AT&T 3125 - Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone Edition 200 MHz - RAM: 64 MB - ROM: 128 MB 2.8" TFT ( 240 x 320 ) - camera - Bluetooth - GSM 850/900/1800/1900 - AT&T | 
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| Brand: AT&T
Category: CE
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 9448
Media: Electronics
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone Edition
CPU Speed: 200
Modem: Wireless cellular modem
Display Size: 2.8
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.1 x 2.8
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 3125
Model: 3125
ASIN: B000J0X7BU
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Product Description
The ultra-thin 3125 Smartphone is the only smartphone flip today that combines an iconic design with the power, functionality and price to please both businesses and consumers alike.While the jet-black 3125 takes on the appearance of a high-end wireless phone, it packs a full set of features that makes it a perfect and affordable tool for use during work or leisure time. The 3125 provides wireless access to business and personal e-mail accounts, over-the-air synchronization of calendar, contact and to-do lists, and superb music, photo and video capabilities.
Amazon.com Product Description
Introducing the first Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone flip in the U.S., The Cingular 3125. With the 3125 smartphone, you get EDGE data speeds, and GSM quad-band support, while the Windows Mobile 5.0 (non-touch screen version) operating system lets you quickly access your real time corporate and personal email accounts. Other features include Windows Media Player 10, Bluetooth connectivity, 64 MB RAM, 128 MB flash ROM, a 1.3-megapixel camera with video recorder, direct push for email, and more. Packaged in a stylish black clamshell design, the super slim 3125 is the ultimate mobile workhorse, and the perfect complement to Cingular wireless service. Design
The 3125 design takes the standard clamshell form factor to the next level with its impressive smartphone and data capabilities while maintaining a stylish and cool exterior. A large 240 x 320 color display with over 65,000 colors dominates the inside of the top cover. The outside cover of the handset sports a supplementary 128 x 128 full-color display that can display pictures, time, call information, battery and signal strength, and more. There's even a feature that allows you to display a large analog clock on the external display. Convenient music player control buttons reside just below the external screen, and the 1.3-megapixel camera lens is housed above this display while most of the phone's features and on-screen menus are controlled by a five-way center button on the handset's backlit control pad. A USB data port is provided, as is a microSD/TransFlash memory card slot. Lastly, the internal antenna is safely tucked away, keeping the phone's design compact and portable. Calling Features
The 3125 has all the latest calling features folks have come to expect from a high-end handset. The built-in speakerphone makes it easy to talk without having the phone to your ear. Speaker independent voice activated dialing makes calling your friends, family, and associates as easy as saying their names, while the phone's Bluetooth connectivity means that your favorite Bluetooth headset is fully compatible. A ringer and picture ID system makes it easy to identify your most common callers. Lastly, the phonebook capacity is only limited to available memory. Messaging, Internet, and Tools
Meet both your global business and personal communications and productivity needs with the 3125's superior, high-speed email and Web browsing experience all wrapped in a slim and stylish package. Quickly access your corporate and personal email in real-time with built-in applications like Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile and Microsoft Direct Push, Good Mobile Messaging from Good Technology, Cingular Xpress Mail, and Internet email (including MSN Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL, etc.) at your fingertips. Outlook Mobile features integrated calendar and email functions, as well as a contacts list that is cleverly integrated with the phone's dialing functions. Robust SMS and MMS functionality is built into the Windows Mobile interface, too. Lastly, rich Internet browsing is available with the included Internet Explorer browser. Microsoft's ActiveSync software keeps the device synced with all of your PC's Outlook information (via Bluetooth or USB). A number of handy software tools are bundled with the 3125, including a voice memo recorder, a calculator, a to-do list, and an alarm clock. T9 text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built into the unit--a plus for mobile text messaging users. Imaging and Entertainment
In addition to the 1.3-megapixel still camera, the 3125 is capable of recording video clips to its built-in memory, or to a memory expansion card. The inclusion of Windows Media Player on the 3125 opens up a whole range of possibilities for this phone. Use it as a digital music player, or sync the device with Windows Media Player on your PC to download last night's TV shows so you can watch them whenever you want, or watch streaming content from the Web. With EDGE support built right into the 3125, you'll be downloading at speeds so fast your head will spin. And because the phone is media capable, i.e., fully compatible with Cingular music, MEdia Net, and Cingular mail, you'll never be at a loss for something fun to do. With features like stereo Bluetooth headphone capability, and support for Java based applications and games, the 3125 shines in the entertainment department. When the feeling strikes you, jam out to your favorite music on the unit's advanced music player, and because the 3125 sports a microSD/TransFlash memory card slot, you can load up all your favorite music and bring it with you (memory cards sold separately). Vital Statistics
The Cingular 3125 weighs 3.49 ounces and measures 3.88 x 2.02 x 0.62 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5.0 hours of digital talk time, and up to 150 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.
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 Life changer October 29, 2006
J. B Kraft (Palestine, TX United States)
33 out of 33 found this review helpful
I had an older Nokia cell phone, which was reliable but didn't have very much connectivity and the phone info was always becoming obsolete, and I had a PDA. I used the phone for emergencies, travel on business, and little else. I used the IPAQ PDA to keep up with calendar and appointments and to read ebooks, but it was bulky.
