March 3, 2009
Sci Phone
Ugh, the Sci Phone (i68).
I bought this thing because my friend had one and I fell in love with it after only a few moments of playing with it. Had I merely made a phone call with it I could have spared myself a 2 month headache.
So the next day I ordered it from a website in China and therefore it took a month to receive.
The camera is nice and it took OK video, but that’s the end of the pros.
No speed dial, yet you can shake it to change the f*****g wallpaper or change songs. But you cannot change the wallpaper to YOUR images; It has to be one of the pre-programmed ones.
In order to make a phone call, one must press at least 4 buttons on that not so responsive and easily dirty (on the inside) touch pad.
When I go to send a text, the default is Chinese (Cantonese/Mandarin, whatever) so there’s ANOTHER step to getting something done.
The phone numbers on my SIM card were not readable, therefore I had to re-enter all of my numbers into the phone.
The user interface is completely non-intuitive and quite frankly retarded.
Awful, just Awful! I actually ended up purposefully smashing it on the ground just so I wouldn’t even be able to use it as a back up phone later. I just wanted it out of my life as soon as possible.
The moral: Spend the money and get the real thing!


