Following my previous posts, I just thought I’d give a followup on how I’m getting on with my new 6708 (since people seem to be searching for information on this model).
I’m still happy with it, though I wish it was a bit better-looking! The functionality, and particularly the Chinese dictionary, are good and very useful. The handwriting recognition is ok, but I have to be careful to keep the stylus vertical to the screen, or things go to heck and I spend lots of time deleting junk and trying to write again. My usage really isn’t all that heavy, I think; the battery life is about two to three days, make of that what you will. The camera and video quality is certainly nothing special, but OK for casual snapshots (fairly useless at night, though).
My main concern is that my phone has blue-screened on me twice; the second time (last night, which is why it’s on my mind now) I had to take the battery out, replace it, and then reboot. A small inconvenience, but not one that I expected to encounter….
The other day, I took it out to use while I was talking to someone who’s a manager at Nokia; he looked at it curiously and said “That’s not a Nokia phone, is it?” – which sort of confirms that it was originally a BenQ design that Nokia took over and rebranded; I wonder why they didn’t design one in-house, as they did with its predecessor model, the 6108…
