Motorola V220
Average Ratings
Good Phone, Great Price
The overall design of the V220 is great. The buttons are nice and easy to read and push. The size and weight are good and it is easy to flip open. It has a button on the side for the camera and volume as well as voice dialing.
The features on the phone are great. It is a camera phone and has the option of playing real music ringtones. You can download Java games to play right on the phone. Picture messaging and text messaging are very easy and convenient.
The battery life is alright. If you plan on talking on the phone for long hours straight be sure to have your charger handy and ready to be plugged in. It still has a long life though so you can text message and play games for a while without having to worry at all.
The call quality is very well done. The volume is great and you can hear the other person very clearly. It has a speaker phone as well. The speed dialing makes it easy to call a friend. So does the voice dialing.
This is my favorite phone. It was inexpensive and was worth every penny and more. I just absolutely love everything about this phone and everything it provides. If you don't want to spend alot of money on a phone with alot of bells and whistles, but still want a good phone this phone is for you.
Great Phone
I merged from AT&T to Cingular in January of 2005. My family and I all got the free Motorola v220 cell phone. To our suprise this phone is one of the best cell phone that we have ever owned (and we have owned alot). The best part of the phone to me is the camera. The camera takes crisp picture (unless you use the 4x digital zoom - it slightly distorts the photo). The camera has 6 shooting modes - automatic, sunny, cloudy, indoor (home), indoor (office), and night. The night mode takes great picture if enough light is available. In addition, the camera shoots in color, black & white, blueish, antique, reddish, and greenish. You are able to adjust the exposure to o, +1, +2, -2, -1. You can change the Resolution to MMS(160x120), Medium(320x240), and High(640x480). There are also several shutter tones. The clarity of calls is amazing. Every now and then it sound like I am talking through a can and string but what phone dosen't. I rarley have dropped calls too. The mobile web (WAP 2.0) is fairly fast. Easy to use menus allow even the most electronically challenged people navigate without problems. The phonebook holds a large number of enteries plus 250 on the sim card. Right now I have 325 contacts on my phone plus the full 250 on the sim card and still have 150 empty slots. The phone is fully customizeable. From color schemes and wallpapers, to screensavers and themes. I send hundreads upon hundreads of text and multimedia messgaes a month. Because of the design of the phone, I am never tired from typing so much. Easy to use for sending MMS messages too. One click and the message is one its way. You can also send voice recordings in MMS messages too. The phone is loaded full of applications such as calendar, mobile e-mail, games, instant messenger, calculator, alarm clock, chat, and more. I would highly suggest this phone to anyone who is looking for a phone that is sturdy and dependable.
PIECE OF JUNK
In my opinion I would not purchase any Motorola product since I believe their products are sub-par and their customer service even worse.
I purchased the v220 and the display went out in 6 months. I took it for repair and they replaced it with another (refurb) unit. The refurb battery life lasts only about 2 days on standby.
I owned the v300 and now the v550 as well and those are a horror story in itself (I had to send them back for repair...FOUR TIMES within a 6 month period!!!).
Every time they send a refurb unit to replace. I asked customer service why and she said it was company policy that every phone that requires replacement is only replaced by a refurb (which from my experience may or may not work).
IF I WERE YOU I WOULD STAY FAR AWAY FROM MOTOROLA!!!
IT WAS FREE
It was free...I got it when I had to switch from ATT to Cingular. My biggest disappointment isn't with the phone so much as the upgrade policy with Cingular.
Pros
Small, lightweight
Easy to use
Cons
Dropped calls
Useless camera
I'll be giving this to my daughter as her first phone. It will be fine for that purpose. I'll take the new phone that comes with adding her line. We have 1 yr left with this phone before an upgrade can be made. It's not worth putting the insurance on it either. Hopefully it will last for the year.
its not that bad!!
come on guys your being alittle tough on this moto its not that bad its an easy sleek lookin flip phone cheap camera but u get what you pay for my boyfriend has had this phone for months and i wish everyday i would of gat this phone instead of my then v171 its a good little camera phone lighten up abit
Don't believe the negative hype
My fiance and I got these phones for free when we signed up with Cingular last year. Since then we have never been happier with a cell phone!
