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Motorola RAZR-V3 Cosmic Blue
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The worst cell phone I've ever had.

Overall Rating:
1.3 out of 5
By: Mia Ska on Thursday, October 19, 2006
From: Dayton, NV (United States)
Experience: 7 Months
Pros: Fits in your pocket, and it's a handy size.

Cons: Buttons are flat and hard to maneuver.

Summary: This is the worst cell phone I've ever had. The volume is so low you can barely hear it with your windows down. Also, the ring tone is low. What's the point of having one if you can't use it.

18 out of 28 people found this review helpful

Good cell phone

Overall Rating:
4.2 out of 5
By: Rodrigo Lourenco on Wednesday, October 18, 2006
From: Raleigh, NC (United States)
Experience: 60 Days
Pros: Easy to use, slim design, bright display, changable face plates, lots of available accessories.

Cons: Bad signal inside some buildings

Summary: Although beautiful, this cell phone does not work everywhere. I've to keep a land line to use at home just because it won't work inside my place at all.

16 out of 26 people found this review helpful

Motorola Razr v3

Overall Rating:
3.5 out of 5
By: jay fat head on Wednesday, October 18, 2006
From: lawrenceville, NJ (United States)
Experience: 1 Years
Pros: Lightweight, big screen, color, camera

Cons: Buttons too small, camera doesnt have the best resolution

Summary: Great phone for any teen or adult who wants a lightweight phone and doesn't need wi-fi or great picture quaity. Great Games avaliable for this phone any many cool screen savors and wallpaper also avalible. This phone is easy to "trick out."

13 out of 22 people found this review helpful

Motorola RAZR V3 Magenta

Overall Rating:
4.3 out of 5
By: Judith Crawford on Wednesday, October 18, 2006
From: Lagrangeville, NY (United States)
Experience: 7 Months
Pros: Color, size, features, camera,reliability

Cons: none

Summary: I really love this phone. All of the features perform as indicated. The buttons are lighted and can be viewed easily without my reading glasses which is a plus when glasses are not an option. The bluetooth option is fantastic when driving, easily set-up and easy to use. I have even dropped this phone - nothing happened. Color is great too.

14 out of 33 people found this review helpful

the best phone yet

Overall Rating:
5 out of 5
By: Theresa LaPointe on Tuesday, October 17, 2006
From: Rome, NY (United States)
Experience: 3 Months
Pros: very slim & sleek with great color choices

Summary: Love this phone. Only downfall is hard to find holder to fit perfectly.

21 out of 38 people found this review helpful

a dusty problem

Overall Rating:
4 out of 5
By: D Howe on Tuesday, October 17, 2006
From: Waterford, ME (United States)
Experience: 2 Months
Pros: light weight easy to use

Cons: dust accumlates behind LCD screen

Summary: havenot been able to clean behind the screen to remove unwanted dust

18 out of 37 people found this review helpful

Motorola V3 Razr

Overall Rating:
3 out of 5
By: Christina Perry on Sunday, October 15, 2006
From: Oak Lawn, IL (United States)
Experience: 90 Days
Pros: This phone has a camera and video capabilities that I really like. I also like the menus. I like the voice record recording and the voice activated dialing. Good size screen and number buttons.

Cons: The picture can be kind of dark even when the area is lit up. I also have a hard time playing games because the center selection circle is so close to the menu button, I always have to hit resume to get back into my game of Bejeweled. It is too easy to hit a button on the side and change your ringer from vibe, silent, etc. Not enough good ring tones or wall paper selections.

Summary: Considering the cost of these phones, it is amazing to me that there are only 5 relatively decent songs to chose for ringers and the same goes for the wallpaper choices. I like the look of the phone and the functionality, but hate the fact that I set it for hit a key answer and it answers when I open it is very surprising to say the least. I do like the phone, but I have had much lower models give me a great variety of music and pictures for my phone to play with and change as I felt necessary. This phone is missing that.

