... The Motorola V2288 cost £60 including delivery from orange.co.uk and came with £20 of talk time, which I thought was a pretty good deal.
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To be honest the Motorola V2288 isn't the snazziest phone on the block, although it's a lot nicer looking than some of mobile phones I've seen. ... Read review
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Advantages: cheap, quite attractive, good for beginner Disadvantages: quite large, lacks features
...good value option. The Motorola V2288 cost £60 including delivery from orange.co.uk and came with £20 of talk time, which I thought was a pretty good deal.
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To be honest the Motorola V2288 isn't the snazziest phone on the block, although it's a lot nicer looking than some of mobile phones I've seen. Its dimensions are 130mm by 47mm by 27mm - it won't fit as easily in the palm of your hand as a little Nokia, but ... ...SUMMARY
The Motorola V2288 is quite a basic phone, but what do you expect for around £50? It looks fairly decent and has a lot of useful features, whilst lacking the trendiness and additional options available with little Nokias and suchlike. As a mobile phone virgin this phone is a good starting point for me, and I'm sure we'll be happily attached for quite some time. Whether I will have the nerve to take it out of the house with ... more
Being the cheapskate that I am, having finally decided to get a mobile phone I wanted a good value option. The Motorola V2288 cost £60 including delivery from orange.co.uk and came with £20 of talk time, which I thought was a pretty good deal.
LOOKS
To be honest the Motorola V2288 isn't the snazziest phone on the block, although it's a lot nicer looking than some of mobile phones I've seen. Its dimensions are 130mm by 47mm by 27mm - it won't fit as easily in the palm of your hand as a little Nokia, but it does fit snuggly in my pocket. I also like the fact that the phone is almost oval-shaped, therefore lessening the resemblance to a brick.
The handset is a nice off-white colour, although the phone is provided with two rubber covers to "enhance" the look - one blue, one pink. These covers are quite awkward to put on but they do give the phone a bit more protection. I have taken the phone out with the blue cover, but I would have to be very brave before venturing out into Leicester on a Friday night with the pink cover on! It looks like a Barbie phone. The phone comes complete with a handsfree kit and belt clip.
THE HANDSET
The phone actually feels quite light for its size. It has a nice big display and quite straightforward key layout, ideal for a mobile novice like me. The "Menu" button is the most important, and this is located directly below the screen. The handset has buttons for adjusting volume on the side, and the battery compartment is easily accessible. Previous reviews have said that it is easy to press the answerphone button accidentally, something that has happened to me on a few occasions. The phone seems quite hardy although I have not dropped it (yet!).
THE DISPLAY
Just what you'd expect really, the display shows whether you have any new messages with a little envelope icon. The battery power and signal strength are also clearly shown.
THE MENUS
I have generally found the menus on this phone well laid out, although they did make more sense after Orange got round to sending me the instruction manual! The main menu options are:
*Access Internet - takes you to WAP services
*Phone Book - self explanatory
*Call Related Features - call barring, for example
*Messages
*Phone Setup - alter ring tone etc.
*Network Selection - alter your network if necessary
*Call Meters - shows call times
Within each of these options are various other sub-menus which I won't go into - there are just far too many. On the whole it is relatively straightforward to find what you are looking for, and the 3 buttons you need to navigate through the menus (Cancel, Menu and OK) are all conveniently placed together at the top of the keypad.
TEXT MESSAGING
The phone can store up to 10 text messages. It doesn't have predictive text messaging. The layout and size of the keys means that texting is fairly quick - the keys aren't too close together and are quite large. To select a person to text (or phone) it is easy to choose them using an alphabetical search in the phone book.
FEATURES
*Ring tones - Not a strong point, and you can't even download any nice tunes. The 11 options include Standard (Brrrrrrrr!), British (Brrrr! Brrrrr!), Three Ring (do-do-do, do-do-do) and Musical (something that sounds distressingly like a funeral march). If your main priority is a trendy ring tone, this ain't the phone for you!
*Vibrating alert - Another bad point, the phone doesn't have this feature. Doesn't bother me really, but probably really useful for some people.
*Radio - The phone has a little button on the side which lets you activate an FM radio. This could be quite useful for long journeys or just moments of boredom, but on the negative side...
1. You can't get medium or long wave radio 2. On FM radio there's always the possibility of picking up Graham Torrington's Late Night Love
So I try to avoid the radio to be on the safe side.
*Clock - The phone has no clock, so get a watch!
*WAP - Easily accessible through the main menu although I have not used it as yet following friends warnings that "WAP is crap!". I will reserve judgement.
*Battery life - I have to say that the battery does seem to run down fairly quickly, but then again this is my first phone so I have nothing to compare it to. According to the information from Orange you should get up to 3 hours of talktime and up to 5 days standby.
*Games - Doesn't have any of these either!
