Motorola V3 Reviews
Every now and then a mobile phone appears on the market that has a distinctly retro look and feel to it. Long gone are the days of flip-phones, with tablet phones and candy-bar phones being far more popular. But if you fancy pretending to be Captain Kirk, then the new Motorola V3 Razr flip-phone may be for you.
The razor thin Motorola V3, hence where it got its name, stacks up well considering its design. The screen for example is the best part of any Motorola V3 review. Its 2.5-inch 260,000 colour display does a great job at showing pictures and video, even in sunlight, although the phone is limited to only viewing movies, you can’t record them from the phone itself. You also get another screen on the front of the phone when closed that shows the time, signal strength and battery level. It also acts as a viewfinder when in camera mode. Like most Motorola mobile phones of this design in the past, the Motorola V3 feels nice and light, and takes up little room. The phone also feels well constructed and unlikely to break with the slightest knock. All in all the Motorola V3 Razr is a neat little phone.
| Condition | Brand New |
| Network Support | 2G Quadband |
| Network Lock | Unlocked |
| Network Branding | Optus |
| Weight | 95g |
| Dimensions | 98 x 53 x 13.9 mm |
| Handset Type | Flip |
| Camera | VGA |
| Bluetooth | Yes, V1.2 |
| Internal Memory | 5MB |
| Card Slot | No |
| Operating System | Other |
| Features | Email, GPRS, Java, MMS, Speakerphone, USB |
| Warranty | 12 Months - Manufacturer |
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Bold Screen Design
- Simply beautiful
Introducing an all-screen smartphone like no other. It all comes together beautifully with the scratch-resistant glass merging perfectly into the smooth one-piece body. And there’s innovation in every detail. The vivid AMOLED display brings everything to life right on the surface, plus the curved glass makes it easy to swipe the touch screen as you move between apps.
The simplicity of swipe
- A better way to use a phone
It all comes down to a simple swipe. This one idea makes everything feel effortless and completely natural as you use your phone. There are no back or home keys – just a continuous flow as you move from app to app. Swipe any edge of the screen to go home, then move easily between three home views.
One home, Three simple view.
- This is how it should be done
Three views with everything you need. Start something new in the familiar Applications view, or go to the Open applications view to jump from one live app to another – great for picking up where you left off. The Events view is the place to see what’s happening right now in your world. Live Facebook updates and Tweets, real-time emails and other notifications, all in one place.
Free* Navigation
Free* maps and navigation
Get to where you want to go with free* walk and drive navigation and turn-by-turn voice guidance. Find the best of everything in your city, including cafes, shops, concerts, hotels and more, with public transportation line views for over 80 cities worldwide. As maps for your region are preloaded, you can get started right away and save on data costs. Plus the dedicated Drive app is optimised for in-car use with simple touch controls.
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Next-generation browser
Fast, effortless browsing
It’s time to speed things up. Nokia N9 features a fast mobile web browser, so pages load on your screen in no time. And with HTML5 support you get the best of the web including rich apps and fast video playback. Everything is quick and highly responsive, plus you can keep multiple pages open at the same time and move easily between them.
8 MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics
Everything looks better in HD
A photo opportunity can come and go at any moment. Use the 8 MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics to take a great shot, or start filming in stunning high definition. The wide-angle lens means you get more friends in the picture – just tap to focus and shoot. Instantly share online for everyone to enjoy, or touch another NFC-enabled phone to share with someone close by.
Best apps and games
Must-have apps preloaded
Apps are everywhere these days. But the important thing is how good they are, not how many you have. Nokia N9 comes with quality must-have apps straight out of the box, including Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Accuweather and AP Mobile. You also get Angry Birds to keep you entertained for hours, plus there are other essential apps and games at Ovi Store.
Motorola Defy MB525 Review
Design
If you've researched rugged phones before, you'll know they are universally ugly devices. The Sonim series of "indestructible" phones may be able to withstand a bullet, but its Transformers-like chassis is bulky and far from the best fashion accessory for a night out in a fancy restaurant. The Moto Defy bucks this trend, and though its matte plastic body falls short of being absolutely drool-worthy, it is a cool-looking handset nonetheless.
Around the edges of the Defy you'll find six screws, and the battery cover is locked down with a sliding latch. This, apparently, provides enough protection to withstand being submerged in up to one-metre of water, and though you'll probably still want to keep it away from water where possible, it is sufficient to survive rain and, god forbid, being dropped in the dunny. We completely submerged the phone in a glass of water for several minutes while shooting the video review (above) and found the phone to be completely functional afterwards. Interestingly, you can't use the touchscreen underwater. We found that the touchscreen actually responds to water, so there's no chance of taking this phone scuba-diving for some impromptu underwater photography.
