Motorola announced RAZR 2 V9m
Motorola announced the imminent launch of the RAZR 2 V9m on Alltel, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular and Verizon Wireless, all within the next few weeks. Sprint will launch its variant on August 22, while Verizon‘s has just promising to launch the new model of Motorola in coming September.
Verizon Wireless is the first carrier to announce its betting on the RAZR 2 V9m. The company said its flavor of RAZR 2 will hit stores in September for $299 after a $50 rebate and with a 2-year contract. Expect similar announcements soon from the other three big carriers.
RAZR 2 V9m is sleeker and better made than its predecessor with a shiny stainless steel shell and full glass displays. It sports a huge external display which is same size as the internal display, 2 megapixel camera, 3G data speed access, GPS, 2 gigabytes of onboard memory and a range of messaging options.
You can do a lot of functions right from the outside of the handset without having to open it. There are three touch-sensitive buttons on the bottom of the external screen that vibrate when hit.
RAZR 2 V9m also offers Motorola’s CrystalTalk technology. Both carriers will also include access to their respective online music and content services. It also has some touch screen buttons on the outside with some vibration feedback to boot.
The handset is beautiful. It is one of the most fashionable devices out there, with its solid construction and luxury feel. It feels heavier than the original RAZR. It doesn’t have the familar “hump” at the bottom of the phone so there is more room for buttons, including a direct web button.
You can read the Press release by Motorola here.
Written by martin on August 12th, 2007 with
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#1. October 31st, 2007, at 8:20 PM.
1. Does not support any of Motorola Bluetooth headset and headphones that I own. Even my new Moto stereo headphones that came out before the RAZR 2 even came out, don’t even work.
2. Daily White-Screen freeze errors.
3. Text input in third-party app’s in annoying. the “1″ key cycles though characters that you will never use just to get to a period aor @ sign. the “0″ key is used to cycle though the rest and again goes though characters that you will rarely use just to get one you will use a lot.
4. The touch-screen is way too sensitive. If you don’t have a key-lock set, you will find that the TV app will load in your pocket and turn to a channel. Or it will just load the app and waste the already pathetic battery life. Even if the key-lock is on, the vibrate feature will go off so many times that when you goto use the phone, you will end up having 1 bar, maybe 2.
5. Horrible battery life. Unlike the A900, Katana, and pretty much all other slim-phones, the RAZR 2 gets really hot when using it. Heat means wasted energy, thus making the battery life the worst I have ever seen. If you are using bluetooth, and/or the TV app, or in an area with a weak signal, battery life can be as low as 40 minutes.
6. The UI is SLOW! I mean as slow as slow can get. This comes to it’s full power of annoyance when you end up loading an application that you didn’t mean to, and closing it down takes 5 to 10 seconds to close down. This will happen a lot, because the buttons are so close together, that you will end up loading the music or TV app without even trying. Scrolling through you content is horrible. Images take what seems like months to switch to the next.
7. No real media player. You can not fast forward or rewind video clips. So those days of watching movies and shows on your phone are over. Unless you want to sit and watch it from the beginning.
8. You can not hear the volume when setting the level for the ringer, alarm, ect. This most basic of features shows how low Moto has come when making phones.
9. The lower set of speaks has a groove where overtime it will cut into your fingers when holding the phone to watch TV.
10. The inner display has the typical data and time features, but with the RAZR 2 you can not get rid of the date. So if you have a cool screen saver, you will see “00/00/000 Day” on the screen. So if you have a cool pic of a Cele you are into, their face will be blocked.
11. The web browser is HTML, but it renders the site into pages. So a normal sized site will be cut into many pages. Some sites are cut into 10 pages. Unlike Opera mini which can render the entire page in one window. You will be scrolling page to page just to see the content you like.
12. Since the browser is HTML, WAP sites can’t be loaded very well if at all. So if you want to download a Java app through a WAP site, you might not be able to at all.
13. Third party apps can easily cause the phone to lock-up. Basic app’s that load on even the most simple phone will cause the phone to lock in a white screen and you will have to pull the battery to get out.
14. Alarm doesn’t always go off. This has happen to me a lot.
15. When you use the speaker-phone or use the speakers with Telenav, the sound quality is horrible. On the other end my friends make me repeat what I am saying. The speaker-phone has been known in the past to be one of the best features found in Moto phones; this is not the case with the V9m.
16. Buttons on the side are tiny. With a plastic snap-on case they are very difficult to press.
17. The phone doesn’t even have a headphone port. So you can not use it as a portable music player without playing the content through the speakers, or a Bluetooth headset, which most likely will not work.
18. You can not set images from your memory card to display as wallpaper.
19. Music playback is dependent on using Sprint’s Music Player, which crashes a lot.
20. The Music Player no longer works, so I can’t even use the phone as an MP3 player.