Motorola RAZR V3

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Motorola RAZR V3

Aalaap Ghag, Mar 30, 2005 0000 hrs IST

Thin and sharp. Foam and moisturizer not included.

Stylish, Smart looking, Slim and fairly light, Great keypad, Good displays, Great Ringer, Bunch of accessories - Bluetooth wireless headset

No video recording, No music player, 5 MB memory that not upgradeable, very few applications

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How cool are Motorola phones these days? In the age of Nokias and... well... more Nokias, the cool factor has rarely belonged to anyone else. Sure, there are a few nice Sony-Ericssons and a couple of good Samsungs (and a couple hundred of good Samsungs in Korea), but the glory still belongs to Nokia. Most of you will remember that one of the first really talked-about phones was Motorola's StarTAC, the world's first flip phone introduced in the year 1996. Did you know that "Flip phone" was trademarked by Motorola back then? That's why you'll never see anyone else call their phones "flip phones", but will settle for "clamshells"!

Anyway, returning back to the future, which last Motorola phone do you remember that made you pop your eyes and go "Wooow"? In the past ten years after the StarTAC, I can only think of the Rotomoto V80 circular slider phone... that's it. They introduced a bunch of low- to mid-level phones, but nothing to set the affluent pulses racing. Until recently, when they made another throw with the RAZR V3, in their words, "an ultra-thin clamshell phone with cutting-edge technology and unstoppable functionality". Let's take a closer shave at their definition of cutting-edge technology and unstoppable functionality in the Motorazr...

The phone comes in a snazzy anodized aluminum box and a bunch of accessories with it: a Bluetooth headset (yes, a proper Bluetooth handsfree), a wired handsfree (yes, that too, sort of redundant, but hey), a USB cable, a charger, a leather carry pouch, a belt clip, software on CD, a thick users manual, etc.

The Razr looks great. The shell is made from tough aircraft-grade aluminum, which is supposedly the reason for its 97g lightness. When closed, the phone is only 1.4 cm thick, which is really slim. At a height of 9.8 cm and a width of 5.3 cm wide, which doesn't really come across as small, but nevertheless it fits fine into your jeans pocket. When you hold it in your hand, however, it doesn't feel most compact. When open, the phone seems huge at a whopping 17 cm tall. It's something you have to see to believe!

It may be aircraft-grade aluminum, but that didn't prevent casual chipping as you can probably see from the pictures - look towards the bottom right corner and the lower left side of the phone...

The keypad is supposedly chemically etched and nickel plated. The keys are not cut buttons like most phones, but look like a feather touch key panel. But it only looks like that because the keys have to be pressed just like buttons when they are to be used. The keys are wide enough and placed at proportionate distances from each other. All the keys are perfectly usable and don't require any nail-typing. This is one of the most comfortable keypads I've used. The backlight also looks fabulous at night.

Even after going into the specifics, on an overall note, it's passable as slim, lightweight and of course, extremely fashionable. But that's mostly it. I won't go far as to say that it's the "world's coolest phone" or whatever!

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Vinod V Menon

,Trivandrum, on Apr 06, 2005 06:01 PM

motorola s*%#s man. my first color phone was a moto. The slow and sluggish interface and the lack of communication options (no IR, no BT, cant transfer pics etc through cable, only WAP download available) forced me to sell it.

Motorola RAZR V3

Thin and sharp. Foam and moisturizer not included.

Stylish, Smart looking, Slim and fairly light, Great keypad, Good displays, Great Ringer, Bunch of accessories - Bluetooth wireless headset

No video recording, No music player, 5 MB memory that not upgradeable, very few applications

Check specifications

Write Review

Expert Rating :

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