The 3125 has changed my life, and makes more information available constantly than I would have believed possible. It is also a great device to use "one-handed" when you are carrying something in the other.
I've owned mine a week, and it has already dramatically changed how I use my cell phone. I now tend to use it in preference to my home "land line", and its light weight and great design make it easy to keep with me constantly.
This is well on the way to replacing both the phone and the PDA. First of all it is a Windows Mobile 5 implementation(and most importantly from my perspective), you can can quickly synchronize seamlessly with your Outlook 2003 contacts, calendar, and tasks. I doesn't seem you can edit a task, but everything else is wonderful. You don't have to buy any special software or adapter, and this phone recharges from the USB connector.
Voice quality is much improved over my previous cell phone, and also reception in marginal area. I have the Cingular Internet Service (Edge Network), and it amazes me that it is readily available anywhere I've been--even when the signal has been weak. It won't ever be my preferred mode of surfing the web, but to find a business or restaurant or quick map in a strange city is quick and easy.
Here's the other key feature for me that was a wonderful surprise -- the keypad. First of all, I have large fingers, and blew off the Blackberry and new IPAQ phones once I handled them because the keys were just too small. I didn't even love the numeric keypads of most cellphones. However, these keys are flat, large, and give good tactile feedback. You know when you press them, and you don't do it accidentally. The T9 method of text entry is surprisingly easy to master and fairly fast, so you don't miss either a keyboard for limited typing or a stylus. The directional selector that substitutes for a mouse is similarly quick and effective to use.
The small screen means I won't be reading Ebooks on it, but otherwise, I have found the visibility to be very good except in extremely bright direct sunlight. Also, I selected "large fonts" in the setup, and find I can read the "contacts" and similar information WITHOUT my glasses. What a pleasure that is. The bluetooth implementation is also good.
All in all, I have found this to be a really great design. I have a lot of gadgets, but there are very few which have impressed me as much after living with them.
awesome phone and organizer for a busy life December 3, 2006
Mark H. Webster (Tacoma)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Great phone! I've had it for 3 weeks and have no complaints. I've been living without a cell phone for a couple years before I bought this one. My wife and I were sharing a Motorola E815, but she usually carried it. On the few days when I did carry the Motorola, my pockets were overloaded because I also carry a Palm Tungsten E2, from which I manage my appointments and track my tasks (to-do list). My Palm also allowed me to play free, downloadable talking books from the library using pocket tunes.
I was attracted to this Cingular 3125 because it combines the ability of the Palm (sync with Microsoft outlook, play talking books and window media files) with a phone. The 3125 is very small and flat, in comparison to carrying my palm and the Motorola. It fits in the pocket very easily, and I carried it that way for a while until I found a nice generic case at compusa that fits on my belt. It's the "foneGear #00409" model.
Battery life is very impressive. I charge it on the weekends and it runs all week, though I do turn it off at night. As a teacher, I consider cell phones intrusive. Because I'd rather talk to people around me face to face, than talk through an electronic device, I only make/receive about 3 calls a day, and I didn't buy the data package. Getting this phone without the data package took some doing. Everyone, including the cingular stores, cingular online and even Amazon wanted to force me to buy the phone with the data package. This means it would have been $40 a month for the line, and an extra $20 to $40 a month for the data package, for a total of around $80 a month. For a guy who was living on a limited teacher salary, and was used to no cell phone at all, that was unacceptable.
I work on computers for a living, and I pack my laptop around, so there was no need for the stupid data package. Finally, I found an online store that would allow me to buy just the phone for $150 (no rebates involved), as long as I agreed to a 2 year plan at $40 a month. They are a large national brick and mortar store, think: "bb".
The phone is very well put together from an engineering standpoint. The hinge is tight, all the buttons work, it's a very understated design, all black, and that suits me fine. The camera works, but it's nothing to write home about. I have a digital rebel xt if I need to take serious pictures. As others have mentioned, the screen quality is excellent. I'm new to windows mobile, coming from the palm operating system, but so far I'm very impressed. I love the ability to explore the operating system, just like it was a flash drive when it's tethered to my laptop. I couldn't do that with my Palm as it has a bizarre folder structure. Windows Mobile also has a very cool feature wherein it remembers what functions you've use recently and presents you with those icons on the "desktop", just like my laptop does off the start button. It also works as a modem for my laptop, something Verizon had disabled on our Motorola.
I thought I would miss the ease of text entry coming from my Palm, but the t9 text entry system on the 3125 is amazing and very fast. Another nice function is that when you start entering numbers to dial a call, it jumps into your contacts and call history and makes educated t9 guesses at who you are trying to call, searching both numbers and names simultaneously.
