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Problems/Issues?
User interface instability, bugs
The hallmark of a PDA is its instability, as much as it may sadden me to say that. There are bugs in the Atom, affecting many places as I discovered during my testing. One was with the battery, and there were two problems here, both involving sudden loss of power for no apparent reason. The first situation saw me recharge the phone overnight, only to have the Atom tell me it was shutting off only halfway through the next day. I had barely made a phone call or two and was using the camera when this occurred. The second was while it was sitting on standby with 20% of power left. I had left it for ten minutes and came back to find the Atom off. After reconnecting it to the charger cable, it reported that the battery was empty. The Atom seems to be chewing through power for no apparent reason, although the behaviour is erratic and very random in nature.
The other problem I discovered was in the camera application. If you try to use night mode and the flash together, attempting to take a picture will result in the PDA freezing while attempting to save the picture. A hard reset (removing and reinserting the battery) was the only option.
If only PDAs could be as stable as their phone counterparts…
Included wireless headset sub-standard
I wasn’t impressed with the included stereo earphones/handsfree. Instead of using a fabric cover to encase the earpieces, they have a rubber casing on the outside that does the job of sticking to your ears, but does it really painfully. Add to this the lack of a clip to hold the handsfree to your clothes, and the accessory’s weight wants to pull it out of your ears, even though the rubber of the earpieces holds it in. What does this mean? Even more pain for your ears.
Needless to say, O2 and Quanta Computer need to work on a better handsfree.
No decent ringtones included
While users are able to add their own ringtones to the Atom, it would be nice if there was a decent amount of ringtones included for selection. Many people, including me, don’t like to go to the trouble of finding ringtones for their devices and prefer to have a good selection to choose from straight out of the box.
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