Comments on: Motorola Symbol MC35 PPC Phone – First Symbol Product After Motorola’s Acquisition

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By: John lopez

John lopez — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:15:57 +0000

i work for a pharmaceutical distribution company. and they give us this C35 phone for ordering devices. the telecom company who gave this phone to us said that it is shock proof for 3 feet to 1 meter drop. and i have accident of slipping the phone on a chair not more than 3 feet in heigth. at first its ok. everything is fine… but few minutes after the sound is not working and the mic is deaD.
now it is a pain in the neck. and the worst part is the battery life span of less than 12 hours. we need to charge it again just to use it. and another thing is that the car charger is a waste of money. it wont even charge unless the phone is full batt out.

By: Nathan Green

Nathan Green — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:18:08 +0000

I work for a fairly large corporation that recently purchased over 300 of these paperweights or @ least that’s the best thing I can tell you about this pda. Most of the time the unit seems to lock up everytime it is plugged in to charge, the touch screen acts as though someone is going crazy with the stylus opening and closing windows all by itself,locks up and has no audio @ all incoming or outgoing,unable to hear phone conversation when it does work due to worse than analog cellular audio,by FAR the worst pda phone I have ever used. I find it hard to believe that this unit can even continue to be sold when two tin cans and a string would obviously be a better choice for long distance conversation. In short I haven’t spoken with anyone from our company that even had one good thing to say about this very stubborn device. This thing is worse than a redheaded stepchild on ridilin!

Sincerely
Nathan

By: OSCAR

OSCAR — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:02:04 +0000

I have ordered this new unit and have replaced two times now. Every time shows different problems. Looks like Motorola is lowering Symbol’s reputation. I bought it with the assumption that coming from a well known brand this would be sure shot.

The first one came and did not worked at all. It loaded up but then it just freezes. Nothing would work. The second one showed many problems I had also to return. It showed many problems as :

The GPS ( I am using tom tom) is not as sensitive as other units ( Mtorola decided to go with a different chip than the SiRf III). Besides, when outside, the signal is lost for several seconds and return, this being out in full sky view and no movement. Definitively a bad GPS unit
When you hit the sleep button, everything stops working ( GPS, alarms, etc) except for the phone. So there is no option for you to turn off screen and still have the GPS software working with voice commands. You have to leave the screen on all the time and that draws low the battery life in minutes.
Once it goes to sleep mode or because you hit the sleep button, when you want to use something from it and hit the on button again, you have to be very patient… it takes a while for it to be ready for your inputs or selections… and this only when it works because 50% of the time it locks up and you have to perform a soft reset.
Every program you run and quit… will not quit it keeps running on the background… so once in a while you have to go to settings and stop all running programs or it will just look like powered by a 10 Khz speed processor.
The third one, recently received, is experiencing the same problems as the second one but it also has some other problems : you loose about 80% of your phone calls and also you have to retry up to 5 times to make a phone call. If someone calls you and the phone is in sleep mode, it just freezes and you have to do a soft reset to have the unit working again. Other times, when you receive a call, it just rings one time and then drops the call and if you want to make a call when this is happening, then the other end rings one time and your phone ends the call. This happens very commonly and when this happens, then there is no way out. I have tried several soft resets and the problem remains until when the phone decides to start working fine again.

So far, our company which bought this unit to test for developing a fleet management application, definitively is not the one to go. Also if you are looking for a PDA, phone and GPS replacement, for neither one works yet. We have tried Motorola support but this is just something they don’t worry about. You never get support from them or even any answer. We will be returning this also.