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Late last week the post man rang the door bell, delivering a package with my new phone: the Qtek 8500. the::unwired has a review.
All in all it’s a very cool phone! And so much more mobile than my I-mate JasJar. The form factor is great, and it’s very light. The design is very sleek, and has some nice bragging details.
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on July 9th, 2006 at 2:27 am
I got mine 4 days ago (in the US). I, like you, love it. I only have one problem. The phone constantly misses calls. Moreover, it doesn’t alert you to this effect. It doesn’t display missed calls nor does it display vm’s that have been recieved. That is, until you reboot it, which needs to happen 4-5 times a day. I’m hoping its just a quick ROM fix that will be out very SOON. As an 12 year ex-MSFT’r, I am hooked on WM5 and this form factor. I just need to be able to answer the phone when people call me.
If you have any ideas, they would be appreciated.
Mark
on July 28th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
[...] So I got a new phone before leaving Denmark for vacation in the States. MarkJ posted a comment to that post detailing some problems he has experienced with the phone, namely that it misses phone calls and voice mail notifications. I haven’t had that problem with my phone, but I have experienced that same problem with other phones. Both my Qtek 9090 and my Imate JasJar has had similar problems. Sometimes you wouldn’t get calls of SMS (Text Messages) before you yourself made a call or send an SMS, after which all of sudden it would pour in with messages and sometimes missed calls notifications. Weird! The commonality between the phones is of course that they run Windows Mobile. But apparently these phones aren’t the only ones with these problems. During the time I used the JasJar it got a problem with the headphone jack getting stuck. Therefore I borrowed a phone from my friend Tais – a Nokia — and lo and behold I sometimes had the same problems with missed calls. Another friend of mine (Lars) has had the same problems with both Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones and on a completely differnent Tele ISP than me. [...]
on August 10th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
Unfortunately this has happened to me as well several times and I don’t live in the States but in Athens, Greece. People are calling me and the operator says that my phone is switched off or sometimes they think I just don’t answer the call, but it has never ringed and then I get an sms telling me I had missed calls!!!! Not to mention the unacceptable level of the speaker. If you’re in a crowded place, chances are you’re going to miss many calls if you don’t have your eyes constantly on the phone. No more Qtek for me anymore. It just sucks.