Typical price: £260
What is it: Handheld organiser featuring Windows Mobile 2005 Pocket PC Phone Edition
What we think: Its sliding keyboard makes it very easy to create and edit documents on the move, but it lacks the immediacy and sound quality of some mobile phones
Average user rating
8.1
excellent
Average user rating from 15 users
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O2 XDA Mini S user reviews
April 26, 2006
Posted by: Scott Parker
"Looks promising, but practically unusable"
What I like:
Good size, nice keyboard, great screen
What I don't like:
Processor very slow, not perfect as a phone
Review:
In theory, this looks as though it has everything I want, but using it day-to-day has been a nightmare. It's very slow and crashes frequently, especially if you have more than one app running (and they don't close when you think they have). I haven't installed anything funny or done anything particularly intensive, just looking at emails, web, calendar etc.
And it's not just me, my two colleagues had exactly the same problem.
The Orange M500 is the same size but has a bigger processor and PPC2003 OS rather than Windows Mobile 5.0, but I might just return to the huge but reliable big brother the M1500 (or XDA II)
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