
Great Motorola Phone
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I bought mine unlocked and just swapped in my Orange Pay-As-You-Go SIM card from my old phone and I was using it as soon as it charged up. Great.
The phone is neat and reasonably small (easily fits in a pocket or handbag), and the screen is very clear to view with the settings being easily accessible. The addition of a small screen outside which lets you see basic information if you are playing MP3's through it, or if a call comes through, is great. If a call comes through while playing MP3s it pauses the music for you to take the call and then re-starts when you finish. The phonebook lets you put in more details than just the name and phone number, which is handy if you are out and about (eg. you could just look up a postcode to enter into your GPS to be directed where you are going.)
Mine came with a bluetooth headset which was quite easy to connect - just charge up the phone and the headset (headset uses the same charger that came with the phone), then, with the mike, (which also acts as the on-off switch for the headset) folded in, in the off position, press the button on the front until the ring around it lights up. Immedietely let go and flip out the mike. Then go to the phone, arrow down for Personalise, arrow right twice for Connection then Select. Select again for Bluetooth Link. Select Add Audio Device, and the phone found the headset. (I suppose the position of Personalise, Connection and Bluetooth might be in a different location on some phones, I can only go by where they were on mine.)
I've even managed to get it to dial out using voice commands from the headset, although the voice reading the names back to check that the phone had understood correctly was a bit faint and wasn't completely accurate reading back some of the Welsh names I'd put in.
I bought a MicroSD card, which I loaded up with MP3 music via an adapter into a slot on my Laptop before putting it in the phone (put in folder : mobile\audio). This works great, either selecting individual songs to play back or making up a playlist.
I've also used the 2MP camera inbuilt into the phone. Which, for a phone camera with no flash, produced very reasonable pictures both in indoor lighting and outside, which was quite impressive. The 4 x 6 printouts looked much better than I expected, with the outside ones being best. I took the MicroSD card out of the camera and once again put it into the my Laptop SD slot using an adapter and used my prefered photo software, although you can use a cable to transfer images and MP3s to and from the card without ever removing your MicroSD card once you've put it in. The phone even comes with some of its own memory inbuilt, so you don't have to use an extra card at all if you don't want the expense, although the number of songs and photos you can store on the phone will obviously be limited.
I've used the phone for a week now, and it is much better than my previous one. Time will tell whether I will still be as impressed, and whether it will rugged enough for constant use.
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