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Spice Edge S-1000

10 Mar, 2007, 12:21 pm IST | Aalaap Ghag | Smartphones

Battery
With WiFi and Bluetooth off when not in use, the phone lasts around 3 days with a moderate amount of calls (around half an hour a day). With a good amount of WiFi activity, the phone was out in just a little over a day, or at maximum, 2. The phone supports recharging via USB, so you can recharge the phone anywhere you can find a computer or a laptop. Three days is fair enough for a smartphone with these features. The only problem here is that the phone takes too long to recharge. Even an hour after recharging a fully drained battery, unplugging the USB cord will give you the "Main battery low" message.

Conclusion
The Spice Edge S-1000 is a capable smartphone with almost all features in place, but the fact that it doesn't support EDGE will lead to slow web browsing speeds and the lack of a full QWERTY keypad will lead to frustrating messaging and email sessions for business users who would prefer a keyboard to T9. But if these things don't bother you too much, why would you want to spend Rs. 30,000 on a phone?

On the other hand, the S-1000 is the only Windows Mobile phone with a large touch-screen and a numeric keypad. The other offerings from O2, i-mate and Dopod are cheap (and some of them have EDGE also, snicker) but they are fully touch screen phones with no keypad. If you don't mind direct screen entry using the on-screen keyboard and numeric keypad, look at the O2 XDA Atom, the i-mate JAM/JAMin or the Dopod D600.

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Tags: Spice mobiles , Windows Mobile , Asus

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