It’s about time that someone came up with a decent alternative to the Nokia 6310/6230-type workhorse for the mainstream business user. ‘Jet’ seems like a somewhat racy name for this kind of phone, but otherwise it’s pretty well flawless.
It’s a quad-band device with Bluetooth 2.0 and USB 2.0 for connectivity. The handset is quite tall and quite chunky, feels solid and robust, comes with a good screen and a keyboard with large, well-defined keys, and has a couple of other attributes that will appeal to the SME market – there’s no camera, no music player, and the battery life is stunning. O2 apparently sees the handset as an alternative to a landline , so you also get a good desk cradle that provides charging (and also acts a desk alarm clock if you want). The box also includes an in-car charger.
The simplified user interface features clear, uncomplicated icons, includes handy currency and unit converters, and offers POP and IMAP email support too.
On top of that it’s cheap – £60 on PAYG. It probably won’t win any prizes for style, but that’s probably an asset in appealing to its target market.
• The best basic business phone on the market
The simplified user interface features clear, uncomplicated icons, includes handy currency and unit converters, and offers POP and IMAP email support too.
On top of that it’s cheap – £60 on PAYG. It probably won’t win any prizes for style, but that’s probably an asset in appealing to its target market.
• The best basic business phone on the market
FEATURES 75%
SALEABILITY 95%
SPECIFICATION
Size
Length 117mm
Width 47mm
Depth 20mm
Weight
121g
Main display
TFT, 65K colours, 240x320 pixels, 30x40mm
Camera
no
Connectivity
Quadband GSM, Bluetooth 2.0,
USB 2.0
Battery
Standby 540h
Talk time 9h50
Features
56MB internal memory, email