PCS Vision Audiovox PM-8920 Picture Phone (Sprint)

Rating:
Summary: Unacceptably poor sound quality
Review: The quality of the sound of the earpiece speaker, the speakerphone and the ringer are simply the worst I have ever encountered. Elevating the volume of any of these causes significant amounts of distortion. The earpiece is also very poorly designed in that moving the phone in the slightest will cause total occlusion of the sound, so the phone must be held almost perfectly still. The camera, although rated at an impressive 1.3 megapixels, renders images that fall well below expectations of such a relatively high resolution. The phone has a very competitive feature set, but few of the features perform satisfactorily. I returned it after 10 days of disappointment, and was told by the unsurprised Sprint representative that despite the phone's newness, the return rate was already quite high. In its place, I purchased a Sanyo 8200 with which I am absolutely satisfied. The only good thing I can say about the Audiovox phone is that the display was bright and clear, and had extremely vivid color. Don't be tempted by the rich set of features - pass on this phone.

Rating:
Summary: It's okay, but mine choked.
Review: The reception on this phone works well in L.A., but mine choked and wouldn't reboot after 4 months--all I was doing was assigning images to the contacts in my phonebook. A Sprint store replaced the phone (which was still in warranty). But what is truly appalling is that there's no way to download the photos you take to your PC (that I know of) without hacking the phone and getting a mysterious data cable that may not even work. SHAME ON SPRINT for forcing consumers into buying their ridiculous $15 per month minimum just to get the photos out of the phone. The only reason I chose this phone was because it had the highest megapixels available at the time in a cell phone camera. Sigh. Verizon is doing the same thing: pay extra for this... when all you want to do is get the pictures out of the phone. Ugh.

Rating:
Summary: Great phone - vice pickup too loud
Review: This is a great phone. It has many cool features like built in 300 name phonebook, ability to associate pictures with phone book entries, and of course the camera itself. However, there is a problem. We have two phones and they both have the same problem. No matter who we call, they complan that we are "yelling" at them. Our voices are loud and distorted on the receiving end. We notice the same thing when we talk to each other. We can find no way to turn the mike sensitivity down. Holding it far from our mouth - like at our waste - doesn't improve things much and of course then we can't hear what the other end is saying. Turning down the volume doesn't help either. Only thing that helps is to talk in a whisper or switch to speaker phone mode. I hope they get a fix for this soon because I love the rest of the features of this phone.

Rating:
Summary: Don't buy Audiovox
Review: You might want to think twice about buying an Audiovox phone. I've had one for 2 1/2 months now. Well, I've actually had it only 2 months. It took a little over two weeks for the company to repair it when it stopped getting any signals.

But, less than 24 hours after I got it back the phone another problem! This time with the keypad. Audiovox won't let the dealer replace it. It's gotta be sent back again.

So, bad quality, bad repair, and bad customer service. Buy at your own risk.