Motorola MPx220
Bought and returned for the Audiovox
I've been anxiously awaiting the arrival of this phone since I first heard leaked rumors about it nearly a year ago. Sadly, the reality of the phone and the expectation just don't match.
I have both the Audiovox and the MPX220 in front of me, and sadly, the MPX is going back to Best Buy tomorrow.
If the phone were 25% smaller, the earpiece 25% louder and voice dialing through BT headsets worked, it would be the one at my hip instead.
I can live with the size, I can live with the below-par image quality on the camera and can even live with the excellent voice dialing not working via Bluetooth. But - first and foremost, this is telephone, and the earpiece and speakerphone volumes are just not acceptable. I maxed out the volume sett...
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I have both the Audiovox and the MPX220 in front of me, and sadly, the MPX is going back to Best Buy tomorrow.
If the phone were 25% smaller, the earpiece 25% louder and voice dialing through BT headsets worked, it would be the one at my hip instead.
I can live with the size, I can live with the below-par image quality on the camera and can even live with the excellent voice dialing not working via Bluetooth. But - first and foremost, this is telephone, and the earpiece and speakerphone volumes are just not acceptable. I maxed out the volume sett...
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I personally dont care whether or not you can voice dial on a bluetooth headset, im not going to buy one anyway. I have a sony ericsson t616 right now and i hate it. Keys dont work half the time, it shuts itself off and wont come back on, is Constantly asking me to update the time (near every half hour now) and every once in a while it freezes, so anything is better than the phone I have right now.
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cody keep in mind you can turn off that * update the time * screen that pops up..
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Hey Buddy, sorry to say but pay too much for your MPX220... As Dell employee, you could have gotten the phone for $179.99... All dell employees get 50% off all Motorola equipment...
But off-course, it would have require you to wait till the end of the month to buy the phone at the AT&T store... Do you know how many people wish they were as lucky as you to get this phone for that price??? i think i can work with the speaker and the BT voice-dialing kinks come on you're paying $180.00 for arguably one of the best phones in the market...
But off-course, it would have require you to wait till the end of the month to buy the phone at the AT&T store... Do you know how many people wish they were as lucky as you to get this phone for that price??? i think i can work with the speaker and the BT voice-dialing kinks come on you're paying $180.00 for arguably one of the best phones in the market...
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I also purchased the Audiobox and i returned it after 3 days... Battery is garbage... i had the phone for 3 days and the phone spent approximately a day and a half on the charger, pathetic...the phone works great but there are a few problems with its power save features... what good is a great device that u are afraid to use because the batt might run out...
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I might give the mpx220 another try again in a month when it becomes AT&T branded and with the discount. Maybe they'll fix the low-volume issue by then because if the mpx can't be used for voice calls, then the rest isn't worth it.
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You guys always should wait until it is released through a carrier....for one your carrier will give quicker access for warranty issues and also it would mean that the phone has been given an accurate amount of testing. If you bought it through Best Buy they control the inventory and may just release it early to get sales. They don't have the same testing.
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This is incorrect. The phone released through Best Buy has been tested and will bear the same ROM version as ATT or Cingular with only branding differences. My Sister in Law is on of the senior buyers for Best Buy and your info is an assumption and you know what happens when you do that.
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Well fact is, Cingular uses independent testers and require 400 hours before it is released. Best Buy does not use those same methods.
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I returned the 220, tried another and found the same low-volume issue. Kept the Audiovox for now.
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you might be right with cingular performing its own tests or what not but at the same time you have to understand its a model of phone that cingular has already adopted. its not like there are release candidates and cingular picks a better one than bestbuy. best buy freaking sells cingular. your comments on getting a phone through best buy versus in a cingular store are just retarded.
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Dosent matter the phone is not different so it does not matter who does or does not test it. The phone the Best Buy is selling for Cingular will be the exact phone right down to the rom of the phone that Cingular will be selling themselves. Dont you get it???? You really need to stop repeating what your hear in your little meetings and get some education yourself.
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Sorry to disaapoint you there will be no fixes until there is a major ROM upgrade. Wont be soon
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Does anyone else with a 220 have the same low-volume issue? Moto tech support implied that it might be a defective unit but I don't believe that. Three coworkers of mine also agreed that my 220's volume was unacceptably too low and this was an often-noted pre-release issue.
