Sleek and stylish yet never complicated, Motorola's i710 flip phone is designed to appeal to small- and medium-sized business owners seeking an affordable, user-friendly handset for their workforces. The phone is packed with high-tech features to streamline your business, from Java-technology business applications to Motorola's iDEN push-to-talk system and even GPS features. Its brilliant, 10-line, internal color display makes it easier--as well as more fun--to use.
Calling Features
The i710 offers an integrated speakerphone, voice dialing, wait, and pause dialing for quick access to telephone systems with passwords. Other calling features include call timers, redial, a missed-call indicator, a call log, any-key answer, auto-answer, auto-redial, speed dial, mute control, no-answer transfer, vibrating ring, and differential ring.
Messaging and Internet
Heading up its communication abilities is Motorola's iDEN push-to-talk technology, which puts multiple users in touch at the press of a button. iDEN technology combines speakerphone, voice command, phone book, voice mail, digital 2-way radio, mobile Internet and e-mail, wireless modems, voice activation, and voice recordings to virtually recreate a user's office on the road.
Further, GPS technology lets users do everything from tracking fleets to simplifying routes and obtaining the most efficient travel directions. Mobile messaging services give users convenient, 1-screen access to voice-mail messages, text messages, and quick notes. There's also a handy voice recorder for taking on-the-fly memos.
Organizer
The i710 features a datebook and a 600-entry contacts list to keep important colleagues at a user's fingertips.
Vital Statistics
The Motorola i710 weighs 5.10 ounces and measures 3.60 x 2.00 x 1.10 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3.3 hours of digital talk time, and up to 70 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the IDEN 800 frequency. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.
What's in the Box
Motorola i710 handset, lithium-ion battery, AC charger, user's manual.
1 bad phone
Everyone I know that has this phone say it is no good they are changing to another phone
2 Great Phone!
I got this phone from Nextel to replace an LGVX10 from Verizon. We'll just say that thisphone beats the pants off that LG piece of junk.
First off, this phone gets very good signal. No matter where I am (in basements, in labs with lots of electronics equipment/computers running) I get signal, and calls come through clearly. Signal strength was my main reason for choosing this phone over the i730 (which has an external screen).
Also this phone is very durable. It is slightly heavier than any of my previous phones, but it is not 'too heavy', but hte over-all construction feels very solid and well put together which is something I naver felt before using my Samsung or LG phones.
The color screen is very nice and images and text are very clear and readable. The phone only comes with a few wallpapers but i was able to add more (i will talk more about this later).
The ring tones are very loud, which is both good and bad. Its good because on my past phones I could never hear the ring tones in a moderatley loud environment with my phone in my pocket, which is a problem I never run into with the i710. But sometimes the rings can be too loud, especially if you are in a quiet environment and forget to turn on vibrate. Ring volume is controlled through a rocker switch on the side of the phone which is convenient for adjucting volume and setting vibrate, but if you use this to turn the sound off, the phone will ring down to vibrate makign it difficult to be discrete about turning you rphone down without opening it. Another good feature is you can use actual .wav sound clips as ring tones, so instead of midi-based mucial ring tones you can actually have clips from your favorite bands. The sound quality isn't all that great but it is still a cool feature. You will want to find a way to get few custom ring tones, because the phone comes with maybe 10 musical ring tones, and a bunch of bell ring tones most of which are annoying.
I was able to get a USB date cable from Amazon for about $15. Which lets me hook the phone up to my PC to download ring tones and wallpaper images. One thing if you need to know if you want to do this though is that this feature is no longer supported by Nextel, because they now offer a $10 a month data feature which lets you download ring tones (for an additional per-tone fee). If you want to use your data cable you will need to find the WebJal software, which you can find online easily. It was originally released by Motorola for use with Nextel phones, but is no longer on their site because Nextel wants to sell their $10 a month service.
This phone is everything I need and want in a cellphone. I can easily customize the ring tones and background images. I get good signal and calls come through clearly with no static and no dropped calls. Also this phone is fairly inexexpensive becauseit doesn't have any of that camera nonsense that manufacturers tack on that just bring up the price and give you crappy under-exposed and pixelated images.
3 Great Phone.
I liked this phone it seems to be tough and stylish. But had ordered it off of Nextels site. They even gave me a code that saved me $50.00. Here it is for you all to share (CL897L) case sensitive. On the shopping cart page in the promo box. It is like an invoice thing. But I think it is a very good phone. You will enjoy the phone. Happy shopping.