Protecting it from the keys in your pocket, the 3.7-inch capacitive touchscreen features Gorilla Glass. The touchscreen is reasonably responsive, though like the Milestone 2, we have noticed that interacting with the Defy can seem a bit sticky at times. The phone will respond to gestures promptly, but animations, like scrolling through the list of installed apps, can appear a bit jerky. Motorola has included a Swype keyboard in the Defy, and while we love this addition, it is yet another example of where the response time of the phone can drop to an irritating level.
Features
Beneath the rugged good looks of the Defy beats the heart of a fairly average Android smartphone— in terms of software. The Defy runs on Android 2.1 with Motorola's MotoBlur version 1.5. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we don't like MotoBlur very much. It takes the enormity of the social network experience and distills it down into a handful of widgets and an app that pools all of this information into one not-particularly streamlined location. We spent about a day with MotoBlur before we removed the widgets from the homescreen and installed TweetDeck instead.
But there are other parts of the standard smartphone experience that Motorola does very well. The music player in the Defy is probably the best music application we've used all year. It does the basics well; it plays music loudly, displays album art, has multiple search filters for organising music; but it also adds a couple of really excellent web services. There's TuneWiki, an app that streams album art and the lyrics of the song you are listening to so that you can sing along. It can also show other TuneWiki users on a Google Map so you can discover new music through what they are listening to. Shoutcast is also installed and lets you tap into the vast, seemingly endless world of internet radio. But our favourite part of the player is the YouTube integration. If you feel your music needs a visual component you can launch a YouTube video search of the song and artist you are listening to from the menu and play the clip without leaving the music player.
Cinema lovers will also make good use of the baked-in DLNA media sharing software, identical to the Media Share tools we found on the higher-priced Milestone 2. With Media Share you can stream videos, photos and music in both directions, plus you can transfer files to and from your phone. This is very handy when you are visiting that friend who happens to have an amazing library of media.
We also found the 5-megapixel camera to be better than your average smartphone shooter. It's paired with a dual-LED photolight and features all of the customisable settings users probably expect in a camera of this calibre, but its the pictures that have really won us over. After taking 50 or more photos, we were pleased to see a majority of those were in focus, and the colour of the scenes to be accurately recreated. With the LED photolight doing well not to overpower the photos, the camera does a fine job even in low-light situations.
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Performance
As we noted early, the performance is consistent, but the Defy could use a bump in processing power to run the system MotoBlur infused Android platform without jagged, jerky animation lag. This isn't to say we've struggled to use this phone, in fact we've had a great time using it as our day-to-day handset, but it certainly lacks the polish of this year's best touchscreen smartphones.
Call quality during our review has been exceptionally good. We tested the Defy on Telstra's Next G network and found the people we spoke to sounded as clear and natural as they'd be if they were standing in front of us. Data speeds were also good and the phone was prompt in deferring to WiFi when we can within the range of a known network. For rural readers, Telstra has also informed us that the Defy is the latest addition to its Blue Tick range of phones, indicating superior coverage for customers who might otherwise struggle to make a call.
Overall
There's plenty to like about the Moto Defy: it offers a good smartphone experience with Android and protects itself from the bumps, knocks and splashes of everyday life with its rugged casing. What's really won us over is the extra attention paid to the phone's multimedia, both in capturing and in playback. The camera is well-made, the music player is first-class and the DLNA media sharing feature is a welcomed bonus. We wish Motorola had used a more powerful processor and more RAM to iron out some of the issues we've experienced with lag, but if you can look past this these niggling frustrations you'll discover a very capable phone in the Defy.
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Windows Phone 7 vs. iOS vs. Android
Mobile OS Smackdown: Windows Phone 7 vs. iOS vs. Android
Windows Phone 7 has some innovative and unique features, but are they enough
to win over consumers? We pit Microsoft’s new mobile OS against Apple’s iOS and
Google’s Android to see how it stacks up.
The iPhone and Google Android devices had a few years to refine their user
interface and features, which gave them plenty of time to get ahead of
Microsoft's ailing Windows Mobile OS. But in a swift turn of events, Microsoft
came up with a totally new user interface for the Windows
Phone 7 OS, which will arrive on multiple
phones November 8.
But Microsoft had to build
Windows Phone 7 from scratch, which means that, if it was not to suffer a
significant delay in release, the new mobile operating system had to leave out
several features that we now take for granted on our smartphones. At the same
time, though, Microsoft brings a few interesting new elements to the table with
Windows Phone 7, elements that some of you might prefer over the usability of an
iPhone or an Android phone.
We've looked at the main differences between Windows
Phone 7, iOS, and Android to give you an idea of the state of mobile
operating systems today. The chart (at left; click to zoom) gives you an
overview of the features of these OSs--what each one has and doesn't have; after
you've looked at it, read on for highlights of the best and worst things about
Windows Phone 7.
