Too much hype! (Motorola V66)

Member Name: 3kadua

Product:	Motorola V66
Date:	12/08/02 (1663 review reads)
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Advantages: Fun voice recording, Smart, Small

Disadvantages: Slightly pricey, you can't download ringtones, Only three games

In my local area, there had been a lot of hype and enthusiasm over the motorola v66. My pay check came and i went out and got it from a local store for £200. Everyone had been saying how good it was and that I should get it but i don't really think i should have done. It is a lovely little smart phone. It has voice activated dialing and you can make your own voice notes or even record a short song on there so that you can listen to it whilst you are travelling around but it only lasts for one minute. It has an excellent number memory so you can store up to 500 numbers on there.
The ringtones are varied and it has it's own ringtone composer but I have found it slightly difficult to use and can't find any websites that have the combinations to put on the phone in order to create one but you can't download ringtones from the inernet or over the phone for it nor can you download screensavers which i believe you can do with other motorolas. It has 26 ringtones which can also be used to alert you of a text message or voicemail and has 5 different vibration details as well as the ring and vibrate combination.
It has interchangable covers which is great if you can actually get them. I asked around in a lot of shops and none of them sold the facias and then I was told I had to get them directly from motorola. I hadn't tried buying one over the phone but I did try the internet. They come in packs of three when really I only wanted one and i couldn't even use my debit card to pay for them and even though they are just three pieces of plastic, they cost £12.99 for a pack of three which I first thought was slightly expensive but now i don't really think that that is too bad.
The games aren't too bad. Paddleball, memory and blackjack are the three games that come with the phone and like the ringtones, you can't download them so you are stuck with those three and after a while you do get bored of them
. The phone is WAP enabled so you can use the internet although I think that it is a waste of time and money because it doesn't really give you the information that you are after and as I am sure with many phones, you don't realise how long you are on there for and how much you end up spending.
The reception is generally very good but I'm not sure if that is the phone or the network. It has the standard messaging and stuff that you get on all phones and you can also use it in the USA because it is triband. I'm not sure what that means but I haven't tried it yet. However, I am going to New York in February so I'll have to see how that goes and get back to you. I also recently found it at £150 with the same network so I'm kind of disappointed that I lost out on £50 but that's the way it goes.
Registering the phone was very quick and easy. I believe that Motorola have brought out the new V66i. Which is a bit more advanced than the V66 I think but I haven't properly looked at it so that may be worth considering. It is a smart phone and it's nice to flash around with a few good features but i wouldn't really advise people to get it.

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