Kyocera 7135 Review
The successor to the widely beloved Kyocera 6035 Palm OS SmartPhone, the Kyocera 7135 is a much sportier model with the same essential features, only this time encased in a lighter weight clamshell (flip phone) design with a higher quality color display.
Now, that's not to say the Kyocera 7135 is slimmer, lighter, and prettier than its average competitor, however. Just that it's slimmer, lighter, and prettier than its predecessor. Nonetheless, the Kyocera 7135 boasts stellar voice quality and reception (even indoors) which is really what a cell phone should still be primarily about.
Available through Alltel and Verizon, the Kyocera 7135 features a 2 ½" screen that doubles as both the cell phone display screen and Palm OS display screen, though the touch screen is only accessible in Palm OS mode. A tri-band phone that supports both analog and US CDMA bands, Kyocera 7135 transmit's calls over Verizon's Express Network, a 1xRTT data network that's capable of reaching speeds of 144k, with an average of around 40k to 70k in urban areas
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On the lower half of the Kyocera 7135, above the numeric keypad, is the Graffiti area which is surprisingly easy to use, despite its congested appearance. The silkscreened Menu, Home, Find, and App buttons are an extra-nice touch, as is the fact that you can adjust contrast and brightness both from the Graffiti area as well. Along with the number keys are buttons to control the backlight, power the Palm display on and off, and activate the speakerphone. You can set the Kyocera 7135 to backlight all the keys, though only for 10 or, alternatively, 30 seconds at a time.
The Kyocera 7135 includes high-speed wireless and a built-in SD slot for a Secure Digital Multimedia Memory card that supports SDIO and a built-in image viewer and MP3 player.
As for the phone application, there is no onscreen dialer and you have to navigate using an integrated action button and rocker button as it is not touch sensitive (protection from accidentally activating a person on the screen while the phone is touching your face). The screen for the phone application looks just like a standard familiar mobile phone screen, including the expected signal strength indicator, service indicator, and GPS positioning indicator. Convenient menu listings allow you to easily check Recent Calls and Messages, and pull up your Palm OS Address Book (including your voice dial and speed lists).
From the phone preference menu, you can customize your Kyocera 7135, such as setting whether opening the flip answers calls automatically or not and/or automatically shows the phone display. You can also set a variety of alerts for situations like entering roaming or missing calls, turning on or off voice answer and/or wake up, select call volumes, ring tones and more.
The Kyocera 7135 comes with a convenient external monochrome, LCD display across the top that includes the current time, a battery level meter, connection strength indicator, message indicator, and caller ID.
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