Audiovox CDM8900 Camera Phone Review

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The Audiovox CDM8900 is a compact flip phone offered by Verizon Wireless. Its a fairly easy phone and for me, it’s a good break from all those fancy high-tech stuff that’s coming out of today’s mobile phone companies. The CDM8900’s menus are easy to navigate and is fairly simple to use. Of course, as most handset nowadays, you can send emails through its built-in text messaging feature.

Other features include voice notes, it has a maximum rated standby time of 212 hours and a talk time of 193 minutes. The phone weighs only 3.5 oz., it supports analog roaming, it includes a camera, sports a TFT color display with 65,000 colors, and it can store 300 phone book entries. As a phone, it offers the simple and useful stuff that a more sensible person will find useful. As a camera phone it has a good TFT display and the 32 MB of memory allow for comfortable camera use.

However, the Audiovox CDM8900 camera phone has its drawbacks. It is not Bluetooth-enabled nor does it support infrared communication, an odd design choice for a camera phone with which users would legitimately want to transfer some pictures to their PC.

For POP3 functions, you will need to access Verizon’s Get It Now service directly from the phone. Here you can get Verizon’s messaging application, Soda Pop Mail. Once you download and install the app, you can set it up to collect your POP3 e-mail. You can select from a list of presets like Hotmail, Road Runner, and Yahoo!, or set it up with your own POP3 account. The application is easy to use but doesn’t support IMAP.

Sources:
http://www.retrevo.com
http://cellphones.about.com