- Smartphone with slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi (802.11b) and fast EV-DO data connectivity
- Powered by Windows Mobile 5.0; 2.8-inch touchscreen; expandable via MiniSD memory cards
- Bluetooth connectivity for communication headsets; personal and business email access
- Up to 4.7 hours of talk time, up to 200 hours ( 8.3 days) of standby time; measures 4.25 x 2.32 x 0.93 inches (HxWxD)
- Includes: rechargeable lithium-ion battery, travel charger, user guide, quick reference guide
Amazon.com Product Description
With its EV-DO and Wi-Fi capabilities (802.11b), the Verizon XV6700 Smartphone enables you to be productive and stay connected wherever you roam. Powered by the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system, you’ll enjoy seamless synchronization with Outlook’s emails, contacts, calendar and tasks. Sync complete emails, open attachments, enter contact details or even add calendar appointments on the move. It’s equipped with a unique sliding QWERTY keyboard that open… More >>
This phone makes calls on its own and locks up everyday. The web brouser eats the whole battery up, cannot scync to pc for outlook. And the dropped calls and bad reception make this my worst phone ever. I can wait to get a different phone.
Rating: 1 / 5
Love this phone. It’s been my baby for three years. I broke one on the ground by dropping it and got another one.
Have moved to a Samsung and am about to go back to this phone.
Rating: 5 / 5
Got this for my wife as a PDA more than a phone… did however use it as a phone for a short while. The PDA works just like most HP PDAs do, but the phone function gets in the way of working when someone calls you. I would not recommend this phone in today’s age because of all the other newer smart phones.
Today’s smart phones are much more user friendly.
Bottom-line: an outdated phone/PDA
Rating: 2 / 5
This is one of the worst technology products I have ever owned. If it is working correctly (a very big if), it has great functionality. It can open Word documents, receive email efficiently, and do a number of other useful tasks.
The problem is the endless parade of error messages, crashes, malfunctions, and data loss. I have seen — no exaggeration — at least 15 different error messages in the two years I have owned this product. Think Windows 95. Remember how Windows 95 used to manage to come up with a creative new and bizarre error messages and malfunctions, with new ones showing up even after you’ve had the product for years? This XV6700 is the same.
I have performed a hard reset (erasing all data, settings and updates) twice, and installed a comprehensive update to the software, but to no avail. The update reduced the problems somewhat, but they are still significant. The Verizon Wireless help desk has not been very helpful — they always advise a hard reset, even though that has not fixed the problem before.
I have not owned many handheld devices, but there has got to be a better one out there than the XV6700.
Rating: 1 / 5
We got these as our corporate “smart” phones, and I ended up “upgrading” to one from a regular voice phone when its hinge finally wore out. I was stuck with one of these for about a year. Our new standard is Blackberry it is much better.
As a phone, these things are totally useless:
- touchscreen can’t dial by finger
- no tactile feedback due to touchscreen
- buttons not proportionally positioned on the screen, so must look at phone to dial
- lousy signal quality, lousy voice quality
- no battery life, and talking drains the battery *very* rapidly
As a PDA, it’s OK, except:
- screen is easily scratched or cracked
- mini-SD card easily auto-ejects
- stylus easily auto-ejects
- battery cover easily comes off
Being Windows-based, as one would imagine, the interface is clunky and it locks up very frequently, requiring hard reset at inconvenient times. But at least it syncs with Outlook.
On the plus side, this is a large and heavy phone, so it makes an excellent paperweight!
Rating: 1 / 5