Last years phone was a Motorola! (Motorola E365)

Member Name: solamarie

Product:	Motorola E365
Date:	09/11/05 (279 review reads)
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Advantages: Nice clear screen, works well

Disadvantages: Rather have a fliptop phone.

Last years phone was orange in colour but not make, I fell in love with the picture of it and cherished it, I pay for a phones 4 life insurance so get a new one each year and so the time came around again.....
You know the feeling, it is January, Christmas has come and gone, the weather is foul, apart from a birthday somewhere in the middle, nothing much happens. So I phoned up my phone company thinking I must be due an upgrade and fancied one of these phones with a camera attatched. I really don't know why though, I have a great digital camera, a super expensive film camera, my camcorder takes great photos, but I love photos and just fancied one of these.
Now when you upgrade with this company you can only have certain upgrades for free and as I had been paying monthly for this service I wasn't about to fork out any money so looked at the free choices.

Had a chat with the sales person over the phone and he really sold this Motorola E365 to me. It was their phone of the month and I reckon they had a job lot or something

Sizewise it is fine, lovely large screen, buttons not too small for my fingers. It looked good so I waited with excitement for it to arrive.

It came in a nice box with pleanty of accessories, got a car charger, more of that later, battery, phone itself, and carry case, which is very handy. Also the instruction booklet. So, I changed my sim card and put it onto charge while I read through the book.
The welcome page is clear, little message of welcome and then a diagram of the phone and what all the buttons are for, I didn't look closely enough because having used a mobile for years I thought I knew what I was doing. Hah. That was a joke, I am always having to go back and check how to do something.
The instructions are clear enough throughout the book and one thing I like is that it is all in English, so many electricals we buy nowadays come with a great fat book of instructions and after a few pages they change language on and on, short instructions in many different languages. These here are quite comprehensive.
I scrolled through the settings, sorted out a profile for my phone, played with the tunes, set the best for calls, the one that wouldn't jar me awake too fast in the mornings as an alarm and a laser sound for messages. I can tell you now, I have changed that, I was on the phone the other day and a message came through, I dropped the phone in shock as I thought I had been shot, but it is a good talking point.

One thing I am not so keen on is the sound doesn't seem to do an ascending ring, I always used that on my other phones because if the phone is near me quiet is fine but if it is in my bag I still have time to answer it before they ring off when it gets louder, I can't seem to make this one do that.

I wanted polyphonic ring tones and eagerly went online to download my favourite song as a ringtone and couldn't find a site that had them for this model, so that was the first disappointment.

The scroll button in the middle is easy to use, although I do get a little lost in all the menus. I can set my alarm easily though and that is important for me as I start work different times on different days. I like the screensavers, but my favourite froze up on the first day and I never got round to talking to the people who sent it. Also I found quite quickly that they use the battery up so quickly that they aren't worth putting on. (That is my opinion anyway)

When I went away I cleverly took my car charger with me so that whenever we went out I could plug it in the car and keep the battery topped up, that worked once or twice but after that the charger end that went into the phone fell to pieces never to be used again.

Do I take photos? Yes I do, not often though, I currently have a photo of my grandbaby as the wallpaper. Do I send them to people? No, I don't know very many people with a photo phone that would want my photos, I haven't got the hang of emailing them to people, although I have tried a couple of times, must read the instructions again, and it doesn't come with a lead to plug it into the pc so they can be downloaded, but no matter, I scroll through them every so often. You can set a photo to show when someone phones, so when my son phones his face comes up on my phone, same with my daughter and a funny pic for work.

One of the games, Magic 2 I find totally addictive and usually play once or twice when I go to bed, much to the annoyance of my DH because it makes lovely sounds.
Also there is Bowling King
Bubble Tea
Big 2 Garden
Pacific Storm I have had a go at each one but Magic 2 is the best for me.


It has lots of other features that I haven't mentioned because I don't use them and couldn't give an opinion.

The one thing that my last phone had and this one doesn't is that it gave the temperature which I found really useful.

I will go back to a different make next year, but this phone has done it's job so I am not complaining. It looks good and sounds fine, it would have been nice though to download different themes occaisionally because I get fed up with the same tunes and wallpaper. I should have checked if that was possible before I signed for it.

This was last years phone and I once again upgraded at the begining of 2005. My dauther has used this phone for this year and quite enjoyed having a photo phone, life moves on so it isn't the most up to date phone now but still quite nice.

Hope someone finds this review a bit helpful.
Thanks for reading anyway.
Sue

Summary: Nice easy to use phone, lasted a couple of years, still works fine.

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