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Review: MOTOROKR Z6

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The Z6 has a unified messaging application for text, MMS and email (POP or IMAP). Messages are sorted email style with most recent first.

A new message can be started from the home screen's options menu or the first screen of the messaging application. Messages start out as SMS but will change to MMS if you choose to add a picture or other item to it. This seems simple enough, however the curious switch that led to Motorola replacing the back soft key with send on the compose screen causes more problems than just a little confusion.

The problem occurs when erasing a misspelled word, which you'll have to do since iTap doesn't consistently let you correct a word if you only erase half of it and begin typing again. Repeatedly pressing the clear key to erase the word starts to work as expected, but then brings up a dialog asking if you want to cancel the message. When you don't realize this happened and continue pressing the clear key, your entire message is deleted. There is no way around this except to stop erasing the offending word, respond to the dialog and then resume erasing the word. It should be noted this same issue occurs when entering URLs in the browser.

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