4 new features, none of which are free
It's shameful that Americans are usually the last country to have the latest in phone technology. Sweden is the cell-phone capital of the world - followed by Japan, then Europe... so whatever phones we're using, the Swedes got to play with 2 years ago. Oh well. The way our phone market is here, we're slaves to the industry.
My phone is set up w/ 500 anytime minutes, unlimited nights & weekends and unlimited walkie-talkie minutes.
I also have Internet access on the phone, but just the limited access - it's all text, and only access to 80 sites... so few are WAP compatible nowadays.
The color screen is fairly sharp in resolution, all things considered. Unlike the more primitive black-n-white phones, these phones don't come with games - only demos you have to pay for. I bought a data cable so I could put my own photos (wallpaper) on the phone w/o buying someone else's wallpaper. After all, I want my dogs on there, not some else's dogs!
The data cable is not sold with that intent, however. The cable cost over 30 bucks, too! I searched all over the Internet until I found a 3rd party utility called WebJal that lets you put your own wallpaper and ringtones on the phone. So far, I've only had success with the wallpaper. Webjal is only available for Windows, and as a Mac user, I found the lack of support by Nextel and Motorola extremely frustrating. Apparently, Motorola & Nextel don't want you fiddling with their phones (even though you actually buy the phone, they still want to believe it's their phone!), so don't expect Nextel or Motorola to help you in any way to get your personal photos or sound effects on your phone - if you want this ability, wait and pray for the next version of the iPod to be a PDA & Phone combo, or else you'll have to search online like I did for several days to find the appropriate software, etc. to put on your own content.
The phone comes with about 10 ringtones, only one of which isn't absolutely horrible to listen to.
The phone is very easy to program and the buttons are fairly intuitive and there are a couple of "soft" buttons which are context sensitive - so applause to Motorola for that! The phone comes with the battery and a wall charger - and that's it. I had to buy the case (by Bodyglove - it's nice), the car charger and the data cable separately - I spent more on the accessories than I did for the phone and I haven't even bought a hands-free ear-thingy yet!!
The speaker works very well - I was able to have a conversation with my mother on the phone and she didn't even know I was using the speaker until I told her - another star for that!
Also impressive is the volume control that's on the side of the phone. Without even messing with the keyboard, you can quickly adjust your volume without even looking at the phone, just listening as the sound gets quieter and finally goes to vibrate mode. Another star for that.
The speaker and ringer are impressively loud and have a long acoustic range (you can hear it clearly when it's jammed deep in your pocket or purse.
Adding names and numbers is fairly intuitive. I really haven't had to consult my manual for everything, since there is context sensitive help on nearly every screen if you need it.
I'm annoyed that simple games that are free on other phones are not built-in. Considering how much money people spend on ringtones, wallpaper, etc., the phones should be free, since they charge for everything!
The walkie-talkie button can be programmed so you only need to PPT (push to talk) instantly with someone else using Nextel. I have the "local" PPT, which is all of Texas... you have to pay extra to talk nationwide. It's cheaper to have a more expensive plan than to pay for overages - they don't dilly around - 40 cents per minute on overages!
If you talk an hour every day to a friend, your 500 minutes will be eaten up very quickly, but if you're like me, you'll have plenty to spare - I'm hardly on the phone, but it's nice to know I can talk if I need to.
There is supposedly some built-in GPS stuff, but you have to pay for the service, so it's not like a stand-alone GPS device if you want to go GeoCaching or anything.
The phone is conveniently small, but not so small that you need a microscope and/or a toothpick to dial and read the buttons. The accessory clip (sold separately) is really meant for hooking onto belts - so unless you wear slacks with belt, it's not too sturdy to hook onto your jeans or pocket - so I just stick the whole phone in my pocket - and it makes a wierd bulge w/ the clip, etc.
I'm still waiting for my friends to get Nextel so I can use the walkie-talkie feature. Nextel should have a site where folks can exchange their walkie-talkie numbers - because they're totally different than phone numbers, so it's not like you'd lose any privacy - almost like SMS chat, but different. I still pine for the abilities in the "Global" used on "Earth: Final Conflict," but this may still be 10 years off - I hear that Dallas Semiconductor is still working on the flexible/expandible viewscreens.
