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Motorola Hollywood for Amp'd Mobile
Reviewed by
Nicole Lee
on 04/18/2006
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The good: The Motorola Hollywood has a great internal display, a 1.3-megapixel camera, a speakerphone, a TransFlash card slot, Bluetooth, an MP3 player, and 3G EV-DO support. The Amp'd Mobile interface and its multimedia content are snazzy and easy to navigate.

The bad: The Motorola Hollywood suffers from a slippery keypad, as well as touch-and-go EV-DO reception.

The bottom line: The Motorola Hollywood is Amp'd Mobile's makeover of the Motorola E815. It has the same basic design and feature set as the E815, but the black exterior and Amp'd Mobile's fancy interface and multimedia content are improvements.

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  • Reviewed by:
    Nicole Lee
  • Edited by:
    Kent German
  • Reviewed on: 04/18/2006
  • Updated on: 05/10/2006
With a name like Motorola Hollywood, a cell phone should have a lot of glitz and glam, yet Amp'd Mobile's newest handset is simply a rebranded version of the Motorola E815. Closely resembling its predecessor in many ways, the Hollywood isn't the most stylish cell phone on the market, but its features are certainly emblematic of Hollywood entertainment. Inside, you'll find a speedy EV-DO connection, a 1.3-megapixel camera, an MP3 player, and thanks to Amp'd Mobile, an all-3G MVNO riding Verizon's network. The Hollywood sets itself apart via a custom user interface with animated icons and snazzy entertainment features that include live shows and exclusive Amp'd content. With its smooth black exterior, it's also a better-looking phone than the gray E815. The Motorola Hollywood is $149, but you can get it for $99 after a $50 mail-in rebate.

Like Verizon's E815, the Motorola Hollywood has a vibrant internal display, a colorful external screen, a speakerphone, a TransFlash card slot, and Bluetooth, along with, as mentioned, a 1.3-megapixel camera, an MP3 player, and 3G EV-DO support. Unfortunately, it also suffers from the same slippery keypad and touch-and-go EV-DO reception. (Read our review of the Motorola E815 for a full assessment of the phone's design and basic functionality.) As for the custom Amp'd interface, we find it to be very user-friendly, and we like the general look and design of the menu and the icons. There's also the Amp'd Live channel, which functions as the phone's media browser and player. You can purchase video clips from a variety of providers, ranging from NBC News to Comedy Central, as well as music files for about 99 cents each. You can read more about Amp'd Live's features in our review of Amp'd Mobile's other phone, the Kyocera Jet.

We tested the Motorola Hollywood (CDMA 800/1900; EV-DO) in San Francisco. Calls sounded loud and clear, and callers couldn't always tell we were on a cell phone. The EV-DO connection delivered speedy downloads and video streaming. Like the Kyocera Jet, however, the phone tended to freeze up, prompting a soft reset every once in a while. This happened most frequently when attempting to access Amp'd Live.

The Motorola Hollywood has a rated talk time of 4 hours, while it had 4 hours, 35 minutes of talk time in our tests. Rated standby time is 12 days, but we managed only 8 days. According to the FCC, the Motorola Hollywood has a digital SAR rating of 1.24 watts per kilogram.

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  • alaTest.com

    Editors' rating: 76

    Summary: alaTest has collected and analyzed 28 reviews of Motorola E816 Hollywood Edition from international magazines and websites. Experts rate this product 77/100 and users 49/100. Comparing these reviews to 485486 other Cell Phones reviews gives this product an overall alaScore™ 76/100 = Good.

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  • pcmag.com

    Editors' rating: 80

    Summary: A terrific, good-looking phone on Verizon's physical network, with a fun user interface and good monthly rates, but Amp'd still doesn't live up to its lofty promises of "edgy" content.

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