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Motorola RAZR-V3 Silver Cell Phone User Reviews

Motorola RAZR-V3 Silver
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no. NO. NO!

Overall Rating:
2.5 out of 5
By: Christen Q on Saturday, May 05, 2007
From: San Francisco, CA (United States)
Experience: 7 Months
Pros: I can put it in my pocket when I'm wearing tight pants. battery life is pretty good in the first 3 months

Cons: It lags like CRAZY & cheap design. Battery life on the decline.

Summary: I gave into peer pressure and bought this phone since it (was) trendy. Anyway, I was super excited when I first bought it, but it didn't take long for me to start hating it.

You have to memorize the menu options becuase it lags so long/freezes sometimes. I feel like I am using 56k internet on this thing! It seriously takes F O R E V E R to even go through the contact list to make a phone call.

AND All the buttons are peeling off! Don't know if it's my makeup that makes it happen, but it's annoying & looks weird/gross.

15 out of 35 people found this review helpful

DGGN MY RAZR

Overall Rating:
3.7 out of 5
By: band wagon on Thursday, April 19, 2007
From: Omahaha, NE (United States)
Experience: 53 Weeks
Pros: Thin & Phat all at the same time -
It'd cut like a knife through butta

Cons: Sucks the life outta the battery -
it's a little wobbly like a booble head on it's hinge after a year

Summary: Vowels are great on Wheel of Fortune - but Motorola struck it rich by leaving them out of the RAZR. The rest of the line just doesn't have the same panache as the original.

This is a great little phone, thin light and totally phat. The keys are great for playing usa today sudoku to my heart's content and the display is great for searching for my favorite wildkittens scores on yahoo.

Really, to tell you the truth. I like it, but I'm looking to replace it with the U740 and it's full keyboard action. I donno about the small number keys tho, bro.

10 out of 22 people found this review helpful

RAZR V3 Black Review

Overall Rating:
3.8 out of 5
By: Matthew Cholankeril on Monday, April 09, 2007
From: New York, NY (United States)
Experience: 40 Weeks
Pros: Very slim, and light, and all the basic feature you need in a cell phone, along with bluetooth compatibility, and speakerphone, and a video camera in addition to a regular camera

Cons: Battery life is not great, it gets 2-2.5 hours talktime, but that is the sacrifice for such a small phone, and also I would have like a feature for ringing and vibrating for an incoming call that my old phone, it was quite convenient

Summary: Overall this phone is great, since all I use it for is basic things, like calling and text messaging. Except for some minor things like lack of ringing and vibrating simultaneously for an incoming call, I would have preferred a longer battery life, but I knew about its short battery before I bought it. Other than that its great, it's small, light, and has plenty of features

12 out of 25 people found this review helpful

No Battery Life

Overall Rating:
3.2 out of 5
By: eab3 b on Sunday, March 18, 2007
From: santa fe, NM (United States)
Experience: 4 Months
Pros: thin profile

Cons: absolutely worthless batteries

Summary: I own 2 RAZR V3m phones. The batteries die after making approximately 3 to 4 calls each lasting only 10 - 15 minutes. I went back to Sprint and explained the problem. They exchanged the batteries AND the phones as well. I thought to myself "GREAT" that takes care of the problem. WRONG!-They also die after approximately 45 minutes of use.
And just to clarify: I only use the phone as a phone - not for browsing, photos, etc., the backlight setting is minimal, vibrate is off, and the Li-ion battery does not have a re-charge "memory".
4 phones/4 batteries = 4 lemons.

45 out of 65 people found this review helpful

Love My Razr

Overall Rating:
4.5 out of 5
By: Melissa Coplak on Monday, March 12, 2007
From: Astoria, NY (United States)
Experience: 3 Months
Pros: Very reliable phone, comfortable for holding between your shoulder and ear when talking, loud volume.

Cons: none.

Summary: This is a very reliable phone, no wonder it's so popular! I love this phone because its easy to talk on while juggling it on your shoulder, it also has a nice large color screen to see pics on, comes with a decent camera too. So far I have found no disadvantages to this phone.

26 out of 58 people found this review helpful

Moto(RED)

Overall Rating:
4.5 out of 5
By: Max McLean on Wednesday, February 14, 2007
From: Pontiac, IL (United States)
Experience: 3 Weeks
Pros: It saves lives, Its sleek and stylish

Cons: The screen is too bright sometimes, bad reception

Summary: THis is overall a great phone, The only bad things are that it gets bad reception and the screen adjusts itself.

17 out of 37 people found this review helpful

globalization of poor quality

Overall Rating:
2 out of 5
By: Billy Mais on Saturday, January 27, 2007
From: Lees Summit, MO (United States)
Experience: 7 Months
Pros: get to know your local cell phone companies customer service reps real well

Cons: poor quality,battery quality very poor,easily overheats,crashes like a cheap computer

Summary: In the past 6 months my razar has been replaced by my cell provider at least 6 times. The screen flashes and none of the functions work,then you have to disconnect the battery to be able to shut the phone off. Most of the time it won't ever power back up,but on occaison you get lucky and the phone lasts a few more days.

21 out of 33 people found this review helpful

Phone that breaks

Overall Rating:
3.7 out of 5
By: Justin Melvin on Wednesday, January 24, 2007
From: Ashland, KY (United States)
Experience: 4 Months
Pros: Great service, very easy to handle, small compatible and its a good phone for a low and cheap price

Cons: Breaks very easily, easy to lose, and its way too thin

Summary: The Motorola Razor is overall a very good phone to buy there may be some down falls but the pros over the cons win. Many phones don't have the qualities of the Motorola Razor, it gives you many options to choose from.

27 out of 62 people found this review helpful

RAZR durability

Overall Rating:
3.3 out of 5
By: steve whiting on Friday, January 12, 2007
From: cleveland, OH (United States)
Experience: 15 Months
Pros: used 1 heavily for 15 months with no problem for 13 of them

Cons: Batteries and recharging problems as soon as the warranty ran out.2nd RAZR was rarely touched but screen flickers constantly. Manf. wants $75 @ to repair.Too fragile

Summary: Too fragile for the price not a great value.

37 out of 72 people found this review helpful

Love it

Overall Rating:
4.5 out of 5
By: Carmen Moore on Saturday, January 06, 2007
From: Kingsport, TN (United States)
Experience: 2 Months
Pros: It is very cute and has useful services such as VCast and you can make movies.

Cons: Unless you have a cover on the front, it is hard to flip open.

Summary: I really recommend this cell phone because of it's cuteness and usefulness.

11 out of 20 people found this review helpful

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