O2 XDA Orbit Reviews

IT Reviews has a review of the O2 XDA Orbit and writes, “you can’t listen to the radio while charging the XDA Orbit (two leads won’t fit into a single mini USB port), and you can’t easily substitute a different headset. … There are some great things about the XDA Orbit, though. For one, its battery life is astonishingly good. We fully charged the battery and asked it to play MP3 files stored on a microSD card and it did so for one minute short of ten hours, which is exceptional. And then there is the excellent miniature trackball which we liked so much on the T-Mobile MDA Compact III. The XDA Orbit is a small Pocket PC and the fact that it hides GSM, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, FM radio and a GSM antenna inside its casing is a marvel. Superb battery life and the CoPilot software make it a good all-round device.” Link.

MobileTechReview has a review of the XDA Orbit and writes, “The battery powering all of this is a 1200mAh Lithium-ion battery, which isn’t bad for a Pocket PC this size. Browsing the internet through WiFi for half an hour with the phone turned on in the background took down the battery by 20%, turning on Bluetooth reduced this by 4%. Listening to MP3’s through the included headset using Windows Media Player 10 for an hour took about 15% out of the battery. This is very good battery life, unless you have WiFi and Bluetooth on and are using the phone solidly all day, you’ll most probably get through the day easily. … Although the awkwardly placed Micro-SD slot and lack of a normal headphones jack are an annoyance, that is all they are, an annoyance. In contrast, the phone is small and light, it is reasonably fast, has triple wireless, FM radio, great screen and a GPS receiver.” Link.

PCPlus has a review of the O2 Xda Orbit and writes, “It’s hard to fault the market leader – Tom Tom – for its sat nav products, but with the Orbit integrating pretty much all you need from GPS as well as a whole lot more into one tiny, tidy package, you have a few less things to carry around with you. Adding a capable two-megapixel camera (for video and still images), an FM radio and an MP3 player to the myriad of functions already described, it’s also amazing value when subsidised with an O2 contract. If you can get over the lack of a full, physical keyboard – and let’s be honest, they’re not that great anyway – then this is one of the most powerful mobile communication, computing and navigating tools on the market.” Link.

SiliconRepublic has a review of the O2 XDA Orbit and writes, “The fact that the device is smaller than previous XDAs does not mean it loses any features – indeed, it has gained some. … what really sets the device apart from its smart phone competitors is the presence of a GPS receiver and a real demonstration of how sat nav will work on mobile phones … All in all, while set-up was tricky, once the device gets working it really performs. It is also good value for money. ” Link.