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| Motorola RAZR2 V9m Phone (Verizon Wireless) | 
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| Brand: Motorola
Category: Wireless
List Price: $399.99
Buy New: $249.20
You Save: $150.79 (38%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 2771
Color: Silver
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: UTSXV6900
UPC: 723755888609
ASIN: B000VR9FT4
Release Date: September 4, 2007
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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great Phone Hardware, [...] software January 24, 2008
15 out of 16 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.
Great Phone! (but the battery life was unacceptable) January 18, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I regretted having to return this well designed phone. It is much faster than the old Razr, has a very good speaker phone and great overall voice quality. My main problem with the phone was the battery life. I was using a battery that was only a few weeks old and still needed to be charged daily. To add to the annoyance of daily charging the flap that covers the charging port is poorly designed.
I have since switched to the SCH-u900 FlipShot. The Samsung is not quite as good of a phone, but it does have a better camera and holds a charge much longer. I am keeping the u900, but I do miss my V9m. I tried contacting Motorola about the battery life issue and was politely told they would not be able to do anything to help. If Motorola had acknowledged the problem and for example offered a discount on an extended life battery. I would still be happily using my RAZR2.
 Amazon flogging refurbished phones as new ? January 3, 2008
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I got 2 V9m phones and a family plan with Verizon. We really like the design of the phone and its features. Unfortunately it looks like one of the phones is a refurbished phone. The hinge is loose and hence the screen part is not rigid. It kind of moves sideways when opened and closed. On close examination one can see tool marks near the hinge and battery cover, and dust accumulation near the hinges and USB ports. These are classic tell tale signs of a used phone. On top of that I am having voice quality and battery issues too.
Since I have two V9m phones, I can clearly see and feel the difference between the two. I will try to return the refurbished phone and exchange it for a "new" phone.
More later....
 Great phone with one problem December 26, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Just got a RAZR2 to replace my original RAZR, which held up well until it all of a sudden got the Motorola "blue screen of death" one morning. The RAZR2 is a beautiful hunk, with a fantastic screen and outstanding call and voice quality. I'm disappointed though that I can't change the ring tone (on/off/vibe) with the cover closed - or at least I haven't figured this out yet.
One problem though -- the flip-up lid is loose on the left side. I went back to Verizon, who were very helpful, and they pulled all 5 RAZR2's they had in stock and we looked at each one and they were all loose, some worse than others. I ended up keeping mine. This must be a problem either with the phone or with a manufacturing batch. When the lid is opened about 45 degrees, it is loose and can be easily twisted back and forth. It feels like a gasket or something is missing from the one side.
Too bad, because the hinge on the '2 is huge, so I'm not sure why this problem. Otherwise, the phone is a work of art. By the way, it took some finagling to get the 2MB mini-SD card to be accepted by the phone after I downloaded some music to the card. I had to turn off the phone and plug the card in once or twice before the phone recognized the card and cataloged the music. I wish the card could be plugged in the side rather than under the battery...
Plan on Buying High Capacity Battery December 16, 2007
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
The is an excellent phone. However the big beautiful LCD display uses a lot of power and is ill-suited to the 600mah stock battery. Plan on Buying 920mah High Capacity Battery MX50 for MSRP of $50.
Can't believe the above reviews have not mentioned this most glaring deficiency.
Verizon sold us the Motorola 500 Bluetooth headset which had inferior voice quality. The Jawbone at double the price was just the ticket: polished and clear voice quality.
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