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I find it annoying / amusing that the two Best Buy's I went to IN AUSTIN, TX TODAY didn't have the phone yet. Both said, "It should come in tonight".. (Note it was 8pm when I went)
As to the low volume.. Gah that sucks.. I'm hoping that it's an issue with your phone, and not just the phone in general. You're 100% right in saying that if you can't make calls then the phone aint worth having..
I'm also wondering how it does at other things.. I want to use it for internet/IM/Email..etc..
As to the low volume.. Gah that sucks.. I'm hoping that it's an issue with your phone, and not just the phone in general. You're 100% right in saying that if you can't make calls then the phone aint worth having..
I'm also wondering how it does at other things.. I want to use it for internet/IM/Email..etc..
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nope. mine has great volume. it is an adjustment to use, but after one or two phone calls, u naturally find the sweet spot every time. it's loud enough for me to watch TV at full volume and talk on the phone.
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I have a quick questions, because it wasn't clear to me from your post. Are you talking about the headset, the speaker on the phone itself or the speakerphone volume. Also if you are talking about the headset, which headset are you using.
Thanks
Thanks
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the phones speaker. but volume with the moto hs810 headset is pretty good as well.
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Sorry to beat a dead horse but just to clarify when you say phone speaker, do you mean the external speakerphone on the back of the phone, or the internal one you put up to your ear. I only ask, because I do not plan on using the external speakerphone, but if the internal speaker you put to your ear is too low that would be a big problem. Sorry again, just want to be sure I understand the explanation
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OK, this sounds like a great phone, but what about the basics? Has Motorola finally fixed the fact that you can not have multiple #'s under one contact? 😕 It takes up too much memory and is extremely annoying!!!! 👿
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I think you are referring to the phone book that all the V phones use. This phone is a Smartphone using the Windows Mobile for Smartphones 2003 version, which is a completely different interface, and why it needs so much horsepower to run and is so expensive. This said the interface is really nice from the little time I have had to play with it. The contact list and everything else is modeled after Windows Outlook
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This is a smartphone, so it mimics Outlook functionality. You can have up to 11 phone numbers and 3 e-mail addresses per person; all of which match the entry blanks in your desktop PC's copy of Outlook.
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yep. it runs Windows Mobile contacts software, so you can store 40 some pieces of info under a single contact.
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Both, actually. We (a coworker and I) both tried earpiece (inside) and speakerphone (outside) calls at max volume and couldn't hear well enough to be comfortable. Moto tech support had me do a master reset and that did nothing but reset all the Cingular->AT&T changes I had made. I'm returning the phone tonight and might give another one a try as it might just be defective.
On another note, the Audiovox is still performing well with excellent call clarity, battery life, and overall performance, except for the typical windows problem of not managing memory very well so I have to manually force background apps to quit occasionally.
On another note, the Audiovox is still performing well with excellent call clarity, battery life, and overall performance, except for the typical windows problem of not managing memory very well so I have to manually force background apps to quit occasionally.
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he internal speaker is loud enough, not real powerful, but definately audible.
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I really should have read this forum...I wrote this yesterday on the MPX220 vs. the SMT5600. I also went with the ausiovox. You know...I seem to see a lot of people going witht eh auidovox over the mpx but I really havent met many that say mpx over the smt.
You know...one of the things that really got to be was the fact that you could not voice dial from the headset. I bought a mpx220 a couple days ago from best buy and now I have the audiovox SMT5600. Im comparing the two to see which I would want more. Im still undecided, though Im leaning toward the SMT. mainly on looks and lack of headset voice dialing. Here are the key differences that I noticed.
My impressions (comparison):
1) I dont mind the candybar (though I prefer clamshe...
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You know...one of the things that really got to be was the fact that you could not voice dial from the headset. I bought a mpx220 a couple days ago from best buy and now I have the audiovox SMT5600. Im comparing the two to see which I would want more. Im still undecided, though Im leaning toward the SMT. mainly on looks and lack of headset voice dialing. Here are the key differences that I noticed.
My impressions (comparison):
1) I dont mind the candybar (though I prefer clamshe...
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there might be a reason for putting the SD card slot in such a place that it requires you to power down before inserting/removing it -- on my mpx220, originally i thought nothing of inserting/removing the card while the phone was on, but soon i found that the card was being corrupted. i've since returned the card for another, which i only remove when the thing's powered off, and it hasn't been corrupted a bit.
so, my point is, maybe the audiovox was constructd that way on purpose to avoid such an issue, without audiovox having to explain themselves about the fault.
so, my point is, maybe the audiovox was constructd that way on purpose to avoid such an issue, without audiovox having to explain themselves about the fault.
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