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Motorola MotoKrzr K3 review

2008-01-29 18:28:42

Motorola KRZR K3 is a slim, overlap, fashion mobile phone.The internal screen has a 2 inch diagonal with 240x320 resolution which makes the photos look excellent.

Under the screen there is a camera objective meant for video calls. The keyboard is a metal foil with the same color as the box, with blue and green lighting.

Motorola MotoKrzr K3


There are two standard function keys, and above the green key is an extra key for activating video calls and between the green and the red key there is a WAP key.

With the integrated software, the user has the possibility of adding functions to only four cursor keys and the Quick key on the side. The right function key is fixed for main menu as well as the key in the middle of the cursor circle.

By pressing the left function key, a small menu opens with functions like media, ringtones, wallpaper, alarm and bluetooth. Above the red key, there is an erase key which can't erase phonebook entries, SMS, calendar entries or dictaphone, it only can be used as a "back" key.

The menu and the icons on it have been re-shaped, and the whole interface changes while changing the skin. The menu is organised like the Windows menu.

Browsing through the menus is easy while using the cursors and the button in the middle of the cursor circle. The letters are smaller, and the messages are shown in seven lines.

It has a SMS counter, and the phone remembers the numbers that the messages were sent on its own so the next time it offers them, as well as the ones from the phonebook.

Motorola MotoKrzr K3 Using the phonebook, it is possible to choose whether the phone will show its own phonebook, the one from the card or both of them at the same time.

This is also a very good phone for music reproduction, because the songs can be controlled with the phone closed. Thanks to A2DP profile, stereo Bluetooth is also enabled which allows wireless listening to the music while moving.

The external screen shows the name of the song playing and data about it. Resolution on this phone makes the photos look very nice. It is possible only to change the four cursor keys and one side key.

The choice of functions is very good, it has a great calculator, picture viewer, recording and watching of videos, the messages go into the phone or on the card, MP3 ringtones for calls and messages, groups and profiles, special tones for special persons and a dictaphone.

The camera is 2 megapixel, and it makes very good photographs.

The phone has a standard mini USB cabel and it is charged that way, and while connecting it to the computer, it recognises it like an external disk.

ADVANTAGES: screen, design, MP3 player
SHORTCOMINGS: keyboard