I have a friend with a Katana, and I have to say that it really didn't impress me. The keypad was your average flat plastic with some lighting piped in. The camera wasn't anything to speak of, and the user interface was a little klunky. The thing that I found most egregious was how crippled the BlueTooth transceiver was. As far as we could tell, OBEX was stripped out (so forget sending pictures or even just an address book entry) leaving the phone with only wireless headset capabilities. I understand that phone companies make money by forcing people to send their pictures through MMS, but honestly, how many people out of the entire cellphone using population know how to work BlueTooth? And how does the company benefit from not letting people send and receive contact entries?
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I have a friend with a Katana, and I have to say that it really didn't impress me. The keypad was your average flat plastic with some lighting piped in. The camera wasn't anything to speak of, and the user interface was a little klunky. The thing that I found most egregious was how crippled the BlueTooth transceiver was. As far as we could tell, OBEX was stripped out (so forget sending pictures or even just an address book entry) leaving the phone with only wireless headset capabilities. I understand that phone companies make money by forcing people to send their pictures through MMS, but honestly, how many people out of the entire cellphone using population know how to work BlueTooth? And how does the company benefit from not letting people send and receive contact entries?