Motorola Timeport L7089

I purchased this phone back in June 2000 for a mere £23.99 on an Orange tariff AND with all the accessories... that was an absolute steal as at the time the phones were retailing at about £99 as I recall! Currently I have seen it retailing online for £29.99, despite Motorola discontinuing it’s manufacture, and I have been offered £20-25 for my second hand one, by a local shopkeeper. I kept this phone for a year, but as soon as my contract was over, I purchased a Nokia 3310. I have a great affection for the phone, but at the end of the day there are too many drawbacks for me to consider using it, or any other Motorola phone again. ~* Style *~ I ...  Read the complete review

I'm not looking forward to writing this review as I can feel tears welling in my eyes already. I live in the UK, where you are chained to a handset for at least a year - the only escape is paying £10,000,006 to upgrade or throw the blasted thing to the monkeys and use two cups and a piece of string till the end of your contract. I bought a 7089 to replace a Nokia (no, really) because I wanted the vibration feature (ringtones are for 12 year olds -sorry). I didn't realise that by purchasing a Motorola, I would be tweaking the nipples of the God of Ergonomics. Holy Macaroni what a poor interface! At first, the myriad design flaws seemed unfortunate, now it is clear ...  Read the complete review

This is the worst phone I've ever used. I only keep it because it's tri-band and works all over Europe and the US. But I curse it every day. Let me give you some examples (see which functions you might use): I receive a text message, the phone says "Message received. Read now?" I press OK, but the phone then says "Press * with # to Unlock". Argh! So I unlock the keypad. This is hard to do with one hand (like I can with a Nokia: which is Menu then *) so I swizzle the phone around in my hand and risk dropping it (try doing this with you phone now to hit * and # at the same time). The display now doesn't offer me the same "Read ...  Read the complete review

We went to get phones that we could use in Europe and the U.S, and needed wireless PC connectivity. The L7089 was the only one that could do this at the time. For use abroad, the phones have been great, signal quality has been good, and audio has been pretty flawless. However, living with these phones on a daily basis has proved to be irritating, as the menu systems are pretty archaic... Having used Nokia phones for a long time, neither of us took to Motorola's weird navigation menus, and simple things such as reading SMS messages is incredibly cumbersome. It'd be hard to recommend this phone to anyone who doesn't travel a ...  Read the complete review

This isn't a phone for everybody - not for people who want to change faceplates every month or play snakes on the tube. However, if you do a bit of travelling, and if you have a Palm PC, the L7089 is ideal. If you're travelling to the US, the tri-band support is essential; dual-band is fine if you'll never leave Europe. What makes this more mobile a phone than tri-band is the built-in infra-red modem which, unlike some Nokias, is IRDA compliant and needs no additional software modems or cables (which can easily add £100 to cost). IRDA means that I can transfer my existing address book from my PC e-mail system, or from my Palm ...  Read the complete review