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Picture quality was decent for a 3-megapixel camera, but it wasn't anything spectacular. Images looked sharp enough, but we wished the colors were more vibrant.
Verizon is pushing the Crux as a youth-friendly phone, which explains the heavy emphasis on social networking. It comes packaged with SocialBeat, Verizon's app that acts as a hub for all the popular social networks--Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook--plus you can configure it to receive news updates and e-mail. The Crux doesn't come with any apps, but it does come with a Millionaire game. You can get more apps, games, wallpaper, and ringtones via the Verizon store.
Call quality was mixed. On our end, we heard our callers well for the most part, but we did encounter some static and echo. We also thought their voices sounded a little digitized and not as natural as we would like.
Similarly, callers reported that our voice sounded overly processed. They also reported a bit of noise in the background. However, the Crux has a "Noise Free" button that you can tap to help remove the extra sound. We tried this out, and indeed, callers could no longer hear any background sound during "Noise Free" mode. When we turned on the speakerphone, they said our voice sounded very soft at first, and as the conversation went along, our voice became increasingly distorted.
Callers even said our voice would cut out occasionally. On the flip side, we thought our callers sounded loud and clear on the phone's speakers. Speaking of audio quality, we were pleasantly surprised by the sound of the music player. The bass was a little weak, but the overall quality was quite good. The SRS technology did its job in enhancing the sound quality of both the speakers and the headphones. We definitely appreciate that we could use both a 3. We also like the external media keys that let us control the music without having to unlock the phone.
We loaded the CNET mobile page in just 8 seconds and downloading a 1. We had no problems loading YouTube videos, though the quality was rather choppy. The Pantech Crux has a rated battery life of 5.
Our tests reveal a talk time of 5 hours and 24 minutes. Nicole Lee. The Good The Pantech Crux is slim and lightweight with a bright and colorful touch-screen display. It has external media keys, a 3. The music player has stereo and surround sound settings. We also like the sliding screen-lock mechanism. The phone measures 4. It's made of a pleasing combination of matte plastic, dark chrome accents, and a glass front panel. The effect looks sleek in person. There are buttons and ports all over this thing, with a set of media keys on top and various shortcut keys everywhere else.
That front panel slides, but only about a quarter of an inch, in order to lock the touch screen. Slide it back up, and the touch screen unlocks.
You can also leave this mechanism alone and use a more traditional, software-based screen lock. Either way, if you leave the Crux on a table it locks itself automatically anyway, which defeats the entire point of the design.
The 3-inch, haptic feedback-enabled, glass capacitive touch screen sports bypixel resolution. It was sufficiently bright and colorful in testing—a nice find on a feature phone. The on-screen keyboard was a little cramped, and presented a virtual number pad in portrait mode; to get to a QWERTY keyboard, you have to turn the phone sideways. Typing accuracy was solid, helped by good predictive algorithms and the haptic feedback.
The Pantech Crux was about mid-pack for Verizon in voice quality; better than most other carriers' phones, but not particularly pleasant to listen to. Voice timbre was crisp and clear in the earpiece, although it lacked sufficient warmth. Callers on the other end said I didn't sound as good as usual. The Nuance-powered voice dialing worked well over Bluetooth.
The speakerphone sounded a bit thin, but it went loud enough to use outside. Battery life was excellent at 7 hours and 26 minutes of talk time. What's weird is that it's not because of the screen itself; glass capacitive is the best you can get. It's the software.
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