Motorola RAZR2 V9m
Battery
Not great. I got it yesterday and had it charging all night. Woke up today at 9:30 and started exploring the features and whatnot. By the time I got home from lunch at 1pm, the battery was already down to one bar. Granted, I was doing a lot with it, and I've read that the battery has to be fully charged and discharged 3 to 4 times before it reaches its full potential, but that's still a pretty quick loss of power. Hope this helps.
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Verizon does offer the extended battery but my standard battery was much better after letting it drain a few times the fully charging it.
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For the size this battery is great. Maybe it is just because it is in comparison to my Mogul, but i am a heavy user, and this lasts me 2 days. I haven't had a phone do that since the nineties. Seriously though, my last phone was an m610 and this stomps that phone no question. Initial conditioning is important, moreso than i experienced with other phones, but after that, look forward to not having to plug your phone in at 3pm to make it through the day.
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Can you tell me if the Mogul or the v9m is better, im looking to buy one of them today and I cant figure out which one is best. Im really concerned with the call volume, a phone is useless if you cant hear the other person. My treo 700p has a third party application, (volumecare) which make the volume extremely loud, but I dont think they have a application like this for the mogul.
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Tough one. Really depends if you need the PDA functionality or not. The V9 is a great phone, but is somewhat limited in its ability to do PDA stuff, i.e. email/web/schedule. It is definitely a top notch phone - i think Moto sound quality is unbeatable - and to be honest, the mogul is not loud enough all the time. Personally I am carrying both, one for talk (V9M) and one for data (Mogul). If I had to choose one, I would probably go with the mogul just because of the pda applications. Just FYI, the Pearl 2 is coming out supposedly November, and would give you the best of both worlds, as Blackberry call quality is phenomonal and has the email and web. Hope this helps. Either is a great phone.
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