Motorola PEBL U6/V6

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Motorola PEBL U6/V6

Frazier Barretto, Jun 29, 2006 1701 hrs IST

Motorola now has another new design circulating the market, the Moto PEBL. As the name goes this phone resembles just that, a PEBL.

Stylish design, Cool flip mechanism, Great finish, Good screen, Outer monochrome display, Bluetooth, Loud speaker, Good battery life.

Heavy, Bad software/interface, No memory expansion slot, Centre button of the D-pad scratches the screen.

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The Throw

The PEBL sports the same keypad as the one seen on the RAZR with slight modifications. The keypad has two extra hotkeys for internet and messages which can't be customized. The other change is the use of wavy lines to define the keys instead of straight lines. The same 4 directional D-pad is present for navigation and a center button for selection. The D-pad is raised a little above the keypad level causing the screen to get scratches due to the sliding/opening of the phone. This kind of keypad isn't suited for people who are into messaging since the touch orientation is missing, like you won't know if you have pressed a key or not. This problem is noticed with all the Motorola phones that feature the RAZR keypad like the V3i, L6, L7 SLVR, and now the PEBL.

The handsfree bundled along with the phone is quite big; it doesn't fit and can fall off easily. The handsfree is mono which makes sense as the phone neither has an MP3 player nor FM reception. The phone has its own software bundled along for synchronization with the PC.

Software

The PEBL is only meant to flaunt; the software makes it completely outdated. Motorola has been making advances in design and comfort while other mobile producers have raced ahead with software and usability advances leaving Motorola something like 5 yrs behind. The company has been dragging this software from ages. The same software seen in all of the previous offerings has been used in the PEBL as well.

The software is very confusing and customization is limited. An example for confusing would be; you want to send an image via Bluetooth. After selecting the image you want to transfer, in the options menu it's not "send via Bluetooth" its "move via Bluetooth."

Conclusion

The Motorola PEBL is available for a price of Rs. 9,800 with one year warranty. This phone will solely be purchased either for the style that it flaunts or by Motorola fanatics. The software of the phone is not user friendly, and for people using Nokia for many years, it will be a task to handle. The phone has a good battery life of around 4hrs talktime and 250 hrs of standby time. But there are many phones available in the same price range which can offer way more features.

Though on the features and usability grounds it doesn't score, none of the others can call for a style statement that the PEBL can pull off in a crowd, especially the auto flip open will make anyone go WOW!!!