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Colour matching the pink paint used on the anodized aluminium chassis of the Razr with the plastic battery cover proved very problematic and although very similar, the colours never perfectly matched as can be seen in the picture of the unit owned by the Mobile Phone Museum.
If anyone has one of these versions and would like to donate it to the Mobile Phone Museum, we would love to hear from you. This showed up in testing as significantly shorter battery life under active BT operation.
The former allows the transfer of sound files, pictures, videos, addresses, calendar items, or bookmarks. I used it consistently to get the weather on my X50v while traveling. Pairing proved easy for all of them. Once a device has been paired initially, if BT is enabled on the RAZR first on subsequent connections, it will automatically connect with the device when it is powered up. Motorola says that the V3 comes with a mAh Li-ion battery. Motorola claims a talk time of approximately to minutes, and a standby time up to approximately to hours.
The excellent battery figures first attracted me to the phone over a few others. In reality, many things affect battery life. GSM uses a smart power management system that automatically uses less power for strong signals and more power for weaker ones. So, if you use the V3 mostly in a strong-signal area like most of Europe , your battery life will be better than someone in rural America.
Lower frequencies penetrate building walls better than higher ones, so if your carrier uses a higher frequency in your area then your signal and battery life will probably suffer inside buildings. Building construction and the location you lay the phone in a car greatly affect the signal strength you will see.
Now, if you really want to hammer your battery, use Bluetooth for a while. My conservative estimate would be that active BT use e. I accept that as the cost of doing business, but I also have a plug-in headset as well for a backup. If you travel, take your charger with you if you will be talking for an hour or two using BT. The OS is the typical proprietary Motorola with a Java wrapper on it.
That has strengths and weaknesses. The downside would be the inability to run Symbian apps on the phone. I learned the system very quickly. It can also be individualized with user-customizable softkey functions, main menu layout, and keyboard shortcuts. The phone support software is top-notch. Recent calls may be recalled by incoming or outgoing. Missed calls bring a banner to the screen, then appear as uncompleted incoming calls.
All completed calls, ingoing and outgoing, have a checkmark next to them. For quick dialing, simply press the connect key for a list of the 10 most recent outgoing calls.
If a call fails, the V3 offers the option to redial. When it connects on a redial, the phone rings to notify you of the connection. The RAZR keeps track of your cumulative talk times incoming and received , data times local and DUN , KBytes transferred, as well as total for the life of the device until reset.
So what I do is reset the recent talk and data tracking to zero at the beginning of my service month, then the phone tracks my usage for the current month. This is a great feature. The only major shortcoming comes in the phonebook. Out of the box, it only jumps to the first name starting with the first letter you type. So, if your friends have multiple numbers home, work, mobile , then they will have multiple phonebook entries.
What was Motorola thinking? The good news is that you can group callers together into profiles, tailoring rings to groups. This can be a nice way to know if a family member or business associate is calling. You can also set an ignore group to remain silent so they never disturb you. Of course, I would never to that…. The messaging system will concatenate long text messages. One email account may be programmed into the phone. Performance over GPRS proved satisfactory.
Messaging comes preprogrammed to a button on the keyboard for quick access. All the messaging capabilities use the same menu-driven interface. The input system uses iTap, which differs from the standard T9 you usually see on mobile phones. I found the predictive engine quite robust, though those coming from T9 will have a small learning curve on the interface. The predictor learns over time as it observes your input patterns.
The built-in WAP browser also comes preprogrammed to a button on the keypad. Pressing it loads the browser and connects to the Internet.
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