SUMMARY
The Motorola V2288 is quite a basic phone, but what do you expect for around £50? It looks fairly decent and has a lot of useful features, whilst lacking the trendiness and additional options available with little Nokias and suchlike. As a mobile phone virgin this phone is a good starting point for me, and I'm sure we'll be happily attached for quite some time. Whether I will have the nerve to take it out of the house with the pink cover on, I will have to wait and see...
Advantages: Ability to store text messages, easy to set up Disadvantages: Odd batteries need replacing every 12 months, chunky size, lurid covers
...about my thoughts on my Motorola V2288e mobile phone. This isn’t because I am a new user of the handset – it’s just due to the fact that I’ve had so many pros and cons during our fourteen months together. Usually when posting a review to the Ciao database, I know that the product or service deserves and merits the rating that I will give so freely at the end of my review. This instance is different though….throughout my piece I will be using my thoughts ... ...had seen. In my opinion Motorola is a good name and I felt that the phone would provide me with good service.
GETTING IT HOME, UNPACKED AND CONNECTED
I’m always like a big kid whenever I get a new toy and this was no exception. I arrived back into my hotel room and eagerly unpacked the box. The contents were packed inside very snugly and instead of using plastic packaging the items were held in ‘cardboard egg box’ holders – much more eco-friendly ...
whitbybunny 22.09.2002 (25.09.2002)
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Advantages: It works Disadvantages: Big, boring and basic.
...on me and pulled a Motorola V2288 out of the loaner cupboard. Well, the least I can do to repay the kindness is to give it the once-over and review it for my fellow Ciaoistas, so here we go.
First impressions are of a smooth, rounded sort of phone, but quite big, at least compared to the one I’m used to. A quick comparison, made with the help of my own phone’s manual, comes out like this:
Weight – 140g against the Seimens 99g
... ...against 46mm
Depth - 30mm against 21mm
That’s enough comparing. It’s pretty big, OK? Let’s get down to doing stuff.
The V2288 is a dual band WAP enabled phone incorporating an FM radio for use with a stereo headset. This headset comes with a microphone attached. Not, as you may foolishly assume, for the purposes of Karaoke and annoying fellow travellers on the train, but so that one accessory acts as your hands-free kit and your ...
stevethesleeve 25.11.2001
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Advantages: They some good deals about because the phone is so crap. Disadvantages: It looks disgusting!, Value, lack of features
The Motorola V2288 was one of the first mobile phones to have a built in Fm radio… Okay I admit it that’s the only reason I bought the phone. I bought mine from eBay an online auction site for very little, £44 to be exact. Value. Theses phones retail at very little. They started off at £79.99 and then went to £69.99 and the £59.99. I believe that they can be bought for less than that now but I wouldn’t recommend one. Value isn’t ... ...is the same as the Motorola M3788e, one of the cheapest phones out!
Ease of use.
This phone is quite easily to use. The instruction manual is quite simple though I have only read it once, out of interest really. Reliability.
In the short time I had my phone I had no problems crop up. I sold this phone to a friend for £45 and he has had no problems. Motorola phones are generally reliable… probably because threes nothing to them. Wap.
I have ...
wilsam00 09.02.2002
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Advantages: WAP, rubber wraps, radio Disadvantages: Big clunky design, no games, rubbish ringtones
Motorola really know how to make a good phone. It is incredibly feature-packed for a £40 (with a free Orange Out-Here pack) phone. This phone is on Orange and so will have slightly different features to the standard Motorola V.2288. I will list and comment on all the features of the phone. WAP Internet Access- The WAP part of the phone is great. It is simple to use and easy to configure. You can set one neat feature allowing the phone to auto-disconnect ... ...they can send ringtones to Motorola V.2288s. This is false. Don't bother as I have tried and it is a con. Phoning- The main purpose of a mobile phone is to phone people and the V.2288 excels at this. It is easy to use and has excellent reception. Radio- The V.2288 has a gimmick which no other phone has. It is a decent radio built into the phone. By pressing a button on the side you can listen to any radio stations on the move. The phone comes with ...
Rossissor 07.05.2001
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Advantages: Simple to use, no fuss Disadvantages: the pink rubber wrap
...turned out I bought the Motorola V2288e which he recommended I get in the first place, but I didn’t know that at the time.
Me and my wee phone are inseparable nowadays, and we’ve grown quite fond of each other. Although less hi-tech than say a Nokia, the V2288e carries out all my communication needs with ease. Weighing in at 140g, it’s a fairly small, sleek beauty with 3 hours talk time and 5 days standby.
The Just Talk – ... ...include 2 rubber wraps to personalise the phone for individual moods. What mood I would need to be in to use the pink wrap I’ll never know. So as it is, my phone is either sleeved in blue or wrapless. Interesting idea though.
Finding my way around the phone is fairly simple. Thanks in main to the quick access menu. This gives instant access to the most frequently used features – whether it be the text inbox, message editor or ringer ...
hakkved 19.09.2001
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