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"Different Cool Look & Performs Basic Features" on by ettoth
Pros: Great alternative from the everybody has RAZR
Cons: A little tough to get together, and be aware of what you are getting
Summary: The SLVR L7c performs well as a phone, and has a few other bells and whistles that bring you closer to some new technology.
Again, the SLVR L7c is a great alternative from the RAZR, which 80% of the world has. In fact, this phone is basically the RAZR in a different phone.
When shopping, my gotta have features were just work as a phone and have blue tooth. I could care less about MP3's and camera's, but with this phone I am trying to care more. (It will be cool to use the phone as an MP3 player. It holds 512 MBs, which is still a ton of songs.)
To get the MP3 player fully functional you'll have to purchase the microSD card separately. (I got mine for 5.99 at newegg.com along with a blue ant blue tooth headset. The Motorola one's looked too big and oh yeah, everyone has those too. I wrote a review for it. It's pretty cool, tiny, and very affordable.)
As for the camera, everyone pretty much has this feature now. It's your typical camera.
I like the fact I can charge my phone almost anywhere b/c of the USB port. Oh, and in addition, it's stylish and different from most the phones out there.
I have US Cellular service, and being in Chicago I've had AT&T/Cingular and Sprint. US Cellular has been ridiculously reliable so it's a no brainer to stick with them.
Lastly, I am not in the class of Internet surfing with my phone or watching video on my phone. If that's what you need, this phone isn't going to get you too far. -
"Slick, but a little buggy." on by mithril283
Pros: Features (mp3 player, Bluetooth, etc.), Sleek design, Ringer/speaker quality
Cons: Bugs, Reception, Video recording quality.
Summary: I am pretty happy with this phone. It has a great design and sleek looks. I was also impressed with the ease of syncing it up with my Mac via Bluetooth and transfering files back and forth (from the phone's built in memory, not the microSD card. More to come in a minute.) I was albe to send clips or even entire songs to the phone to use as ringers, which sound great, by the way. Getting music on to the microSD card, which is necessary to use to built in mp3 player, was frustrating. I was not able to send them over Bluetooth or through a USB connection. What I ended up doing was purchasing a card reader/writer which was a lot cheaper than buying Motorola's program, Phone Tools I believe. Once I had done that, all the files on the card were immediately in the player.
The reception was a little disappointing, although not terrible. I've noticed the reception is not as good my old phone, a Sanyo candybar type, but, as I said, it is not terrible.
I've noticed a few bugs in the system, mostly with volumes, ie. ringers, media volume, speaker phone volume, etc. Again, these are not terrible bugs that render the phone inoperable, but they are still there.
Overall, I would call this a flahsy, fun phone with a few small drawbacks. Great for looks and features and an overall good phone. -
"It's a motorola...It's what you expect" on by lawdawg
Pros: Slim, nice screen
Cons: Only available at Best Buy...Sprint doesn't know anything about this phone
Summary: Overall it's wat i expected from Motorola and their Razr gen phones. I decided on this one because i trust the motorola name, and i didn't want the RAZR. Too many people have it in my opinion. I like the Idea that it fits in the pocket so easily. I cant say much about the features, i just got it and still learing it myself. Tech support may be an issue since sprint doesn't know much about this phone. They didn't know it was available for purchase when i called them. It's a promo phone that is available only at Best Buy.
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After a few more days of owning this phone, the voice quality is great, speaker phone works very well. On my old samsung i noticed that i would always ask the person i was speaking to to repeat what they said. that doesn't happen with this phone. and while on speakphone i hear well and the person on the other side hears me well. If you are looking for an alternative to the flip phone craze, this is a great phone. Only drawbacks are that the video is less then expected, but i am not trying to watch tv on my phone, and the battery life is bad. I had to charge it once a day, but i must admit that i've been playing with the phone more then normally to get famillar with it. -
"Nice phone but read review to help with data transfer" on by Aquaholic1226
Pros: Good voice recognition, easy navigation
Cons: Display goes dark to conserve battery, No headphone jack
Summary: I read several reviews in here before I went and purchased this phone and decided it may not be the best phone, but I liked its size. I am not a fan of flip phones, so that limits my choices to just a few of the better candy bar phones.
I purchased my phone at Best Buy, took only about 15 minutes and I had a new phone in hand and was on the network to boot. I got home, started playing with the phone about trying to learn some of the new features that my older Sanyo did not have. Compared to that phone (SCP-4900), the L7c is quite a large upgrade as far as features and screen size. The Sanyo has done very well by me and has taken quite a beating and just kept working. If you ignored that fact that I had tae holding on the battery, the phone itself was juts fine. Even after submersing it in water, it still worked perfectly after I dried it out. So why a new phone, it was time to sign a new contract and I got $150 off this new one, so I figured I would treat myself to a new phone for $39.00.
