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CNET editors' rating:
3.5
stars
Very good
Detailed editors' rating - Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 12 reviews
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Product summary
The
good: Ready Link walkie-talkie service; speakerphone; voice and text messaging.
The
bad: Short battery life.
The
bottom
line: The Ready Link-enabled Sprint RL-A760 is a good basic mobile that puts a twist on text messaging.
Specifications: Carrier: Sprint PCS ; Band / mode: CDMA2000 1X 1900/800 / AMPS 800 ; Talk time: Up to 180 min ; See full specs
CNET editors' review
- Reviewed on: 01/27/2005
Inside the A760, you'll find a vibrant, 1.8-inch screen that displays 65,000 colors. It's easily readable indoors, and its adequate for viewing Web pages, but the display becomes a little washed out in direct sunlight. To navigate the user-friendly menu, there is a four-way navigation toggle with a center Menu/OK button. You also can program each directional key on the toggle to launch your contacts, messaging, text in-box, or VoiceSMS in-box. Surrounding the toggle are the Talk, End, and Back buttons and the left and right soft keys that launch your Ready Link numbers and Contacts list, respectively. The layout is well spaced, and since the buttons, as well as the blue-backlit numerical keypad, are slightly raised from the phones surface, it makes dialing by feel easy.
On the A760s left spine are a volume rocker and the Ready Link key, while on the right spine, there is a handy multifunction button. When the phone is open, a single press opens the Recent Calls list, while a press-and-hold opens the useful voice-command menu (see Features). Conversely, when the phone is closed, the button activates the key guard and also activates the speakerphone during a call. There is a 2.5mm universal jack (with an attached cover) for headsets as well as a retractable antenna on the top of the mobile. To power up, theres a connector on the bottom of the handset as well as an accessory plug. But take care: unlike the headset jack, the protective cover isn't connected, and we nearly lost it right away.
The Sprint RL-A760 comes with a healthy set of basic features and some fun extras. You get a 300-name phone book with room in each entry for six numbers, as well as e-mail and Web addresses and a birthday reminder. You can organize contacts by caller group or assign them to any of 20 polyphonic or 9 monophonic ring tones. And while there's no integrated camera, you can download photos and images to pair with names for caller ID purposes. With Sprint's Ready Link service, you get an additional phone book for 200 of your closest personal and business contacts. Another handy feature allows you to use the voice-command menu to dial numbers, and if a contact has more than one number, you can specify "mobile" or "home," for example, to access that number. You can also say "status" and the phone will tell you the current signal, battery strength, and coverage. Other goodies include a speakerphone, vibrate mode, text and multimedia messaging, a one-minute voice recorder, a calendar, a task list, a memo pad, a world clock, a countdown timer, a calculator, an alarm clock, a WAP 2.0 Web browser, and an embedded GPS chip for emergency location. Continue reading- See more CNET content tagged:
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