Motorola A630 Phone (T-Mobile)
Everything works well except the PC software
All of this phone's features are very well designed, and it's very hard to find faults.  This is my 4th mobile phone overall, and by far the best.  This is my first phone with T-Mobile and I'm very pleased with their pay-as-you-go plan.  I'm saving some about 70% per month compared to what I was paying with Sprint, plus the reception is just a little better. <br /> <br />The screen is magnificent.  It's very high resolution with bright, beautiful colors, making it perfect for just about any custom background image.  Do yourself a favor and download some high-quality images off the web and then shrink them for the phone.  The quality is quite impressive. <br /> <br />The QWERTY keyboard is well thought-out and intuitive.  The only complaint I have is that the buttons have to be pressed hard which makes fast typing impossible.  It's excellent for text messaging, note-taking (which I use every day), and phone book editing. <br /> <br />The phone book design isn't especially intuitive, but it gets the job done.  Motorola should really look around at the competitors because they all seem to be doing this better. <br /> <br />PDA functions are good if you're not a PDA user.  But this phone is no PDA replacement.  Did I mention I really like the quick notes feature?  The calculator works but could really use some additional features.  The included games are ok and I would really like to purchase more, but T-Mobile doesn't allow it on this plan, which sucks.  They don't even offer this option. <br /> <br />The camera is quite good by phone standards and takes/stores pictures quicker than most competitors.  The quality is good and the folder tree structure is nice (why aren't all the phones designed this way???) but the memory is pretty small and the phone desparately wants a flash memory slot. <br /> <br />Like most modern phones, this thing has a ton of useless ringers built in.  They are polyphonic, which means that you can't hear them 90% of the time.  There are only 2 or 3 rings that can be heard when the phone is in my pocket. <br /> <br />Ok, now for the really bad part.  The only way to transfer music/files/photos to and from this phone is through the Motorola software which is horrible.  It's extremely quirky with the expensive Bluetooth adapter and is NOT designed to work under Windows XP.  The bluetooth driver gets constantly overwritten by Windows and I have to go back and reinstall it manually at least once a week for it to work again.  Then a few days later, the Windows Bluetooth driver has replaced it and I have to start all over again.  Why this thing isn't Windows XP-compliant is beyond me. <br /> <br />Even after getting the software working, the Bluetooth connection is excruciatingly slow.  A standard 35kb photo typically takes 1-2 minutes to transfer to a PC.  It's the same slow speed with audio files too.  I assume a USB connection is faster, but I can't verify that.  I let the salesman talk me out of a cable and into a bluetooth adapter instead.  What a mistake that was.