Review: Motorola i870
Each contact entry can hold five phone numbers, plus a direct connect address, fax and pager numbers and an email address. Each contact can be assigned a Photo caller ID and custom ringtone. Photos can only be assigned from the gallery. The photo picker does not offer an option to take a new picture and assign it to the contact.
Each number can be assigned a voice dialing option, which the phone must be trained to recognize. The phone requires two matching voice tags to be trained for any number. We were never able to get the two attempts to match, even when using a monotone voice in a quiet room.
The contacts application is also used for one of the i870's newest features - on the fly PTT groups. Users can easily create PTT groups by selecting contacts with a PTT address stored in their address card. Previously users had to contact Nextel in order to define a calling group.
Most call functions work just as they do from any other phone. However pressing the send button from the home screen does not take you to a redial or recent calls menu, it simply does nothing. Instead you must use the stop button on the phone's top to quickly bring up the recent calls list or assign it to one of the many shortcut keys. The other deviation from standard phone functions is that holding the 1 key does not dial voicemail. That can only be done from a new message dialog box or from the Messaging application. In-call menus and other call features work as expected.
PTT or recent phone calls can be made with the speakerphone while the phone is closed using a combination of the external controls. The speakerphone can also be activated while in a call from the right soft key.
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