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3.5 stars
"Very Nice Looking, Solidy Built, But Some Quirks..."
Pros: Beautiful looking phone, and nice solid feel in your hand. Touch screen is cool, and the ability to watch Sprint TV without opening flip is nice.
Cons: Battery life is about the same as the Moto Q, you'll need the chargers with regular talk use. You can only use a bluetooth headset here, no cutting corners with the wired ones. OS has a few quirks.
Summary: Well I have had this phone for 2 days now, and I'm liking it alot. But as with all Motorola phones that I've ever owned (except for the v551) there are some issues with it. In case anyone is wondering what is packaged with this phone, practically nothing. You get the manual, charger, and a 256m mini SD card with adapter. Really barebones, oh and uh with typical Moto styling, they've decided they also want you to buy new data cables and new extra chargers for this phone and its siblings as well cause it's ovaled shaped. So your old RAZR chargers won't work here. 2.0mp camera, but no flash (that will prbably out on the V9m3). It still takes very nice pictures, but a flash has almost became standard issue on phones so I don't know why they didn't include it. Even though Sprint and Verizon get the slower 225mhz proc for the V9m (500mhz for the V8 and regular V9) the Linux and java OS allows the handset to run quite smoothly most of the time. I have seen issues with the screen switching between the front and main. It doesn't lock up the phone or nothing, and you normally just re-open and close the flip to correct it. Large apps take a little bit to load. I have Sprint and Sprint TV comes in nice when it get's full to mid reception. Oh and because it's the internal type antenna, it doesn't get as good reception as say my SCP-8400 did in my doctors office. I got no reception while I was in there. There's no support for wired headsets, which really blows cause I don't feel like paying between $99-$129 bucks for S9's and I may not even like how the damn things sound. Lastly, the battery sux, just like my old Moto Q 1 day lifespan with normal use. So I'm hoping they'll release an extended battery for this phone. Even less for me, cause I wake up a 11am and I work all night till 5am. So by about 9pm I got to recharge to make it through the night at my work, and charge it while I'm working out to make through to 9pm. Oh and another quirk which really pisses me off when I'm at work and using the Sprint TV and I don't want to keep recharging the phone every 2.5 hours is the phone goes into car mode. So it's looking for a hands-free speaker. Meaning your speaker on the phone itself won't work for any type of audio sound. Overall it's not a bad phone, it could some patch upgrades to fix the problems OS and work on getting an extended battery out and it should be good. I hope this helps with anyones decision. Thanks.
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I'm getting less than an hour of talk time. I assumed that the phone was defective so I exchanged it for another one. It was no different than the first. I'm not even using bluetooth. At this point I'm going to have to return it.
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