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74 out of 120 people found this review helpful
2.5 stars
"Many good and 1 bad feature, Motorola please read"
Pros: Great features, wonderful design, strong battery
Cons: Useless ear speaker, only ok receiption in a car
Summary: This phone could have been perfect but as is, is almost worthless. Read the following ecpecialy if you want one for business. If you are just a kid looking for phone, I am sure you will like this one.
I bought this new phone becuase the last Motorola Phone I had was dying and this one is supposed to be better. All the normal features such as the buttons are great in that you can reconfigure what the buttons do making it very fast to use. The battery life seems to be very good and the size is perfect for me. This phone also works in metal buildings were my last one did not, however receiption on the road is about the same as any other phone, at best.
I have two major complaints, the first is only bluetooth works, so no secure plug in headsets. Bad for me(bluetooth is easily spied on). Second is the phones built in ear speaker, while it can be loud only works if the phone is held just perfect to the ear. This makes it useless in the car, I absolutly can not use it without bluetooth. I suspect by design.
I use phones only for business and talkig so all the corny features like Mp3, camera, text and so on are crap! I need a phone that works in metal buildings, the verg of cell tower areas, in the car etc. Also, if you think I am going to type messages with those keys you need to change what you are smoking. Spend the enginering talent on fixing the ear speaker and give me better receiption and it will be perfect!
- 28 replies to this review
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ok im not all that "tech savvy" but, my brother is by trade, and according to him bluetooth to someone who would want to spy on it, is very easily spied on...not when your in your car though...unless someone is following you 1 foot behind you. then you have bigger issues. and to whoever it was that said "Using your hand-held phone while driving is illegal" only in a few states, im in michigan and you can chat your happy bum away on the road here. so plz go outside of your tiny world before you preach to the world. but i must agree with most of the people here, review a phone before you buy it. that is why i am here. and one should assume that is why you know about this site? so you only look for a review site to complain about your stupidity? next time try to use a review site to.o..i dunno review the product you are looking at before you buy it. i have a razr and its a great phone, i txt and call with it alot, and it seems to work well all around for me. not the greatest but not bad.
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Blutooth is NOT "easily spied on".
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Well, FINALLY someone made a phone that is useless in the car?!?!
Not a useless feature... a LIFE SAVER more like
THANK YOU MOTOROLA!
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The only thing you use a phone for is talking ... hmmm, same here. I've never played baseball with it or tried to catch fish. Did you not read about it's features before you bought it ? So it has a camera and mp3 player, so what - nobody is forcing you to use them. And as for yapping in the car on it, like all the other lemmings out there, GET A CAR KIT. As for bluetooth, nobody is going to intercept anything from you while your blasting down the interstate - it's only got about a ~20 foot effective range. Reading is fundamental to learning.
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"If you really want to impress me with a new feature, replace the Motorola emblem above the main screen with a second camera, even 640x480 would be fine, and let us video conference with each other. Let the smaller screen act as a view finder so we can spin the phone around and show others our surroundings in real time. Now THAT would be cool!"
You CAN use the smaller screen (aka exterior screen) as a view finder!!! While you are using the camera, simply flip the phone closed and take a look at that smaller screen (exterior screen) Hey look, it's you! -
i understand that bluetooth can be spied on, but there are mini usb earpieces out there just for this. There are even dapters to make it fit a mini usb. resaerch man. research.
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For the battery, Motorola claims up to 3.3 hrs of digital talk time, up to 215 hrs of digital standby time. That may be true IF you forgo using bluetooth. In my own tests with bluetooth on, never opening the phone, never making a call, I get only 16 hours digital standby time! This gross misrepresentation of battery life is absolutely unforgivable.
Another irritant are the flimsy buttons at the edge of the screen. They are raised far too high and depress far too easily. I am constantly finding my phone in a ring mode that I did not leave it in. These buttons should be recessed and have a must stronger tactile feel.
I agree with other comments made here about frivolous features. If you want to add them at no cost, fine, but start first with a phone that works properly and is a pleasure to use.
On the plus side, I find Verizon's network to be vastly superior to Sprint or Cingular. Phone reception is excellent even when it shows zero bars. If it doesn't indicate "No service", it has service. Period. Speaker phone is full duplex and works much better than others I've tried. While Bluetooth is a power hog, at least it does work well. Other minor irritants I'm sure will be corrected very soon in flash upgrades one can get for free at their local Verizon service center.
Other rants: If your mobile device does not have a qwerty keyboard, forget text messaging as a regular activity. Your keyboard is not designed for it and no software driven mechanism is going to make it all that much better! Razr included.
If you really want to impress me with a new feature, replace the Motorola emblem above the main screen with a second camera, even 640x480 would be fine, and let us video conference with each other. Let the smaller screen act as a view finder so we can spin the phone around and show others our surroundings in real time. Now THAT would be cool!
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First of all, Motorola product developers/designers do not read through these website reviews.
I want to make it clear though when you want yourself to be taken seriously as a reviewer on a highly-known acknowledged website, you HAVE TO spell correctly.
I may not be able to write the most persuasive, cogent reviews but I do know that no one will take you seriously when you can't complete two paragraphs without making 15 spelling errors.
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Why in the hell would you buy a flat phone to hold up to you're ear while driving in the car? Get a head-set and a blackberry.