The only software I've added so far is the Papyrus software which improves on Mobile Outlook and allows me to more precisely set alarms on appointments and tasks. I also bought Facade, but uninstalled it as it seemed unnecessary. Windows Mobile has an excellent system of setting up sound profiles such as silent mode, and normal mode. Everything is customizable regarding whether it vibrates and rings, or vibrates, then rings, and whether or not an appointment alarm will ring, vibrate, both or neither. I was also easily able to copy in an mp3 file from my laptop to use as my custom ring tone. It's simply drag and drop with windows explorer from the laptop.
As I did not buy the data package, I can't comment on all the fancy connectivity stuff like doing live email and internet surfing on the phone. If I need to, I can do that stuff through the "pay for use" option, or "pay by the minute" as it's called. I got online once that way and it worked, but seemed pretty slow. The phone has a decent onboard antenna. I live way out in the country on a peninsula in Puget Sound and cell phone coverage can be very spotty here. Verizon has the best coverage out here, but they don't sell this phone, and they have a reputation for dumbing down their phones capabilities so you have to buy more stuff directly from them. I'm happy to report that my 3125 does work here at the house, if a little spotty, so it must have an above average antenna. It works perfectly in Tacoma, even inside my office, which has no windows and is buried in a concrete building.
I bought a 1 gig micro sd card locally for $60 and now have my music collection on the phone. You definitely don't want to be swapping cards a lot as it's fairly scary accessing the slot. When you slide the cover off the phone, note that the Sim card slides out to the left out from under the metal band, they don't tell you that... I guess you're supposed to be able to figure that out but I was afraid I'd break something on my brand new phone. To access the micro sd card holder, stick your fingernail under the top of the metal holder and lift gently. It hinges at the bottom, though it's not obvious unless you use a magnifying glass.
All in all I couldn't be happier with my new toy. If this changes, I'll update this post as time goes on.
Upgraded from Audiovox 5600 - love the 3125! June 19, 2007
T. J. Mills (California)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Some history: I have owned a cell phone from the days of the Motorola "brick" to the Motorola flip phone to the first Nokia candy bar phone with a Palm Pilot to the Audiovox 5600 which integrated my Palm functionality and a phone into one device.
By far, the Nokia was the best phone. I had reception everywhere - even where noone else's phone worked, but I had my Outlook contact on my Palm. I wanted one device so I got the 5600. It synced great, but reception was poor. I couldn't use it from my home or work. I also missed the protection of a flip phone.
Now I have the 3125 for about 2 months. Reception is great. I use it at home, work and everywhere there is coverage (I hike a lot.) Syncing is great and it is a flip phone so I can toss it in my pocket without calling some random number.
I wanted a device that works as a phone first and then as a PDA. The 3125 does both well. It is a basic mobile computer for simple tasks. With a bluetooth keyboard you could do a lot.
Pros:
Reception almost as good as my analog Nokia of 10 years ago.
Clear bright display - easy to read
Easy to hear and to be heard. Speaker phone works well.
Nice big tactile keys that automatically light up when needed.
Much improved navigation keys (left, right, up, down, enter)
Bluetooth with a Plantronics earpiece has good range and audio works well for the listener and talker.
Battery life is better than the 5600. Not as good as the Nokia or Palm which would easily last a week. Color displays suck lots of power.
Easy menu navigation - hint: you can hit the 1-9 keys to navigate the 9 icons.
Voice recognition works once trained (bluetooth and phone).
My old applications from 5600 work.
Bought a 3rd party case that works well ($7)
4 band phone works in all countries using GSM. I used mine in China with a China Mobile SIM. hint: call Cingular and they will unlock your phone for free!
Cons:
Proprietary connector - can't use std headphones.
Themes supplied have too much junk. My biggest beef with the themes were the large icons and space taken by "advertizements" like MSN or Cingular. To solve the themes issue, I edited the xml files. You can also buy programs to modify the themes.
Had to buy SmartNotes program to sync with Outlook Notes.
MicroSD card is under the SIM card.
Cingular staff and instruction manual don't tell you much. I had to figure out a lot on my own.
No on-phone help - my old Nokia had menu help 10 years ago.
Notes: I am a PC user (not a Microsoft fan, but surprisingly like windows mobile). I use Outlook for contacts, calendar, email, and notes. I sync my phone with all of these.
This phone rules November 15, 2006
Wes
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is an amazing phone. Being able to sync via Outlook and run Windows Mobile apps on a flip-style phone is perfect.
I was skeptical at first because I was afraid the Windows Mobile OS would be buggy. However after using this phone for a couple weeks, it has proven to be much more reliable than I originally anticipated.
This phone offers the best of both worlds - a nice compact flip-style phone you can put in your pocket that can run Windows Mobile.
The only thing I wish it had was 3G data speed.
You get the most bang for the buck with this phone - I highly recommend the 3125.
I heart this phone April 4, 2007
S. Davis (St. Petersburg, Florida United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This phone works amazingly well in most aspects. The call clarity is great and the menu system works very well. I especially find the hot bar menu system on the start screen very convienent. The mp3 player function workds remarkably well and with a 2 gb smartchip, this think becomes a monster media device. My one grievance is the camara on it. It lags horribly when you try and take a piture that is not staying perfectly still. In all, I highly recommend this phone.
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