Motorola V975

.../> **About~

Motorola has taken the market by storm over the pat 12 months they have revamped the phones that they produce. They want to be known as a leading supplier of mobile phones in the United Kingdom. Motorola currently supply to mobile telephones to many countries including UK, France, German, Usa, Hong Kong and many more countries. Motorola don't only make mobile telephones they also produce many other products including modems ...
...are worth about $31.3 billion. Motorola first came to the UK in 1967, there first site was Hertfordshire at that time they only made car radios. Since 1967 Motorola has grown to company that has 8 offices throughout the UK and one office that only does that manufacturing of there products. There offices are in both England and Scotland.


**Why this phone~

I had been looking at buying a new mobile telephone for ... more

I thought I would share my new phone with you all, I hope you enjoy the review and find it useful.

**About~

Motorola has taken the market by storm over the pat 12 months they have revamped the phones that they produce. They want to be known as a leading supplier of mobile phones in the United Kingdom. Motorola currently supply to mobile telephones to many countries including UK, France, German, Usa, Hong Kong and many more countries. Motorola don't only make mobile telephones they also produce many other products including modems for internet broadband, 2 way radios, cordless telephones for home use, and many home security products. Motorola's are always trying to be the best when it comes to the design of there products and to date they are worth about $31.3 billion. Motorola first came to the UK in 1967, there first site was Hertfordshire at that time they only made car radios. Since 1967 Motorola has grown to company that has 8 offices throughout the UK and one office that only does that manufacturing of there products. There offices are in both England and Scotland.

**Why this phone~

I had been looking at buying a new mobile telephone for about 2 months until I finally decided on this model. My research started on Ciao when I read most of the Motorola reviews and at the point I decided that I definitely wanted another Motorola mobile, already being the owner of the Motorola V220 I was more than happy to buy another. So the search began for the new Moto phone that I wanted, I knew that I wanted another flip phone and I knew it had to be small and stylish to go with me. I went to my local Car phone warehouse and spoke with the staff there, told them what I wanted and then they shown me a couple of phones and the minute I seen this phone I just knew it was for me. Now that I knew I wanted the Motorola V975 I now began to search for the cheapest price.

**How much~

This is the difficult part as I have seen this phone advertised at so many different prices over the past few weeks.

Argos~ £249.99 with £30.00 of credit pre loaded.

EBay~ £149.00 second hand with no credit

Asda~ £230.99 with £30.00 of credit pre loaded

Tesco~ £240.99 with £30.00 of credit pre loaded.

I bought mines from eBay at a cost of £119.00 second hand. It certainly pays to do a Google search on the price or spend the time to search the local high street shops. You will be surprised with the price different.
**The network~

When I bought this phone I could only find it on the network 3. Searching on the net after I bought I can still only see it available on the 3 network. Me being me I hate changing networks so I taken this phone to my local phone dealer and had it opened to all networks for the small fee of £10.00 so my phone is now on the O2 network. I think this phone may have been made for the 3 network

**The delivery~

Its here at last I am fed up waiting on the new phone getting here, its like Christmas as I tear the packaging from the box it was delivered in. Inside I have the following~

*Instruction booklet~ Ok well we are not all that good when it comes to mobile technology but I can certainly say that this instruction booklet is made for the customers that know nothing about phones as it has lovely step by step guides for all the functions. 10/10 for instruction booklet.

*Battery Charger~ Not a lot can say here apart from its provided with the phone.

* The battery~ Small battery that is very light weight

* The phone~ see below

* Stereo Headset~ I never got these with my phone~ But if you buy new you will

*Guide book to 3's services Software on CDROM

*USB Data Cable

**The Phone~

As I said as in the last part of this review I knew the minute I saw it and my thoughts have not changed I still love it.

Why you ask?

It's a stylish little number that looks really cool and modern on comparison to many other phone that are available just now. The phone its self is very light weight and small in size, having a MOTO phone is just cool, knowing that you have a cool phone such as this one make you feel good and you know that people will always comment when the phone rings~ Oh nice phone, What phone is that, But what there really saying is that I want that phone.

Weight~ 137g

Height~ 94mm

Width~ 49mm
Depth~ 27mm

**Specification~

Video Calling~ This is a unique options that is available to 3G customers, This phone will allow you to have a video voice call with any other 3G customer that has a video compatible phone. I tried this once or twice on the 3 network before I changed and I can honesty say it's a great feature of this phone. To be able to see a live feed from the other side of the Uk via the mobile phone is absolutely amazing. The overall quality of this feature is very good as I felt that the live picture was really good quality picture wise and the colour and sharpness was also really good. A good way to have fun and certainly a good way to see the kids whilst at work.

