Motorola Razr V3 (magenta, T-Mobile)

Pros: Color, Size, Weight

Cons: too many to list here

Summary: I HATE THIS PHONE! I've had this phone for almost two years and everything was fine for a while, now the problems are just snowballing out of control (my Mom has this phone too and is having many problems as well).

General phone problems:
It's nearly impossible to see the screen when you're outside (and if you're in sunglasses it's impossible), and the screens scratch and get very dirty very easily. The inbox (for text messages) can only hold 30 messages before it can't accept anymore, it's a hassle to have to go through and delete them all the time.

My Mom's problems:
My Mom has had this phone for about a year, and she's on her second one. Her first one had a battery that wouldn't charge, it'd say it was charging then die after a few minutes so she sent it in and got a new one. Now her second one is also having a lot of problems. The battery on her current phone runs out very quickly, and it charges very slowly. The biggest problem she's had though is that her phone turns itself off. If she puts her phone in her pocket (or in the pocket of her purse) it'll turn itself off without any warning.

My problems:
The small round button on the center of the keypad is coming off (which is making the keypad sticky) and two of the pads on the top of the screen (to prevent it from closing too hard on itself) have come off as well. My phone has changed it's own language to portugese (I didn't even know you could change your text message language prior to having that happen). My phone doesn't always ring when I get phone calls/text messages/voicemails and there are many times it'll ring telling me I have a voicemail but it wont have ever rang for the phone call (basically it decides who I'm allowed to talk to). Yesterday my phone just began lighting up all by itself (and I wasn't getting any calls/messages to cause it). Lately I've also been having major problems with the volume at which I hear people, the people I'll be on the phone with will range in volume from average to very quiet and often times there will also be a small buzzing noise in the background as well.

I dont know what the deal is with this phone, but lately I've been talking about phones with my friends and people in my classes (because I'm looking to get a new phone) and it seems like everyone I've talked to that had this phone has had a long list of problems they had with it as well.

I hope this helps someone else avoid the hassles that I've been dealing with