Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #202685 in PC Accessory
Features
- Maxwest Unlocked GSM Wireless Handheld Device General Features: Black color Unlocked
- Built-in WiFi Built-in keyboard 2.4-inch color capacitive Touchscreen LCD Android 2.2 OS
- Screen resolution: QVGA (240x320) Dual SIM card slots Quad band GSM850/GSM900/DCS1800/1900
- 2G and 3G support Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email Multimedia record/playback: MPEG4, MP3, FM Bluetooth
- Multi-language
Maxwest Android 3100 2.4" Touchscreen Quad-Band GSM Dual-SIM Bluetooth Camera Smartphone w/WiFi & Android 2.2 (Black)
Product Description
The perfect Smartphone!Stay connected to the world with the Maxwest Android 3100! This Quad-Band wireless handheld device is compatible with GSM networks and features a 2.4-inch color LCD display. It's built with dual SIM card slots so you can use the same device for two different carriers!The Android 3100 is also a complete multimedia device. Snap photos or record video with its built-in 1.3 MP camera. Listen to music, FM radio, or watch MP4 video or you can record voice messages, too! Stay in contact with your friends using the Android 3100's support for SMS and MMS messages as well as email. Stay connected to the most popular social platforms with built-in support for Facebook, Twitter, and more!The Android 3100 includes two removable, rechargeable Li-ion batteries that provides up to 5 days of standby time. The Android 3100 also supports a variety of Bluetooth profiles so you can use your favorite hands-free devices. Stereo Earbuds are included along with a USB charging cable and AC power adapter so you don't need to spend any extra on expensive accessories! Just install a SIM card (or two!) with an active carrier service, and you're ready to be completely mobile! If your SIM card also has a data plan, accessing the internet and email using 2G or 3G is also available. Get yours today!Order now!
Customer Reviews
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
By Computer Keith
First off, this phone is obviously aimed at BlackBerry users. I personally moved to his phone from an aging BlackBerry Curve 8320 (the one with the little trackball and full QWERTY keyboard) and felt right at home with it's keyboard immediately. If you never were a heavy BlackBerry user and you're OK with on-screen keyboards, then I can't see you ever choosing this model and being happy about it. It's got to be the smallest Android screen I've ever seen, and depending upon what you're planning on doing, that's a huge sacrifice. This particular Maxwest model is now popping up all over the place at attractive prices, and so far I haven't seen any reviews anywhere. So I'm going to err to the side of being wordy to give a first-hand, honest opinion.What's good:This is a solid piece of equipment. It doesn't feel "cheap", has a nice weight to it and it's slim profile is a natural fit for an average sized hand. In a manner similar to a BlackBerry, the keys are amply spaced such that you don't find yourself generating incorrect keystrokes because of the size of your fingers. The screen, though very small for an Android phone, offers very sharp, extremely legible text. I'm forty something and don't find it difficult to use at all. Accepted a cheap, generic 32GB microSDHC without a hitch to provide plenty of storage. The music player is better than average and reads the .m4a files from my iTunes library natively. I simply copied the 8GB "iTunes Library" folder from my computer to the SDHC card and all 2500+ of my songs showed up instantly with all of their tagged information. Also, getting it to work with the SIM card from my T-Mobile account was absolutely painless. I just took the SIM out of my BlackBerry and put it into this phone instead ... done!What's not so good:Battery life from the stock 1000mah battery is definitely a problem. (More on that later) The tiny 320x240 screen is incompatible with some Android apps that just refuse to support such a small resolution. This is a resistive, not a capacitive screen. As resistive screens go, it's very good ... but if you're used to capacitive touch, it will take some getting used to. Android version 2.2 (Froyo) is somewhat dated and there is no upgrade path that I know of. The 1.3MP camera is pretty basic and seems to be an afterthought. Yes, it works, but if that's something you often find yourself using your phone for, then this probably isn't the phone for you. There is also no hardware volume control, and the keyboard surprisingly offers no way of typing some rather common symbols (single quotes and curly brackets will no longer be a part of your conversations). And documentation for this phone is non-existent. I'm still discovering things almost daily after 3 weeks of heavy use.Observations:If you're a heavy app user, you need a bigger screen than this. Period, the end. But if you're like me, you only used your BlackBerry for telephone, texting, calendar, and a convenient notepad that's always with you. I don't even have a data plan! The Curve was wonderful in this regard, because used this way with a bulging extended (Cameron Sino) battery, I could go 7-10 days between charges.If you fit that profile, this is the perfect phone! The telephone experience is very similar. The stock SMS program is an upgrade from BlackBerry, and there are far better calendar and notepad applications available for free in the Android (Google Play) store than anything I ever found for the BlackBerry. As a bonus, I've gained automatic sync with my Google account every time I turn on the WiFi ... which I've found to be quite handy. You will need to download a volume app, however, if you hope to control in-call volume. I was ready to send it back until I discovered that such an app existed.The only caveat is the battery life, as that 1000mah stock battery is going to require a charge every 2-3 days with WiFi off, and daily if you leave it on. Thankfully, there is a great solution! This phone shares a battery (and therefore charge accessories) with Nokia 6720, N81, N82 and others. The battery is Nokia BP-6MT. If you search here, you can find battery chargers and extended life batteries that will work with this phone. I picked up several extended batteries (supposedly 2430mah) from eCell and have had great success with them so far. I'm not sure I believe 2430mah, but I do get nearly 2x the time between charges in my average use. That's not quite what my Curve used to do, but for the enhanced notepad/calendar/texting capabilities and a MUCH slimmer phone (the eCell battery is the same size as the original) I'll take the tradeoff. I'm VERY happy with this phone. Great value for it's bargain pricepoint.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
By Juan
- Amazon.com says the phone has a 1.3MP camera but the actual main camera max resolution is 1024x768=0.8MP.- Also, seller (computer geeks, geeks.com) says is FCC approved but the phone FCC ID YNFANDROID3100 (as identified in the label within the box) is not in the FCC database. Other phones by Maxwest are in the FCC database, but not this one.Check transition DOT fcc DOT gov/oet/ea/fccid/- Since the phone doesn't have a side volume rocker button, you can control the volume with the keyboard arrows keys if you keep pressing them until the volume setting option shows on the screen. For me, the speaker volume and call volume are low, even at max settings. You can hear the other party but it is not loud.- The resistive touchscreen works fine.
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