The new Moto (Motorola V600)

Name: wazlee

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Product:	Motorola V600
Date:	27/03/04 (5346 review reads)
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Advantages: Camara, Bluetooth, Style/Looks

Disadvantages: Battery, cant save messages, no infrared

Currently I have a Siemens SL55 and it?s a great phone apart from that I dropped it and scratched the whole screen. Since then I have been searching for a new phone with one of those new technologies such as bluetooth and an inbuilt camera. I first heard of this phone in a magazine called T3.

Since then I have been checking out this phone and seeing when it is released. The thing I like most with the phone is the looks and the style, and although it might not have the picture quality as the Shape gx20i I still liked most of the features that comes with the phone.

I have been searching for the V600 ever since I heard it was out in high street stores and after spending loads of weeks of getting the answer ?the product is currently not out? I soon got a favourable answer. I got this phone from CarphoneWarehouse in Manchester for around £299 sim free and I believe this is one the of cheapest places you can get this phone, as other shops such as the Link was looking for around £400. I will be talking more about the phone in the following opinion.

**Features**

The features you find on this phone is like any other phones you can currently get for example alarm, clock, wallpaper, screensaver, calculator etc. So therefore I wont be talking about these as most of you would already know about it, and only some of the new main ones I find with this phone

5MB inbuilt shared memory ? The phone comes with an inbuilt memory of around 5MB when compared to the mere 1MB that I use to have in my Siemens SL55. This is great as it means I could store more photos, games and ringtones than my old mobile.

Quad band (900/1800/1900/850MHz) ? This option means that you can use the phone in most countries.

Polyphonic Ringtones ? These are better quality ringtones than the original ones that you get on old phones. The phone comes with around 22 embedded ringtones with different versions for the popular ring ring. Also you can
download other ringtones via wap or other services such a certain ringtone for £1.50 when you call this number.

Java Games ? These are games that you can download via wap onto your phone. There are around two inbuilt games that come with the phone that includes ? Stuntman and Monopoly. I find the monopoly game quite good, as it is really similar to the one you can get for your computer and it is also very easy to play. However the only problem I found with the monopoly game was that when your opponent owns you money it offers you the debt in exchange for a property. You can reject but however it just offers you it again, this goes on forever and ever unless you accept and I can find this a bit annoying.

Video Clip playback with sound ? The phone comes with 3 to 4 embedded video clips in which you can watch. However I find the quality very poor and that the details are very hard to see. Despite this the phone still have this feature when you compare that other phones doesn?t.

Bluetooth ? Although this phone doesn?t come with infrared it comes with bluetooth. Bluetooth means that you can connect your phone with any other bluetooth device and also to have one of those bluetooth headsets that you can get. I heard that currently if you get this mobile with an orange contract you can also get a free bluetooth headset, and unfortunately I got mine on sim free meaning that I didn?t get one.

Camera ? Like most new phones this phone also comes with a built in camera to take pictures that you could use for the handset wallpaper, screensaver, assign to number and also just to store onto your mobile.

When assigning to number I mean that when you view your contacts on your phone you can also input so that you have the person?s picture next to it. I find that this is a good feature as sometimes you may have contacts with the same name, and having pictures could help you see whom you are calling.

When taking the picture usin
g the camera you can select the brightness, and adjust the zoom on it, which I believe to be 4x max. You are also able to select an auto timer for example to take the picture automatically in 5 seconds.

In the settings menu you are also able to adjust the resolution depending on the quality of the picture, however the more resolution you pick the bigger the file size, therefore meaning the less the amount of space you will have in your shared memory. You can also change the sound it makes when you take a picture depending on your type on sound. I find this quite useful as sometimes you may want no sounds or even a different one as you may hate the pre set sound for whatever reason.

Wap - Although I got this phone sim free meaning it didn?t come with any specified network, it came with pre-settings for wap on most networks for example orange, t-mobile and vodafone. SO this meant that I didn?t have to worry about inputting the settings myself for wap as all I needed to do was to set the web session to the current network.

Colour styles ? You can select different colour styles to suit your needs for example, I set to Moto as I find blue my favourite colour. The options you can select are as follows ? Solar, Tangy, jade, Midnight, Silver or Moto.

Wallpaper ? The wallpaper is the background of your phone screen. A good thing is that you can obtain wallpapers by taking a picture using the phone camera or pictures just downloaded to your phone via wap or bluetooth. I find this feature quite good as therefore you can decide what to have as your background instead of having one fixed plain colour like you use to have on your own phones.

*Prices*
All these prices are approx, sim free and correct at time of writing.
The Link - £400
CarphoneWarehouse - £300
Expansys - £476
O2 - £315

I got my phone from CarphoneWarehouse for £300 as stated above because it was the cheapest I could find. Although you could
try bidding for this at EBay I found that I rather have the guarantee from buying it from a shop.

*Specifications*
Design: Clam
Finish: Metal, Crome
Internal Memory: 5MB
Colour silver
Dimensions: 88.1x 47.6 x 23.6
Weight: 116g
Display: 65k Colours
Resolution: 175x200
Standby time: up to 240 hours
Talk time: up to 450 mins

*Advantages*

The main advantages I can find with this camera is that it has most of the new features you find on phones such as a camera , bluetooth, polyphonic ringtones, video, java games etc. I also quite like the design of it as it looks very stylish and a decent screen. The internal memory of around 5MB is quite good and the phone is generally a good all rounder.

*Disadvantages*

The obvious disadvantage you can say about this phone is that the picture quality isn?t that good when compared to other phones. Also the camera doesn?t have a flash for dark conditions but when you consider it is a phone and not really a camera to take professional photos with. Also there isn?t infrared but however the bluetooth makes up for it as you can use that to connect to your headset or a compatible device.

*Conclusion*

Although you can get other phones with better camera and picture quality such as the shape gx20i I still rate this phone quite highly. I quite like the flashing circle light around the Motorola logo on the phone cover. This is where the phone lights up according to different modes, for example when you are charging your phone or when someone is ringing you. You can also change the colour of this is you don?t like the one for example aqua.

The phone is also stylish and new for example you get most of the new features that you will find with new phones like the camera, video,
bluetooth and java games.


Waz

I will also be posting this op on ciao as my username over there is wazlee

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