Motorola V600 Feedback

The V600 phone is due to release "any day now" here in the US by AT&T
Wireless. I was hoping to get some feedback on the phone from some of our
friends in Europe as the release will almost be identical to what's
available in the UK. Positives / negatives and would you recommend it?

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On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 09:48:25 -0500, "JPow" <[email protected]> wrote:

>The V600 phone is due to release "any day now" here in the US by AT&T
>Wireless. I was hoping to get some feedback on the phone from some of our
>friends in Europe as the release will almost be identical to what's
>available in the UK. Positives / negatives and would you recommend it?

Right...in a nutshell then

Bomb-proof metal design
Great screen
Clear speakerphone
Good signal retention
Great camera
So-so polyphonic ring tones
Good sized keypad
Complicated user interface - Nothing seems logical if you haven't used a
Moto in a while.
Truly awful manual - No instruction about the complicated features and some
glaring errors. Seems to have been written before the features and menus
were finalised.
Dubious Bluetooth implementation. I could not get it to use DUN via
bluetooth to my Ipaq 4150 using GPRS.
Dubious OBEX file transfer implementation. My Z600 phonebook could only be
transferred one at a time..and then swapped the first and last names
around. Also, exploring the Obex item in bluetooth places on my XP machine,
crashed my PC every time!
Web Sessions - If you've never used these..prepare for a struggle. If you
want to swap between GPRS, GPRS WAP, GSM WAP or GPRS MMS, you have to delve
into the menu options and set the required connection as the default
option...every time you change. So say you wanted to send an MMS, you would
set this as default and then if you wanted to browse the net using GPRS
WAP, you would have to reset the default connection to this.
Both SIM and Phone contacts are displayed together meaning duplicate
phonebook entries. I could not find a way to specify Sim or Phone.

For me, the cons outweighed the pros by some distance and I returned mine
the next day!!

Also...and most disturbingly..there are now a host of reports of the top of
the flip cracking after only a day's use!!

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Regards

John [Harold Hill, Essex, UK]

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On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 09:48:25 -0500, "JPow" <[email protected]> wrote:

>The V600 phone is due to release "any day now" here in the US by AT&T
>Wireless. I was hoping to get some feedback on the phone from some of our
>friends in Europe as the release will almost be identical to what's
>available in the UK. Positives / negatives and would you recommend it?

Right...in a nutshell then

Bomb-proof metal design
Great screen
Clear speakerphone
Good signal retention
Great camera
So-so polyphonic ring tones
Good sized keypad
Complicated user interface - Nothing seems logical if you haven't used a
Moto in a while.
Truly awful manual - No instruction about the complicated features and some
glaring errors. Seems to have been written before the features and menus
were finalised.
Dubious Bluetooth implementation. I could not get it to use DUN via
bluetooth to my Ipaq 4150 using GPRS.
Dubious OBEX file transfer implementation. My Z600 phonebook could only be
transferred one at a time..and then swapped the first and last names
around. Also, exploring the Obex item in bluetooth places on my XP machine,
crashed my PC every time!
Web Sessions - If you've never used these..prepare for a struggle. If you
want to swap between GPRS, GPRS WAP, GSM WAP or GPRS MMS, you have to delve
into the menu options and set the required connection as the default
option...every time you change. So say you wanted to send an MMS, you would
set this as default and then if you wanted to browse the net using GPRS
WAP, you would have to reset the default connection to this.
Both SIM and Phone contacts are displayed together meaning duplicate
phonebook entries. I could not find a way to specify Sim or Phone.

For me, the cons outweighed the pros by some distance and I returned mine
the next day!!

Also...and most disturbingly..there are now a host of reports of the top of
the flip cracking after only a day's use!!

>

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Regards

John [Harold Hill, Essex, UK]

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