Motorola Razr (Motorola RAZR V3i)

Member Name: SugarSpun

Product:	Motorola RAZR V3i
Date:	07/10/09 (30 review reads)
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Advantages: Pretty

Disadvantages: Not user-friendly in the slightest

The Razr is a very modern-looking phone - it's incredibly thin and comes with a decent 1.2MP camera, video capability, a huge screen on the inside of the bit you flip open, quad-band technology so you can use it all over the world, iTunes software and Bluetooth.

So it looks good, and it has great specifications. How does it work?

I'll be honest here. I've had mine for a year and a half, and the only reason I still have it is because I'm too cheap to buy a different phone.

The buttons are flat and it is very easy when texting to hit the wrong letter, and the predictive text offers bizarre choices instead of the words I actually want.

The ringtones are incredibly annoying and their pitch is teeth-grittingly shrill no matter what volume you have it set to. Oh, and the volume control's on the outside edge, so it's easy to accidentally change it.

It looks great - slim and sexy. But it's also easily stained - mine has an indelible beer stain on it even though I noticed and wiped it off almost as soon as the spillage happened. Also, with it being so small and light, it's easy for it to fall out of your pocket unnoticed. That's happened to mine and it was only the honesty of the person behind me that rescued all my contact numbers (if it didn't have all my friends' numbers in it I probably would have been relieved to have lost it).

Battery life is severely limited if you use the phone more than once a day, and something that annoys the hell out of me is that closing the flip lid of the phone doesn't necessarily turn off the applications it's running. It hangs up any calls you have ongoing, sure, but it doesn't turn off the camera and that's a battery eating app if ever there was one.

It is pretty cool to have the iTunes bit attached, and it does keep me from becoming murderous when stuck on public transport. The Bluetooth bit is less useful - it's not brilliant at picking up other users nearby even when you know they're there and are standing right next to them.

Pretty phone for basic use - but don't expect miracles.

Summary: Nice basic phone if you go for appearance over function.

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