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9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Solid Well Made Phone & The Ringtones Rock!! Jun 29, 2007
By "The Woj"
I have had my RIZR from T-Mobile for a few weeks now after switching from Verizon. I was originally considering the Nokia 5300. But when I compared the 2 phones side by side, the RIZR seemed more solid, more durable and less flimsy than the Nokia 5300. So I chose the RIZR and I could not be happier. The phone is easy to program and a breeze to use. The display is bright, clear and very easy to read (even without my bifocals!). So far the sound quality and reception have been outstanding. The best feature for me is the mp3 player. With my new RIZR I can transfer mp3 songs directly from my computer to my phone with a simple drag and drop (the 128 MB card is not very large, but enough for my needs). I can then select the songs to act as ringtones. Being able to assign a song/ringtone to a certain phone number is a really cool feature, at least for me.
The mp3 player included with the phone is very easy to use too.
My only "minor" gripe is the screen goes black during calls. But I found pressing the volume up button, which displays the volume screen temporarily, brings the main screen back fast enough for me.
All in all a great phone and highly recommended.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 great camera and stylish phone Jun 22, 2007
By Charles Marsh
Pros:
* 2 megapixel camera with decent video and flash
* micro SD card
* solid updates of motorola UI
* good looking
* stereo bluetooth (but $100 for a stereo bluetooth headset)
* uses miniUSB for recharging
* sound quality is adequate
Cons:
* music player has poor UI
* reception is not stellar, but ok for city usage.
I principally bought this because it was on t-mobile, I liked the design and it had a 2 megapixel camera with a LED illuminator (flash). I also do a reasonable amount of texting and picture messaging, so I wanted something good for that. I am happy with this decision.
The camera is quite good, for a pinhole camera phone. However, the maximum size I can send in MMS messages is 640x480. That is likely a t-mobile limitation.
The music player leaves much to be desired. There is enough of it there to call it a music player, but if you've ever used an iPod, you won't love it. There is no way to "keylock" the phone while using it so you end up ending the music play if you drop it in a pocket and bump it. The music player has no concept of what podcasts have been played nor does it remember the last place in the podcast like an iPod does. It is borderline unusable as an mp3 player due to this lousy software.
I had a problem with the phone after about 5 weeks where the predictive text stopped working. It was as if the dictionary had been deleted off my phone or the keys wouldn't work when in predictive text mode. It is under a 1year warranty and t-mobile chose to replace it anyway. An annoyance, but it is ok now.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Good phone Jul 11, 2007
By Lazy Spanish Student
I'm 90% happy with the phone. Batteries live long, standard USB slot for charging (not proprietary cables any more, thank God), slightly improved interface. Love the way it slides, my sliding Samsung did it with less reassuring feel.
10% of unhappiness is due to the fact that it looses signal in places where some of my friends' phones don't. Also, dust gets between a screen and a protective glass.
16 of 20 found the following review helpful:
 Yet another awful motorola product not to buy... Jul 16, 2007
By Stephen Cardinal
Yes, like most of you who are observing this review I was once caught up in the glamor of having a phone that glided in a sleek direction... Well I have advice for you; don't buy this phone. I currently own this lethargic, useless piece of junk and it bestows upon me more problems everyday. This has to be one of the slowest phones I have ever used, it has several features on it, which run terribly laggy. If you are in the finger mashing market of text messaging like yours truly, then you to will be retarded with the fact that by the time your done with your sentence, it will appear 3 seconds later only to have the words predicted in the incorrect fashion because it could not keep up with you. The battery meter on it stays full until the last 4 hours where it plummets to the critical battery indicator. Be sure to give a nice shout out to Motorola when you miss your appointment, because the only thing on the front screen is "T-mobile" and the time; that's right kids, no date or day of the week on your display!
The camera is fairly exceptional and has some nice features. The 2 mp pictures turn out at a respectable image if the quality is all the way up and the you are very very still while capturing. Other than a decent camera, there is no reason to purchase this phone. It also takes the pleasure of not showing you your pictures whenever it feels like concealing the folder, which means your background is a nice blank gray until it is content to locate your photo's once more. The phone also takes the liberty of shutting off randomly about twice a week for me... A terrible purchase, I strongly recommend not splurging $120 dollars on.
Hope you found this useful.
~Stephen
P.S. After one months past of this submitting this review, the center (or menu) button fell off..
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Moto RIZR, greasy phone, nice mp3 player Jul 12, 2007
By S. Proper
Like other moto's, this seems to go through some sort of 1 or 2 second echo cancellations when first using a new (cell) tower. However, once it's calibrated into your location it sounds perfect.
The device is amazing and quite a bundle of features overall. Voice recognition works perfectly and promptly for me.
However, I have to give it low marks for cosmetics. The screen gets greasy from your face. It doesn't feel or handle at all like a phone. I think the only way you can enjoy using it is with a bluetooth headset. I don't like the slider aspect of it at all. I'd prefer a flip phone by a long shot. But this seems to be the best tmo subsidized offering at this date. Battery really does seem to last all week for me. Camera takes great indoor pictures/films and I have to wonder if the complainers about the camera bothered to take the film off of the lense.
I haven't figured out how to make it beep when a message is waiting and I really need that feature.
Get an arm band holster, screen cover, 2gig memory, and bluetooth headset; your going to want them for this type of phone. Not too bad.
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