Customer Reviews

Motorola V3 - O2 - Pay As You Go Mobile Phone

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

At first glance, this phone looks brilliant. It's stylish, slim and fairly small, with a gorgeous (and huge)screen that is undoubtedly one of its best features. The only design feature i wasn't very happy with were the coloured buttons on the keypad, which made the phone look a little childish in my opinion.

And, while it looks pretty great, I wasn't overly impressed with the practicalities of it.

Firstly, the camera is pretty good, and takes high quality images that rarely blur. However, I, for some reason, thought you could take video clips with the phone, not an unlikely bet saying that you can both take pictures and record sound, as well as the fact that the phone can play pictures. As far as I know (and I experimented for a long time and looked at the manual)you cannot take videos with this phone.

After discovering this, my overall estimation of the phone went down significantly. However, I was hard-pushed to find any other real prblems or niggles with it.

The bluetooth feature worked perfectly, the games and extra features, such as MOTOmixer were also great.

Overall it is hard to fault this little phone, except for the lack of a video clip feature, and, were Motorola to correct this, I would have given it 5 stars.

Returned to Motorola after two years using the rubbish Sony Ericsson 610T.The Motorola is in a league of its own.Fell in love with it as soon as I saw it.Reception was a problem in the house with previous mobiles.Not so with this.The phone itself looks and feels quality.The 256k screen is stunning in its colours and navigation with the 4 way key couldn't be simpler, or more logical.Picture messaging and WAP browsing with the S.E. was a nightmare;not so with the V3, both functions performing with ease.The keypads compared to most phones are big which is a Godsend if you have chubby fingers like me.Bought the phone as an upgrade for £40 through T-mobile, but I was prepared and would have been happy to have paid full price for it (£250).Fantastic phone!

This is the 2nd Motorolla I have had, my wife gave me her's when she got another type of phone, but I don't think you can beat them. When the old one gave up the ghost I got a new one and it is great, when you go abroad I have no problems with it like some people have, the only downside is the camera it is not as good as the old one but then I don't use it much, you do need full sun and light to get any sort of decent photo. But all in all I would not change mine. Dennis

I have read the mixed reviews about this phone and decided to make my own mind up about it. If you are wondering if it is worth it, basically yes it is.
the only reason it doesnt get 5 stars is because of the battery life, isnt as good as it could be.
But if you want a phone for texting, phoning, picture messaging and taking the odd photo then this is the sexy cool phone for you.

A very nice phone but does dissapoint in certain key areas.

Very well designed and lightweight 96grams I think,
Ive just bought the black version same as this one (except for the addition of mpeg4), but sprayed black same aircraft grade aliminium casing etc...

Small sub back screen, decent enough but the space is there to have a larger one fitted.
The Operating system is nice and easy to use, but the user interface design lacks any inspiration and appears like a rather tacky add on, to what is otherwise beautiful peice of design. Surely a design icon in the making.

The camera works well, but lacks any real practical use other than using your snaps as wall paper.

Allows you to customise the tunes and interface with skins which is a redeeming feature.

No 3G phone just a quad band phone, use it anywhere in the world well in 100 countries world wide, which cant be bad?

In my opinion, as this is the first mobile phone I've ever bought or owned, I'm mostly dissapointed at the cost £250 (an avarage weeks wage for a phone arggghh) it is over priced and over hyped, sorry motorola this is firstly a fashion item for the 'in crowd or fashionista' and secondly a phone.

Perhaps I should have bought the Seimens 65? you know the one the phone camera or camera phone.

But however it may just make me fall for its good looks and its basic functions...

Would have been happier to have payed £100.

I am still at a toss-up about which carrier to use but I am pretty much sold on the phone. There is only one feature that I was really looking for, 800/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS frequencies. I am very much familiar with GSM as I worked on it over ten years ago for Northern Bell Telecom. And I intend to use at least a couple of frequencies. There is an affiliate T-Mobile in Germany. I think I will hold out for the black anodized aluminum version. My only worry is that I intend to stick it in my pocket and the hinge looks a little weak in appearance.