Review: Choosing a cell phone can be a big undertaking, especially if you're looking for the right balance of size, price, and features. You'd like good audio quality and advanced features such as downloadable ring tones and games, but you don't want to lose an arm and a leg in the process. Lacking the flash of a color screen, Motorola's C333 isn't ideal, but it does take a good swipe at hitting the nexus of features and affordability.At 2.82 ounces and 4.2 by 1.8 by 0.9 inches, the silvery Motorola C333 ...
Expand full review Choosing a cell phone can be a big undertaking, especially if you're looking for the right balance of size, price, and features. You'd like good audio quality and advanced features such as downloadable ring tones and games, but you don't want to lose an arm and a leg in the process. Lacking the flash of a color screen, Motorola's C333 isn't ideal, but it does take a good swipe at hitting the nexus of features and affordability.At 2.82 ounces and 4.2 by 1.8 by 0.9 inches, the silvery Motorola C333 is an attractively styled phone that weighs just enough to feel good in your hand, but it's not so heavy that it loads down your pockets. Its 96x64-pixel screen can show five lines of text and has an extra row for icons. Unlike the more recent
C350, the C333 is monochrome and displays only four shades of gray.
![]() polyphonic tones as you can download into this model's 200K of allotted memory. Like the C350, the C333 lets you customize or remix tones using the aforementioned MotoMixer, which allows you to add bass or drums to a tone and mix your own beats. Since this feature is particularly appealing to budding DJs, we enlisted DJ Skip to mix a tune on the company's Web site. You can listen to it here. But that's not all; you can download additional ring tones, wallpaper, and screensavers.
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![]() Average User Rating 1.5 stars out of 26 user reviews Rating Breakdown -
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1 star: 12 My Rating 0 stars click stars to rate product Most recent user reviews Showing 3 of 26 reviews 0.5 stars Pros: The silver color.... Cons: Everything else on this phone. Summary: Batterie life (or should I said on life support). Talk time count in minutes and not in tens of minutes. I charge it as stated in the manual and the batteries last an incredible 6 minutes. I was'nt even talking with it!. Reception Or the lack of it. I ... Expand full review Summary: Batterie life (or should I said on life support). Talk time count in minutes and not in tens of minutes. I charge it as stated in the manual and the batteries last an incredible 6 minutes. I was'nt even talking with it!. Reception Or the lack of it. I was driving on the HIWAY and trying to have a conversation at every 500 meter the communication would cut. I did'nt even the time to tell the person I was trying to talk to that I will call him back at the office, The sound if we can call that sound. Probably the worst phone on planet earth and beyond. Followed very closely by that other crap Sony Ericsson T237. If you want to loose your sanity just buy this phone. A phone build by LADA would be build like a tank compare to those 2 abismal product. May be it could be use by the american army as a way of torturing an enemy (just give him any of these phone and after a few days he will beg to be put on an electric chair) 1.0 stars Pros: Great Ease of Use Cons: Terrible Reception Summary: This phone is easy to use and has a menu that is quite simple to navigate and most features are just a few clicks away. Unfortunately, the reception on this phone is terrible. The phone doesn't ring when someone calls about 25% of the time, while another 10% of ... Expand full review Summary: This phone is easy to use and has a menu that is quite simple to navigate and most features are just a few clicks away. Unfortunately, the reception on this phone is terrible. The phone doesn't ring when someone calls about 25% of the time, while another 10% of the time the phone doesn't ring, but it will say "Missed Call" on the display. When you are able to pick up a call, the reception is very poor. I can almost never talk on the phone indoors and dropped calls are not uncommon. The battery life is pretty disappointing, as well. Even when I don't talk on the phone, it may have a battery life of about 24 hours. Thanks for your submission!
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