Audiovox CDM 9500 Cell Phone
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- Performance: Dual Band
- Design: Mobile
- Style: Clamshell
- Network Type: CDMA 1900 AMPS
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The best phone I have ever had!
Pros
Color screen, polyphonic ringers,sturdy feel
Cons
Small capacity on standard battery, no calculator
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
Solidly built color-screen phone with lots of useful features.
I bought this phone in December 2002; I sent in my Nokia 3285 to get the $100.00 rebate. So, the phone only cost $100, and after another promo I got a price adjustment and the grand total was $50. Unbeatable. Considering Nextel charges $250 for their Motorola i95cl, which as all other Nextel phones is full of problems..anyway...
The features I use:
Voice dial. Works well. Easy to program.
One-touch set-up of vibration mode on or off - excellent feature.
Speakerphone - not crystal-clear, but passable at moderate volume. Useful in quiet surroundings.
Ring tone downloads through Verizon's get It Now system. You can personalize your phone endlessly.
Internet access. Even though technically this is a system feature rather than hardware, I use it and the big color screen is an advantage.
Assignable ringers. This is great. You know who is calling even before looking at the external Caller ID.
I am beginning to use the Scheduler more and more.
A few minor irritants:
Call timers do not give the date, time and duration of each call in the list, only the last one.
No calculator. This is one feature from my Nokia I really miss.
I had to buy the xtra-capacity battery, and I sold the standard battery on Ebay. Battery life is OK on this one, but color screens do use more power.
Unfortunately, the manufacturer decided to make a battery that cannot be charged in a separate charger, only in the phone. Ideally, I would have preferred to have 2 batteries, so that I could switch them and always have one charged and ready to go. Oh well...
Overall, an excellent phone. But expensive w/o promotions. Buy insurance!
The features I use:
Voice dial. Works well. Easy to program.
One-touch set-up of vibration mode on or off - excellent feature.
Speakerphone - not crystal-clear, but passable at moderate volume. Useful in quiet surroundings.
Ring tone downloads through Verizon's get It Now system. You can personalize your phone endlessly.
Internet access. Even though technically this is a system feature rather than hardware, I use it and the big color screen is an advantage.
Assignable ringers. This is great. You know who is calling even before looking at the external Caller ID.
I am beginning to use the Scheduler more and more.
A few minor irritants:
Call timers do not give the date, time and duration of each call in the list, only the last one.
No calculator. This is one feature from my Nokia I really miss.
I had to buy the xtra-capacity battery, and I sold the standard battery on Ebay. Battery life is OK on this one, but color screens do use more power.
Unfortunately, the manufacturer decided to make a battery that cannot be charged in a separate charger, only in the phone. Ideally, I would have preferred to have 2 batteries, so that I could switch them and always have one charged and ready to go. Oh well...
Overall, an excellent phone. But expensive w/o promotions. Buy insurance!