Camera~ Having had a Motorola phone in the past I knew that I was not about to be blessed with the best camera in the world. But I believe that mobiles are designed to make phone calls on not to be used as a camera. Well this phones does have a great camera that will capture your amazing pictures, with a built in 4x zoom you are guaranteed to get the all important picture you want. A nice easy to use camera that will deliver good quality pictures. Stats~ 640x480 pixels

Built in hands free~ at the touch of a button you will have turned the phone in to an hand free unit that will activate a loud speaker to allow you to hear voice calls without having the phone next to your ear. Well that's what the instructions booklet tells you, but in reality you get a very poor quality speaker that you will find very hard to hear, the microphone that also picks up your voice seems to do a very poor job too. My wife is often screaming down the phone at me saying I cant hear you. Sorry to say but this feature needs a lot of development.

Email~ You are able to send and receive emails via this telephone as yet I have never done it. To be honest I don't think I will ever do it either.

MMS~ in case your not sure what MMS stands for I will tell its Multimedia Message Service. Now this is what your phones needs to be able to send and receive picture messages and ring tones.

Ring tones~ Polyphonic is certainly the way forward for most phones these days, this phone is not exception it has a massive 16mb internal memory for the storage of polyphonic ring tones, pictures and now even MP3 files. You are able to download MP3 files direct from the world wife web. * You are able to enhance the memory by buying a Microsd memory card.

Triple band~ My lord phones have come this far already and its only 2005, this phone is
fully functional in the USA, Europe and Canada. As I have not left Edinburgh yet I cant confirm if this is the case.

**Displays~

Inside Screen~ A nice clear screen that has a eye for detail, a very easy to understand screen that is easy to see from all angels. Its clear that Motorola have sent some time developing this screen as the performance is superb. stats 65.536 colours~ 176x220 pixels

Outside LCD~ this screen is just as good as the internal one but I do have to say that the colour detail is not as good as the internal screen. When looking at the screen you often have to turn the phone top a different angle to se what the time is or what the screen is displaying.

**Texting~ Nice and easy to text on this phone with the option for the predictive texts messaging I am able to send messages very easily. I have currently 31 messages stored in my inbox and I have not be asked to delete any yet. I am not sure how many messages the phone can hold. Texting is very easy and straight forward, You can take the number from your phone book or you can key in a number should you not have it stored in your phone. You will get a message saying sent when you have successfully sent the message. If the messages fails it will sit in your outbox for you to try again later.

**Making Calls~ Whilst using the phones for calls I have always been very happy with the sound quality. Its nice and clear and of course loud too. You do have the option to adjust the volume of the ear piece should you find it too loud.

**Battery~ Unfortunately this is where this phones performance takes a nose dive for the worst. When I bought this phone I was under the impression that this battery would last me at least a day. How wrong could I be, I have to charge this phone up every single night when I get in from work as the battery low indicator is flashing. A typical day from me would start at 6.30am and finish at 19.30hrs now during that day I will send about 50 messages and make about 3 10 minute voice calls. Working that out would tell you that the battery should last me more than one day, well it does not. Often about 17.00hrs I will lose 2 bars on the battery level meaning I am left with one bar and then by the time I get home at 19.30hrs its dead. Charge time takes about 6 hrs to fully charge the battery again. I really believed that I did have a faulty battery so I contacted Motorola and they kindly allowed me to return the battery to them for a new one but the new one is just the same. It just proves that this phone has a very poor battery.

**Conclusion~

Sorry Moto but I would certainly not recommend this phone to anyone, I think its priced to high for what you get with it. I can believe that in this day and age your phone battery only lasts 12hrs approx. I have never had such a poor battery with any other phone that I have had. On a positive note I will say that the Motorola customer care is excellent and they will try and solve any complaint you may have very quickly. I would have been more happier with this phone if Motorola had spent a little more time on the actual batter life rather than adding features that people will never use. I no longer use this phone I have went back to my old Motorola V220

**More Information~

Instruction booklet claims~ 150 standby hrs~ 2 talk time hrs

Colour~ Silver

Usb port on phone too

**Contact~

http://www.motorola.com/

https://www.motorola.com/uk/feedback

Hope you find this review useful and thank for reading

© Marcellep~ Robert Ciao/Dooyoo 09/2005 

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