It's an adorable, compact phone with loads of accessories you can purchase on Ebay or a number of other cell accessory websites. I've never had any technical problems with the phone itself and if you don't like the selection of ringtones, shell out a couple of bucks and download one - there are thousands of options.
I'm assuming people who get bad reception with the V220 live in the boonies since we have always gotten flawless reception all the way from Vegas to Boston and everywhere in between. It even works great in the car and comes with a headset attachment so you don't endanger yourself (and others) holding the phone on the road.
I've also read complaints about the camera and, again, have little to complain about myself. Try emailing your pics to your own email address and the clarity improves even more! I'm actually surprised such a little phone takes such great pics.
I went back to Cingular earlier this year and paid full price for an LG phone, to compare. I ended up returning the LG within a month and getting my money back. Nothing can tear me away from my cute little Motorola V220.
Don't believe the hype and try it out for yourself. It's no Razr but packs a great punch for a small package.
Junk
The subject line says it all. I got the phone for free with a 2-year Cingular contract and it's worth every penny I paid for it. Nada. Zero. Junk.
Pros:
None
Cons:
a. resolution
b. screen disappears in daylight
c. highest volume isn't high enough to hear and my hearing is excellent
d. camera is useless--one tiny blur
e. tiny little screen
f. badly constructed--feels cheap
g. speaker positioned so that if you lay the phone down to use the speaker function, it's so muffled you can't hear it - and when it's in my purse, I can't hear it ringing
h. loudest ring isn't loud enough
i. lousy choice of rings
j. lousy reception
And you know what? Cingular doesn't care. In fact, the folks at the Cingular store in my area border on rude at all times. My husband has a Nokia, same Cingular service, but has zero problems with reception, volume, etc.
Don't buy it. Even for free.
motorola v220
This phone is a zero!!!!!! Just as some of your others, I was an ATT customer who got sucked into switching from an ATT account and was told that my extremely reliable NOKIA phone that was 6 years old would not work in the new network. Shame on me for not doing my homework! I selected this phone as the "getya" signon device and am now waiting for my third replacement. Call volume is terrible, screen is very dismal--who cares about the camera. All in all, a very-very bad choice!!! The reviews and information provided is great on this site. I wish I would have know about it before. This phone is so bad.. cingular does not offer it anymore.. no wonder the customer service rep would not answer the question, when i asked if this phone had a problem!!
Motorola V220: Truly useless
My interest in having a phone is to use it like a phone. Games and cameras are gimmicks to me - I have no interest in that. Unfortunately this phone fails miserably as a phone. I'm on my 2nd one after the first was replaced by Cingular (coverage area Mpls, MN). Both of them drop nearly half of all calls no matter where I am. While I like the design and feel of the phone, these features aren't really relevant when one can't reliably make calls. STAY AWAY FROM THIS ONE!!!
V220 works poorly in NW Oregon w/ Cingular
I've been using a V220 on Cingular for six months. While I like the features of the phone and its light weight and size, it works only marginally in NW Oregon. When I travel to So Calif it seems fine.
While in NW Oregon, problems include calls terminating prematurely, inability to hear the other person, the other person's inability to hear me, inability to complete the connection, and periodic inability to hear other party, leading to frequent "can you repeat that" requests.
Few than 1/3 of my calls are trouble free in NW Oregon.
Many friends who have Cingular say it works fine with other phones.
BTW, Cingular's customer service department has been disappointing. They say I have four choices. Buy another phone at full retail. Extend my contract with them, and get a different phone as part of the package. Drop their contract and pay a $150 penalty per line. Wait until the contract expires. None of these are satisfactory. I will go with the fourth, and steer all parties away from Cingular because they are not committed to satisfying their customers.
