Motorola RAZR V3
Phone Scoop Review
Jul 11, 2005 by Eric Lin
In-depth review of Motorola's iconic RAZR V3 high-end clamshell GSM phone for Cingular and T-Mobile. read review ›
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Motorola RAZR V3
Great phone, light and thin.
PROS:
Light
Thin
Easy to carry in pocket.
Blue tooth interface is great
Great battery life
CONS:
Very hard to use phone without the blue-tooth you can not hear using the hand held phone.
The film on the key pad face started to peel off after about 45 days of using the phone.
Overall, this is a great phone, I don't use most of the features available, but this is a great phone.
Phone is Dynamic!
I love this phone, have had it for about 8 days now, I did notice with a wallpaper i downloaded the screen would lock up, turn into rainbow colors or turn solid white. I deleted the wallpaper (out $2.00 from Motorola site) but hey phone works now.
That is why it gets 4.5 (would have been 5)
Pros-
Loud and cool ring tones, Very loud speaker phone, Easy to carry, Slim design
excellent service even after Hurricane
Katrina (Cingular, Mississippi) Nice feel for buttons, excellent cases for this phone
Cons-
Fingerprints, could have had EDGE instead of GPRS, grease smears from oil on skin. Buttons are a little flimsy (but that nit picky)
Other wise great phone. It attracts attention.
Thanks MOTOROLA
Rarz
Only my second cell phone,but it does exactly what I want......transmitts and receives good quality voice communications. The battery lasts me about five days before I get the low battery warning. I bought this phone for it's ability to get good signals and make quality calls and it does that. And of course ,everyone I know wants one, so that also gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling. I have never used the camera,so I can't comment on the what pictures would look like. A short review I know ,but I do like the phone .
Get this phone, buy some asprin...........
Poor reception, poor battery life, and most of all, poor sound quality.
Anyone out there interested in this phone; don't bother, it's deplorable. There should be a disclaimner saying "Buy a Razr, get a bottle of Excederin Migraine FREE!"
the worst thing ever
i only gave this phone a .5 rating because It can call people. i have had four of them. the break easily, signal is horrible and the earpieces is not loud enough.
pros:calls people
cons: basically the whole phone
Blue Razr
I have had a razr for a year. 2 phones.
Pros: Camera, Sound Quality, Screen Size.
Cons: Battery Life, Internet speed, Screen Quality (Broke).
Overall, its not a bad phone but I would push for something a bit thicker.
Not the Greatest Phone
Alright, I have had this phone for about 2 years now and it's been okay.
When I first got it, it had great sound quality, good camera quality etc. etc. After having this phone for a while, it's starting to really irritate me.
First of all, I woke up one morning and pushed the side button to light up the front display screen to show the time, and the screen was broken! It was all black and had a pink line going across it. The screen is still like that and I have tried to fix it. I tried turning the phone on and off, removing the battery and replacing it and I even tried switching SIM cards with someone else to see if it was the SIM card having a problem. It wasn't the SIM card so I have no idea how this problem started.
Secondly, the call quality has gradually gotten worse since I had this phone. When I talk to someone who is in the same town as me, I have to say "what?" after almost everything they say. This is because they sound like they are so far away. Also, the person who I am talking to can't understand me sometimes. They say that it sounds like I'm underwater and that everything is garbled. It really annoys me when this happens.
Next, the battery has really been acting up on me. I got a new battery for it because of the problems it was creating. With the old one, I would charge it all day, and then when I unplugged it, the phone still wouldn't be fully charged. Or, if it was fully charged, it would drop back down to 1 bar within an hour. I got a new battery for it after a while, and this battery has made a little improvement, not much.
The last thing that I don't like about this phone is that the picture quality is very poor. Most times, when I take a picture on it, the person's face in the picture is a little distorted. It used to not do that in the beginning. It really has become a problem for me.
A few pros are listed below:
-size (small, compact, slim)
-easy to push buttons
-good reception
-a lot of memory
MOTO RAZR
PROS:
* LARGE display screen
* LARGE keypad
* BRIGHT blue background keypad, very sweet!
* THIN and lightweight
CONS:
Text method is iTap only NOT T9 text entry . The iTap text method is much slower than T9 word prediction text.
The vibration on this phone is VERY weak, I am lucky if I even feel it in my pocket when it goes off.
The ring tones could be louder. I am used to the ringers on my Sidekick II so maybe thats why...
You think the camera would be better than an original VGA one for the price of this phone. The Razr doesn't even carry a flash which is odd.
The PRICE should be lower for the features you get on this phone. I have had cheaper models than this one and have more features and such on it.
OVERALL I think the best part of the Motorola Razr is the design layout itself, other than that a phone is a phone. I think the features need to be updated a bit. BUT then again if I didn't pay $250 for this phone I MIGHT be happier with it. I know some people paid less or nothing than I did.
I am debating whether I should just put my sim card back in my Sidekick II. I am a big texter and it was SO much easier to text on it than this one. THE iTAP texting just doesn't do it for me... I WANT T9 on this phone and I WOULD BE soo happy.
This fone sucks, that's the truth.
I just switched over to tmobile about 3 months ago... And i chose the razr v3. At first, the razr was great but as time passed by, it began to slow down. Idk why tho. Soon, it didnt want to charge anymore so I took it in, and swapped it for a refurbished one. Now, the key pad does not want to light up, making it useless at night. Not to mention that it turns off on its own. I have now placed another order for a new one. It will be my THIRD razr. Hopefully it doesnt have any defects. Overall, this fone sucks and is not that nice. Thanks a lot motorola.. I would've been better off with a sidekick!
final thoughts after my razr died...
If you update the firmware to the latest version (search for motox for a guy who's very helpful & his website usually has the latest firmware on it), this is an awesome phone. I've had it since before it was even out in the US (got an early european model) and had very few problems with it. Got about as good a signal as I've gotten with any phone (problems I had were more with Cingular, than with the phone) the one MAJOR complaint I have with this phone is a flaw in the design. It is a very sturdy phone, EXCEPT for the left hinge (I don't know if this might have been updated to be stronger in later editions). Over the time I've had the phone, it has been dropped a few times (nothing major, but still taken some hits) One day, the outside LCD quit working, I looked closer, and noticed that the hinge had cracked. I kept using the phone for several months, until the entire hinge finally broke off (on the back...you can see the two hinges are attached differently- one looks solid and is attached the entire width of the hinge, the other is held by two tiny pieces of metal so the ribbon can go through to the screen). The internal screen & rest of the phone were still working, so I figured why not try to glue the hinge back & get a little more use out of it. Well, in the process, the ribbon connecting the two halves of the phone finally completly broke, and now I'm left with a functioning phone...I just can't use the screen or the ear-piece. (It still makes and receives calls, if you can use the speakerphone). Anyway...I did enjoy the phone, it worked great, except for the above mentioned problems, but now I am off to try Sprint & the a900 (sorry cingular, but since the merge, service has been terrible at my house, and nobody gives great deals on new phones to returning customers...just new...so I decided to jump ship).
