Explore G18
Explore G18
The Good :
TFT 262,000 colors, digital camera, touch screen, Palm OS enables lots of add-ons apps, GPRS
The Bad:
No Bluetooth, no memory extension slot, average camera quality
Palm has been known as a solid PDA manufacturer. Yet just recently Palm ventured into smartphone arena, or should we say PDA-phone? Whatever we call this device, the Explore G18 brings a new alternative to the PDA-phone hybrids.
First impression of Explore G18 is it's quite a handsome device. With silver casing and simple buttons, it seems this device doesn't bring lots of features. Yet that impression will disappear once you play around with installed Palm applications inside the system. You have messaging, camera and customizable display themes, games, internet browser, etc.
But office applications are not installed, so you need to buy them separately. Camera quality is only average, and the placement of the camera lens on the top edge of the back of the phone really brings incovinience when you take pictures. It's like aiming to shoot a duck. So it's not very fun and we need time to get used with the camera.
May be the best feature of Explore G18, and like G88 is its Palm operating system. Palm OS enables you to download and install various kinds of add-ons application available in the Internet. We know that Palm applications (and games) are more widely varied in kinds and quantity than PocketPC (windows) or Symbian.
With similar price, you can have Motorola A760, Siemens SX1, Explore G88, Siemens SL65, O2 Xphone II, Siemens S65, Samsung E800, or Samsung E630. May be the closest competitor is the Motorola A760. It has touch screen, 32 MB memory and faster processor than Explore G18. Motorola A760 also carries bluetooth, MP3 player, and digital camera capable of capturing video.
O2 Xphone II is also a considerable alternative. It brings the glamorous Windows SmartPhone 2003 operating system, with MP3 and MP4 players, Bluetooth, memory extension slot, and 32 MB memory. But O2 Xphone II has no touch screen. Both O2 Xphone II and Motorola A760 has less depth display colors (only 65,000) than Explore G18. Explore G88 gives you 22 MB internal memory more than G18. So what's your choice?
Conclusion :
If you are really a Palm system fanatic, Explore G18 is surely a nice gadget. But if you're only familiar with Windows, may be you can consider O2 Xphone II instead. Still the device can be quite powerful if you buy and install more "killer applications". However the lack of bluetooth and memory extension slot are real problems with Explore G18.
The Good :
TFT 262,000 colors, digital camera, touch screen, Palm OS enables lots of add-ons apps, GPRS
The Bad:
No Bluetooth, no memory extension slot, average camera quality
Palm has been known as a solid PDA manufacturer. Yet just recently Palm ventured into smartphone arena, or should we say PDA-phone? Whatever we call this device, the Explore G18 brings a new alternative to the PDA-phone hybrids.
First impression of Explore G18 is it's quite a handsome device. With silver casing and simple buttons, it seems this device doesn't bring lots of features. Yet that impression will disappear once you play around with installed Palm applications inside the system. You have messaging, camera and customizable display themes, games, internet browser, etc.
But office applications are not installed, so you need to buy them separately. Camera quality is only average, and the placement of the camera lens on the top edge of the back of the phone really brings incovinience when you take pictures. It's like aiming to shoot a duck. So it's not very fun and we need time to get used with the camera.
May be the best feature of Explore G18, and like G88 is its Palm operating system. Palm OS enables you to download and install various kinds of add-ons application available in the Internet. We know that Palm applications (and games) are more widely varied in kinds and quantity than PocketPC (windows) or Symbian.
With similar price, you can have Motorola A760, Siemens SX1, Explore G88, Siemens SL65, O2 Xphone II, Siemens S65, Samsung E800, or Samsung E630. May be the closest competitor is the Motorola A760. It has touch screen, 32 MB memory and faster processor than Explore G18. Motorola A760 also carries bluetooth, MP3 player, and digital camera capable of capturing video.
O2 Xphone II is also a considerable alternative. It brings the glamorous Windows SmartPhone 2003 operating system, with MP3 and MP4 players, Bluetooth, memory extension slot, and 32 MB memory. But O2 Xphone II has no touch screen. Both O2 Xphone II and Motorola A760 has less depth display colors (only 65,000) than Explore G18. Explore G88 gives you 22 MB internal memory more than G18. So what's your choice?
Conclusion :
If you are really a Palm system fanatic, Explore G18 is surely a nice gadget. But if you're only familiar with Windows, may be you can consider O2 Xphone II instead. Still the device can be quite powerful if you buy and install more "killer applications". However the lack of bluetooth and memory extension slot are real problems with Explore G18.
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