Motorola V551 / V330 / V547 / V555 / V557
Average Ratings
What a hunk of junk!
PROS: Good colors, pretty durable
CONS: Sound stinks, bad pics, buttons on side to sensitive, signal bad.
I live in western PA, I had a Moto V551. Had being the key word there. The ear piece went south so I had to talk on the speaker phone for a few months. The signal was terrible(Maybe its AT&T) but I don't think so cause I now have a Nokia 6101 and the signal is better, I get at least 1 bar w/it when the other one got none. I mean what kind of phone has a special external antenna (yes I have one for it) so you can get better signal. My b/f has the same phone and the only reason he has it is because it is a fairly durable phone. His ear piece volume stinks too. And those darn buttons on the side to adjust the rings and vibes are just TOOOO sensitive. I have missed many calls cause I bumped the button and didn't know it. And then if you have it in your pocket on vibrate don't plan on answering your phone. I could never feel it. It's just over all a real bad phone. I can't imagine anyone buying it. I don't think all Moto phones are bad, I had a Razr that I loved (except it didn't swim to well). I can't really think of anything wonderful about this phone. Buyer's beware when thinking of purchasing this phone either new or 2nd hand. I'll never have another one!
EXelent Phone!!
Pros: very nice design, good service (cingular) almost everywhere, good quality camera/video, good quality earpiece/speakerphone, awesome mp3 tones, dosent damage easily.
Cons: none that i can think of.
i had this phone for about a year and it was probably the best phone i ever had with cingular. i was always dropping it and its even been swimming a few times and still worked fine. and i even bought it used to replace a phone i killed. my point is that if u need a replacement i would suggest this phone!
EXCELLENT.
wonderful phone. earpice is loud and clear, screen is picture perfect, and edge wireless is fast.
The worst phone I have ever owned
The best phone I owned was a qualcomm phone. It lasted 3 years and survived a drop in the lake.
I have used this phone 2 years and hate it. The charger connector is not reliable. I have to watch it to make sure it stays in and carefully set it down before leaving it. Even then, sometimes I wake up to an uncharged phone. Others I know have the same problem.
I have replaced the keypad twice. There is a little bump that presses a small button when the phone closes. This has worn out twice in 2 years. It only lasted 9 months the last time. It also gets dirty easy so that the phone does not turn on when you open it. I miss a lot of calls that way.
It does have a vibrate only mode, but to enter it, you must press a button. When you do, it makes a loud beep. This is annoying when you go into a meeting and realize your phone is on. To turn it off makes more noise than the ringer! This is poor design.
This is not the quality I expect from Motorola. My wife has an LG. It works great! I will probably buy the LG CU400 next.
The only reason I give the phone a positive score is that it does have good reception and decent voice quality. Blue tooth and voice activated dialing works OK.
I think it's a good phone.
This was my very first phone and I had it for 3 years. Then I got the ROKR, which I hated because the iTunes stuck all the time and I couldnt send txt messages without it freezing up. So I went back to this phone for a year & a half. Then I went to a Samsung, the slider phone which got stolen. From there to a Palm Treo 680 I have now, which I am very displeased with. This Motorola was way better than the PDA I have now.
This phone never dropped calls, I got service in the fieldhouse at my school (which is saying alot because nobody ever does!), and it never froze or lagged. It basically got it done and I loved this phone! I chewed the antennae until I stripped the wires, though, and I had to upgrade.
The only con is that it is kind of bulky. But that could be a pro too because no matter how much I dropped it, it never broke!
V551 ear-speaker volume flaw with FIX!
I have had the cell phone for 1.5 years and it has worked well until I slowly lost the volume in the built-in ear speaker and had to use my bluetooth headset.
I found an earpiece fix for the mobile Motorola V551 which I think will work with other Motorola v500 models? I tried the fix and it works well:
www.instructables.com/id/EGLTF1NVUEEP287BYO/?ALLSTEPS
poor battery
the phone is a basic phone. nothing too special about it. The battery life could be better.
Good Phone for average person
I got this phone a year ago when i signed up for cingular, and its been great. ive went through quite a bit of them, 6 in the course of one year. I dont think warranty likes me that much. 4 of the times it was my fault that the phone had broken. 2 of the times though, the phone just completely lost service. the first time i didnt get service anywhere so i called and they sent me a new phone. with that new phone, about 2 months later, the same thing happened. they sent me a new one again, but i do not know what caused the loss in service. that is the only real problem i have had with 2 of these phones.
PROS
-great sound quality
-good speaker
-awesome bluetooth connection
-great, loud, sound for ringtones and stuff
-clear bright picture
-perfect sized keys
-nice camera, with video too
-long battery life
-easy to see outside display with clock, battery and service bar.
-can change ring style without opening the phone and without any noise or beeps at all. (good for when you suddenly remember in the middle of a meeting or a classroom)
CONS
-a little heavier than the average phone
-stub attena
-cannot store more than one number in a phonebook entry, if you want more than one number for a person, example a home and cell number, it must be 2 different entries
-cannot change the banner on the main screen, it always says cingular. (not a big deal, but i would like to change it. it says cingular enough on the phone)
overall this phone is pretty good for the average person, and i would recomend it for anyone considering it.
It works fine...kind of
Phone: V555-LOCKED
Company: Cellular one
My thoughts in a nutshell: It's about 50/50
Pros:
Ringer Volume
Speaker phone/Volume
mp3 Ringtones
Camera w/4x zoom
Sound quality was good
Cons:
Ringtones & Pictures only saved to phone and not sim card
The ringer wouldn't always work
Faceplate screen doesn't show time
Ok I have to explain my last two cons: I found out that if I leave my phone on all the time, then my ringer wouldn't work. I'd miss calls, and could only get it to work on vibrate. Then after x-amount of hours/days it would work again.
The 2nd week I had this phone, the faceplate screen went, well "plaid". (It shows moving horizontal & vertical lines, which looks plaid) Sometimes it'll flash the time, or show the time for about 30 seconds after I close it. Though it did show me who called, text messages alarms, other types of alarms, and other features with no problems.
SOMETIMES I have some spots of no reception but they are very small--for example I'd move 2 feet and I'm back in. ***Works in most places without any problems.***
Like I said before, I'm about 50/50 with it.
