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Darius has done a good service review for the X500. I have used it now for about 3 months (including going overseas live twice, armed only with the X500) and it performed perfectly.
The bluetooth, wifi, GPS and phone services all work extremely well. The small size of the device is a huge plus. It's performance is just excellent.
A plethora of GPS programs (including commercial ones like TT6, CoPilot6) all work perfectly. I use a whole group of commercial GPS mapping programs in my work - all of them behave seamlessly well.
Darius has possibly misjudged the pricing. Try Clove in the UK.
Now, the infamous "bugs" - for both ROM273 and ROM291:
1) straight out of the box, my phone (even O/S on Roam) worked without hitch or echo (even to the listener). There is a CAB patch on the ETEN user's forum that removes any malfunction anyway. I'm in Aus with a straight Telstra SIM. Most of the bug complaints here, when one examines the detail of the complaints threads on the users forum, are related to transferring locked SIM's from other phones, or other weird efforts like multiple SIM's. Carefully examining the detail of complaint threads is a quite useful way of learning your device.
2) the SMS issue has never surfaced for me at all. From day one, I received and sent messages without hitch. I had to learn whether or not I liked the Zoom SMS utility (I do not), but this is easily turned off. Again, most complaint threads here devolved into doing something a bit weird ( a whole group of complaints turned out to be the particular telco blocking GPRS for its own reasons)
3) there is a default utility called Scenario that ETEN supplies in ROM. Most of the early forum complaints were related to this utility - in particular, it was not widely appreciated that it was running from boot, and most complainants didn't like it's defaults without knowing these were easily changed (or in a lot of cases, that these were even running)
For those in Aus, although ETEN has not marketed the X500 here, Expansys in Melbourne sells the accessories.
The only true CON ?
If it breaks, I have to send it back O/S where I bought it for warranty.
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