounds negative, I am keeping fingers crossed that the Flame will win through and will meet our requirements - but I need a bit more convincing.