I bought the 6126 about 5 days ago and I absolutely love it. The screen is amazing and the keypad is excellent. I don't know what the term "slippery" in some of the reviews means, but whatever it is, I like it.
Someone commented that you can't assign a ringtone to a specific contact but that is not true. You simply go to the contact in the address book and hit options and it's under details. There was also a comment that you can't send a photo in an e-mail and again, this is not true. You hit options under images and hit send and then instead of a phone number, you write in an e-mail address. You must hold down the # key while you type the e-mail address, but that's pretty simple. Also, someone commented that you can't make a wallpaper out of a photo but this is not true either. As for accidentally hitting the camera button when the phone is closed, just go to settings/phone settings and turn on the automatic keyguard to lock the keys. It unlocks automatically when you open the phone.
I'll admit a lot of this stuff you have to figure out for yourself as the manual sucks. But that's a problem with the manual, not the phone.
My only negative comment is that you absolutely need to buy a mini-SD card (I bought a 1 gig card on ebay for 12 bucks), because there is only 10 MB of on board memory in the phone.
“The basic layout of the HD2 is uncluttered and uncomplicated, providing only a few hardware buttons, and leaving the rest of the navigation up to that beautiful screen.”
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I bought the 6126 about 5 days ago and I absolutely love it. The screen is amazing and the keypad is excellent. I don't know what the term "slippery" in some of the reviews means, but whatever it is, I like it.
Someone commented that you can't assign a ringtone to a specific contact but that is not true. You simply go to the contact in the address book and hit options and it's under details. There was also a comment that you can't send a photo in an e-mail and again, this is not true. You hit options under images and hit send and then instead of a phone number, you write in an e-mail address. You must hold down the # key while you type the e-mail address, but that's pretty simple. Also, someone commented that you can't make a wallpaper out of a photo but this is not true either. As for accidentally hitting the camera button when the phone is closed, just go to settings/phone settings and turn on the automatic keyguard to lock the keys. It unlocks automatically when you open the phone.
I'll admit a lot of this stuff you have to figure out for yourself as the manual sucks. But that's a problem with the manual, not the phone.
My only negative comment is that you absolutely need to buy a mini-SD card (I bought a 1 gig card on ebay for 12 bucks), because there is only 10 MB of on board memory in the phone.
All in all, it's a pretty cool phone.