I am sharing my experience with corby speed with few days of use.
I saw the phone in the shop and tempted to buy. But was not satisfied with the phone after few days of usage and gave it to somebody else. I probably expected too much from a basic touch screen phone like corby speed, but I see it from my point of view and it didn't do any value add to me. I already own SE Xperia X1 and Nokia 6275. This phone was to replace my 2 year old Nokia 6275.
On the first day it lasted for just 12 - 14 hrs, as I was trying to explore the functions of this phone. In complete standby mode (without any calls or music or browsing), it lasted for 2.5 days. I kept the phone in charging for 12 hrs before first use. I feel this phone will last for ~24 hrs with 30mins of call and same time of usage of music or browsing.
I would like to discuss more on browsing / mail prospective, as it has not been discussed much in this forum.
1. The browser is good one and any HTML sites can be accessed. I could access cricinfo and it too was auto refreshing. But somehow I was not satisfied with touch sensitiveness of the browser while clicking on the links. As the HTML pages doesn't fit properly in the small screen, I had to move left-right-left for each line on the browser. I changed the font. But dedn't help much. Opera browser could have solved the purpose here.
2. The speed was just ok (I didn't do a speed test). I just accessed some sites including cricinfo from my Xperia (Vodafone 2G) and samsung Corby (Reliance) at the same time. In Xperia with vodafone I could see the sites acessed faster. I am not sure if something esle was to be activated (Any way the phone is not with me anymore to do any more tests)
3. The Google applications (Gmail, Google Maps, etc.) that come as part of GSM handset are not available in cdma.
4. when I went to google site (m.google.com) from this phone's browser, there was no applications listed for this phone for downloading. But one can see all applications from gsm phone's browser.
5. The phone just has a basic mail client for POP3 / IMAP. No facility for push mail / active sync or equivalent facility (I may be expecting too much from this phone - I may have to go for HTC phones for this).
Coming back to other functions,
1. I found the UI to be very good
2. Sound quality was also good
3. I could transfer ~100 contacts from Xpria to corby speed through bluetooth in an attempt. 800 contacts transferred quickly without a need of PC.
4. Couldn't find any option to rearrange the icons in main menu (May be I missed some option)
5. fonts in the phonebook was too large. only 3 contacts displayed. when keypad is on for searching contacts in vertical mode, I can see only first 3 characters of name visible in 3 lines. When it is in horizontal mode, only one name is visible. There is no option for changing the font size or display options for phonebook.
6. When QWERTY keypad is activated on screen, thumbs are not suitable for typing because of small size of on screen letters. Thumb Nails of a stylus required in this case and no stylus is supplied.
7. No dedicated joystick / navigator button for scrolling up/down or left/right. While moving the scrren many times I ended of selecting something un-intentionally. This may be a matter of adjusting.
8. Didn't fing any option of zooming the photos.
9, Photo clarity in Nokia 6275 was better than this mobile and 6275 has a flash that is missing in this phone.
10. When I paired phone with bluetooth headset and swith the visibility to off, the phone is still connected. If the bluetooth device is turned off and then turned on, it is not automatically paired. But in Nokia 6275 and Xperia I don't have this problem. Even though the phone is in invisible mode of bluetooth, the headset will be automaticalley connected when that is switched on.
In the end I decided, it is not worth replacing 6275 by this phone. May be some of new releases from Samsung will serve the purpose.
I feel, this phone will be liked for the younger generation for its look, UI and the inbuilt chat applicatins like facebook, twitter, etc.