After playing with the L7c for a while, I ran into some navigation and features I was not familiar with, so I broke out the 214 page manual and started reading. I have no problems with the operation of this phone. I have only had it for 48 hours now but I have had quite a lot of experience with it in those 48 hours. The problems all began when I purchased the Motorola Phone Tools so that I could easily transfer images, sounds, music, calendar, and of course contact information easily and efficiently. So let me just warn you know, if you are going to use this software, and I do recommend it, be sure to follow the instructions and do not jump ahead. If any problems occur during transfer, you phone will begin to act strangely. Mine would cycle between a bright LCD, go dim (it is suppose to conserve battery), then go dark. (again, it is suppose to conserve battery life). Then about two seconds later, with no interaction from me, the phone LCD would come on full bright, then a few seconds later the keypad would come on, then go dim, then the keypad would go off, then to dark. This cycle would continue indefinitely. There are times in this cycle that the phone even becomes inoperable, as if it is going through a warm boot. The keystrokes that you press get buffered, so when the phone does respond, it jumps ahead to some menu or function you had no intention of using. You could imagine my frustration. Allow me to cut to the chase here. I exchanged the phone for another, although I did not think there was anything wrong with the phone, I thought for sure it was the software somehow. I made sure the NEW phone worked perfectly before trying to download anything to it using the “Motorola Phone Tools” and the phone performed flawlessly. I was in the middle of downloading (contact information) to the phone when I received a call. This caused the transfer to not complete and caused an error. I looked in my contact list and they were all there. But now the phone had a different problem, I could not edit any contacts. The phone would freeze, go dark, and when it came back, I would be back at the main screen. So after many tech support calls to Sprint, Motorola, and the software manufacturer, this is what I HIGHLY recommend you do if you are going to use this software.
Download there newest drivers at http://www.bvrp.com/tools/asp/access_email.asp?access_email=/tools/asp/update_patch/download_patch.asp It updates drivers automatically, use this after you install and run software updates for the “Motorola Phone Tools” software.
I don’t think this is critical, but a good idea, you may also want to update the software on the phone. I had to go through two cycles up updates on the phone to get current. On the phone go to Settings > Phone Info > Version. As of this writing (4/5/07) the version should be 24.2_00.43.00R. The .43 is the most important part. If this is not your version then select “OK” and select “Update Phone Software”. Follow the prompts and update. This takes a while and the phone will reboot on it’s own before the actual download begins. You may have to do this a few times to get to the most current version. I had to do it twice.
So now that you have updated “Motorola Phone Tools” and ran the drivertool.exe to fix the drivers that windows wants to install, and optionally updated the phones software, you are ready to run to “Motorola Phone Tools”. The L7c can communicate with your computer three different ways, through a USB cable, Bluetooth, and Infrared. I used a USB cable. DO NOT HOOK UP THE PHONE. Start the software, Say “OK” to the Default profile, decide what type of connection you are going to use and hit next. The software will then instruct you to make the connection. This is the only time you will have to go through this. From here on out after you successfully connect to your phone, you can connect you phone first, then start the software and it will see it and initialize.
If you transfer all the data you want without interruption or errors then you should be good to go. If however you do experience a problem and then you notice your phone starts acting up, then you need to RESET your phone. To do this go to Settings > Security > Enter you lock code (either 0000 or the last four digits of your phone number) Now scroll down to “Reset Phone”. Once complete, power off the phone and turn it back on. The phone will go back to factory defaults but your info should all still be there and the phone should no work fine. Do this any time you run into trouble transferring data to your phone and it causes problems. If this does not work, you will need to call Sprint, and they can direct you on how to do a complete wipe of the phone, as if you just took it out of the box. You will then of course have to start COMPLETELY all over.
I hope to spare you all the trouble I went through with this experience, so far I really like the phone.
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"Phone is just average, craftsmanship lacking" on by bpbartek
Pros: Looks like one sweet looking phone
Cons: Back cover is loose, the corners at the top back cover are not secured to the phone, makes it sqeaky
Summary: I really liked this phone to start, but after 4 days, I returned it and went with the KRZR instead. The SLVR is a fairly stout phone with the exception of that darn back cover, not very impressed by that aspect. Features of the phone are average at best, could have thrown in some newer features. Quite slow UI as well. Overall, not a terrible phone, but after getting the KRZR, I'm glad I gave this one up.
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