Rating  - Highly Disappointed
I received this phone as a Christmas gift and almost wish Christmas had never come. This phone is truly a disappointment. The battery lasts only one day after maybe an hour of sporatic conversations. There is an annoying delay when you press any menu button. You forget what you wanted to do by the time your request comes up on the screen. Both screens seem to keep smudges eternally. It is nearly impossible to wipe it clean without a chemical of some sort. When saving a number, you can't see what state it originates from as with my previous non bluetooth phone. When placing a three way call, you can still hear the other person on the line and they can hear you dialing the number. There is an abundance of media players and on demand functions that I will never use. The camera does not come with a light, so forget about taking pictures anywhere but outside on a bright and sunny day. This is my first and last Motorola. I haven't dropped it yet, but I can't wait until the day that I do.
Rating  - Exactly what I want.
All I've ever expected from a cell phone is decent reception, a watch, an alarm clock, and a halfway interesting game to occasionally stave off boredom.
Until I bought a RAZR, I had always used the standard Nokia brick offered by T-Mobile, And I was always content with it. Then I discovered the RAZR.
The RAZR has everything I want from a phone.
Exceeding that, it's so compact that I don't even notice it's in my pocket. It has a speakerphone that I can use while closed and sitting on the seat of my car instead of holding while driving. I didn't even know it had a camera until I bought it.
Rating  - Junk
I bought the RAZR v3 a year ago because of its stylishness. I have to admit I was swept up in the trend.
A couple things were disappointing right away:
-Lack of features. The V3 really is a basic phone. You can't even search the phone book by more than the first letter. It lacks any of the fun little goodies other, similar phones have.
-Poor reception. I'd drop calls or get no reception in places where my friends with T-mobile (but different phones) came in loud and clear.
-Poor speaker quality. Using the phone in anything but a silent room was almost impossible. Even at the loudest volume, the speaker was too quiet when out and about. I had trouble hearing in restaurants, at concerts, even just sitting in the car with the window down. The microphone volume was low too, as many of my friends complained about how quiet I was.
-Speakerphone. It was so quiet, it was basically unusable.
-Voice record, but no customizable ring tones. Honestly, why include a voice recorder if you can't set them as ring tones? Granted, that is a rare feature.
-Lack of smaller stuff, like stopwatch.
I did like the look, and it was easy to navigate. The navigation was very customizable, and I really liked the ability to reset the functions of the soft keys.
However, this all wasn't even the worst of it. About three months later, my first wall charger broke. I figured I had shorted it out or something, so I just bought a new one (at $30). Fine and dandy. Another 4 months down the road, THAT charger broke. At this point, I'd started hearing from my friends with RAZRs (they'd become ubiquitous by now) that their chargers were going out too. So I spoke with Motorola, who "hadn't heard any formal complaints on the problem" and only warrantied their accessories for 14 days. I spoke to T-mobile, who said they couldn't do anything about it, because they could only warranty products for the duration of the return policy. So I was forced to buy ANOTHER charger, at $30.
One month later, that charger went out. I kept my receipt from the purchase, and brough it back in, but T-mobile gave me the same story, maintaining that no one else had ever had the same problem. They wouldn't do anything for me except offer a 10% discount on a new charger (needless to say, I was very unhappy with this, and about fed up with the RAZR).
I finally got the drivers for the RAZR online and started charging it on my computer with a mini USB cable. This, however, was much slower. I noticed that the RAZR's battery started buzzing (for lack of a better word) when I was charging it, and hardly holding a charge.
I'd been very careful not to drop the phone up to this point, but the first time I did drop it (admittedly, a fair distance, onto linoleum) the screen cracked in half. I dropped my little Nokia brick 50 times and nothing ever happened to it. Its durability was obviously awful. The coating had started to chip off and there was dust under the screen that I couldn't do anything about. This made it so I could barely see the screen- the dust issue has affected every single RAZR I've ever seen.
I finally lost my RAZR a few days ago, and was really glad to be rid of it. I'd never buy a Motorola again- not only did I have such issues with the RAZR, but my previous phone, a little Motorola flip phone (can't remember the model number now) crapped out after 8 months. I'm just an average cell phone user- I expect my phone to last at least the year before I can upgrade to a new one. I've had Nokias and Samsungs that last forever and have far better features for the price- I'll stick to those brands from now on.
All around, the RAZR was a huge hunk of junk, and convinced me to never buy a Motorola again.
Rating - Disappointed
I bought this phone after lots of rave reviews. However I was in for a great disappointment. The biggest complaint I have is, the battery drains superfast. I can hardly go by a day without recharging the phone.
I addition the phone automatically reboots itself and there seems to be a delay in my opening the phone and it being ready for a phone call.
Overall I am very disappointed.
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