Motorola RAZR V3
Phone Scoop Review
Jul 11, 2005 by Eric Lin
In-depth review of Motorola's iconic RAZR V3 high-end clamshell GSM phone for Cingular and T-Mobile. read review ›
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I have had this phone for 3 weeks. Here are my observations and opinions.
Positives:
Form Factor: It is sturdy, slim, light, and fits well in my hand and pocket.
Appearance: As others have noted, this phone is sexy. If you want to get attention, this phone will do the trick.
Reception: I have found that this phone out-performes any number of phones in terms of signal strength. My home is in an area where 1-2 bars was the norm, and dropped calls were frequent, but this phone has better reception and drops fewer calls.
Camera: OK, it is not great - but it is not useless either. If you really want a good pictures why rely on your cell phone?
Negatives:
Phone Book: The phone book is circa 1996, really lame. Yes, you can enter multiple numbers per person and an email address, but in 2005 it is not unreasonable for a phone to be able to store other things like address, websites, and other information that a business-person or really anyone might want to associate with a contact.
Motorolaâs Mobile Phone Tools (3) Software: Possibly one of the worst pieces of software I have ever used. Syncing Outlook Contacts and Calendar is a joke, half of the contacts do not get imported correctly, and MPT has screwed up my PC Outlook contacts as well.
Earpiece Volume: At the highest settings the volume is too low when you are in noisy room or in a crowd. In normal conditions it works fine, but with background noise this phone underperforms. On the other hand the speakerphone feature work fairly well, but is not always an option.
Summary: For the money I feel Motorola missed the mark. They have a great looking phone with a wonderful form factor. But that alone is not worth the price. If they had a little more robust phone book and the Mobile Phone Tools software was even usable they could have made a statement with the RAZR. Instead they have created a phone that is all form and misses the mark on function.
AWESOME!
This phone is top notch! This is the absolute best motorola phone ever made! It is the #1 phone on the U.S. market! Congrats Moto!
PROS:
Sleek Sexy design
Awesome keypad
Made of metal
Thin
Ringtones sound awesome and are very loud!
Two speakers
Dual VERY NICE color screens
LARGE beautiful internal screen
Great Reception - *cingular IL.*
Really decent camera big improvement over v551
Video
Blue backlight, not orange like my z500a
Price (68.97 at my local walmart)
Bluetooth
CONS:
Not One!
Not worth the MONEY!!!
It may be me but I've noticed Motorola has a serious quality control issue pertaining their products. I've gone from the V500 to MPX220 to this expensive paper weight. Had the phone for a month before doing two exchanges through warranty.
Pros:
Fits nicely in pocket
duplex speakerphone is nice
beautiful screen
voice dial
that's pretty much it
CONS:
Bluetooth blows...long range... i don't think so. headset constantly disconnects. (HS810)
5MB? for $500 USD seems fair? non expandable memory?
Overall
EXPENSIVE PHONE not too many features.
Had more fun with my NOKIA 6230
Well trial and error I guess. Good luck all
Just OK
I got to go with "Just OK" on the Motorola Razr v3 for Cingular.
PROS:
-Slim Design
-Huge Screen
-Great Camera
-Easy To Use Moto Phone
-Loud Ringtones
-Speakerphone
-Bluetooth
(The list goes on and on .. )
CONS:
-Not Durable
-Everyone Has One
-Outside Screen Too Small
-Too Wide
Piece of JUNK
PRO's of a RAZR phone:
-nice to look at
-good reception
CON's:
-the key pad backlight QUIT working 2 days after i bought it. (the phone has never been dropped or in water)
-needs more memory
- the pixels on the camera are lacking, and the pictures aren't very nice, and usually it craps out and says there was an error.
-no flash on camera.
-the key pad is too flat, and smudges and finger prints show up to easily
-aluminum plate keypad gets caught on my hair.