The Motorola RAZR is a profiling phone! Duh! I mean, it comes in Pink! This phone is for being seen, and being used on the bus, walking on the street in the CITY. Not for driving through cow-country, nowhere, USA. Don't blame the phone for your buying decision.
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This reviewer sounds like he either had an agenda when typing up this review to downplay this great phone, or that he got a pre-production model from someone or eBay and didn't get the official release one.
This phone, while it has its flaws, is one of the BEST Motorola / Verizon offerings to date.
1. You can buy / use a hardwired headset designed for Razrs... look online. Worth the money, although the chord is a bit short. One caveat - you have to buy one designed for the Razr and not a generic plug one
2. Reception is perfect even without an external antenna. I get near-full-strength reception most of the time no matter where I travel
3. This phone is plenty loud (especially for a cell phone). If you position the earpiece correctly at your ear, it's perfect clear/loud sound. Yea, it takes a bit getting used to -- make sure that the end of the top part of the flip is in the middle of your ear. Position the phone too high or low on your ear, and the volume is lowered. -
This guy is out to lunch here. Bluetooth is not that easy to spy on, you have to be with in about 10 feet of the phone or headset to be able to spy on it.
Second as for getting better reception on the road maybe you should look at a car phone. Or even better you could try one of the following. Take the tinting off your windows and that can cut your reception in half or more. Or a better suggestion would be to not use your phone while in the car. You are a hazzard on the road when you are on a phone, with a headset or not.
This phone is great, but I think that your provider is the problem. Oh and one last note. The amount of power a phone can put out is regulated by the goverment so it is not that Motorola is the problem it is going to be a law issue. -
If you want a phone entirely for business, you might look somewhere else, or is that the arrogance is manifesting? this phone have just what people seek for a cool phone, not a work phone.
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For some reason, cell manuf/designers forget the business/working user of phones and design only for kids/uppies that work in offices. We do not need cameras, fancy keyboards etc. We need a phone that will connect, stay connected, and give clear communications, in difficult enviroments.
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The Razr V3 isn't sold with a plug-on headset, but they most certainly ARE available. You'll find them right along side the bluetooth options.I sense your company could use an information specialist. Resume available upon request <gumsnap>
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If you are experiencing the same "reception" issues then it may be your wireless provider. All phones are actually set to specifications i.e., the razor is made for both cingular and verizon. Who is your carrier? that's important.
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Verizon didnt release the razr untill the first week of Dec, so why dont you tell us how you got this phone in NOv. I think you wish you had this phone!! Dont trash a phone before it's released and dont trash a phone if you havnt used it. Write an educated review not an ignorant rant.
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First of all he calls people who might be interested in this phone a kid when he is not even posting a review for the right phone. Who is the idiot now!!!! Must not be much of a business man or not that bright to say the least!!! His review is useless and should be removed!!!!
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Rhineland,
It seems your intentions to make a well defended argument are there, however your grammar and spelling are not. I suppose I'd be more prone to taking your point more seriously if you, as the business man you claim to be, had proper grammatical usage. Your mix of past and present tenses and mis-spelled words like "especially" make your review suspect. Sorry chief, I'm not trying to insult you, just something for you to keep in mind for next time.
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The Motorola Razr is intended towards the fashion concious crowd. Not the buisness people. So if you don't want a camera or an mp3 player then GET A DIFFERENT PHONE. Also, the wired headsets do work. You just have to look around to find one.
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You said it yourself, you work in a metal building, unless the carrier put a microcell inside your buidling, any cell phone will not work well. Metal building serve likes a faraday cage which is the thing RF engineer use to isolate RF signals that's what large metal does, it's low resistence to electrical current means it's a horrible medium to pass wiress less signal becasue current will be guide along the metal itself instead of the air. It's law of nature, tough luck buddy. But you can always hope for a miracle.
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I really don't think that you were forced to purchase this phone, research does wonders, the phone is great for certain people and not-so-great for others. I believe thats called variety, and since this is a diverse world, its very called-for. Chose a phone that suits your needs, obvously thats something you didnt do.
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first of vzw did not release this phone anywhere in november.. stores didnt recieve shipments until dec.. and bluetooth is not secure?...
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first of vzw did not release this phone anywhere in november.. stores didnt recieve shipments until dec.. and bluetooth is not secure?...
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-Bluetooth is encrypted.
-Using your hand-held phone while driving is illegal.
-If you only use it for talking, why did you buy a phone with lots of features?
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Bluetooth is encrypted.
Using your hand-held phone while driving is illegal.
If you only use it for talking, why did you buy a phone with lots of features?
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You can buy a headset that plugs into the Razr USB connector. I have not tested this on the Verizon V3 but the other model all have had this option. You can find them all over the web.
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To the other comment, he may have the alltel version, but that would still be a couple days early. Maybe you meant to post about the GSM razr? Anyways, you can get a headset for mini usb. Here's one: http://motorola.digitalriver.com/servlet/ControllerServlet?Action=DisplayPage&Locale=en_US&id=ProductDetailsPage&SiteID=motostor&productID=36065000&Env=BASE Copy and paste that into your address bar. Also, can bluetooth really be spied on easily? Do you know of any actual cases in which this has happened?
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Is this for the Verizon Razr?? If this is so how did you get this phone so early?
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