Review: Motorola i870
Starting a new message only takes two clicks on the i870, however composing it is far more complicated. Addressing the message is fairly simple, however once the addresses have been selected or entered you have to press back and then click to enter the message (or vice versa if you choose to scroll down and enter message text first). Instead of entering the message text on the full screen, it is composed in a tiny alert box at the bottom of the window, which feels especially cramped with a large amount of screen real estate wasted above it.
The mobile email application only supports accounts created through Nextel, limiting its usefulness. The i870 can send pictures either through Direct Connect to other new iDen handsets or standard MMS. Unfortunately the MMS client cannot resize pictures, so if images were taken at maximum resolution, they cannot be sent.
Receiving messages works as expected. An alert appears on both the internal and secondary display, and once the phone is open, new messages can be viewed easily. The phone connects automatically to download MMS.
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