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Motorola's VU30 is an entry-level flip for Verizon Wireless. Its body is smooth and rounded, somewhat reminiscent of the Motorola PEBL. The controls on either side of the VU30 are easily found and function well.

Perhaps the phone's best feature is the external display. The external display is touch sensitive, and allows you to interact with the music player and camera. Pressing it will turn the camera and music player on or off, and it provides haptic feedback when pressed. The quality of the external screen wasn't great, but being able to interact with it is nice.

On the inside, the keypad looks nice, but functions poorly. Each of the keys is a round dot. The dots are too small for my tastes. They may be easy to find, and offer good travel and feedback, but the size really bugged me. I didn't like how the buttons felt against my thumb.

Other than that, there's not much to complain about. It is a simple phone and offers simple features.

VU30

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