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The V9 doesn't use the touch controls to nearly the extent that the V9m does. To start, you must first unlock the external keys by pressing and holding the left side key for a few seconds. Then you can start the music player by tapping the left key again, or start the camera by holding the right side key for a good 4 seconds.

Even though you're pressing physical keys to control the phone this way, they have so little feedback that Motorola thoughtfully included vibration to let you know you've pressed them as well. Unfortunately, just as with the V9m, you have to press long after the vibrations (in this case MUCH longer) to either unlock the phone or start the camera. (Which means because of button pressing and holding twice over, it takes almost 10 seconds to launch the camera on the V9 without opening it. The moral of the story is open the phone, launch the camera, then close it.)

Although the camera can be started and operated from the outside, it does not use the touch controls at all. Instead you use the side keys, using the volume keys for zoom again, and the large right side key to snap the shutter. There are no interface features at all, simply the entire display used as a full screen viewinder. Inside, the camera uses a standard looking interface that lets you know you need to use the keys and not a non-existent touchscreen.

The music player, however, is far more feature complete on the V9 than the V9m. Using the volume keys and the small side key below them, you navigate through the player much like you would a stand-alone player, choosing how you would like your music sorted and then picking a song. The touch controls consistently act as play/pause, forward and back and can be used to control playback even as you're looking for more music to play. In addition to more ways to navigate your music from the outside, you can also do anything inside while your music is playing in the background. Switching to the next or previous songs is instantaneous whether using the external keys or the internal interface. Also, the V9 is only one of the three that displays songs in track order if that information is in the ID3 tag.

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