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| Motorola RAZR2 V9m Phone (Verizon Wireless) | 
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| Brand: Motorola
Category: Wireless
List Price: $399.99
Buy New: $244.07
You Save: $155.92 (39%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 5555
Color: Silver
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: V9m
UPC: 723755888609
ASIN: B000VR9FT4
Release Date: September 4, 2007
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 Fragile July 14, 2008
This phone is quite cool overall with many features that you can read about from other postings on this site. That said I have to complain that one day my wife was simply opening it and the right hinge just cracked and the broke off. I called Verizon customer service and they were actually quite defensive insisting that it must have been deliberately broken!! I tried to explain the phone must have had an internal material based flaw but this fell on deaf ears and the service rep at first didn't even understand the conceptual nature of the problem. They just chose to play the blame game and in the end rather than buy another phone I used "JB weld" (an epoxy product) to fix it. Obviously there are now a lot of more interesting phones out there but because the V9m still has sex appeal it holds a premium price. I am disappointed in Verizon for their hardball blame oriented attitude towards my compliant and will likely choose another carrier in the future. After all as time goes on the reliability aspect of the Verizon network won't be much better than others so this sales point is fading fast and they seem much like any other phone company -- and Verizon's customer service is going to have to improve for them to stay competitive much longer.
The Best Motorola Has To Offer April 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've owned this phone for around 6 months now, and felt the need to write a brief review. Note - This is for the Verizon version.
Pros:
- Stylish (or at least I've received many compliments on it)
- Slim (a bit slimmer than the original Razr
- Beautiful external screen
- Decent battery life
- Fast operating system (or faster than the Razr V3c I had before this)
- 2MP camera takes pretty good pictures
Cons:
- Cost (I think this phone is overpriced, even for being all of the above)
- The vibrate mode is HORRIBLE (it's really weak and I miss calls - ugh)
- Can't adjust ringer without opening phone
- Micro USB incompatible with previous Razr chargers, accessories
- attracts fingerprints
- music player sometimes gets turned on inside my pocket
Other notes: This phone is NOT wider than the original RAZR, it only looks that way b/c the edges are not tapered as much.
Really nice phone with a few minor drawbacks March 3, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've had this phone for a few days now, and I really like it. The call quality is by far the BEST of any phone I have had to date. The menus are very straightforward and easy to setup -- though I feel I don't have as much personalization control as I would like.
The things that make this a 4 star phone:
1. Fingerprint Magnet -- there really is no way around this.
2. Extremely limited ring tone selection from factory (obviously designed this way so you will buy more from Verizon).
3. If you are a Verizon customer, as I am, you are unable to see missed calls and read text messages from the huge front screen. This was a TERRIBLE decision on Verizon's part. The touchscreen access buttons they do give you are for the camera, for music, and for voice commands -- useless! This is really the biggest downfall of phone, and its Verizon's fault! Because of this, the big and beautiful front screen is really limited to that -- it looks pretty. It actually serves no real function because Verizon took away the ability to view missed calls and read text messages from it, just so Verizon could push its music service -- UGH, disgusting!
4. The actual "feel" of the phone is nice, though it is wider than most phones and takes a little getting used to.
5. Other reviews have mentioned a hinge problem. My hinge is good and the phone feels exceptionally solid -- though the bottom left corner of my keypad feels and sounds a little loose compared to the rest of the keypad.
6. You cannot change the ring style from the side buttons as with previous Motorola phones -- big drawback seeing you have to actually open the phone to put it on vibrate or silent.
7. Battery life is good -- though definitely not the best of all phones I've had. I will most likely buy the upgraded high capacity 1350 mAh from Motorola.
All in all I would recommend this phone, even though Verizon purposely took away features Motorola intended for users (front touch screen for missed calls and text messages). The camera is great, and best and most important of all -- the call quality is the best I've ever had. Good job Motorola, bad job Verizon.
questions and charger info on razr2 February 11, 2008
0 out of 12 found this review helpful
Question1: i have a razr that's given up the ghost...considering a razr2. does verizon's razr2 allow ring and vibrate simultaneously? with the razr, verizon disabled that feature (originally designed with it by motorola).
Question2: does the razr2 come with a cable to hook up to my laptop USB for downloading music to a microSD card?
Info on chargers for razr2: i found out that you can buy an adapter (t-mobile stores have 'em for $4.99) that allows you to use your razr chargers with the razr2 connector.
Great Phone Hardware, [...] software January 24, 2008
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
Replaced my Moto E815 with the Razr2 the day it was released on their website. Used it for about 6 months now.
Pros: Slim, nice external screen, good quality build. And all the other specs that other people have mentioned, camera, etc.
Cons:
Other than the screen and size, this phone is no better than a Regular Razr that costs 1/5th as much. It's smaller, but only slightly. Not enough to make a difference, and it's taller.
The outside buttons are useless. You can start playing music, but you can't stop it, you have to open it up and hit end to stop it. You can start up the voice command, but it's the same as if you pushed the side button, so it's redundant. Starting up the camera is cool, but only to show it off. The outside Controls are basically useless.
The verizon UI isn't that great for doing things fast. The process if creating a new text message and sending it is like 10 button presses.
This phone uses a new type of charger port, Micro USB. It's Slightly smaller than the Mini-USB. The pain is that it's very hard to tell which side is up. You'll always be guessing which way it plugs in. What happened to the old days of the dock chargers?
This phone has a Large outside screen, but it's put put to use well. You can't read a text message unless you open the phone. If you get a call and have a picture for the person, it's a SMALL picture and doesn't use even half the screen. Seems like a waste.
The vibrate is horrible. You can't change volume without opening the phone. Sorry, you can't be sneaky and put it into vibrate mode while it's in your pocket.
Verizon put their same [...] OS on this phone. If they spent some extra time to customize it for this phone, it would be 10x nicer.
VERDICT: If you're like me and stuck with verizon, i feel sorry for you. This phone is decent, but verizon's OS doesn't take advantage of it.
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