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Old Mar 17, 2004 | 5:47 pm
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Review: Motorola V600

I've now been using this device for a week.... Here is my summary of it.

If you like "flip" phones this is a nice device. otherwise stick with what you have. In my use in California, I'm picking up coverage in areas that were sub-par on GSM1900 with AT&T's still un-announced and spotty GSM850 coverage.

I'm convinced after being on Symbian devices and MS smartphone devices that no matter how much time you give Motorola to design a device that they will still creep in old design stupidity... Let's see how long I continue to use this device!

http://commerce.motorola.com/consumer/QWhtml/v600.html

Highlights:
- GSM Quad Band phone GSM850/900/1800/1900
- Bluetooth
- MPEG4 HW accelerated playback
- Nice 176x220 TFT display
- Polyphonic and MP3 ringtones
- Cool lighted multi color alert on the closed flip.
- Outside display for signal strength, battery, time, etc
- Handsfree plug on the top of the phone, not the bottom
- Alarm clock (works even if the phone is off, HEY what a concept - only took Mot 5 years)
- MIDP 2.0 support


Lowlights
- No MPEG4 encode (or "camcorder" feature)
- No Infrared
- No way to reject calls from a closed flip (You need to set the auto answer on flip open off, open the flip then reject the call)
- Phonebook structure is lame, ugh, can they STILL not get this right from the Timeport days
- In my build (generic) NO SMS delivery report function
- Email client died after 20 emails and said "phone memory full" even though it wasn't. Doesn't seem to like just getting headers either.
- No way to force GPRS APN bind OFF at network select.
- Menus are better than older Motorola phones, but they need to get users to give suggestions not overpaid U/I engineers.
- Visible antenna stub
- WAP browser is thoroughly broken for WAP sites that work on any Nokia or Sony Ericsson device.
- No HTML browser (have they heard of Opera)

Any questions let me know.
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