Great Phone
I was a little disappointed by this phone it just doesn't seem much different from my Moto V600. The pros are the screen is big and vibrant, and I have to admit it looks pretty HOT! Good reception, I'm on the Centennial Wireless network in Indiana haven't had one dropped call in 2 months! it feels good in the palm all though it shows dirt and fingerprint ALOT esp. in dark colors. the cons are that some have a glitch that causes it to reboot its self to the home screen. went through 3 phones tried two of the Cosmic Universe Blue then I tried a different color (Ice Blue) It has worked great. I'm a little disappointed with the memory 5MB stores about 15 30sec MP3 ring-tones and about 50 pics which is not bad but i could use more. all around a great phone pick it up!
Impressive phone
This phone is great
Pros:
*High stand-by time
(I can easily go 5 days without charging my phone; in fact, I go long enough each time to forget when the last time I charged it. I have to take a deep introspective look within myself to discover what I charged it last)
*Camera
*Sleek design
*somewhat durable (I've dropped it a few times)
*great reception
*Blue-tooth (although I rarely use this)
Con's:
*Camera pixels is a little low (640x480 is equivalent to about a .3 mega-pixel camera)
*Storage Space could be greater. It is ok at 5 mb
*Highest volume setting could be a little louder for when background noises are high
I give this a 5 because it's innovative and an industry trend-setter. I mean motorola must have done something right if they've sold 50+ million copies of this phone.
No other phone manufacturer has been able to compete with this power house model
Too cool for me!
I just upgraded to a RazR from a Motorola V70 (oh, how I loved the 2-tone black text on green screen with easy-to-set ring functions and case durability, but unfortunately multiple long-distance drops led my little phone to have sporadic strokes, so it was time to move on).
Pros of the RazR
-I got a black one. When folded, it is beautiful in both design and weight. I loved looking at it. I work on a public university campus, and knew that I could walk around with this thing stuck to my face and all the kids would aspire to be wealthy and gainfully-employed like me (jk).
-Nice keypad. Not hard to dial at all.
-I liked being able to reorder the menu
-Good quality speakerphone
-Pretty screen when fiddling around with the menus. Again, a good-looking phone to fawn over.
CONS
-I did not like using it as a phone. Unfolded, it is huge! It's practically a regression to the early era of cell phones, when they were bigger than any landline phone around. There is no comfortable way to hold it.
-Too many ways to "accidentally" dial up web services and get charged, including the 'dedicated web button.' Grr
-Very few rings, skins, etc without connecting to the web and buying more. Double grr
-Games are only demos! What? You give me this huge screen and I have to pay more money to do anything with it?!
-Fixed IM button. This is a generational gap. I am not IMing my friends/colleagues behind the teacher's back, so why do I need permanent access to this feature? I don't.
Yes, this beautiful specimen went back to Cingular within 12 hours without even getting a full charge. I "downgraded" to a Nokia 6102 (for $108 less) and am much, much, much happier.
Getting older means favoring practical over cool... or maybe you can have both. But IMHO, you can't with the RazR.
all hype.
okay so, the thing is beautiful...
there is no doubt that it is the sexiest phone on the market... but what about all those ads about how it did everything, seems to me it's just another motorola with a shxtty VGA 640 x 480 camera.
the housing is beautiful, but it attracts more fingerprints and dirt than a county fair attracts mullets and I.C.P. fans
pros:
- form factor, this thing is gorgeous.
- solid, feels unbreakable.
cons:
- a bit let down, it was all hype.
- camera is awful, don't count on it at all.
- bluetooth doesn't allow you to send from the phone, only receive.
- ear piece volume terrible, can't talk in a noisy room.
- attracts more dirt than your local wal*mart.
One Word: Brilliant
When the Razr first came out, I was hesitant to get it because although the design was amazing and brilliantly thought out, I thought that it would be difficult to use the keypad (I'm a text message maniac). Boy was I wrong? The Razr is just simply amazing.
Pros:
Great design
Great call quality (I've got it with T-Mobile in New York)
Very good speaker
Large, bright screen
User-friendly keypad
Cons:
Camera is not as great as the V300 but still is one of the best I've seen on a phone
Video recording is very limited. I believe the maximum is 5 seconds. The Black Razr can record for much longer
Although I did list these two cons, anyone not interested in these features and is just interested in one hell of a phone then the Razr is what you're looking for. And for $150 (with mail-in-rebates from the official T-Mobile website) this phone is worth every penny.
