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It is a pretty good little phone. The Razr it is a very good phone I have had some minor problems with assigning ring tone from my memory chip but for the price of the phone it works good and it has a very good reception. I had and initial battery issue but they sent me a new one and it is very good on battery use.
The included pair of headphones work great with music and micro-SD slot gives additional storage. However, there are issues with the battery charging.
Big pain, but this is only way to make use of money I have spent on this phone. I have replaced the battery but the problem remains the same.
When tried to charge directly with included charger, the battery never reached fully charged status even after 24 hrs of continuous charging. Now I am using two batteries - one in phone and one on desktop charging cradle.
Razr V3i is a good phone with easy to use features. I am using a 2 gb micro-SD card and it works great.
I took out the battery from phone and tried charging with a desktop charger and this time it worked.
:D Some people could downplay this phone for what lacks but not me. Internet access via the phone may be nice to some but not to me. being a former owner of the older version, V3. so long as I could make/receive calls; send/receive text messages, and listen to a bit of music. With Quadband frequencies-- it makes a good phone for travel outside America.
Battery life is also a big plus. While both looked the same, the V3i have a lot of added features that, for a while confused me. I'm one phone user who doesn't use whatever extras are stashed in to make a phone worthy of one's time. That's just added expenses to my hefty monthly bill with AT&T.To sum it up, this phone isn't the best there is out there but useful enough for my own needs. But after a week of tweaking, I finally came to love the added features and was happy with it.While it's true that this phone is not MAC-friendly, I also found out that the Phone Tools software do not recognize it as an existing product of Motorola. I can't say I had problems with this phone.
Extra features aside, I got this phone because of the memory expandability that the V3 lacked. I'd buy another of this V3i, hands down (i.e., if I happen to have the extra cash to own a second unit).
Compared to the New Motorola V9 as well as countless other new phones on the market, the V3i still retains its glamour, as the V3i was marketed as a top-notch phone. Cell phones with too many integrated electronics will be damaged easily.
All the store had to do was replace the glass on the front screen and my old phone became as good as new again.I prefer the unlocked International version, which has slightly different menus and features and uses Digital Audio Player instead of the Apple iTunes software. The front screen was slightly cracked, but the ballistic durability of the hard plastic is still surprising.
I had my first V3i crushed slightly by a car that drove too close to the curb. I then bought my second V3i, and fixed the old V3i.
I have been using this product for over three years, I have bought a new V3i a second time after two years of use of an old V3i. It has longer battery life than the V9 and has all the features that are necessary in a cell phone.The durability of the V3i is also excellent.
The phone still worked perfectly.
It created the market and improved it on each iteration. The phone itself makes calls, and the speakerphone is loud, as it should be.
Vendor lock-in for cell phones is a big problem for me, and maybe it is for you, too.This is a stylish phone that epitomizes form over function.-C Now it's outdated, but here's some interesting points:-my phone takes pictures of equal quality-sound playback is equal to my phone-I have unrestricted Java applet usage, including a MUCH larger library of available programs-my sync manager does much more than Motorola's, including much better integration with Outlook-my UI doesn't suckI've had my cell phone for five years, which is an ETERNITY for cell phones, but it's still not out-featured by this phone.
I love the exterior LCD screen.And that's about it for likes.The dislikes are numerous for me, because I own a Nokia 3650, which at the time was the best phone you could get (2003). where it may or may not run.Contrast with my Nokia 3650: I downloaded a free eBook reader (Mobipocket) using Nokia's software (which can be downloaded for free from Nokia) and I was in business.
I have to give Motorola credit for the entire RAZR lineup, because it is definitely the coolest phone I've ever seen. So, design is five star, without question.
I tried to get an eBook reader for a RAZR and all I could find were sites that basically make you compile a JAR file and unlock your phone to transfer it.
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