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"A little basic phone with some extra features"
The title is contradictory, but so is the Panasonic Allure EB-TX310. It has the down sides of ordinary phones as long as some very nice features usually found only on top-notch cell phones. Downloadable screen savers and the 3 voices polyphonic melody composer, for instance, is a very interesting innovation, but the polyphonic melody composer (the first of its kind) ain't easy to use. Plus, even though that phone looks like a cool trendy little device, it surprisingly doesn't feature any built-in game or WAP wireless web browser, so don't count on it to entertain you when you need to kill time. The built-in speakerphone, too, is a big plus, but even though Panasonic says it has been improved (compared to previous Panasonic models), I think the output volume is still a bit low, so whenever you are in an even slightly noisy area, you can hardly hear people talking through it. In a not too noisy car, though, it works fine. A low performance battery is also a major annoyance: despite the advertised stand-by time of 200 hours and a 140 minutes talk time, real-life experience suggests that it does even worse. I felt I was recharging the battery all the time. However, the Panasonic Allure EB-TX310 also has some really cool advantages: an amazing wieght of only 2.7 ounces, a small size, easy to use menus, a voice memo that lets you record 3 voice notes and one short conversation and a good and simple predictive text input system for text messages. Also features a backlight that can be changed to one of 6 different colors.
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