Motorola Razr V3xx review

2008-01-23 17:29:08

This mobile phone is the second sequal of the excellent Motorola V3 serie. It has great specifications and even better design.
The main trump of this new Motorola phone is its look - it is a bit bigger than its forebear and it comes in new colors. It has an excellent external appearance which is made from metal(aluminum alloys). V3xx has also an excellent silver keypad with excellently calibrated keys.
V3xx works on a very good platform which makes it a very fast phone, much faster than the last V3 generation.
Although it's very thin, it has a lot of new technologies. It has a new UMTS network upgrade (3,5 G) - HSDPA technology which enables mobile data transfers with speeds up to 3,6 Mbit/s in data download and with approximately four times faster data transfer speed. Transfer speed moves up to 1,8 Mbit/s download and 384 Kbit/s upload.


Motorola V3xx supports speed up to 3,6 Mbit/s in download. It has a small icon on top of the screen, that informs you about the activities. Connecting to the Internet is also very fast, almost instantly. It has an upgraded Bluetooth which supports A2DP and AVRCP profiles which enable streaming of stereo music on other devices. It has 68 MB of installed memory, and it can be enlargened by microSD cards. Motorola V3xx is not a smart-phone, and the menu formation has also been changed, some of the options are on the unusual places so it will take some time for habituation.

You can install MSN and Opera for chatting and surfing. It uses MiniUSB slot for charging and connecting with the computer, and it has an QVGA screen with high resolution. The colors are well saturated, and the angle of visibility is very vast in every direction. Small gap between the pixels makes them almost invisible, and it makes the text and photo display very smooth and edgy. It also has a 1,3 million pixel camera with digital zoom up to 8 times, which can be enough for the users that don't use the camera so often, but to the users that can not go through a day without taking at least one picture, it will not be enough. It has an internal antenna, and a very good reception, and the speaker sound is loud and quality enough, but the phone doesn't have stereo speakers.