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1.5 stars
"great phone... until you use it"
Pros: thin, thin, thin. I'm a sucker for "thin" product design, so obviously I love that about this phone. Also, despite its thinness, it appears to have decent quality and mechanical reliability.
Cons: Where to begin... this thing essentially has the same feature set of my old Motorola V60 clunker phone (which was free). You'd think that for such a nice phone with great product/industrial design, Motorola might have invested in a good user interface..
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LCD just dies for no reason.And when I checked E-bay for "V3 Razr parts", there were too many V3 razr for sale, with other issues! So, the good news is parts is plentiful for this phone.
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the phone looks great, it feels great, it seems so perfect... just until you get to use it. first of all, the motorola v3 has the exact same features as my v300 except the bluetooth which i dont really need. motorola has been making alot of nice looking phones, but they should start adding new features like samsung. i highly sugest you dont get this phone and go with samsung, lg, or sony because they always got something new for you. and that its really really fragile, the main problem of the motorola v3 is the loose or should i say, crapy, lcd cable, usually it has to be replaced, if its not that its the earphone. there are alot of problems to it.
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I have a V3 and I have multiple numbers for a single contact. It was not difficult to do and it allows you to set a primary (default) number for each contact. This phone is not perfect but attacking it for faults which are nothing but your own seem a little unfair.
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so if you are used to it (Motorola), its fine. though i agree that the lack of multiple storing of numbers under one contact is ridiculous. very annoying and a waste of memory slots if you have a lot of contacts with cell/home/office/fax then you will have to use 4 for that person alone.
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I have never read so much bs in my life. I´ve owned Motorolas for years and they´ve always been great and easy to use. Personally I like the UI and dislike the Nokias UI.
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Just FYI, I thought so to until I played with the phone...If you are entering contact info into SIM then no there is no place to enter another number, but if it is stored to phone only then you can.
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What are you talking about? You can store 3 numbers for one contact. Period. And it's very easy and OBVIOUS to do. How do you figure that you can only store 1 number per contact. I think you just do not know how to use the phone.
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This phone works great! After running through several LG's (GARBAGE) and two Kyocera units, this Motorola works great. Great service, buttons actually respond quickly with little effort. They are big enough to not make mistakes. Contrary to the last post you can store as many numbers as you want under each contact. Whoever posted that 3 is technologically impaired by a long shot.
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I loved the Phone for the first month. I notice the OS started to freeze, next thing I know, there are dust particles behind the screen?? Cingular said that it was a known defect, so they sent me another one. Today one month later I realize that my 2nd one has dust particles under the screen?? Very frustrating when you are trying to view outside. Cingular said they will mail out another. I have given up on the phone and went to the V-557 which has not given my wife or friends any problems. The rzr is much too delicate and pretty. I need a phone that can take a licken and keep on ticken&
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I am 68 and don't have a problem understanding or working this phone. BUT, did read "some" of the manual.
I wish it had a little better key elevation, but do like the voice confirmation of typed in numbers. I love the size! -
It is possible to store multiple numbers per contact. A setting in the address book allows you to view all contact numbers or only the primary contact for each entry.
Phonebook -> Menu -> Setup -> View -> "Primary Contacts" -
Read the directions. #'s for single contact: Work/Home/Main/Mobile/Fax/Pager
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motorola should at least upgrade features....my very old samsung phone had some better features. like multiple numbers fon one contact...
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I have had a Motorola, two in fact, and I really liked them. I came on CNet to find reviews for this phone and was completely torn. Now I have the phone and it is wonderful. I do have it under Verizon and it was worth it. My local store tried to talk me out of it because it had "bad reception" but I didn't have that problem. It is wonderful.
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First off I read a few of the reviews on here, how they said that the max talk time is 45 min. that's bs. I talk on my phone for several hours and it didnt die. I havent had it freeze on me yet. You can store multiple numbers on there. I found out by myself didnt have to use the manual so it's obviously not that hard. So dont listen to most of the reviews out there this phones awesome and worth the money especially since they are on sale now.
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if motorolas had a decent UI, you wouldn't need the manual to do something simple like add multiple numbers for one contact. i had motorolas for years and tolerated the clunky UI because i could *eventually* figure out how to make the phone do what i wanted. but the average user who doesn't want to mess with advanced settings (or doesn't have time to pull out the manual) will be easily frustrated when they can't do something simple like add multiple numbers for a single contact, or change a shortcut item. i can't count how many times i have "fixed" a friend's motorola because they don't have the time or patience to figure it out themselves. a cell phone should be easy to use & personalize. one day motorola will come up with a user-friendly and efficient UI...until then, i'll stick with samsungs & nokias
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i love this phone. navigation is easy and i get multiple numbers per person. i personally don't agree with any of this person's complaints.
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I work with celphones day in and day out I'm surprised you had so many problems with it. It could have been a defective phone with the slowness. Also the phone automatically saves phonebook entries to the SIM card which is usually the best way to save your entries in case something should happen to your phone that way you have all your phone numbers on the card. If you change it to save to the phone memory then you can store multiple numbers for one contact easily. I'm really sorry that the person who sold you the phone couldn't take the time to show you some of the cool features of the phone. I'm a strong believer in demostration and I guess that's why I get so many referals.
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You can store multiple phone numbers as well as an email address for a single contact on the phone, not the SIM card.
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there are many functions and features that aren't noticable at first glance. You can easily add more than one number per contact just by highlighting the "more" option at the bottom of the entry and add as many phone numbers as you like. You just have to play with it all to find out what it can really do.
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I love the look and feel on this phone. Although, I'm currently on my 2nd one and am in the process of calling for my 3rd. There is a horrible buzz on the line especially when not on a call. Battery life is also a huge disappointment. Before you buy, GOOGLE "razr buzzing", there are lots of complaints out there. If you don't have sensitive hearing it may not be a problem, for me it's a deal breaker.
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The motorola Razr which also comes in black has been terrific when traveling to Europe or the Mideast. Anyone from your own area can reach you without any other numbers put in. From afar, it's not hard either. I don't know how any cell connects to internet but those who have this swear it's easy. I also like the camera. Only con for me: If you get it wet, usually it's dead.
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Learn how to use the phone first before you give negative feedback about the V3. You should've at least read the manual. It is possible to add multiple numbers per contact.
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Again. the featurs you mentioned are all in the phone. The menu is configurable totally, and so are some of the keys on the pad. As far as multiple numbers on one contact, this also is in the phone. Perhaps reading the manual is the course of action first.
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I completely agree the UI is different from most other phones and a bit nonintuitive however thats where your criticism should end. The phone book definitely does allow you to store more than one number for any particular contact. Since you obviously have not gone through the trouble to read through your manual I will help you out.
Go into your address book and press the middle menu button (the 4 horizontal line thingy). You should be in the phonebook menu. Once there select "setup". Press "select" to take u into the setup menu. Go to "view" and change it from "view all contacts" to "view primary contacts".
Now go to the main phone book again and select a entry. Edit that entry, if you scroll all the way down the edit menu for any entry you should see "....MORE...." Choose that, it will take you to an add new phone number or email screen. Add a new number. If you would like, make that the primary contact in the edit menu of the entry. (Repeat for pager, home or watever using the same add new number method to put multiple numbers under one contact)
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Now only one name will show up in the phone book when you scroll through your listing.
Now you may ask how do you view the other numbers you just stored, well while you are in the address book looking at the list of names, you can press the directional pad left or right, this will switch between primary and all the other numbers you have stored (I have only a max of 3 for a contact, but I think it can do more).
In closing... just because you don't know how to do something, doesn't mean it's impossible to do...
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