05-Jan-2007, 01:38 AM
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Review: O2 Ice
The O2 Ice is an attractively-styled 3G phone with a classic "candy-bar" shape. It's a very slim phone, at just 14mm, and elegant, with an ice white colour scheme. The keypad is well laid out, with small but nicely raised keys and a 5-way navigation key and is easy to use.
The O2 Ice supports video calling with a front-mounted video camera. There's a second rear-mounted camera for taking still images. This is a 1.3 megapixel camera and gives acceptable results, but is by no means the best camera on a mobile phone. The Ice has an MP3 player, which is of reasonable quality. Although the memory supplied is just 32 Mbytes, which is not enough to store more than a handful of music tracks, there is a Micro SD memory card slot which allows you to expand the total memory to more than a Gbyte - enough to store plenty of songs. This isn't up to Apple iPod standards though, so don't expect to replace a dedicated music player. There's a headset socket on the side of the phone. The O2 Ice comes with a USB cable for transferring music files from your PC, and also supports Bluetooth wireless connectivity.
In addition to video calling, the O2 Ice supports all of O2's 3G services, and being exclusive to O2, the phone is configured with easy access to these. For example, you can access O2 Active with a single key press. Internet access is very fast, thanks to the 3G connection.
The O2 Ice is a compact 3G handset offering excellent value for money. It's an entry-level phone, so don't expect too much from the camera and MP3 player, but really you get a lot for your money, and the phone is attractive and user friendly.
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