Cherry Mobile G1 Review (Part 2)

From the internal shot of the watch phone, you should be able to see it does have 2 sim slots and the micro SD expansion slot. Its ntc registered and shows the imei in the back. The battery is a solid 400mh one. So tiny it hurts :D so far playing music for around 10 minutes and using the bluetooth for file transfers and headset calls around 10 minutes and tinkering with the settings all the while yeilded a loss for around 25% (The phone has 4 bars, it lost 1) its not very encouraging but the phone IS small and the battery smaller still. I can guage it should last a day of moderate phone use. Power bank umbilical cord may be necessary. 

The wallpaper is user changable and brightness looks good. It sounds alright but take note at max volume, the alert tones are not loud. Using a sound meter, it only registers 55 to 60 decibels. Around the same loudness of talking in a low tone in a quiet room. Better set it to vibrate and ring.

Texting with fat stubby fingers will be a problem with the tiny keyboard. Its usable though and accurate. The touch screen is resistive. Its probably why its cheap. Its ok enough but I find myself touching a selection twice or more at the times before it registers.

Contacts are a bit easy to deal with by exporting you current contacts and sending via bluetooth. You can only make use of yhis if you have a memory card installed as the phone does not have extra memory.

Speaking of memory cards. You're gonna need it if you want to use the camera (or custom tones) as the phone watch will complain if you try to shoot without a card. Also though the box specs say vga camera. The max resolution of the camera is 960x1280 (might be interpolated) 480x640, 240x320 and 128x160 are also available. There are also some effects and 3 levels of quality. Sample Images below.

Up close it's almost passable

Not so close... ugh...

One undocumented feature is that it can capture video. But to reach it requires a bit of pressing and max resolution is 240x320 only. 144x176, 128x160 and 96x128 are also available. File format is 3gp and its pretty decent overall for whats offered.

More review points and pics with part 3 HERE or if you got here by mistake, HERE is part 1.