What's Different About Windows Phone 7
With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft brought a
few new concepts to the table. Instead of a noncustomizable home screen (or
as Microsoft calls it, the "Start" screen) as on the iPhone, or widgets on
Android, Windows Phone 7 uses rectangular "live tiles," a cross-breed of widgets
and application icons. The live tiles link to an application, but they also
display live information on the Start screen. This gives Windows Phone 7 users
an easy way glance at what's happening on their phone, but it could become quite
cumbersome when too many tiles are used and a lot of scrolling ends up being
involved.
In comparison, the iPhone does not have an active home screen or widgets,
while Android employs widgets of all shapes and sizes to display information on
the main screen. The simplicity of the Windows Phone 7 tiles wins in this
category, while the iPhone is clearly the loser for home screen notifications.
Windows Phone 7 also groups various features of the OS into hubs--a cross
between folders and screens. Each Hub (Marketplace, Office, People, Pictures,
Xbox Live, and Zune) has tight integration with both native and third-party
apps. For example, in the People Hub, you can see your contacts' Facebook status
updates and like or comment on them.
Similarly, the Games Hub is closely integrated
with Xbox Live, while the Office Hub lets you create, view, and edit Excel
and Word documents. You can also access
Microsoft Office SharePoint documents and edit them, but you cannot create
PowerPoint files in the Office Hub. The Music & Video (Zune) Hub can also
get you through your music, videos, and podcasts, or let you access the Zune
store--it's all within easy reach. Neither the iPhone nor Android has features
comparable to these hubs; instead, you have to pick a specific app to open in
order to perform most of the tasks the hubs allow.
What's Missing From Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 has rightly received a lot of flak from reviewers for not
having some features that many owners take for granted on their current
smartphones.
Microsoft's new mobile OS doesn't have copy/paste capabilities. If you
remember, the first, the second, and even the third iPhone did not initially
have copy/paste functionality either--but that was
over a year ago (copy/paste for the iPhone arrived later as a software
update). Android had this capability from day one. So the exclusion of
copy/paste in Windows Phone 7 doesn't earn the new OS any gold stars for
functionality.
Second on the list of missing Windows Phone 7 features is true multitasking,
something that Android also had from day one, and that was later introduced for
the iPhone. To be more precise, Windows Phone 7 does not allow third-party apps
to run in the background, but pauses them until you return to the app. This puts
the OS in the same situation the iPhone was over a year ago, when only Apple's
apps could run in the background. But to be fair, iOS doesn't exactly do true
multitasking either (read here
for a full explanation of multitasking on iOS). Only some apps in iOS can still
run in the background and even then, only certain features can continue to work.
For example, music from Pandora can play in the background while you're doing
other tasks on your phone.
The third debated feature oversight for Windows Phone 7 is the lack of Adobe
Flash, Silverlight, or HTML5 support in the browser. Steve Jobs squashed any
ideas of running Flash on an iPhone, so Android is the only one left in this
round. It took Google and Adobe over a year to come up with Adobe Flash support
for Android, but now the latest generation of Android phones has the feature. If
Microsoft really wanted to have an edge over the iPhone and fight Android, it
should have at least supported its own Flash-competing
technology, Silverlight, on Windows Phone 7 devices.
Other feature omissions from Windows Phone 7 include:
- No unified inbox
- No threaded e-mail
- No visual voicemail
- No video calling
- No universal search
- No Internet tethering
- Limited removable storage support
- No Twitter integration
- Alphabetical-only app list organization
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Nokia E7 review: The Nokia E7 is a superbly built smartphone that has an excellent display and an outstanding keyboard, but its impressive specifications aren't enough to compete with slick and easy-to-use competitors
Nokia may be ditching its Symbian mobile phone operating system, and switching to Windows Phone 7 but that hasn't stopped the Finnish company releasing the Nokia E7, a Symbian-based smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard. The E7 smartphone is a throwback to the days of the Nokia Communicator, a device that was marketed as a mini computer. Like Nokia's flagship N8, the E7 has excellent hardware but suffers from clunky, unintuitive software.
Nokia E7 review: Design and hardware
The Nokia E7 smartphone possesses excellent hardware. It has an aluminium casing that feels excellent in your hand, and build quality feels superb. The Nokia E7 is chunky device and its hinge mechanism is difficult to quickly pry open single-handedly, but the main impression you are left with that this smartphone is very well constructed. The hinge itself is similar to the HTC Desire Z's, but it feels much sturdier. The Nokia E7 is charged via a regular microUSB port, and has a standard headphone jack and an HDMI-out port concealed by a plastic flap.
