A Very Sexy Thing (Motorola V66)

Member Name: tonybone

Product:	Motorola V66
Date:	15/02/02 (2466 review reads)
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Advantages: Weight, Standby

Disadvantages: Voice Dialling

The Motorola V66 is a very sexy great looking phone it follows on from the V50 design with its flip open. This design of Motorola can now be traced back quite a few years to the Motorola Startac if any of you can remember it.

What I can tell you though is that Motorola have improved the phones a hell of a lot from their first efforts into flip design technology. The startacs used to be terrible for poor signal and battery performance this new V66 does not suffer from those problems.

This phone really is feature packed for its small size and it must be a contender for the ultimate mini phone. With it weighing only 79g as well it really does qualify as a mini phone.

The major addition to the software of this phone is its GPRS capability which will allow you to have high speed data transfer and high speed wap access thank god I here you all cry. Hopefully the GPRS system can give Wap a much needed boast.

Another major feature for a phone so small as this one is its tri band ability which means as well as use the phone in the UK and Europe it will also work in the USA.

The phonebook size has also been increased so that you can now store a total of up to 500 contacts this is in keeping with many of the new business aimed phones. This allows you to store home, mobile etc numbers for each person in your phonebook without having them all under separate headings.

Some people may also find its voice dialling feature useful although I did personnel find it a little difficult to operate and found it sometimes dialled the wrong person. I have to question myself weather this feature should be removed from current phones until it works correctly.

The phone also includes a recording facility so you can record a call you are having with someone, this can be very useful when someone is giving you directions and you do not have a pen and paper to write them down.

Of course the people at Motorola hav
e not forgotten the child in us all and have included some great games to play when you are sat on the platform waiting for that delayed train.

While using the phone I found it to have an impressive talktime and standby they quoted times for the phone are talktime 180mins and standby 120 hours. I would say the talktime is about 100mins and 80 hours on standby. Which is very good and the phone would always last me around 48hours which is very good compared to the likes of the SamsungA300 which was lucky to last 8 Hour.

So overall I would say the Motorola V66 is a great phone and well worth the extra you might have to pay over the likes of the Samsung A300.

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