10 out of 20 people found this review helpful

Motorola Razr v3 review

Overall Rating:
3.7 out of 5
By: susan eng on Friday, October 13, 2006
From: east elmhurst, NY (United States)
Experience: 9 Months
Pros: looks slick

Cons: too fragile

Summary: The phone is pretty, very thin but the problem is if you drop it, it will break.

21 out of 30 people found this review helpful

Pink is pretty!

Overall Rating:
4.3 out of 5
By: Karin Deen on Friday, October 13, 2006
From: Baton Rouge, LA (United States)
Experience: 15 Days
Pros: The phone is light weight, you can see who is calling on the front of the phone, or even by special ring tone. The

Cons: Web sites take pretty long to download. All phone numbers are listed in the address book, even the ones with multiple numbers - therefore it takes longer to scroll through your address book.

Summary: The phone itself is terrific. I have thoroughly enjoyed it since I've had it. It's no more expensive than some of the bulkier models available and it has a bigger screen than most. Although the pictures you take look semi-distorted in certain light, it actually takes pretty good pictures.

20 out of 39 people found this review helpful

RAZR's EDGE

Overall Rating:
4.7 out of 5
By: Joseph Demastrie on Tuesday, October 10, 2006
From: West Springfield, MA (United States)
Experience: 30 Days
Pros: Great Look
Solid Design
Excellent Reception
Easy to Use

Cons: Trendy
Not a ton of Multimedia uses

Summary: My wife recently got the RAZR phone and I couldn't help, but compare it to my A900M. I find the two phones very comparable since they both fit the trendy super thin design fad.

The RAZR has a great design and is fun to use, great sound quality and signal. Unfortunately for a phone which is echoing the previous RAZR phone, there isn't much improvement. There is more multimedia capabilities, but they don't seem to go as fast as my A900, but that could be because Sprint is faster.

38 out of 79 people found this review helpful

great phone

Overall Rating:
3 out of 5
By: michelle yamashita on Monday, October 09, 2006
From: torrance, CA (United States)
Experience: 6 Months
Pros: thin, easy to use, bluetooth capable

Cons: kind of wide, batter doesn't last long

Summary: I find this phone very handy. It's thin so it easily fits in my purses. I found that the batter life is fairly short so I have to charge it every day. It doesn't come with many ringtones to start with so that's a down side.

3 out of 7 people found this review helpful

This phone rocks!

Overall Rating:
5 out of 5
By: Joni Vennell on Monday, October 09, 2006
From: La Porte, TX (United States)
Experience: 54 Months
Pros: It's pink, thin, sleek and oh so girly looking! The ease of use is great.

Cons: There are no cons.

Summary: I highly recommend this cell phone! It is sleek and cute and the pink or magenta colored phones are the girliest ones out on the market. They are so simple to operate. The display is excellent and the battery life is phenomenal. The phone is very durable and it has a very long battery life. I love this phone!

16 out of 33 people found this review helpful

Great Phone!!

Overall Rating:
5 out of 5
By: Debra Chance on Sunday, October 08, 2006
From: Richmond, IN (United States)
Experience: 14 Days
Pros: Takes great pictures,Has great sound

Cons: none

Summary: I love my new razrV3x, It is everything I have wanted in a phone, The sound comes in so clear, It also takes great pictures and great little clips.I would highly recommend this phone to all!!

0 out of 5 people found this review helpful

it's ok

Overall Rating:
3.8 out of 5
By: karen grimes on Sunday, October 08, 2006
From: burlington, IA (United States)
Experience: 4 Months
Pros: slim design,downloadable ringtones, & long lasting battery

Cons: does handle shocks well

Summary: like my motorola v3, better than most motorolas. takes really good pics.

9 out of 21 people found this review helpful

Razor

Overall Rating:
3.3 out of 5
By: Gary Bohannon on Sunday, October 08, 2006
From: Memphis, TN (United States)
Experience: 8 Months
Pros: Light weight

Cons: Too small to hold

Summary: The phone is good except that battry time is very short, the display constanly needs cleaning and a phone holder is needer to comfortlby grip the phone.

40 out of 64 people found this review helpful

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