Despite its large frame, the Nokia E7's curved edges make it more comfortable to hold than Apple's iPhone 4. Nokia fans, however, will be disappointed with the lack of removable battery, and there is no external storage slot. The E7 comes with 16GB of internal memory and, like the iPhone 4, has a slide out tray that houses a SIM card.
The Nokia E7 has a 4in AMOLED 'ClearBlack' capacitive touchscreen display, which Nokia claims offers superior visibility in direct sunlight. While it can't boast the same pixel density as the iPhone 4's 'Retina' display, the Nokia E7 is definitely easier to see in direct sunlight than the iPhone and has excellent viewing angles. Perhaps the most impressive feature of the E7 is its keyboard; it's large, well spaced and very comfortable to type on. The keys themselves are rubber and provide decent tactility when pressed, though it is almost impossible to type single-handedly due to the design and weight of the E7.
Like the Nokia N8, the E7 is one of the best specified smartphones on the market. Although it lacks the N8's outstanding 12-megapixel camera and FM transmitter, the E7 still has an 8-megapixel camera with dual-LED flash, an HDMI output, Dolby Digital sound, an excellent external speaker, and USB On-The-Go, which allows the connection of USB flash drives. A mini-HDMI-to-HDMI adapter included in the sales package allows the E7 to be plugged directly into the latest high-definition televisions, and multimedia quality (both audio and video) is excellent. The USB On-The-Go feature is also very handy. We connected a flash drive with a range of audio, image and video files — including a 30 minute DivX file — and all of them played directly off the USB device with no issues.
Nokia E7: Symbian^3 software
The Nokia E7 runs Nokia's Symbian^3 mobile operating system. Symbian^3 has improved in leaps and bounds over previous versions, making the E7 smoother, faster and easier to use than previous Nokia phones. However, the E7's interface still looks inferior to most of its competition and is clunky to use compared to the iPhone and the latest Android phones. Performance is sluggish and multitouch zooming, particularly on maps and in the browser, isn't as slick as competitors. Swiping through home screens results in a noticeable delay and transitions between menus aren't smooth. The included Web browser loads slowly and renders pages poorly. It does display Flash (which the iPhone doesn't), and there are a few nice touches, such as browser history shown as separate thumbnails. But text doesn't automatically fit the screen when zoomed and basic tasks like refreshing the page take way too many interactions on the screen. Despite Symbian^3 being a clear improvement over its predecessors, the OS just hasn't been designed with a touchscreen in mind.
Symbian^3 displays a number of live widgets across the Nokia E7's three home screens, but widgets can't be resized. A handy contacts widget allows you to add your favourite contacts to the home screen, while the included social-networking widget displays recent status updates from Facebook and Twitter. It should let you to update your Facebook and Twitter status from the home screen, but instead tapping on the widget simply opens the full client to update your status. Text is too small and can't be resized, the app is noticeably slower to load than clients on other smartphones, and the size restrictions imposed on widgets means that tapping the up and down arrow buttons to read status updates is awkward. Some of the Nokia E7's widgets have an Australian flavour, such as the News.com.au, SMH and Coastal Watch widgets, but they offer nothing we haven't seen on other smartphones.
Extra widgets can be downloaded from Nokia's Ovi Store. Though the Ovi Store has steadily improved since its release, it has far fewer apps than its competitors. There is also a distinct lack of apps that have a 'wow' factor, such as 3D games, and the store itself isn't as easy to use as its competitors. It also crashed on our Nokia E7 review unit multiple times during testing.
One huge advantage of Symbian^3 and the Nokia E7 is the preloaded Ovi Maps application, which includes a lifetime, free subscription to full turn-by-turn navigation. This is an excellent feature considering you often have to pay up to $100 for the same service on the iPhone and other smartphones. The E7's upgraded music player is also slicker than ever and displays albums in a similar "cover flow" style to the iPhone. The E7 handles multimedia better than a lot of smartphones we've tested, with sound quality a particular highlight, along with the range of file formats supported.
Unfortunately, the overall user experience offered by Nokia E7 is ultimately frustrating. The Nokia E7 is a superbly built smartphone that has an excellent display and an outstanding keyboard, but its impressive specifications aren't enough to compete with slick and easy-to-use competitors.
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- Be it on foot or driving– receive turn by turn voice guidance to you navigate you to your destination faster and safer than ever before. Powered by NAVIGON, the GALAXY Tab's premium navigation app comes with Australian and New Zealand maps preloaded as well as other functionality you would expect from a dedicated GPS unit including 2D and 3D map view, Reality View Pro, NAVIGON MyRoutes, Car and Pedestrian mode, Intelligent address search and Navigate to contacts. Data download charges may apply for initial application update, approximately 9MB in size. Car mounting kits for the GALAXY Tab are sold separately and should be used for in-car navigation.
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