| Motorola Timeport P7389 |
| General |
| Network | Gsm 900 / Gsm 1800 / Gsm 1900 |
| Announced | 2000 |
| Status | Discontinued |
| Size |
| Dimensions | 130 X 46 X 23 Mm |
| Weight | 140 G |
| Display |
| Type | Monochrome Graphic, Optimax |
| Size | 5 Lines |
| | - Fixed Icons |
| Ringtones |
| Type | Monophonic |
| Amount | 11 |
| Customization | |
| Vibration | Yes |
| Memory |
| Phonebook | 100 |
| Call Records | 10 Dialed, 5 Received, 5 Missed Calls |
| Card Slot | No |
| Data |
| Gprs | No |
| Hscsd | No |
| Edge | No |
| 3g | No |
| Wlan | No |
| Bluetooth | No |
| Infrared Port | Yes |
| Usb | |
| Features |
| Messaging | Sms |
| Browser | Wap |
| Clock | Yes |
| Alarm | No |
| Games | No |
| Colors | 3 |
| Languages | 27 |
| Camera | No |
| | - Voice Note
- Voice Activation |
| Battery |
| | Standard, 600mah Li-ion |
| Stand-by | 150 H |
| Talk Time | 210 Min |
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Motorola - Timeport P7389Motorola Time Port P7389
WAP enabled tri-band GSM phone with the ability to operate on GSM networks in Europe; the Middle East; Africa; Asia; the Americas or Australia. Features Voice Activation and TrueSync technology to synchronise your information across a phone; PC and PDA.
Advantages Truly Global, Compact and Light, Power packed features
Disadvantages Pricey for some folk, not easy to learn
I have owned many different brands of mobile phones, admittedly,they have been mostly Nokia, however, travelling to the USA as I do reasonably frequently, and getting sick of either not having a phone that works in the States or renting one at high rates, I decided to look for a decent Triband phone......
I contacted the two networks that I had mobile accounts with (Vodafone and Btcellnet) to see what deals they had and for how much the upgrades would be, but neither sounded too impressive either on the choice of the phone or cost.....
I began to hear and read about this natty little number, a new mobile phone not from Nokia, but Motorola, the P7389 and decided to see where I could get my hands on one..to my surprise I saw one up for auction on Ebay Auctions site...
I eventually put in a bid for one on Ebay auctions and to my surprise actually won the auction, the phone arrived in due course with Battery, charger, UK plug attachment, belt clip and instruction book...
WOW !! I had no idea of its capabilities, not being given any in depth details on Ebay, when I saw the Infra Red transmission I was delighted, being able to link to your PC is an excellent idea, I bought an Infrared reader/sender for my PC connected via a serial comms port, I can now update and download the Mobile phones phone book to and from my PC, which means I can use my computer keyboard to type in data to the mobile phone..much smarter and easier than fiddling about with those small buttons on the phone...
The Tribnad is also a WAP phone, so having got all my connection details to hand from BTCellnet,I quite easily programmed the WAP details into the phone and loggged onto Genie Internet with ease and very quickly.
The phone also has Fax, Data transmission and receiving capabilities and whilst a very good facility, I haven't used it to date ( not had a need to !!), I believe the Fax transmission is around 9600 bps...
Whilst on a recent trip to Munich I flew back via Amsterdam and in the Dutyfree shop I saw a Motorola USA/European Charger pack for my phone...what a bonus iot was much cheaper than in the shops in the UK so I grabbed one.....This phone is now complete with all accessories, its a feature full, powerful Triband phone, I still don't fully understand all of its capabilities just yet but am continuing to learn...
If you can get one the Motorola P7389 is an excellent Triband Mobile Phone and should be seriously considered if you are looking for a phone with USA/Canada capabilities plus of course other Countries who are on the 1900 Mhz band rather than the more common 900/1800 Mhz dual Frequency Bands as in the UK and Europe...
I have just returned from the USA, and all I had to do was change bands using the set up menu from the dual band frequency setting of 900/1800 Mhz to the USA & Canadian setting of 900 Mhz, it took me 30 seconds to do this whilst the Aircraft engines were powering down, it took the phone 20 seconds to find a compatable network to log onto...very impressive very sleek and with a standard battery that will sit on standby for 5 days, very durable.
I can heartliy recommend this phone to anyone who needs a truly global mobile phone, this little feller will connect to a network just about anywhere in the world...for a purchase price of around £120 - £150 .....its a Cracker !!
Advantages tri band, built in modem, infra red
Disadvantages not that pretty
Motorola's Timeport P7389 is not an ugly phone, but at the same time not the prettiest flower in the garden. In fact if it were describing itself in a lonely hearts column hoping for a hot date with a flirtatious Nokia, it would perhaps be pushing it's luck to quote "Average looks".
To be fair though, the Timeport is bursting with features that belie it's simpleton styling. It has been on the market for about 18 months now and as other manufacturers have launched new models the P7389 has got cheaper and cheaper - you can now get them free on certain contracts.
The Timeport is a tri-band phone which means it can work with different networks that use different radio frequencies. You may not make use of this feature, but it helps with roaming, especially if you take your phone to North America where they use different frequencies to ours.
The phone has a built-in WAP browser which allows you to access WAP services. The screen is fairly large and will display graphics that fit within the WAP standard - for instance it will handle all the graphics elements of waphq.com.
The setup of the WAP settings is reasonably easy which is fortunate, since once you discover the restrictions imposed by using your mobile phone company's own wap portal, you will soon want to break out and use an independent one such as Totalise! (www.totalise.net)
Motorola have built-in Voice Activated Dialing to the Timeport. There were complaints when the phone was originally released that the voice recognition was poor. However there has been an upgrade to the software recently and I have had no such problems - it gets the right person about 95% of the time, which allowing for factors such as background noise, I think is a reasonable rate of success. The Timeport avoids the embarrassment of calling the wrong number by playing back it's voice record before dialling. For instance, if you had a "Laura" and a " Lauren" in your phonebook you would expect the phone to maybe have a bit of trouble with the voice recognition. You press the voice button, say "Lauren" and the phone plays back it's original recording of you saying "Lauren" before dialling - thus you know that the voice activated dialling has selected the correct record.
One feature that has not been mentioned in other reviews on Ciao is the most important feature to me. The Timeport P7389 has a built-in modem and a built-in IR port. Considering that the infra-red and modem attachment for the Ericsson T10, T20 and T28 is about £80 having this built in to an altogether neater package is a real boon.
Motorola have given the infra red modem a set of strange protocols which originally made compatibility with PDAs a bit of an issue - ie. it didn't work! However the likes of Psion soon released a patch and now I can browse the internet on my Psion Mx5 and send email from anywhere - which is a feature that's worth it's weight in gold as far as I'm concerned.
SMS: Timeports have a Tap (normal mode) and an intelligent (predictive) tap mode. I think the predictive system on the Motorola, although it takes a little getting used to, is much more advanced than that offered by Nokia - requiring fewer keypresses.
The charger supplied with Timeport also comes with European socket adaptors, so the system travels well.
The only feature it's missing is a keypad lock. The buttons are much more difficult to knock than the bubble switches used on Nokias but it is still possible to set the phone off in your pocket. I'd therefore advise getting a case for the phone if you want to avoid calling your friends from your pocket or handbag.
At 108 grams the Timeport P789 is not the lightest of phones but it is lighter than, say, the Ericsson T10. If you have a PDA with infra red such as the excellent Psion Mx5, I would really recomme nd this phone as an economical mobile internet and email option - which will give extra value to your PDA ownership by opening up a whole load of new possibilities, enabling you to get more out of your PDA. |
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