Typing on the screen is a cramped affair, with the virtual keyboard occupying almost half of the 2.8 inch screen. That said, the experience is surprisingly accurate, provided you take your time. If your fingers are large or fat, expect to have some trouble as the individual keys are tiny, and there’s none of the ‘Swype’ keyboard assistance found on Samsung and Motorola phones to help out.
Call quality is decent enough, with reasonable volume and clarity. Not a patch on the likes of high definition audio phones like the Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo or HTC Desire HD, though, which is to be expected for a sub-$100 handset.
Battery life is fairly standard too, offering around a day if you don’t spend all that time tweeting or surfing the web.
The overall feel of the handset is one of cheapness. It’s flimsy and the plastic tends to creak. It feels a bit like a kids toy phone. And while the rubberised plastic on the back is easy to grip, but it also feels greasy.
The screen quality is poor and with the display area so small and resolution so low, text is often hard to read.
Speed is not a strong point, with the X1 grindingly slow on live wallpapers, a feature that rarely works on budget handsets. On occasions it was so tardy to carry out operations that we though it had ‘hung’.
We’d have loved a slightly better camera, with the 3 megapixel shooter only managing ancient VGA video capture. Stills aren’t very sharp either, and without a flash you’ll need bright ambient light for lots of shooting scenarios.
Also, despite Flash compatibility existing in Android 2.2 and above, the IDEOS has no support for Flash.
Conclusion
The X1 has several shortcomings, with speed and screen quality at the top of that list. At $99, though, it’s hard to go past the X1 as a value-packed prepaid device.
You can not hook up to your wireless modem with this phone,,, huge let down
Do you mean you can’t use it as a wireless modem in hotspot mode, or you can’t jump on a wireless network? The first part isn’t a surprise given the price point, but you should definitely be able to connect to WiFi.
You can use it as a hotspot actually
u can hook it up to a wirless modem
doesnt this phone really support flash????
Good Phone. but you have to think about the memory (RAM) when you are installing apps. It gets slow when there are many apps. Camara is Good. (3.2 MP) Direct GPS is week. But with the support with other wireless networks (AGPS) it works. You can can use WiFy in both ways (Hotspot,Client (direct or connected to computer as a wify adapter)
Yo lo compré, pero me cobraron más 🙁
How can I send a shutdown signal to the car using this phone?
It is a good choice if you look for something cheap or small – yes small, none of the more powerful phones is that small and easy to carry around. It is a bit slow, some of the everyday features on a high end phone are usable as a last resort only, but the point is – they are there! With me the battery life was good, perhaps those who had problems launched some hungry app.
does anyone else have the problem where you cant use the phone whilst it is on charge????
I’ve seen something like this before on a few Android phones, actually. Is it that you can’t use it at all, or that the touchscreen becomes problematic?
wat type of microsd does the phone support coz i bought one and it doesn’t store files for long, 4 a few minutes then it says it can’t accept the vformat to this file
Very good Android Smartphone, does almost everything an iphone 5 does