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The HPM-70′s are FAR cheaper than their siblings on Amazon, even the lower siblings such as the HPM-65, probably because these are OEM, meaning they don’t come in the retail packaging. Ordered from SF Planet for under $10 including shipping, recieved from across the country in three days, amazing deal. They sound fantastic for the price, I’d buy them if they were $30. Cord is thin and light but seems sturdy and flexible enough. Fits comfortably, came with three sizes of earbud tips. Bass is unexpectedly strong, midrange is decent, upper end leaves something to be desired but then again, I’m comparing these to much more pricey headphones from Shure. Detail is good for the price, sounds moderately colored. Good for general every day listening, wish the 3.5mm cord was a little longer so I could use these as a backup for my computer.

The ear buds have a 6″ cord or so with 3.5 mm male jack, comes with a cord extension that has 3.5mm female with mic and button attached, other end of the extension is the proprietary fast port connector that plugs into phone. Tested with a K790a, I’m going to get a bigger memory card and use it as an mp3 player, sound quality is almost identical to a stand alone mp3 player with these earbuds. Highly recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5

I gave it 3 stars because it could go either way. There are two ways to look at this phone:

1. One of the coolest, most feature-loaded phones for the price.

2. A super-cheap deal on an advanced smartphone.

If you are in category 1, this phone will be awesome. You won’t find a touchscreen phone any cheaper, and this one also has some fancy organizer features, good volume, a handy set of customizable shortcut bars, and a menu system which allows you to filter which kind of menu options are displayed. The on-screen keyboard system works pretty well.

However, if you are in category 2, this will be a very disappointing substitute for other phones which cost as much as the a810′s original price. The menu is slow, and many sub-menus require several seconds of a “processing” icon before they will open. The web browser is slow, even for EDGE. It can only run one Java application at once (you will be prompted to close one if you open another). The email client has no auto-connect options at all. For such an apparently-slow processor (I couldn’t find any official rating, but menu response is slow), it doesn’t have very good battery life (normally the upside to slow phones). It also cannot run Opera Mini v5 (4 works), which most of my older phones handle OK.

And one big problem if you want this specific phone for advanced uses… it either doesn’t have any security certificates included, or at least not any common certificates (I couldn’t find a way to view the list, but it fails either way). This can cause problems trying to establish secure email connections, which makes the built-in email client useless unless you want to pass on security. The phone also has problems with signed Java applications, so I can only install the unsigned version of Opera Mini (and then the phone has the nerve to “warn” me that it is unsigned every time I use it). This is the second secondary-market Motorola I have tried (these phones are “new”, but were probably overstock reflashed to unbranded or US firmware) which had this issue.

The bottom line is, don’t get this thinking it is an amazing deal on a high-end phone, because the ultimate functionality is more like an average phone plus the touchscreen interface. But if you have a fixed budget of a hundred bucks for any kind of phone at all, this is a very cool alternative to newer phones in that price range, which will truly be entry-level.

If for some reason you need a more advanced phone for a similar price, try one of the low-priced Samsung Blackjack models currently available. You will have to be OK with the rather unpleasant Windows Mobile platform, and lose the touchscreen, but it will be able to handle things the a810 fumbles with.

Update:

I was originally going to keep this phone as a spare or physical labor phone when I don’t want to risk my “good” ones, since it is so cheap. But now even Opera won’t run. The popup to allow internet access freezes up, and nothing works. I have to reboot to shut down the program, and even then it doesn’t always work. Re-installing Opera or GMail works for a while, but that is too annoying.

Update 2:

“onewebmall” is a scam website which steals reviews. I wrote this review for Amazon, not some Internet leach which steals reviews to get high search engine rankings.
Rating: 3 / 5

Sound:

These headphones are pretty standard. However they have a very good sound, bass and tweeter is very good. So if you look for a good set of earphones not very hi-tec this is a very good item for the price.

Durability:

I got these shipped with my Sony Ericsson W800 phone and I used them for about 4 months before they failed.

The right speaker just went dead. However, I noticed there was a problem with them since I got them because I had to move about the conector. So, this could be one in a million.

Fitting:

These hearphones come with three different heads for different ear sizes. I used the smallest and were very comfortable. Not too much problem to fit and they never got loose, even when I was running.

General use:

I noticed they are affected by sweat, so you don’t want to have them with too much moist. The microphone always worked fine, and didn’t cause too much extra noise when talking.

Warranty:

Sony warranties these for a year. So if you get them and fail, you can still get a new set from Sony withing the first year.
Rating: 3 / 5

I bought this to replace the one I lost. This is the original brand, not a generic. The sound is excellent and the hands-free feature works very well (I use it in the car). As others have written, I wish the cord were much shorter. The cord to one ear is long and the one to the other ear is extra-long, which make them unwieldy. I would have also preferred that the cords to both ears be of equal length. But given the excellent sound, I see no reason to change to another brand.
Rating: 5 / 5

The phone works well, looks great, really fun. The real problem is that it has a lot of problems receiving a signal. Sometimes it works and others it just refuses to pick up. I purchased an internal antena booster which solves about 80% of the problem.
Rating: 2 / 5

Bought this for a W760a. It seems to be a good quality OEM made product. It’s convenient to be able to listen to the radio or mp3s and be able to make or accept a call without changing headsets. Earphone quality is good and microphone quality is about what you would expect from a dangling type mic – volume okay, but background noise and echo are picked up. I don’t really care for the Sony unequal length earbud cords, but some people prefer them.
Rating: 4 / 5

I was impressed by this phone, I liked the fact that it was different, and it gave me a chance to have a phone that was completely touch screen. Only bad thing I did not like about it is that I had to pull out the stylist to text. The keyboard was not big enough to use your fingers.
Rating: 4 / 5

I got these headphones for my sony ericsson w350a and they work like a charm. Headphone equality was good for the price and the ability to swap in your own headphones is nice. My only gripe is that you can’t use the ear buds them-self easily as the cord is mad short but since the adapter cord is long using them with the phone doesn’t have the same issue. Overall great bang for the buck and the ability to swap in your own headphones is REALLY nice.
Rating: 4 / 5

NO ESTOY MUY CONTENTA CON EL PRODUCTO, ES SOLO TOUCH, Y LAS LETRAS SON MUY PEQUEÑAS, ES UN FASTIDIO TENER Q USAR SIEMPRE EL LAPIZ PARA ESCRIBIR, EL UNICO IDIOMA QUE TRAE ES EL INGLÉS…ASI QUE DEBO ESCRIBIR LETRA POR LETRA…UN VERDADERO FASTIDIO! POR LO DEMAS TODO BIEN!
Rating: 2 / 5

this product is by far one of the best phone i have ever bought, the packaging was right and the item came in a very VIP manner AMAZON IS THE BEST FOR ALL YOUR SHOPPING NEEDS THANKS AGAIN

Riaz
Rating: 5 / 5