Hello, I just found your website from Cnet reviews very informative so far, I wanted to ask if anyone had any complaints about the 7135. I am looking into buying one and actually work for Verizon Wireless. I just wanted to hear some input from actual owners.
Battery life is bad! Otherwise a great phone if you dont overclock, hack, or use unproven applications. Had a lot of early problems, most of which have been fixed.
I've had my phone for nearly 4 months now and I love it. The battery life is a little short if you're actually using the phone. I use it for email, contacts, appointments, all the usual palm/cellphone stuff. I've got about 10 - 12 installed apps and haven't had any problems (knock on wood). I'm a defected Pocket PC user and thought that the small screen would bother me, but it is quite bright, and I haven't missed the size. Having not really tried any other smartphones I'd have to recommend the 7135.
There are devices that will do some things better than this phone, but it is just so nice to have one device to handle it all. When I get on a plane I don't hold up the security line anymore
Cheers,
TF103
I've been really happy with my 7135, warts and all. It isn't perfect (not by a long shot), but it is the best overall combination cell/pda that I've found so far.
There are lots of things "coming soon", many of which have been promised in various flavors for over a decade. In terms of what is available here and now, the 7135 is the best fit for me.
I've had my 7135 about 3 months and really like it a lot. I don't have any of these "issues" I hear so much about. I'm not saying they are not real, just that they are not necessarily endemic to all 7135's. Typically, only those having a problem will post it, not those who are happily using their 7135 without issues.
Anyway, welcome, it's good to have someone here that works for Verizon. Are you in customer service? If so, ownership of a 7135 will certainly help you support this model over the phone.
Yes I am in Customer Service, I handle mainly escalated issues and help with projects to help increase efficency. Thank you to everyone for being so unbelievably nice.
Originally posted by marctronixx to see more results you should also search the forum. many people have already voiced their opinion on this product in the last year...
Very good suggestion!
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I've only had the phone a little over a month, but I love it! The battery life may not be the best, but if you are not adverse to charging it on a daily basis, then there shouldn't be a problem. As for the crashes, I don't think I've experienced any unexplained ones. Not to say that I haven't experienced any at all, but any I did experience were definitely of my own fault and not the phones. The processor is also a little slow, but a program like Afterburner will fix that in a hurry.
I'll chime in here. I've had mine for almost a year; I'm on Alltel, which I understand to be about the same coverage as Verizon. (?) I love my phone! Like many have said: it's not perfect by any means, but I'll agree that it IS the best combo device out there (I like flip-style...sorry Treo 600 lovers) right now. A Kyocera tech and I were talking yesterday and we both agreed that this phone is great, but if your business lives and dies by your cell phone, this isn't the device for you. Neither is any other smart phone yet in my opinion. Combo devices are still leading edge technology and as such will have quite a few shortcomings, some major and some minor. I'll guess that for most of us with this device, it's basically an expensive toy. We may use it for business sometimes in order to justify it to ourselves and others (not me, I knew what I was doing and didn't try to fool myself! ha ha), but the battery life is really too short for more than 1/2 to 1 full day of moderate to heavy phone usage and the processor is just too slow to handle heavy use. To me, it was the wow factor most of all, and I've come to really love having 1 device for everything (PDA, Phone, MP3s, Games, etc.).
I love the phone, too. I am not sure I would pick it over the Treo if Verizon offered it, though (Palm OS5 would have a big impact on my decsion). The only problems I have had are a few crashes after I have loaded new software. However, I have the BackupBuddy software, so I have always been able to retrieve my programs. The suggestion above, to look at previous postings is a great suggestion. I think they should include this website in their instruction booklet. I have had many questions over the past 6 months that I have owned the phone and every one of them has been answered by somebody on this website.
I've been using the 7035 for about 3 months now on Verizon's high-speed network as an upgrade to the older 6035 series Kyo phones. Much as was the case with the 6035 the 7035 is a decent voice-date comm device if you're looking for a PDA first, phone second. Certainly you can do everything that a standard cell phone can do, there are several things which support my thoughts that if there was ANYTHING else out there that VZW offered that could run Palm OS I would dump my 35' in a heartbeat. Examples:
(1) battery life in data/voice mode lasts only about 2 hours (in my testing)
(2) the phone is THICKER and WIDER than virtually any other cell on the market today (ex: I'm 6' and yet still find it difficult to hold in my hand for a long period of time)
(3) the number keys are very near flush with the surface of the phone, they have little tactile feel when pressed, it is difficult to tap one-handed due to the top-heavy nature of the screen, and the phone does not support any of the "T-9" advanced text entry options that exist on competing products such as the i500 or Treo. Frankly I think this is one of the biggest drawbacks of the 7035 - you cannot touch-type on this phone because all of the keys (including dial and end) feel exactly the same. Though clearly you've got standard Palm graffiti on-board, it's not always appropriate or possible to whip out a stylus and go to town with both hands just to enter in a new contact. Efficient one-handed operation should be a primary goal of any modern cell phone.
I have not used any of the secure digital expansion capabilities of the phone as the 16MB built-in memory has been sufficient for everything that I've used the phone for. If you're interested in using the phone for pictures, music, digital mapping, or data backup then perhaps this is useful, otherwise unnecessary. Many of the SD expansion cards (bluetooth, WiFi, etc) that Kyo/Palm hyped when the phone was first released have yet to come to market (even while they DO exist on the PocketPC side) ARGH!
Having said all this, I had the opportunity to use the Samsung i500 phone hands-on for the first time this weekend and all I can say is WOW! Size and weight is like night and day versus the 7035 - this is a pda-phone that really feels like a standard cell! Graffiti input is marginally better due to a textured input area and noticeably higher-quality stylus. Allegedly the i500 also supports T-9 text input to speed one-handed input although I could not find any area to turn this on on the demo model Sprint had available.
One of the best features I found with the 500 is that there is a hard-button on the side of the phone that allows you to open, scroll and select through any menu in any application on the phone. Applying this functionality to the number of appointments I add to my datebook everyday when I'm on the run and don't feel like whipping out a stylus makes this a MAJOR advantage of the i500 over standard Palm PDAs.
Other things:
- The i500 supports both "slim" and "standard" batteries - allowing talk time nearly double that of the7035 while still significantly smaller in size and weight.
- The 7035 has an external LED at the top of the phone so you can see who's calling, your current battery level, and network service, etc. A truly great feature the i500 does not have.
Other great resources to help your decision:
Walt Mossberg's reviews from the Wall Street Journal's Personal Technology Section
All this said, I think Mossberg's reviews are right on - the Treo 600 still looks like the best of everything. Palm OS 5, SD expansion, true one-handed operation, light weight, long battery life. Plus (with the rebates over @ Amazon you can get it for 1/2 the cost of the 7035 or i500).
Verizon, get with the program with the Treo or lose customers to the competition.
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