Review: UTStarCom 7025\120

Please note that I didn't really test this phone on any carrier, as it was inactive, but test calls to Sprint seemed to serve my purposes fairly well. Andyes, this is the replacement for the UTStarCom 7000, so expect to see it on Movida etc. soon if not already...

First off, I have to say that this phone is nice and thin. It's no Razr but it is quite thin, maybe even uncomfortably thin for some. But that means thatyou have a budget phone that you can slip into your pocket easily, as longas you're fine with the extendable stub antenna sticking out, as this phone, like all other Audiovox\UTStarCom flips I know of, has an extendable stub antenna. But anyway the phone is small.

Then again, the feature set is also small. You can talk, text, use the phone book, do the typical voice and organization features and (if you can find them) play a game or two. No web, no caller ID screen (just a two-color light on the outside). But then again some people don't need much, and for those people this phone delivers...

With ringtones that are actually quite fine and quite loud, courtesy the phone's external speaker. And yes, the phone does have speakerphone functionality, which works fine. The phone screen may be small, but the UI is clear enough, so you can get along with the small screen for doing what the phone is made for doing. Oh, and vibrate alert is strong enough...

Let me take a break here and say that if you want to compare the7025 with the 7000 there isn't really any comparison. The 7000 just seems alot older, lessrefined, first-gen, etc. while the 7025 is actually a budget phone that, whilegeneric-branded, is truly not bad at all.

Anyway, everyone is probably wondering about call quality. Please note that my house is in a relatively strong Sprint service area, but then again I have to hand it to the 7025 fr delivering some sharp calls to *2 and 611 when I called them, and the extendable antenna should keep those calls sharp for awhile.

Battery life? Well, I'm not sure when I charged the phone, but it has been working for at leastfour and a half days, maybe longer, including some areas with no signal. So I'm thinking this phone's batterylife is around that of the LG 3280, which is saying a lot...looks like UTStarCom doesn't really make junk phones...at least not now...

In sum, the UTStarComm 7025, from my experience, is a solid phone, though its feature set isn't the most desireable out there. Then again, if you don't need anything more than voice and text, and don't need caller ID on your phone, this phone is perfect for anybody who wants something slim and, to my knowledge, good at doing what it does.