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Summary: 5 stars, gps is cool
Review: The perfect phone. Telenav works great (at least out in the burbs), hacked into it and changed my wallpaper to a family photo, great phone all alround, powers my laptop's net connection too...
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Summary: This phone rocks.
Review: After years of loyalty to the Motorola Startac, I decided I needed a phone with more functionality. At the same time I was tired of Sprint's horrible service and bad plans. I got the I730 with the Nextel Nation 1000 Connect plan. It's great; perfect coverage and the phone is worth whatever you pay for it. It's less than my first Startac ($399 vs $499) and I am very happy with my Nextel Service (much more clear than Sprint). A definate recommend for those who require a quality phone rather than something made by Samsung, LG, or Sanyo. If I could change one thing it would be the battery life, if I forget to charge it at night and I am talking quite a bit I may get a low battery the next day. I don't complain about that too much though because I am usually connected to AIM all day long and often use my GPS TeleNav on my phone.
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Summary: Looks cheap, feels cheap and acts like cheaper
Review: I intended to replace both mine and my wife's aging i90c phones with i730.
Purchasing and delivery was OK directly from Nextel but then the fun began.
First impression: Cheezy, cheap looking flimsy construction. Battery cover thin sheet of Al, difficult to open and close, data/charger socket covered with a rubber piece which is difficult to open and gets on the way of the plug. Very annoying...
Initial Setup: This is where it started getting awkward. I charged both phones overnight and unplugged both of them next morning. They were both fully charged. During the charge, they display "Device Attached" sign. When it was first turned on, searched for the service but since they were not activated, couldn't find the service but dismissing the tab shaped logo covering entire display took some effort to figure out to be able to change settings etc.One of the phones completely drained in less than six hours with no use what so ever. I plugged in to recharge but phone starting it's funky light dance and finally after several plug/unplugs recognized the charger. Called the tech support, they said it was faulty. In order to get the replacement, I had to be charged for the replacement, call the finance office of Nextel to dispute the charge once I send in the non-working one. Otherwise it takes two months credit to be given back to my account. That's more than annoying!!!
Then next day, when I was ready to activate my wife's phone (once she came back from out of town), I discovered that that phone went crazy as well. Dancing lights and turnig on/off by itself and finally "Incompatible device" sign for the charger. That was it for me. I decided to return both and be over with it. It is going to be a painfull experience to sort out billing problems I fear. Overall, i730 fells like, looks like and acts like a cheap version of i90c with color screen and shinny skin! I pass....
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Summary: Don't do it for the GPS - TeleNav does NOT work
Review: In Chicago, the GPS NEVER works (and yes I went by the window dozens of times). In the surrounding suburbs, it worked once about 30 miles north of Chicago, so I know it's not broken, unfortunately. TeleNav, the company that sells the GPS mapping service for Nextel phones, will charge you by the kilobyte, which is very mysterious, but comes out to about twenty-bucks a month, in addition to a "total connect" service that Nextel will need to add (for GPS to function), for another ten-bucks monthly. The kicker is when you figure out that your GPS hardly works at all, and you have already signed up for a year's Telenav service, TELENAV WON'T REFUND YOU A SINGLE DIME. "Too bad for you" it didn't work in YOUR area. The Nextel tech that I spoke to (in cancelling "total connect") said TeleNav told them that they should not gaurantee TeleNav to ever function. "There are not enough satelllites at this time". What a bunch of fargin iceholes. Otherwise, it must be stated that I do like Nextel service and the web browser is the best of it's kind. You'll never call info with a "People-Finder", equivalent to White Pages and also a "Business-Finder". Movie times and all that other stuff as well, and "SNOCOUNTRY" tells you the amount of snow at any hill in America. That's nice.
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Summary: Awesome GPS and beautiful color screen
Review: This phone is the choice for you if you want to spend a little more to be cool! Love it. Nextel's Total Connect plan enables you to take adantage of the gps chip inside and track the phone with online map. TelNav's Tracking works most of the time for me, with a small amount of monthly fee. There are also other free tracking services you can try such as accutracking.com. The fine screen is comfortable for eyes if you are a game fan, plus there are tons of free and demo games availale for download.
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Summary: What a POS!!!
Review: I used to be with SprintPCS. I started out using the Motorola StarTac and owned many different Samsungs, LGs and Sanyo's. Well Nextel rolled around with a good plan so I switched to them after being a customer with SprintPCS since 1997. I went and bought a I730 and I95c. The I730 is the biggest piece of crap I have ever owned. I have had it for 3 months and the darn thing is falling apart. My so called Smart button has fallen off one day and I don't even know where it is. The phone's reception is horrible. Everyone around me with other phones get great reception and I get "NO SERVICE" all the time. This phone is over priced and not user friendly at all. Don't waste your money! I would have given it 0 stars, but 0 stars does not exist.
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Summary: this phone is sick, i love it
Review: people, this phone is the best phone ever created. i simply love it. i didnt really plan to get this phone but one night i lost my i95 (which was a great phone) and decided to buy the i730 since it was the newest. The features i love about this phone is the slim size, the 65k color screen, the disco lights that light up when you recieve a call, the gps feature, the arrangement of the buttons, the 600 number phonebook, assignable ringtones, the arrangement of the menus, the style of the phone and also the talk time. the phone is the best phone on the market and its on the best network in the country which is of course nextel. with the nationwide walkie talkie you cant go wrong. i also have one of the best plans that they have ever offered which includes 1000 mins, unlimited night and weekends,and unlimitied walkie talkie for $54.99. so basically im nextel for life, holla!!!!!!!
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Summary: Top of the line phone lacking basic features
Review: The good:
(1) Awesome Speakerphone.
(2) Bright display.
(3) GPS enabled.
(4) Thinner and lighter than any previous Nextel I've seen. The bad:
(1) No bluetooth.
(2) Only 3 polyphonic ringtones are included.
(3) Only 3 wallpapers are included.
(4) No games included, only demos.
(5) No Alarm Clock function. (What'd they just forget?)
(5) No computer connection cable. They want $30 for this cable -- Should be a $5 item! (No, should be included!)
(6) No data services at all (no new ringtones, no text messages, no addressbook updating, etc) without an added monthly data fee.
(7) That antennea on the corner still looks silly and snags my clothing... Given that most of us own Nextel phones for work, I can understand leaving out some of the fun features Nokia and Samsung
include, but cutting all of the nice-to-haves on the top of the line phone seems, well, cheap, like the iDen service is design to bleed extra money from the customer. Bottom line: If you are Nextel loyal this phone *is* better than what you are carrying now. But, If you are considering picking up Nextel as a carrier, I'd pass, other carriers are more competitive on price and have a wider variety, and better phones.
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Summary: I need more information
Review: May I have your phone number to ask some questions.
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Summary: great phone
Review: i was iffy about going from an ATT GSM phone with supposedly nationwide coverage to a Nextel phone which mainly followed interstates. This phones coverage truely amazed me. Ive never had a dropped call, the features are awesome, the size of the phone is good (just big enough to fit commfortably in your hand). Customer service has been great too. Nextel even gave me a 10.00 credit for answering a ten second survey.
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