Hi, I'm a 16 year old student and am hugely interested in games, DVDs and CDs.
Hi, I'm a 16 year old student and am hugely interested in games, DVDs and CDs.
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The Motorola L6 is a strange item to review - it can be excellent and it can be awful: it depends who you are and how you want your phone to be. After this review, hopefully you can make your own judgement on whether this phone is just right for you. And the digestive biscuit themed title will be explained at the end!
PHONE BUILD
The phone is incredibly thin and this is a good thing - it fits into pockets so snugly: a down point is when sitting down, it can really dig into your leg and is very hard to get comfortable with. The side buttons are quite cool and accessible - the left one being the internet access and the right being the camera which is quite helpful. The screen can get smudged really easily though, and this can be large problem and can get very annoying quick having to clean it, or live with a messy screen! The keypad buttons can be tricky as they are very close and this can be a problem, especially when used to more distinctive layouts. Another negative point is the fact
that the casing can sometimes get under your nails and this can be a fingers down blackboard sort of experience! Also, if the phone is dropped, it can be quite flimsy - the back casing, battery and sim card have all fallen out on me before. The method of locking the phone is quite handy though - just by pressing menu and star - can be helpful if people are trying to unlock your phone: most people don't have a clue how to do it!
RECEPTION/BATTERY
The reception on this phone is great - especially with Vodafone. I've basically never been out of signal, and if I have, it is quick to recover. As for battery life, I'm not so grateful. The life is quite short to be honest, expecially when in use, and instead of just being short, it is unreliable. For example, one moment the battery life is 3 bars, then it's dead! Then, when charging, it says it's fully charged... and it's not! Also, when charging, it's impossible to access any of the phone's features - the only way is by turning on the phone, then quickly plugging it in so it doesn't die out: really impractical. Also, the beeping the phone makes when out of battery is not neccessary - a very loud beep which is still horrendous on low volume: terrible for conferences or meetings when your phone is down low yet not on silent!
MESSAGING/CONVERSATION
This comes with normal SMS/MMS ways of texting - and the texting is quite solid. There are several different methods of communicating - predictive text (which is really solid, comes with a VERY large dictionary) and normal text - along with symbols and capitalization. You can also insert pre-made comments and sayings such as 'Be there in a bit' or 'I'm late' or even 'I love you lots.' - Can be helpful to some, but they're placing is hidden away and therefore can be very forgettable. Conversations can be good, speakerphone is excellent - but normal conversations can come across very loudly, when I take the phone away from my ear, a ringing usually ensues around my head: surely not a good thing!! However, it's not a bad system in that respect.
CAMERA
The camera is good, but only for basic use. In any even slightly dark environment, the footage goes pitch black. The pictures can usually be fuzzy too - but I find it's the luck of the draw. At one point, I took a random picture of my dog and it came out beautifully - at the same quality of a top of the range digital camera! Other times, the quality has been diabolical. It took me a while to actually find the setting to turn off the shutter noise but eventually managed to mute it - annoying but worth it in the end, The video capturing is quite shoddy; the audio is all one harsh, sharp level, and the video itself is blurry and reluctant to actually be clear at all. They only last for a small amount of time, so it has no actual practical use. Also, if you don't fiddle with the settings, the maximum video time is 10 seconds - yet upping the time only leads it to a measly 30 seconds more. An ok camera, but useless for any practical reasoning.
BLUETOOTH
The bluetooth on this phone is ok... for me, just doing a handsfree search doesn't pick up any people, so to even find anyone you have to copy a picture first - but once this is done, you can pick up a lot of people fast. And there's a nice little feature that maintains the history of your bluetooth contacts.
OTHER FEATURES
The internet never really appealed to me on this, but the times I have used it, it is quite reliable and easy to use - hideous loading times however. The games are also quite good, although there is only one to start off with - and nowadays new games for mobile cost a lot more than they're worth. It's called Rebels and is basically a space shooting game. It does have a range of difficulty levels, and can be really fun! Some of the extras such as the calendar, calculator and clock/alarm can be useful - and the calculator in particular is very handy and has saved me on a variety of occasions. A final bad point is the amount of memory on the thing - it has a puny amount, and within days it was chockablock with videos and pictures which was a great shame.
CONCLUSION
So, from this review, it seems like quite a mediocre phone. But really, if you are just a casual phone user who wants something reliable and thin that's easy to use - then you've got the perfect bargain. However, if you want a bit more from your phone, then this really isn't for you. And in one respect, the L6 can be resembled to a digestive biscuit. It looks good yet when you bite into it it's bland and lacks any taste or amazement. Which is a great shame for such a promising looking, little (and very thin) phone. Basic, and not complex.
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Advantages: Games, some good buttons, signal reception Disadvantages: Battery, the whole I-Mode thing, Not MP3, Hardly Customisable, Keypad, Only available on O2 PAYG
liz1102 19.11.2006 ·
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