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| Motorola KRZR K1 Silver Phone (T-Mobile) | 
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| Brand: Motorola
Category: Wireless
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 644
Color: Silver
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: KRZR
UPC: 610214614193
ASIN: B000OYYHXS
Release Date: April 2, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Style, Camera, Music/Media, Net June 27, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
First and foremost this is a Style and Media phone. Silver is far more luxe than tired black and it synchs w/ this shiny glass front much better. T-Mobile's silver KRZR k1 is glam. The sound of the media player is peerless (to my knowledge). The sizable micro mini memory card holds plenty of media, and this is a good thing for a phone which records up to 3+ minute movies at a time. What's more, you may even arrange playlists to suit your mood & the battery life seems much better than one might expect w/ such a bright screen to boot. However, I might dim it a few notches for optimal battery life. It will still be plenty bright.
The camera is quite noteworthy. More adjustments than I can get into, just know that you need to adjust both camera and video to take best quality photos. They are not the default settings. You might also note that, any time you zoom a pic or vid, you are greatly reducing its clarity. Other than that, adjust your images to 2 megapixels and your photos will be quite large and quite clear. I'm one of those w/whom the difference between HDTV and a good TV is almost unrecognizable. I like a nice, crisp photos... I don't study them. GREAT camera... great video.
Music, videos and photos may be downloaded via bluetooth or a USB cable which is provided.
Now on to the Net. This is where the rubber meets the road for me as I don't really use portable music players. Right off the bat, I downloaded Opera's Mini Browser. It's far more robust than the factory installed. I was able to go to Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail and many other sites as well. The KRZR also comes loaded w/ Y! Messenger & AIM. Good stuff. This phone does NOT have an email client.
I'm a smartphone owner (Nokia 6600), so I'm used to an email client for a couple of accounts and being able to use Opera Mobile which allows one to attach files and send messages, open multiple windows, store passwords and bookmarks, download mp3s as well as access nearly any website. Unfortunately, sick American corporations have determined that since we will pay an extra $20-30/month for PDA service (basically the same phone w/ a QWERTY keyboard), why offer more affordable smarthphones. THANKS TO AMAZON you may still purchase smartphones, but usually w/o the discount attached to a service plan.
As for reception, this has as much to do w/ locale as phone and service operator. T-Mobile is a GSM carrier which means you may use your phone all over the globe. It also means you may text overseas & you have a SIM card to transport your phone book and account easily to any other GSM phone you may have or purchase. If you purchase an unlocked GSM phone in Timbuktu, you may insert your card and go. Not so w/ Sprint & Verizon. Ya gotta go through daddy. At one time TDMA/CDMA services (Sprint & Verizon) had better tracking, but GSM (T-Mobile & AT&T) has caught up. T-Mobile has excellent reception and tracking... at least in the places I've been to & my phone worked in Europe w/ ease.
I always thought of Motorolas as cheap and the RAZR as gimmicky. Moto's interface is a bit dated and could be a tad more intuitive, but the KRZR seems to be of good quality so far.
As for Wirefly, well, I'm no fan of the company. One worker had the nerve to ask for my credit card info. Nice try, but I don't use my credit card twice for the same purchase. What the fffff.....!
Overall, The KRZR K1 is decidedly an upscale unit. It has USB, bluetooth, stereo bluetooth, 2 megapixel camera, Opera Mini, memory card, records 3+minute videos, will hold numerous songs, works overseas, has excellent sound, a bright screen and sexy looks to boot. HOT and HAUGHT! It's a wonderful phone - more for the Dolce & Gabbana type than the 'down and dirty' type.
 If there were a "zero star", I'd have picked that rating... June 12, 2007
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
This phone was designed very poorly. From a cosmetic standpoint, it has a mirrored finish that is constantly smudged with fingerprints. After a week of carrying my phone in my front pocket, the mirrored surface cracked. The phone still works, but now I get to look at a cracked surface for the next two years while I work off the new service plan with T-mobile I'm locked into. Another problem with the display on the phone while it's closed is that it's hard to see the time and date. The buttons on the side of the phone are too recessed to be easily pushed to prompt the time to light up.
The set up menus aren't very straight forward on this phone either. They've tried to make it very flexible, and in some instances that just confuses matters.
There is this 20 second backlight that blacks out the screen every 20 seconds. Like me, I'm sure you're saying "you can turn that off..." But, I certainly can't find it, nor can the service people at Tmobile. So, when I'm trying to get into my Yahoo mail, which takes forever and multiple key strokes, the screen will go black while waiting for the web browser to launch. When you hit a key to make the screen come back on, if that key corresponds to an actual command on the (now black) screen, it'll still activate what ever the command is. So, while the screen lights up again, it's now trying to do some command that you don't want, so you have to back up and try again... I'm sure that there are "safe" keys that I will eventually find that will wake up the phone without activating a command, but I should have to do this. Like with any screen saver, a keystroke should just wake up the screen and not actually "do" anything.
Another problem with the phone is the key pad. The "up, down, left, right" arrows are very hard to hit without hitting a key next to them. So, once again, I spend my time reversing commands that I inadvertently hit along the way. I used to have a very simple Samsung phone with Sprint and I never thought I'd miss that antiquated guy, but I do...
Sound quality is average at best. Not sure if that's the phone's fault, Tmobile, or my area of coverage...
Good luck if you but this phone model. The K-RAZR is a step down from the RAZR, not an improved version.
Not happy with Wirefly May 25, 2007
3 out of 40 found this review helpful
I don't even know what I think about the actual phone yet, it might be awesome who knows--I ordered it 4 days ago saying that it was in stock, requested expedited shipping and all I got was a confusing e-mail back telling me that they were NOT in stock and asked me to wait 48-72 hours for them to receive more stock. I am still waiting, and have not even heard if they have gotten the phone in when I should have received the phone one or two days ago. BAD SERVICE. It is extremely frustrating, and I do not recommend this company because they are disorganized and do not have good customer service.
 KRZR May 21, 2007
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
I love this phone. Very small and light. Easy to use and the coverage has been great for a phone with an internal antenna
MOTOROLA May 20, 2007
3 out of 93 found this review helpful
If this is a great camera phone how come not one picture is posted from this phone ? also nobody is talking about phone reception quality or anything must be junk I gave it one star because it looks good and every review is lame and im not sure if i want to own it without knowing
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