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GravityFails's review of the Motorola Rambler
original version, submitted Aug 20, 2010, 10:02 PM:
Tonight We're Gonna Party...
...Like it's late-2005.
Ah, the good ol' days. Back when a TFT screen was a luxury, when the mini-USB charging port was new, and when having a grippy rubber coating on your phone meant that you lived on the bleeding edge of technological adoption. How things have changed.
Mostly.
The Motorola Rambler has a mini-USB charging port. It has a rubber coating. And, somewhat surprisingly, given its plethora of other mid-decade throwbacks, it also has a smooth, bright TFT screen. Two of them, in fact.
Fortunately for us and for Boost/Sprint, the Rambler also sports fine reception and a full QWERTY keyboard in a clamshell form factor, which is a rarity in prepaid handsets. It's also blessedly free of Sprint's ham-handed, backwards user interface, with which they've ruined such phones as the LG Rumor Touch, the Samsung Seek, and the Sanyo Juno. The Rambler's UI design is all Moto, including but not limited to its eight-year-old ringtones -- although after using the aforementioned devices, the Rambler is a welcome, soothing balm on my frayed and frazzled user-interface nerve.
PROS:
+ Good sound
+ Good reception
+ Bright, colorful screen
+ Solid construction -- no keyboard creaks
+ Full keyboard
+ 2.5mm headset jack
CONS:
- Mini-USB? Really?
- Slight play in the clamshell hinge
- The Interface, though all Moto, is in that ugly blue/brown Boost color scheme that looks like it was designed by a collaboration between Picasso and a bag of turds
- It's the size of a ham radio; puts a rather disconcerting bulge in your pocket, whether you're male or female
If you're looking for a solid -- though somewhat dated -- phone for Boost Mobile (one of Sprint's prepaid divisions), search no further than the Rambler. What it lacks in style and cool-appeal, it more than makes up for in sheer, stark competence and function; it might look like your father's Oldsmobile, but under the hood it's all...well, Rambler.
edited Jul 21, 2013, 1:29 AM to the current version:
Tonight We're Gonna Party...
...Like it's late-2005.
Ah, the good ol' days. Back when a TFT screen was a luxury, when the mini-USB charging port was new, and when having a grippy rubber coating on your phone meant that you lived on the bleeding edge of technological adoption. How things have changed.
Mostly.
The Motorola Rambler has a mini-USB charging port. It has a rubber coating. And, somewhat surprisingly, given its plethora of other mid-decade throwbacks, it also has a smooth, bright TFT screen. Two of them, in fact.
Fortunately for us and for Boost/Sprint, the Rambler also sports fine reception and a full QWERTY keyboard in a clamshell form factor, which is a rarity in prepaid handsets. It's also blessedly free of Sprint's ham-handed, backwards user interface, with which they've ruined such phones as the LG Rumor Touch, the Samsung Seek, and the Sanyo Juno. The Rambler's UI design is all Moto, including but not limited to its eight-year-old ringtones -- although after using the aforementioned devices, the Rambler is a welcome, soothing balm on my frayed and frazzled user-interface nerve.
PROS:
+ Good sound
+ Good reception
+ Bright, colorful screen
+ Solid construction -- no keyboard creaks
+ Full keyboard
+ 2.5mm headset jack
CONS:
- Mini-USB? Really?
- Slight play in the clamshell hinge
- The Interface, though all Moto, is in that ugly blue/brown Boost color scheme that looks like it was designed by a collaboration between Pablo Picasso and a bag of turds
- It's the size of a ham radio; puts a rather disconcerting bulge in your pocket, whether you're male or female
If you're looking for a solid -- though somewhat dated -- phone for Boost Mobile (one of Sprint's prepaid divisions), search no further than the Rambler. What it lacks in style and cool-appeal, it more than makes up for in sheer, stark competence and function; it might look like your father's Oldsmobile, but under the hood it's all...well, Rambler.
