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I will try my best to explain the experience so far I had with this phone. Pros The phone is well built and is a real treat to hold as it has smooth rubberized finish back. I also like the cool octagonal cuts on the edge it really makes this droid stand out of the crowd. The battery life is awesome for an android phone. Gives me a whole day without recharge on moderate use and wifi or 3g does not seem to kill the battery much. This is the best I have seen so far on an android. Also the battery is just 1650 mah but does the job. Where as my incredible with oem evo battery with 1500 mah is nowhere close to this one. The phone does not heat up at all. Again I have seen my incredible feel like it is just out of an oven if I use it continually to watch videos or play games. Also I have seen few of my friends complain about their S2 gsm getting hot quite soon. The phone has a qhd pentile display which was a deal breaker for me before I got it. But trust me I did not find any pixilation with display I have used it watch movies and that to at brightest display settings. (Again that’s me may be I have a poor eyesight ) This phone has a direct hdmi port so no need to get a mhl adaptor as well as standard hdmi cable. You just need an usb hdmi cable which easily fits in pocket and you are ready to roll on an lcd. The network on the phone is rock solid I get the best possible coverage in slightly weaker signal areas too. The phone has no lag whatsoever. Though it a just 1 ghz but still its a dual core processor with 1gb ram. This is a world phone with single standby so you can easily hop between network of your choice and enjoy both 3g (but it does comes with a price) and EVDO. The Motorola applications platform is good if not great as htc sense but I would still say better than touchwiz but it is what I feel and others may have a different opinion. This device is quite easy to root you actually do not need a pc. You can do it right on your phone. This device is a true multimedia device with bright true display unlike s2's with over saturated colors I had actually tested transformers 3 on htc evo, Sammy s2 and photon side by side on the same scene and photon was the best in terms of quality. S2 was good too but I felt the colors were not real and my s2 friends too did not argue about it. Also the speaker phone volume is far better than most of the devices out there and it is a real treat along with the photon kick stand. Cons (The list is longer than the pros) This phone has big time issue wherein it restarts randomly and is not acceptable at all. A phone for me is a phone first then it is a smart phone i.e. you should able to make and receive calls properly that is the least you expect from a phone. But this phone at times has a dead air when you make a call as actually the call is not connected it just shows being connected. On top of it you cannot disconnect that call you will have to restart the phone. If you do not trust me just check the xda forum you will see what I mean. I tried the various firmware updates to resolve this issue as even sprint as acknowledged this issue. Afaik 4.5.1A-1_SUN-198_6 version is the best wherein this issue is almost negligible but still it does occur at times. This phone does not support call conferencing for me it was news but I came to know that there are so many imported handsets that do not support this as we have to patch the call by dialing the number 3 after making the second call which cannot be accomplished using this phone. If i knew this I would had never bought it as for personal and official reasons I have make so many conference calls. And I am stuck for now as there is no work around available. This phone has an issue at least on my phone wherein the evdo gets disconnected every now and then especially if you watch videos online or the data transfer is high. You also have known issue of youtube not working on evdo. But it has a workaround. The phone does not charge to complete 100% I mean when I had first started to use this phone i could see the phone going from 100% to 90% as in sync with the usage but after the firmware update it seems that like htc the phone in order save the battery trips the charging well before it could reach actual 100%. However, from 90% onwards it seems to be fine. Also this phone shows the battery percentage in blocks of 10's like it will show 90% then next step is 80% and then 70% and so on and nothing in between. Same goes for charging. Some users have complained about wifi being killed on gsm mode after a upgrading the firmware. Surprisingly my wifi works great i had it tested it on all the firmware versions. Currently I am on 2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-198_7 which is yet to available through ota (Thanks to xda) This phone does not have many options for custom rom as it is with all motos. But I guess most of use care less. P.S I will update this post as per my experiences. Please pardon me if any of my observations seem noobish and please correct me if possible.

Hi, Found this on XDA Forum, hope our guru's will be able to shed more light on the same Yes. With a SIM card, calls and data will work like a charm but no MMS. Check out bbs.gfan.com/forum-690-1.html if you read Chinese. There are simple ways to enable MMS as well. Besides the two GSM operators, China Telecom operates a CDMA network. Photon 4G will work with its UIM card, but you will need to use QPST to change two settings to "Simple IP only" and "R-UIM only", and also upload the operator's PRL. http://forum.xda-dev...=1197916&page=6 Thx

Great review Rehman ji.... +1 to you... For the difficulty in disconnecting a call (which rarely occurs in my photon), I use the option in ACCESSIBILITY settings [Power button ends the call]... As a prev EPIC user, I was once NOT happy with the video playback capability of Photon (Rock player) as some few-hundred-MB-video-songs play nicely in epic, but struggled in Photon... Further Photon can't play sounds in videos of some files... Later I saw MX VIDEO PLAYER (FREE) in AM, which makes use of Dual-Cores and then the videos played better in Photon... It also has option to select/play audio-track of false-stereo video files and solved the audio issue as well.. Then I uninstalled all my other video layers... It is a must have for all Dual-core phone users, imho... My naughty baby sits silently and loves to watch video-songs on photon with kick-stand open.. But for me, photon's screen is a mixed bag... Though EPIC's screen is also of pentile matrix, its rarely felt comparing photon, imho.. What I am trying to say is pentile AMOLED is much better than pentile LCD... But if the user has not used AMOLED for long time earlier, then that won't make a huge difference, imho... RGB_AMOLED (SAMOLED+) >> Pentile_AMOLED === RGB_LCD >>> Pentile_LCD

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