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Motorola RAZR V3
before you dehydrate from drooling over the V3...
But's let's not kid ourselves - here's a few things it does NOT have:
1. MP3 Player
2. Expandable/removable memory
3. Headset jack (yes - I know it has Bluetooth - read on)
4. Decent battery life (Moto rated 2 hrs of talktime!?!?!?!)
5. A simple charging method - the mini-USB adaptor to power/charge the phone looks destined to be easily lost.
To me - this phone was clearly designed for LOOKS, not a moderate to heavy phone user. If you read the mobile-review.com review ( link is already posted several times on the message board), the battery life sucks on this thing. And the 1-2 hour talktime rating gets wors...
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now my question is this.. 😁
Does the external caller id has external picture caller id?
thats what im looking for 😉
I read it as 2.5 hours of use plus standby over a 2 day period.
The text in question: "According to the manufacturer the phone provides up to 200 hours in the standby mode and up to 3 hours in the talk mode. The field tests showed that the phoneó works a little bit more than 2 days in case of using the phone about 1 hour per day in the talk mode (MTS network) and up to 25 minutes of using other functions (mainly bluetooth). The time of full charging is less than 2 hours."
It would have been easier if the review said 48 hours of standby with 2-2.5 hours of talktime, but you're right, I misread the info.
It's alarming that some of the other posts don't seem to care even IF the V3 did have horrible battery life - it's all about the looks. I can easily get 4 hours of talktime on my Moto v60, and I won't stand for compromising on batt life.
If you can stand not hearing your phone ring thru the headset you'll get a lot better battery life.
When I'm using the BT200, I usually turn off the headset to try to get as much battery life as I can. On a couple occasions, I've been on a conference call with a fully-charged BT200 headset, and have only been able to go for about 1.5 hours before getting a low battery warning.
I was at a trade show in April and talked to the GN Netcom rep (the parent company of Jabra), and was told they were addressing the short runtime issue with upcoming models. She also suggested the GN6110, but the headset has almost the look and approximate size of a hockey puck. I like the BT20...
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1) V3 will play mp3 ringtones. Only 5mb of memory though. This should be good enough for most users.
3) Supposedly Motorola will be including a wired USB headset with every phone.
5) It looks like the little plastic USB thingy just changes the direction of the plug(maybe to get the chord out of the way?). It looks like the phone can still be charged even without this piece.
GSMFan said:
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5) It looks like the little plastic USB thingy just changes the direction of the plug(maybe to get the chord out of the way?). It looks like the phone can still be charged even without this piece.
That's absolutely correct. I verified this with someone who was on the team that designed this phone. The little adapter in some photos is only for changing direction. It is not necessary for charging.