1 Horrible battery life...
The battery life for this phone reminds me of my old bulky analog Motorola phone. I must charge the phone twice-a-day. Whenever I use it to make a call, I have to be sure to plug it into the charger.
The only good thing about this phone is that I can now trade it in on a better cheaper phone.
2 Next cell phone please!
We have owned this phone about 16 months. Others on the web have found the hinge would eventually break.
Not ours. We suffered a bad case of LCD screen noire. It looks like a badly miscolored computer monitor. Except that much of the screen is black and it's not fixable by degaussing or anything but replacing the LCD = the entire phone.
And I thought cellphone insurance was for those who lose their phones or abuse them.
Ha! No, insurance is for flashy phones like this one. Stay far away from this shiny junk.
3 has many faults
I bought this phone with a Verizon service and from the first days I started to face sevral problems. My main objection is the battery consumption. It is huge. I had to put the phone on charge at least once a day. A 15min call could drain the battery. I have seen other phones with color screen and their battery works much longer. The phone would "hang" like a computer at times, so that the screen froze and there was no response by pressing any key. The only thing I could do was to take out the battery, put it back again and restart the phone, which was frustrating.
The quality of sound in the receiver was bad too. With just a little background noise, I coud not hear the caller anymore.
The only thing I liked very much about this phone was the calendar and scheduler, that had almost the same capabilities of a handheld. I would organize all my events and activites by my phone. Also the desktop was convenient as I could customize for the icons I wanted to see as fast links and I could choose to show 4 of them on screen.
4 Decent, but room for improvement
I've had this phone for about a year and half now, and have been mostly pleased with it. My main gripes with it are:
1) The joints squeak and crack after about two weeks of normal use. To people on the other end, it sounds like you're typing on a keyboard while speaking.
2) I've had a few instances where the phone would freeze up. Turning off the phone and then restarting it always fixed this.
One of the other reviews stated it had short battery life, but this hasn't been a problem at all for me.
Overall, if you have the opportunity spring for one of the newer Motorolla versions. As I understand it, they've fixed many of these issues in later models.
5 Good phone, with some compromises
Right now I currently have this phone through Verizon and am generally pretty happy with its performance. I almost always have a signal and the color screen has good resolution for a phone. There are a few things that I must say though. In the 2 years that I have had this phone I have had to replace it twice, once because it stopped turning on, and another because it wouldn't hold a charge and was acting really glichy. With normal use the charge will last maybe 24 hours then it is dead. If it is roaming for a signal or I'm playing games it won't last anywhere near that long. As long as I remember to throw it on the charger every night this is not a problem for me because I don't use the games feature (through Verizon it is a rip off). I have also seen an attachment that will take pictures with this phone, but why suck the batteries taking pictures when your going to need it for your phone calls. Overall this phone has served the purpose of sending and receiving my phone calls and text messages relatively well, there have been many situations where friends and family haven't been able to talk and I have, even the other Verizon users. If you are looking for more though, the battery life is just not enough on this phone. I must say though that for $60 you can buy a bigger battery, but that makes an already relatively big phone by today's standards even bigger and I think that it only gives you twice the capacity. The way this things uses the battery when the screen is on I don't know how far twice the battery will get you.
