PureMobile sent us in the brand new Motorola handset, second generation RAZR: the Linux-based V8. One of the most sleek and most-wanted phones in the market, and we take it for a serious spin.
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I understand that it is your personal opinion and I respect that, but since when does a phone require wifi to be considered a "true" smartphone? My Treo 650 has no wifi and yet I can go online anywhere I get a cellphone signal (which is anywhere I carry the phone) at near-DSL speeds. I don't have to wait until I'm near a hotspot, and while I do pay for that, it's cheap -- US$19.95/month -- and it's unlimited bandwidth.
I do feel that wifi would be a nice addition for the added speed boost at hotspots, but to me it's not worth buying a new phone and it certainly doesn't disqualify mine as a smartphone. Just the fact that I can run any number of palmOS apps qualifies it.
For that matter, I would say the Treos and Windows Mobile PDA/phones out there are more worthy of the title than any RAZR or even the iPhone -- at least until we get third-party app support for those.
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I fancy the zaurus pda's and allways have. Sometimes it's nice to have anonymous access. And any hotspot in theory can provide just that. Anyway wifi is handy if you want to sync anywhere in the office and at home. I personally don't like bluetooth. You see the mileage may vary. The prize of the phone would held me back from buying though.
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Think printer scene from Office Space.
I've had the phone for several years, and it has been nothing short of a dismal experience. Bad enough that I would never even consider the RAZR2. Bad enough that I'd never even consider another Motorola period. Form trumped functionality, which is almost never a good thing.
Best of luck to them though w/ this new phone.
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"What are your complaints about the RAZR?"
-Been through 4 batteries...they are good for about 6 months then rapidly go downhill, i.e. I'll get maybe 30 minutes of talk time, or a day or 2 of standby.
-The phone randomly "white screens"...I don't know what else to call it. The phone freezes and restarts, usually in the middle of a call. Happens about 1-2 times a month, and has been doing this for about a year (never dropped it, and no water damage).
-More thoughts I had about a year and a half ago: http://jaysonknight.com/blog/archive/2006/04/14/Motorola-RAZR-V3-_2...
Perhaps mine was a lemon, but I think it was more related to the model Cingular was selling (some friends who have the Verizon version are a little happier, plus their phones seem much snappier). I have a work issued blackberry pearl now and could not be happier.
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When I was with Vodafone I had a Motorola - so many problems it wasn't funny; I thought it was just crap reception till I got another phone, an el cheapo Siemens, no problems, 100% perfect reception.
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That must be because Motorola now has an unbelievable market share of 6% in EMEA (excluding China and India).
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Pardon, but what has that got to do with the price of fish? nothing.
The fact that Motorola has that amount of marketshare tells more about marketing than quality of product; christ, just look at iPod, a sub par product marketed to buggery and sucked down by the masses as innovative.
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Does anyone know if this phone supports prepaid plans? I have pay-as-you-go via Cingular (ok fine AT&T) and I want to just be able to take the SIM card out and pop it in this new phone.
I'm just confused because when I shop online for phones they always put prepaid phones in a separate category away from all the others as if there's some technical distinction. Is there a difference?
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I think the question is representative of the ungodly amount of control these companies have over us.
How restricted we are.
You can by a GSM phone unlocked and it will work with any GSM carrier. You do not need to have a phone "supported" in any way.
Pop in the sim. Network compatible with phone? Yes? Then it works?
See all the people that UnLock their iPhone just to use it with a different company...
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Nice phone but, I'd rather have something like the Nokia E70:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
An open OS would be nice, but usability comes first.
RE: need more Nokia E70-styled phones
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Yes, I have a Neo1973. It is very much in development right now. I make calls from the shell. Any review at this point would probably frustrate the reviewer, unless they were also a developer and understood the possibilities of the future. Check back in a few months.
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Just because it uses Linux doesn't mean I'd be willing to pay anywhere near $500 for it. I might pay $50 after some encouragement.
$500 can buy you a brand new desktop computer with a Core 2 Duo processor or even a fairly decent notebook. Any computer is a million times more useful than any phone and get this... you can even call people on their cell or land line phone from a computer, go figure.
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